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Fingerprint based bio-starter and bio-access
cs.CV
In the paper will be presented a safety and security system based on fingerprint technology. The results suggest a new scenario where the new cars can use a fingerprint sensor integrated in car handle to allow access and in the dashboard as starter button.
computer science
23,103
IS (Iris Security)
cs.CV
In the paper will be presented a safety system based on iridology. The results suggest a new scenario where the security problem in supervised and unsupervised areas can be treat with the present system and the iris image recognition.
computer science
23,104
Better Foreground Segmentation Through Graph Cuts
cs.CV
For many tracking and surveillance applications, background subtraction provides an effective means of segmenting objects moving in front of a static background. Researchers have traditionally used combinations of morphological operations to remove the noise inherent in the background-subtracted result. Such techniques...
computer science
23,105
Factor Temporal Prognosis of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Foci Functioning on the South of Russian Far East
cs.CV
A method of temporal factor prognosis of TE (tick-borne encephalitis) infection has been developed. The high precision of the prognosis results for a number of geographical regions of Primorsky Krai has been achieved. The method can be applied not only to epidemiological research but also to others.
computer science
23,106
Geometrical Complexity of Classification Problems
cs.CV
Despite encouraging recent progresses in ensemble approaches, classification methods seem to have reached a plateau in development. Further advances depend on a better understanding of geometrical and topological characteristics of point sets in high-dimensional spaces, the preservation of such characteristics under fe...
computer science
23,107
Computerized Face Detection and Recognition
cs.CV
This publication presents methods for face detection, analysis and recognition: fast normalized cross-correlation (fast correlation coefficient) between multiple templates based face pre-detection method, method for detection of exact face contour based on snakes and Generalized Gradient Vector Flow field, method for c...
computer science
23,108
Blind Detection and Compensation of Camera Lens Geometric Distortions
cs.CV
This paper presents a blind detection and compensation technique for camera lens geometric distortions. The lens distortion introduces higher-order correlations in the frequency domain and in turn it can be detected using higher-order spectral analysis tools without assuming any specific calibration target. The existin...
computer science
23,109
Image compression by rectangular wavelet transform
cs.CV
We study image compression by a separable wavelet basis $\big\{\psi(2^{k_1}x-i)\psi(2^{k_2}y-j),$ $\phi(x-i)\psi(2^{k_2}y-j),$ $\psi(2^{k_1}(x-i)\phi(y-j),$ $\phi(x-i)\phi(y-i)\big\},$ where $k_1, k_2 \in \mathbb{Z}_+$; $i,j\in\mathbb{Z}$; and $\phi,\psi$ are elements of a standard biorthogonal wavelet basis in $L_2(\m...
computer science
23,110
Gradient Vector Flow Models for Boundary Extraction in 2D Images
cs.CV
The Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) is a vector diffusion approach based on Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). This method has been applied together with snake models for boundary extraction medical images segmentation. The key idea is to use a diffusion-reaction PDE to generate a new external force field that makes sna...
computer science
23,111
Searching for image information content, its discovery, extraction, and representation
cs.CV
Image information content is known to be a complicated and controvercial problem. This paper posits a new image information content definition. Following the theory of Solomonoff-Kolmogorov-Chaitin's complexity, we define image information content as a set of descriptions of imafe data structures. Three levels of such ...
computer science
23,112
Paving the Way for Image Understanding: A New Kind of Image Decomposition is Desired
cs.CV
In this paper we present an unconventional image segmentation approach which is devised to meet the requirements of image understanding and pattern recognition tasks. Generally image understanding assumes interplay of two sub-processes: image information content discovery and image information content interpretation. D...
computer science
23,113
Automatic Face Recognition System Based on Local Fourier-Bessel Features
cs.CV
We present an automatic face verification system inspired by known properties of biological systems. In the proposed algorithm the whole image is converted from the spatial to polar frequency domain by a Fourier-Bessel Transform (FBT). Using the whole image is compared to the case where only face image regions (local a...
computer science
23,114
Face Recognition Based on Polar Frequency Features
cs.CV
A novel biologically motivated face recognition algorithm based on polar frequency is presented. Polar frequency descriptors are extracted from face images by Fourier-Bessel transform (FBT). Next, the Euclidean distance between all images is computed and each image is now represented by its dissimilarity to the other i...
computer science
23,115
Face Verification in Polar Frequency Domain: a Biologically Motivated Approach
cs.CV
We present a novel local-based face verification system whose components are analogous to those of biological systems. In the proposed system, after global registration and normalization, three eye regions are converted from the spatial to polar frequency domain by a Fourier-Bessel Transform. The resulting representati...
computer science
23,116
Retinal Vessel Segmentation Using the 2-D Morlet Wavelet and Supervised Classification
cs.CV
We present a method for automated segmentation of the vasculature in retinal images. The method produces segmentations by classifying each image pixel as vessel or non-vessel, based on the pixel's feature vector. Feature vectors are composed of the pixel's intensity and continuous two-dimensional Morlet wavelet transfo...
computer science
23,117
A decision support system for ship identification based on the curvature scale space representation
cs.CV
In this paper, a decision support system for ship identification is presented. The system receives as input a silhouette of the vessel to be identified, previously extracted from a side view of the object. This view could have been acquired with imaging sensors operating at different spectral ranges (CCD, FLIR, image i...
computer science
23,118
Understanding physics from interconnected data
cs.CV
Metal melting on release after explosion is a physical system far from quilibrium. A complete physical model of this system does not exist, because many interrelated effects have to be considered. General methodology needs to be developed so as to describe and understand physical phenomena involved. The high noise of...
computer science
23,119
The Perceptron Algorithm: Image and Signal Decomposition, Compression, and Analysis by Iterative Gaussian Blurring
cs.CV
A novel algorithm for tunable compression to within the precision of reproduction targets, or storage, is proposed. The new algorithm is termed the `Perceptron Algorithm', which utilises simple existing concepts in a novel way, has multiple immediate commercial application aspects as well as it opens up a multitude of ...
computer science
23,120
The `Face on Mars': a photographic approach for the search of signs of past civilizations from a macroscopic point of view, factoring long-term erosion in image reconstruction
cs.CV
This short article presents an alternative view of high resolution imaging from various sources with the aim of the discovery of potential sites of archaeological importance, or sites that exhibit `anomalies' such that they may merit closer inspection and analysis. It is conjectured, and to a certain extent demonstrate...
computer science
23,121
Multilevel Thresholding for Image Segmentation through a Fast Statistical Recursive Algorithm
cs.CV
A novel algorithm is proposed for segmenting an image into multiple levels using its mean and variance. Starting from the extreme pixel values at both ends of the histogram plot, the algorithm is applied recursively on sub-ranges computed from the previous step, so as to find a threshold level and a new sub-range for t...
computer science
23,122
Locally Adaptive Block Thresholding Method with Continuity Constraint
cs.CV
We present an algorithm that enables one to perform locally adaptive block thresholding, while maintaining image continuity. Images are divided into sub-images based some standard image attributes and thresholding technique is employed over the sub-images. The present algorithm makes use of the thresholds of neighborin...
computer science
23,123
Matching Edges in Images ; Application to Face Recognition
cs.CV
This communication describes a representation of images as a set of edges characterized by their position and orientation. This representation allows the comparison of two images and the computation of their similarity. The first step in this computation of similarity is the seach of a geometrical basis of the two dime...
computer science
23,124
Fourier Analysis and Holographic Representations of 1D and 2D Signals
cs.CV
In this paper, we focus on Fourier analysis and holographic transforms for signal representation. For instance, in the case of image processing, the holographic representation has the property that an arbitrary portion of the transformed image enables reconstruction of the whole image with details missing. We focus on ...
computer science
23,125
Biologically Inspired Hierarchical Model for Feature Extraction and Localization
cs.CV
Feature extraction and matching are among central problems of computer vision. It is inefficent to search features over all locations and scales. Neurophysiological evidence shows that to locate objects in a digital image the human visual system employs visual attention to a specific object while ignoring others. The b...
computer science
23,126
Face Recognition using Principal Component Analysis and Log-Gabor Filters
cs.CV
In this article we propose a novel face recognition method based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Log-Gabor filters. The main advantages of the proposed method are its simple implementation, training, and very high recognition accuracy. For recognition experiments we used 5151 face images of 1311 persons from ...
computer science
23,127
Recognition of expression variant faces using masked log-Gabor features and Principal Component Analysis
cs.CV
In this article we propose a method for the recognition of faces with different facial expressions. For recognition we extract feature vectors by using log-Gabor filters of multiple orientations and scales. Using sliding window algorithm and variances -based masking these features are extracted at image regions that ar...
computer science
23,128
Notes on Geometric Measure Theory Applications to Image Processing; De-noising, Segmentation, Pattern, Texture, Lines, Gestalt and Occlusion
cs.CV
Regularization functionals that lower level set boundary length when used with L^1 fidelity functionals on signal de-noising on images create artifacts. These are (i) rounding of corners, (ii) shrinking of radii, (iii) shrinking of cusps, and (iv) non-smoothing of staircasing. Regularity functionals based upon total cu...
computer science
23,129
An effective edge--directed frequency filter for removal of aliasing in upsampled images
cs.CV
Raster images can have a range of various distortions connected to their raster structure. Upsampling them might in effect substantially yield the raster structure of the original image, known as aliasing. The upsampling itself may introduce aliasing into the upsampled image as well. The presented method attempts to re...
computer science
23,130
Total Variation Minimization and Graph Cuts for Moving Objects Segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper, we are interested in the application to video segmentation of the discrete shape optimization problem involving the shape weighted perimeter and an additional term depending on a parameter. Based on recent works and in particular the one of Darbon and Sigelle, we justify the equivalence of the shape opti...
computer science
23,131
Conditional Expressions for Blind Deconvolution: Multi-point form
cs.CV
We present conditional expression (CE) for finding blurs convolved in given images. The CE is given in terms of the zero-values of the blurs evaluated at multi-point. The CE can detect multiple blur all at once. We illustrate the multiple blur-detection by using a test image.
computer science
23,132
Simple method to eliminate blur based on Lane and Bates algorithm
cs.CV
A simple search method for finding a blur convolved in a given image is presented. The method can be easily extended to a large blur. The method has been experimentally tested with a model blurred image.
computer science
23,133
A higher-order active contour model of a `gas of circles' and its application to tree crown extraction
cs.CV
Many image processing problems involve identifying the region in the image domain occupied by a given entity in the scene. Automatic solution of these problems requires models that incorporate significant prior knowledge about the shape of the region. Many methods for including such knowledge run into difficulties when...
computer science
23,134
Contains and Inside relationships within combinatorial Pyramids
cs.CV
Irregular pyramids are made of a stack of successively reduced graphs embedded in the plane. Such pyramids are used within the segmentation framework to encode a hierarchy of partitions. The different graph models used within the irregular pyramid framework encode different types of relationships between regions. This ...
computer science
23,135
Extraction of cartographic objects in high resolution satellite images for object model generation
cs.CV
The aim of this study is to detect man-made cartographic objects in high-resolution satellite images. New generation satellites offer a sub-metric spatial resolution, in which it is possible (and necessary) to develop methods at object level rather than at pixel level, and to exploit structural features of objects. Wit...
computer science
23,136
Riemannian level-set methods for tensor-valued data
cs.CV
We present a novel approach for the derivation of PDE modeling curvature-driven flows for matrix-valued data. This approach is based on the Riemannian geometry of the manifold of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices Pos(n).
computer science
23,137
Multiresolution Approximation of Polygonal Curves in Linear Complexity
cs.CV
We propose a new algorithm to the problem of polygonal curve approximation based on a multiresolution approach. This algorithm is suboptimal but still maintains some optimality between successive levels of resolution using dynamic programming. We show theoretically and experimentally that this algorithm has a linear co...
computer science
23,138
Medical Image Segmentation and Localization using Deformable Templates
cs.CV
This paper presents deformable templates as a tool for segmentation and localization of biological structures in medical images. Structures are represented by a prototype template, combined with a parametric warp mapping used to deform the original shape. The localization procedure is achieved using a multi-stage, mult...
computer science
23,139
Enhancement of Noisy Planar Nuclear Medicine Images using Mean Field Annealing
cs.CV
Nuclear medicine (NM) images inherently suffer from large amounts of noise and blur. The purpose of this research is to reduce the noise and blur while maintaining image integrity for improved diagnosis. The proposed solution is to increase image quality after the standard pre- and post-processing undertaken by a gamma...
computer science
23,140
An Independent Evaluation of Subspace Face Recognition Algorithms
cs.CV
This paper explores a comparative study of both the linear and kernel implementations of three of the most popular Appearance-based Face Recognition projection classes, these being the methodologies of Principal Component Analysis, Linear Discriminant Analysis and Independent Component Analysis. The experimental proced...
computer science
23,141
MI image registration using prior knowledge
cs.CV
Subtraction of aligned images is a means to assess changes in a wide variety of clinical applications. In this paper we explore the information theoretical origin of Mutual Information (MI), which is based on Shannon's entropy.However, the interpretation of standard MI registration as a communication channel suggests t...
computer science
23,142
Automatic Detection of Pulmonary Embolism using Computational Intelligence
cs.CV
This article describes the implementation of a system designed to automatically detect the presence of pulmonary embolism in lung scans. These images are firstly segmented, before alignment and feature extraction using PCA. The neural network was trained using the Hybrid Monte Carlo method, resulting in a committee of ...
computer science
23,143
Variational local structure estimation for image super-resolution
cs.CV
Super-resolution is an important but difficult problem in image/video processing. If a video sequence or some training set other than the given low-resolution image is available, this kind of extra information can greatly aid in the reconstruction of the high-resolution image. The problem is substantially more difficul...
computer science
23,144
Bandwidth selection for kernel estimation in mixed multi-dimensional spaces
cs.CV
Kernel estimation techniques, such as mean shift, suffer from one major drawback: the kernel bandwidth selection. The bandwidth can be fixed for all the data set or can vary at each points. Automatic bandwidth selection becomes a real challenge in case of multidimensional heterogeneous features. This paper presents a s...
computer science
23,145
Supervised learning on graphs of spatio-temporal similarity in satellite image sequences
cs.CV
High resolution satellite image sequences are multidimensional signals composed of spatio-temporal patterns associated to numerous and various phenomena. Bayesian methods have been previously proposed in (Heas and Datcu, 2005) to code the information contained in satellite image sequences in a graph representation usin...
computer science
23,146
Learning Similarity for Character Recognition and 3D Object Recognition
cs.CV
I describe an approach to similarity motivated by Bayesian methods. This yields a similarity function that is learnable using a standard Bayesian methods. The relationship of the approach to variable kernel and variable metric methods is discussed. The approach is related to variable kernel Experimental results on char...
computer science
23,147
Learning View Generalization Functions
cs.CV
Learning object models from views in 3D visual object recognition is usually formulated either as a function approximation problem of a function describing the view-manifold of an object, or as that of learning a class-conditional density. This paper describes an alternative framework for learning in visual object reco...
computer science
23,148
View Based Methods can achieve Bayes-Optimal 3D Recognition
cs.CV
This paper proves that visual object recognition systems using only 2D Euclidean similarity measurements to compare object views against previously seen views can achieve the same recognition performance as observers having access to all coordinate information and able of using arbitrary 3D models internally. Furthermo...
computer science
23,149
Hierarchy construction schemes within the Scale set framework
cs.CV
Segmentation algorithms based on an energy minimisation framework often depend on a scale parameter which balances a fit to data and a regularising term. Irregular pyramids are defined as a stack of graphs successively reduced. Within this framework, the scale is often defined implicitly as the height in the pyramid. H...
computer science
23,150
A Class of LULU Operators on Multi-Dimensional Arrays
cs.CV
The LULU operators for sequences are extended to multi-dimensional arrays via the morphological concept of connection in a way which preserves their essential properties, e.g. they are separators and form a four element fully ordered semi-group. The power of the operators is demonstrated by deriving a total variation p...
computer science
23,151
A Fast Hierarchical Multilevel Image Segmentation Method using Unbiased Estimators
cs.CV
This paper proposes a novel method for segmentation of images by hierarchical multilevel thresholding. The method is global, agglomerative in nature and disregards pixel locations. It involves the optimization of the ratio of the unbiased estimators of within class to between class variances. We obtain a recursive rela...
computer science
23,152
Automatic Text Area Segmentation in Natural Images
cs.CV
We present a hierarchical method for segmenting text areas in natural images. The method assumes that the text is written with a contrasting color on a more or less uniform background. But no assumption is made regarding the language or character set used to write the text. In particular, the text can contain simple gr...
computer science
23,153
Wavelet and Curvelet Moments for Image Classification: Application to Aggregate Mixture Grading
cs.CV
We show the potential for classifying images of mixtures of aggregate, based themselves on varying, albeit well-defined, sizes and shapes, in order to provide a far more effective approach compared to the classification of individual sizes and shapes. While a dominant (additive, stationary) Gaussian noise component in ...
computer science
23,154
Linear Time Recognition Algorithms for Topological Invariants in 3D
cs.CV
In this paper, we design linear time algorithms to recognize and determine topological invariants such as the genus and homology groups in 3D. These properties can be used to identify patterns in 3D image recognition. This has tremendous amount of applications in 3D medical image analysis. Our method is based on cubica...
computer science
23,155
A New Algorithm for Interactive Structural Image Segmentation
cs.CV
This paper proposes a novel algorithm for the problem of structural image segmentation through an interactive model-based approach. Interaction is expressed in the model creation, which is done according to user traces drawn over a given input image. Both model and input are then represented by means of attributed rela...
computer science
23,156
A multilateral filtering method applied to airplane runway image
cs.CV
By considering the features of the airport runway image filtering, an improved bilateral filtering method was proposed which can remove noise with edge preserving. Firstly the steerable filtering decomposition is used to calculate the sub-band parameters of 4 orients, and the texture feature matrix is then obtained fro...
computer science
23,157
Increasing Linear Dynamic Range of Commercial Digital Photocamera Used in Imaging Systems with Optical Coding
cs.CV
Methods of increasing linear optical dynamic range of commercial photocamera for optical-digital imaging systems are described. Use of such methods allows to use commercial photocameras for optical measurements. Experimental results are reported.
computer science
23,158
Statistical region-based active contours with exponential family observations
cs.CV
In this paper, we focus on statistical region-based active contour models where image features (e.g. intensity) are random variables whose distribution belongs to some parametric family (e.g. exponential) rather than confining ourselves to the special Gaussian case. Using shape derivation tools, our effort focuses on c...
computer science
23,159
Region-based active contour with noise and shape priors
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose to combine formally noise and shape priors in region-based active contours. On the one hand, we use the general framework of exponential family as a prior model for noise. On the other hand, translation and scale invariant Legendre moments are considered to incorporate the shape prior (e.g. fi...
computer science
23,160
DimReduction - Interactive Graphic Environment for Dimensionality Reduction
cs.CV
Feature selection is a pattern recognition approach to choose important variables according to some criteria to distinguish or explain certain phenomena. There are many genomic and proteomic applications which rely on feature selection to answer questions such as: selecting signature genes which are informative about s...
computer science
23,161
Directional Cross Diamond Search Algorithm for Fast Block Motion Estimation
cs.CV
In block-matching motion estimation (BMME), the search patterns have a significant impact on the algorithm's performance, both the search speed and the search quality. The search pattern should be designed to fit the motion vector probability (MVP) distribution characteristics of the real-world sequences. In this paper...
computer science
23,162
Fast Wavelet-Based Visual Classification
cs.CV
We investigate a biologically motivated approach to fast visual classification, directly inspired by the recent work of Serre et al. Specifically, trading-off biological accuracy for computational efficiency, we explore using wavelet and grouplet-like transforms to parallel the tuning of visual cortex V1 and V2 cells, ...
computer science
23,163
Classification of curves in 2D and 3D via affine integral signatures
cs.CV
We propose a robust classification algorithm for curves in 2D and 3D, under the special and full groups of affine transformations. To each plane or spatial curve we assign a plane signature curve. Curves, equivalent under an affine transformation, have the same signature. The signatures introduced in this paper are bas...
computer science
23,164
Conceptualization of seeded region growing by pixels aggregation. Part 1: the framework
cs.CV
Adams and Bishop have proposed in 1994 a novel region growing algorithm called seeded region growing by pixels aggregation (SRGPA). This paper introduces a framework to implement an algorithm using SRGPA. This framework is built around two concepts: localization and organization of applied action. This conceptualizatio...
computer science
23,165
Conceptualization of seeded region growing by pixels aggregation. Part 2: how to localize a final partition invariant about the seeded region initialisation order
cs.CV
In the previous paper, we have conceptualized the localization and the organization of seeded region growing by pixels aggregation (SRGPA) but we do not give the issue when there is a collision between two distinct regions during the growing process. In this paper, we propose two implementations to manage two classical...
computer science
23,166
Conceptualization of seeded region growing by pixels aggregation. Part 3: a wide range of algorithms
cs.CV
In the two previous papers of this serie, we have created a library, called Population, dedicated to seeded region growing by pixels aggregation and we have proposed different growing processes to get a partition with or without a boundary region to divide the other regions or to get a partition invariant about the see...
computer science
23,167
Conceptualization of seeded region growing by pixels aggregation. Part 4: Simple, generic and robust extraction of grains in granular materials obtained by X-ray tomography
cs.CV
This paper proposes a simple, generic and robust method to extract the grains from experimental tridimensionnal images of granular materials obtained by X-ray tomography. This extraction has two steps: segmentation and splitting. For the segmentation step, if there is a sufficient contrast between the different compone...
computer science
23,168
The Five Points Pose Problem : A New and Accurate Solution Adapted to any Geometric Configuration
cs.CV
The goal of this paper is to estimate directly the rotation and translation between two stereoscopic images with the help of five homologous points. The methodology presented does not mix the rotation and translation parameters, which is comparably an important advantage over the methods using the well-known essential ...
computer science
23,169
An image processing analysis of skin textures
cs.CV
Colour and coarseness of skin are visually different. When image processing is involved in the skin analysis, it is important to quantitatively evaluate such differences using texture features. In this paper, we discuss a texture analysis and measurements based on a statistical approach to the pattern recognition. Grai...
computer science
23,170
Automatic Identification and Data Extraction from 2-Dimensional Plots in Digital Documents
cs.CV
Most search engines index the textual content of documents in digital libraries. However, scholarly articles frequently report important findings in figures for visual impact and the contents of these figures are not indexed. These contents are often invaluable to the researcher in various fields, for the purposes of d...
computer science
23,171
Supervised Dictionary Learning
cs.CV
It is now well established that sparse signal models are well suited to restoration tasks and can effectively be learned from audio, image, and video data. Recent research has been aimed at learning discriminative sparse models instead of purely reconstructive ones. This paper proposes a new step in that direction, wit...
computer science
23,172
Modeling and Control with Local Linearizing Nadaraya Watson Regression
cs.CV
Black box models of technical systems are purely descriptive. They do not explain why a system works the way it does. Thus, black box models are insufficient for some problems. But there are numerous applications, for example, in control engineering, for which a black box model is absolutely sufficient. In this article...
computer science
23,173
Mapping Images with the Coherence Length Diagrams
cs.CV
Statistical pattern recognition methods based on the Coherence Length Diagram (CLD) have been proposed for medical image analyses, such as quantitative characterisation of human skin textures, and for polarized light microscopy of liquid crystal textures. Further investigations are made on image maps originated from su...
computer science
23,174
A Keygraph Classification Framework for Real-Time Object Detection
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a new approach for keypoint-based object detection. Traditional keypoint-based methods consist in classifying individual points and using pose estimation to discard misclassifications. Since a single point carries no relational features, such methods inherently restrict the usage of structural...
computer science
23,175
Using SLP Neural Network to Persian Handwritten Digits Recognition
cs.CV
This paper has been withdrawn by the author ali pourmohammad.
computer science
23,176
Dipole and Quadrupole Moments in Image Processing
cs.CV
This paper proposes an algorithm for image processing, obtained by adapting to image maps the definitions of two well-known physical quantities. These quantities are the dipole and quadrupole moments of a charge distribution. We will see how it is possible to define dipole and quadrupole moments for the gray-tone maps ...
computer science
23,177
Dipole Vectors in Images Processing
cs.CV
Instead of evaluating the gradient field of the brightness map of an image, we propose the use of dipole vectors. This approach is obtained by adapting to the image gray-tone distribution the definition of the dipole moment of charge distributions. We will show how to evaluate the dipoles and obtain a vector field, whi...
computer science
23,178
Color Dipole Moments for Edge Detection
cs.CV
Dipole and higher moments are physical quantities used to describe a charge distribution. In analogy with electromagnetism, it is possible to define the dipole moments for a gray-scale image, according to the single aspect of a gray-tone map. In this paper we define the color dipole moments for color images. For color ...
computer science
23,179
On the closed-form solution of the rotation matrix arising in computer vision problems
cs.CV
We show the closed-form solution to the maximization of trace(A'R), where A is given and R is unknown rotation matrix. This problem occurs in many computer vision tasks involving optimal rotation matrix estimation. The solution has been continuously reinvented in different fields as part of specific problems. We summar...
computer science
23,180
Point-Set Registration: Coherent Point Drift
cs.CV
Point set registration is a key component in many computer vision tasks. The goal of point set registration is to assign correspondences between two sets of points and to recover the transformation that maps one point set to the other. Multiple factors, including an unknown non-rigid spatial transformation, large dimen...
computer science
23,181
Colorization of Natural Images via L1 Optimization
cs.CV
Natural images in the colour space YUV have been observed to have a non-Gaussian, heavy tailed distribution (called 'sparse') when the filter G(U)(r) = U(r) - sum_{s \in N(r)} w{(Y)_{rs}} U(s), is applied to the chromacity channel U (and equivalently to V), where w is a weighting function constructed from the intensity...
computer science
23,182
A statistical learning approach to color demosaicing
cs.CV
A statistical learning/inference framework for color demosaicing is presented. We start with simplistic assumptions about color constancy, and recast color demosaicing as a blind linear inverse problem: color parameterizes the unknown kernel, while brightness takes on the role of a latent variable. An expectation-maxim...
computer science
23,183
A New Solution to the Relative Orientation Problem using only 3 Points and the Vertical Direction
cs.CV
This paper presents a new method to recover the relative pose between two images, using three points and the vertical direction information. The vertical direction can be determined in two ways: 1- using direct physical measurement like IMU (inertial measurement unit), 2- using vertical vanishing point. This knowledge ...
computer science
23,184
Segmentation for radar images based on active contour
cs.CV
We exam various geometric active contour methods for radar image segmentation. Due to special properties of radar images, we propose our new model based on modified Chan-Vese functional. Our method is efficient in separating non-meteorological noises from meteorological images.
computer science
23,185
A dyadic solution of relative pose problems
cs.CV
A hierarchical interval subdivision is shown to lead to a $p$-adic encoding of image data. This allows in the case of the relative pose problem in computer vision and photogrammetry to derive equations having 2-adic numbers as coefficients, and to use Hensel's lifting method to their solution. This method is applied to...
computer science
23,186
Handwritten Farsi Character Recognition using Artificial Neural Network
cs.CV
Neural Networks are being used for character recognition from last many years but most of the work was confined to English character recognition. Till date, a very little work has been reported for Handwritten Farsi Character recognition. In this paper, we have made an attempt to recognize handwritten Farsi characters ...
computer science
23,187
An Optimal Method For Wake Detection In SAR Images Using Radon Transformation Combined With Wavelet Filters
cs.CV
A new fangled method for ship wake detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is explored here. Most of the detection procedure applies the Radon transform as its properties outfit more than any other transformation for the detection purpose. But still it holds problems when the transform is applied to an image...
computer science
23,188
Breast Cancer Detection Using Multilevel Thresholding
cs.CV
This paper presents an algorithm which aims to assist the radiologist in identifying breast cancer at its earlier stages. It combines several image processing techniques like image negative, thresholding and segmentation techniques for detection of tumor in mammograms. The algorithm is verified by using mammograms from...
computer science
23,189
Non-photorealistic image processing: an Impressionist rendering
cs.CV
The paper describes an image processing for a non-photorealistic rendering. The algorithm is based on a random choice of a set of pixels from those ot the original image and substitution of them with colour spots. An iterative procedure is applied to cover, at a desired level, the canvas. The resulting effect mimics th...
computer science
23,190
Pigment Melanin: Pattern for Iris Recognition
cs.CV
Recognition of iris based on Visible Light (VL) imaging is a difficult problem because of the light reflection from the cornea. Nonetheless, pigment melanin provides a rich feature source in VL, unavailable in Near-Infrared (NIR) imaging. This is due to biological spectroscopy of eumelanin, a chemical not stimulated in...
computer science
23,191
Sequential Clustering based Facial Feature Extraction Method for Automatic Creation of Facial Models from Orthogonal Views
cs.CV
Multiview 3D face modeling has attracted increasing attention recently and has become one of the potential avenues in future video systems. We aim to make more reliable and robust automatic feature extraction and natural 3D feature construction from 2D features detected on a pair of frontal and profile view face images...
computer science
23,192
Automatic creation of urban velocity fields from aerial video
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a system for modelling vehicle motion in an urban scene from low frame-rate aerial video. In particular, the scene is modelled as a probability distribution over velocities at every pixel in the image. We describe the complete system for acquiring this model. The video is captured from a hel...
computer science
23,193
Matching 2-D Ellipses to 3-D Circles with Application to Vehicle Pose Estimation
cs.CV
Finding the three-dimensional representation of all or a part of a scene from a single two dimensional image is a challenging task. In this paper we propose a method for identifying the pose and location of objects with circular protrusions in three dimensions from a single image and a 3d representation or model of the...
computer science
23,194
A Novel Feature Extraction for Robust EMG Pattern Recognition
cs.CV
Varieties of noises are major problem in recognition of Electromyography (EMG) signal. Hence, methods to remove noise become most significant in EMG signal analysis. White Gaussian noise (WGN) is used to represent interference in this paper. Generally, WGN is difficult to be removed using typical filtering and solution...
computer science
23,195
Writer Identification Using Inexpensive Signal Processing Techniques
cs.CV
We propose to use novel and classical audio and text signal-processing and otherwise techniques for "inexpensive" fast writer identification tasks of scanned hand-written documents "visually". The "inexpensive" refers to the efficiency of the identification process in terms of CPU cycles while preserving decent accurac...
computer science
23,196
A Comparative Study of Removal Noise from Remote Sensing Image
cs.CV
This paper attempts to undertake the study of three types of noise such as Salt and Pepper (SPN), Random variation Impulse Noise (RVIN), Speckle (SPKN). Different noise densities have been removed between 10% to 60% by using five types of filters as Mean Filter (MF), Adaptive Wiener Filter (AWF), Gaussian Filter (GF), ...
computer science
23,197
The Influence of Intensity Standardization on Medical Image Registration
cs.CV
Acquisition-to-acquisition signal intensity variations (non-standardness) are inherent in MR images. Standardization is a post processing method for correcting inter-subject intensity variations through transforming all images from the given image gray scale into a standard gray scale wherein similar intensities achiev...
computer science
23,198
Ball-Scale Based Hierarchical Multi-Object Recognition in 3D Medical Images
cs.CV
This paper investigates, using prior shape models and the concept of ball scale (b-scale), ways of automatically recognizing objects in 3D images without performing elaborate searches or optimization. That is, the goal is to place the model in a single shot close to the right pose (position, orientation, and scale) in ...
computer science
23,199
Detection of Microcalcification in Mammograms Using Wavelet Transform and Fuzzy Shell Clustering
cs.CV
Microcalcifications in mammogram have been mainly targeted as a reliable earliest sign of breast cancer and their early detection is vital to improve its prognosis. Since their size is very small and may be easily overlooked by the examining radiologist, computer-based detection output can assist the radiologist to imp...
computer science
23,200
Automatic diagnosis of retinal diseases from color retinal images
cs.CV
Teleophthalmology holds a great potential to improve the quality, access, and affordability in health care. For patients, it can reduce the need for travel and provide the access to a superspecialist. Ophthalmology lends itself easily to telemedicine as it is a largely image based diagnosis. The main goal of the propos...
computer science
23,201
Medical Image Compression using Wavelet Decomposition for Prediction Method
cs.CV
In this paper offers a simple and lossless compression method for compression of medical images. Method is based on wavelet decomposition of the medical images followed by the correlation analysis of coefficients. The correlation analyses are the basis of prediction equation for each sub band. Predictor variable select...
computer science