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Lip Localization and Viseme Classification for Visual Speech Recognition
cs.CV
The need for an automatic lip-reading system is ever increasing. Infact, today, extraction and reliable analysis of facial movements make up an important part in many multimedia systems such as videoconference, low communication systems, lip-reading systems. In addition, visual information is imperative among people wi...
computer science
23,503
Efficient MRF Energy Propagation for Video Segmentation via Bilateral Filters
cs.CV
Segmentation of an object from a video is a challenging task in multimedia applications. Depending on the application, automatic or interactive methods are desired; however, regardless of the application type, efficient computation of video object segmentation is crucial for time-critical applications; specifically, mo...
computer science
23,504
ChESS - Quick and Robust Detection of Chess-board Features
cs.CV
Localization of chess-board vertices is a common task in computer vision, underpinning many applications, but relatively little work focusses on designing a specific feature detector that is fast, accurate and robust. In this paper the `Chess-board Extraction by Subtraction and Summation' (ChESS) feature detector, desi...
computer science
23,505
Image registration with sparse approximations in parametric dictionaries
cs.CV
We examine in this paper the problem of image registration from the new perspective where images are given by sparse approximations in parametric dictionaries of geometric functions. We propose a registration algorithm that looks for an estimate of the global transformation between sparse images by examining the set of...
computer science
23,506
Robust Face Recognition via Block Sparse Bayesian Learning
cs.CV
Face recognition (FR) is an important task in pattern recognition and computer vision. Sparse representation (SR) has been demonstrated to be a powerful framework for FR. In general, an SR algorithm treats each face in a training dataset as a basis function, and tries to find a sparse representation of a test face unde...
computer science
23,507
Multi-scale Discriminant Saliency with Wavelet-based Hidden Markov Tree Modelling
cs.CV
The bottom-up saliency, an early stage of humans' visual attention, can be considered as a binary classification problem between centre and surround classes. Discriminant power of features for the classification is measured as mutual information between distributions of image features and corresponding classes . As the...
computer science
23,508
Fast non parametric entropy estimation for spatial-temporal saliency method
cs.CV
This paper formulates bottom-up visual saliency as center surround conditional entropy and presents a fast and efficient technique for the computation of such a saliency map. It is shown that the new saliency formulation is consistent with self-information based saliency, decision-theoretic saliency and Bayesian defini...
computer science
23,509
Age group and gender recognition from human facial images
cs.CV
This work presents an automatic human gender and age group recognition system based on human facial images. It makes an extensive experiment with row pixel intensity valued features and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficient features with Principal Component Analysis and k-Nearest Neighbor classification to identi...
computer science
23,510
The two-dimensional Gabor function adapted to natural image statistics: An analytical model of simple-cell responses in the early visual system
cs.CV
The two-dimensional Gabor function is adapted to natural image statistics by learning the joint distribution of the Gabor function parameters. The joint distribution is then approximated to yield an analytical model of simple-cell receptive fields. Adapting a basis of Gabor functions is found to take an order of magnit...
computer science
23,511
Stroke-Based Cursive Character Recognition
cs.CV
Human eye can see and read what is written or displayed either in natural handwriting or in printed format. The same work in case the machine does is called handwriting recognition. Handwriting recognition can be broken down into two categories: off-line and on-line. ...
computer science
23,512
Lie Algebrized Gaussians for Image Representation
cs.CV
We present an image representation method which is derived from analyzing Gaussian probability density function (\emph{pdf}) space using Lie group theory. In our proposed method, images are modeled by Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) which are adapted from a globally trained GMM called universal background model (UBM). T...
computer science
23,513
Multiscale Hybrid Non-local Means Filtering Using Modified Similarity Measure
cs.CV
A new multiscale implementation of non-local means filtering for image denoising is proposed. The proposed algorithm also introduces a modification of similarity measure for patch comparison. The standard Euclidean norm is replaced by weighted Euclidean norm for patch based comparison. Assuming the patch as an oriented...
computer science
23,514
Improved Anomaly Detection in Crowded Scenes via Cell-based Analysis of Foreground Speed, Size and Texture
cs.CV
A robust and efficient anomaly detection technique is proposed, capable of dealing with crowded scenes where traditional tracking based approaches tend to fail. Initial foreground segmentation of the input frames confines the analysis to foreground objects and effectively ignores irrelevant background dynamics. Input f...
computer science
23,515
A software for aging faces applied to ancient marble busts
cs.CV
The study and development of software able to show the effect of aging of faces is one of the tasks of face recognition technologies. Some software solutions are used for investigations, some others to show the effects of drugs on healthy appearance, however some other applications can be proposed for the analysis of v...
computer science
23,516
Integration of spatio-temporal contrast sensitivity with a multi-slice channelized Hotelling observer
cs.CV
Barten's model of spatio-temporal contrast sensitivity function of human visual system is embedded in a multi-slice channelized Hotelling observer. This is done by 3D filtering of the stack of images with the spatio-temporal contrast sensitivity function and feeding the result (i.e., the perceived image stack) to the m...
computer science
23,517
Multiscale Fractal Descriptors Applied to Texture Classification
cs.CV
This work proposes the combination of multiscale transform with fractal descriptors employed in the classification of gray-level texture images. We apply the space-scale transform (derivative + Gaussian filter) over the Bouligand-Minkowski fractal descriptors, followed by a threshold over the filter response, aiming at...
computer science
23,518
Spectral Descriptors for Graph Matching
cs.CV
In this paper, we consider the weighted graph matching problem. Recently, approaches to this problem based on spectral methods have gained significant attention. We propose two graph spectral descriptors based on the graph Laplacian, namely a Laplacian family signature (LFS) on nodes, and a pairwise heat kernel distanc...
computer science
23,519
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (ÖAGM/AAPR), 2013
cs.CV
This volume represents the proceedings of the 37th Annual Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (\"OAGM/AAPR), held May 23-24, 2013, in Innsbruck, Austria.
computer science
23,520
Facial transformations of ancient portraits: the face of Caesar
cs.CV
Some software solutions used to obtain the facial transformations can help investigating the artistic metamorphosis of the ancient portraits of the same person. An analysis with a freely available software of portraitures of Julius Caesar is proposed, showing his several "morphs". The software helps enhancing the mood ...
computer science
23,521
Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Using Minutiae Matching Technique for the Large Fingerprint Database
cs.CV
Extracting minutiae from fingerprint images is one of the most important steps in automatic fingerprint identification system. Because minutiae matching are certainly the most well-known and widely used method for fingerprint matching, minutiae are local discontinuities in the fingerprint pattern. In this paper a finge...
computer science
23,522
Image Classification by Feature Dimension Reduction and Graph based Ranking
cs.CV
Dimensionality reduction (DR) of image features plays an important role in image retrieval and classification tasks. Recently, two types of methods have been proposed to improve the both the accuracy and efficiency for the dimensionality reduction problem. One uses Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) to describe th...
computer science
23,523
A New Approach To Two-View Motion Segmentation Using Global Dimension Minimization
cs.CV
We present a new approach to rigid-body motion segmentation from two views. We use a previously developed nonlinear embedding of two-view point correspondences into a 9-dimensional space and identify the different motions by segmenting lower-dimensional subspaces. In order to overcome nonuniform distributions along the...
computer science
23,524
Rotational Projection Statistics for 3D Local Surface Description and Object Recognition
cs.CV
Recognizing 3D objects in the presence of noise, varying mesh resolution, occlusion and clutter is a very challenging task. This paper presents a novel method named Rotational Projection Statistics (RoPS). It has three major modules: Local Reference Frame (LRF) definition, RoPS feature description and 3D object recogni...
computer science
23,525
Developing and Analyzing Boundary Detection Operators Using Probabilistic Models
cs.CV
Most feature detectors such as edge detectors or circle finders are statistical, in the sense that they decide at each point in an image about the presence of a feature, this paper describes the use of Bayesian feature detectors.
computer science
23,526
Single View Depth Estimation from Examples
cs.CV
We describe a non-parametric, "example-based" method for estimating the depth of an object, viewed in a single photo. Our method consults a database of example 3D geometries, searching for those which look similar to the object in the photo. The known depths of the selected database objects act as shape priors which co...
computer science
23,527
Multispectral Spatial Characterization: Application to Mitosis Detection in Breast Cancer Histopathology
cs.CV
Accurate detection of mitosis plays a critical role in breast cancer histopathology. Manual detection and counting of mitosis is tedious and subject to considerable inter- and intra-reader variations. Multispectral imaging is a recent medical imaging technology, proven successful in increasing the segmentation accuracy...
computer science
23,528
Shadow Estimation Method for "The Episolar Constraint: Monocular Shape from Shadow Correspondence"
cs.CV
Recovering shadows is an important step for many vision algorithms. Current approaches that work with time-lapse sequences are limited to simple thresholding heuristics. We show these approaches only work with very careful tuning of parameters, and do not work well for long-term time-lapse sequences taken over the span...
computer science
23,529
Heterogeneous patterns enhancing static and dynamic texture classification
cs.CV
Some mixtures, such as colloids like milk, blood, and gelatin, have homogeneous appearance when viewed with the naked eye, however, to observe them at the nanoscale is possible to understand the heterogeneity of its components. The same phenomenon can occur in pattern recognition in which it is possible to see heteroge...
computer science
23,530
Tracking of Fingertips and Centres of Palm using KINECT
cs.CV
Hand Gesture is a popular way to interact or control machines and it has been implemented in many applications. The geometry of hand is such that it is hard to construct in virtual environment and control the joints but the functionality and DOF encourage researchers to make a hand like instrument. This paper presents ...
computer science
23,531
Automated Switching System for Skin Pixel Segmentation in Varied Lighting
cs.CV
In Computer Vision, colour-based spatial techniquesoften assume a static skin colour model. However, skin colour perceived by a camera can change when lighting changes. In common real environment multiple light sources impinge on the skin. Moreover, detection techniques may vary when the image under study is taken unde...
computer science
23,532
Robust Noise Filtering in Image Sequences
cs.CV
Image sequences filtering have recently become a very important technical problem especially with the advent of new technology in multimedia and video systems applications. Often image sequences are corrupted by some amount of noise introduced by the image sensor and therefore inherently present in the imaging process....
computer science
23,533
Polygon Matching and Indexing Under Affine Transformations
cs.CV
Given a collection $\{Z_1,Z_2,\ldots,Z_m\}$ of $n$-sided polygons in the plane and a query polygon $W$ we give algorithms to find all $Z_\ell$ such that $W=f(Z_\ell)$ with $f$ an unknown similarity transformation in time independent of the size of the collection. If $f$ is a known affine transformation, we show how to ...
computer science
23,534
Object Tracking in Videos: Approaches and Issues
cs.CV
Mobile object tracking has an important role in the computer vision applications. In this paper, we use a tracked target-based taxonomy to present the object tracking algorithms. The tracked targets are divided into three categories: points of interest, appearance and silhouette of mobile objects. Advantages and limita...
computer science
23,535
A Joint Intensity and Depth Co-Sparse Analysis Model for Depth Map Super-Resolution
cs.CV
High-resolution depth maps can be inferred from low-resolution depth measurements and an additional high-resolution intensity image of the same scene. To that end, we introduce a bimodal co-sparse analysis model, which is able to capture the interdependency of registered intensity and depth information. This model is b...
computer science
23,536
Color image denoising by chromatic edges based vector valued diffusion
cs.CV
In this letter we propose to denoise digital color images via an improved geometric diffusion scheme. By introducing edges detected from all three color channels into the diffusion the proposed scheme avoids color smearing artifacts. Vector valued diffusion is used to control the smoothing and the geometry of color ima...
computer science
23,537
A Bag of Visual Words Approach for Symbols-Based Coarse-Grained Ancient Coin Classification
cs.CV
The field of Numismatics provides the names and descriptions of the symbols minted on the ancient coins. Classification of the ancient coins aims at assigning a given coin to its issuer. Various issuers used various symbols for their coins. We propose to use these symbols for a framework that will coarsely classify the...
computer science
23,538
Counting people from above: Airborne video based crowd analysis
cs.CV
Crowd monitoring and analysis in mass events are highly important technologies to support the security of attending persons. Proposed methods based on terrestrial or airborne image/video data often fail in achieving sufficiently accurate results to guarantee a robust service. We present a novel framework for estimating...
computer science
23,539
Learning Visual Symbols for Parsing Human Poses in Images
cs.CV
Parsing human poses in images is fundamental in extracting critical visual information for artificial intelligent agents. Our goal is to learn self-contained body part representations from images, which we call visual symbols, and their symbol-wise geometric contexts in this parsing process. Each symbol is individually...
computer science
23,540
Semi-Optimal Edge Detector based on Simple Standard Deviation with Adjusted Thresholding
cs.CV
This paper proposes a novel method which combines both median filter and simple standard deviation to accomplish an excellent edge detector for image processing. First of all, a denoising process must be applied on the grey scale image using median filter to identify pixels which are likely to be contaminated by noise....
computer science
23,541
k-Modulus Method for Image Transformation
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to make a novel spatial image transformation. The proposed approach aims to reduce the bit depth used for image storage. The basic technique for the proposed transformation is based of the modulus operator. The goal is to transform the whole image into multiples of predefined i...
computer science
23,542
Digit Recognition in Handwritten Weather Records
cs.CV
This paper addresses the automatic recognition of handwritten temperature values in weather records. The localization of table cells is based on line detection using projection profiles. Further, a stroke-preserving line removal method which is based on gradient images is proposed. The presented digit recognition utili...
computer science
23,543
Euclidean Upgrade from a Minimal Number of Segments
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose an algebraic approach to upgrade a projective reconstruction to a Euclidean one, and aim at computing the rectifying homography from a minimal number of 9 segments of known length. Constraints are derived from these segments which yield a set of polynomial equations that we solve by means of G...
computer science
23,544
A Convex Approach for Image Hallucination
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a global convex approach for image hallucination. Altering the idea of classical multi image super resolution (SU) systems to single image SU, we incorporate aligned images to hallucinate the output. Our work is based on the paper of Tappen et al. where they use a non-convex model for image hal...
computer science
23,545
Reading Ancient Coin Legends: Object Recognition vs. OCR
cs.CV
Standard OCR is a well-researched topic of computer vision and can be considered solved for machine-printed text. However, when applied to unconstrained images, the recognition rates drop drastically. Therefore, the employment of object recognition-based techniques has become state of the art in scene text recognition ...
computer science
23,546
Algorithmic Optimisations for Iterative Deconvolution Methods
cs.CV
We investigate possibilities to speed up iterative algorithms for non-blind image deconvolution. We focus on algorithms in which convolution with the point-spread function to be deconvolved is used in each iteration, and aim at accelerating these convolution operations as they are typically the most expensive part of t...
computer science
23,547
In the sight of my wearable camera: Classifying my visual experience
cs.CV
We introduce and we analyze a new dataset which resembles the input to biological vision systems much more than most previously published ones. Our analysis leaded to several important conclusions. First, it is possible to disambiguate over dozens of visual scenes (locations) encountered over the course of several week...
computer science
23,548
Convolutional Neural Networks learn compact local image descriptors
cs.CV
A standard deep convolutional neural network paired with a suitable loss function learns compact local image descriptors that perform comparably to state-of-the art approaches.
computer science
23,549
Registration of Images with Outliers Using Joint Saliency Map
cs.CV
Mutual information (MI) is a popular similarity measure for image registration, whereby good registration can be achieved by maximizing the compactness of the clusters in the joint histogram. However, MI is sensitive to the "outlier" objects that appear in one image but not the other, and also suffers from local and bi...
computer science
23,550
Fractal-Based Detection of Microcalcification Clusters in Digital Mammograms
cs.CV
In this paper, a novel method for edge detection of microcalcification clusters in mammogram images is presented using the concept of Fractal Dimension and Hurst co-efficient that enables to locate the microcalcifications in the mammograms. This technique detects the edges accurately than the ones obtained by the conve...
computer science
23,551
Image Inpainting by Kriging Interpolation Technique
cs.CV
Image inpainting is the art of predicting damaged regions of an image. The manual way of image inpainting is a time consuming. Therefore, there must be an automatic digital method for image inpainting that recovers the image from the damaged regions. In this paper, a novel statistical image inpainting algorithm based o...
computer science
23,552
An Analysis of the Connections Between Layers of Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
We present an analysis of different techniques for selecting the connection be- tween layers of deep neural networks. Traditional deep neural networks use ran- dom connection tables between layers to keep the number of connections small and tune to different image features. This kind of connection performs adequately i...
computer science
23,553
Distributed Bayesian inference for consistent labeling of tracked objects in non-overlapping camera networks
cs.CV
One of the fundamental requirements for visual surveillance using non-overlapping camera networks is the correct labeling of tracked objects on each camera in a consistent way,in the sense that the captured tracklets, or observations in this paper, of the same object at different cameras should be assigned with the sam...
computer science
23,554
Recognition of Indian Sign Language in Live Video
cs.CV
Sign Language Recognition has emerged as one of the important area of research in Computer Vision. The difficulty faced by the researchers is that the instances of signs vary with both motion and appearance. Thus, in this paper a novel approach for recognizing various alphabets of Indian Sign Language is proposed where...
computer science
23,555
K-Algorithm A Modified Technique for Noise Removal in Handwritten Documents
cs.CV
OCR has been an active research area since last few decades. OCR performs the recognition of the text in the scanned document image and converts it into editable form. The OCR process can have several stages like pre-processing, segmentation, recognition and post processing. The pre-processing stage is a crucial stage ...
computer science
23,556
Infrared face recognition: a literature review
cs.CV
Automatic face recognition (AFR) is an area with immense practical potential which includes a wide range of commercial and law enforcement applications, and it continues to be one of the most active research areas of computer vision. Even after over three decades of intense research, the state-of-the-art in AFR continu...
computer science
23,557
Vesselness features and the inverse compositional AAM for robust face recognition using thermal IR
cs.CV
Over the course of the last decade, infrared (IR) and particularly thermal IR imaging based face recognition has emerged as a promising complement to conventional, visible spectrum based approaches which continue to struggle when applied in the real world. While inherently insensitive to visible spectrum illumination c...
computer science
23,558
Statistical Denoising for single molecule fluorescence microscopic images
cs.CV
Single molecule fluorescence microscopy is a powerful technique for uncovering detailed information about biological systems, both in vitro and in vivo. In such experiments, the inherently low signal to noise ratios mean that accurate algorithms to separate true signal and background noise are essential to generate mea...
computer science
23,559
Illumination-invariant face recognition from a single image across extreme pose using a dual dimension AAM ensemble in the thermal infrared spectrum
cs.CV
Over the course of the last decade, infrared (IR) and particularly thermal IR imaging based face recognition has emerged as a promising complement to conventional, visible spectrum based approaches which continue to struggle when applied in practice. While inherently insensitive to visible spectrum illumination changes...
computer science
23,560
Speckle Reduction with Adaptive Stack Filters
cs.CV
Stack filters are a special case of non-linear filters. They have a good performance for filtering images with different types of noise while preserving edges and details. A stack filter decomposes an input image into stacks of binary images according to a set of thresholds. Each binary image is then filtered by a Bool...
computer science
23,561
Discriminative extended canonical correlation analysis for pattern set matching
cs.CV
In this paper we address the problem of matching sets of vectors embedded in the same input space. We propose an approach which is motivated by canonical correlation analysis (CCA), a statistical technique which has proven successful in a wide variety of pattern recognition problems. Like CCA when applied to the matchi...
computer science
23,562
Discriminative k-means clustering
cs.CV
The k-means algorithm is a partitional clustering method. Over 60 years old, it has been successfully used for a variety of problems. The popularity of k-means is in large part a consequence of its simplicity and efficiency. In this paper we are inspired by these appealing properties of k-means in the development of a ...
computer science
23,563
Image segmentation by optimal and hierarchical piecewise constant approximations
cs.CV
Piecewise constant image approximations of sequential number of segments or clusters of disconnected pixels are treated. The method of majorizing of optimal approximation sequence by hierarchical sequence of image approximations is proposed. A generalization for multidimensional case of color and multispectral images i...
computer science
23,564
Hand Gesture Recognition Based on Karhunen-Loeve Transform
cs.CV
In this paper, we have proposed a system based on K-L Transform to recognize different hand gestures. The system consists of five steps: skin filtering, palm cropping, edge detection, feature extraction, and classification. Firstly the hand is detected using skin filtering and palm cropping was performed to extract out...
computer science
23,565
Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Scene Parsing
cs.CV
Scene parsing is a technique that consist on giving a label to all pixels in an image according to the class they belong to. To ensure a good visual coherence and a high class accuracy, it is essential for a scene parser to capture image long range dependencies. In a feed-forward architecture, this can be simply achiev...
computer science
23,566
Optimization of Clustering for Clustering-based Image Denoising
cs.CV
In this paper, the problem of de-noising of an image contaminated with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is studied. This subject has been continued to be an open problem in signal processing for more than 50 years. In the present paper, we suggest a method based on global clustering of image constructing blocks. No...
computer science
23,567
A Face-like Structure Detection on Planet and Satellite Surfaces using Image Processing
cs.CV
This paper demonstrates that face-like structures are everywhere, and can be de-tected automatically even with computers. Huge amount of satellite images of the Earth, the Moon, the Mars are explored and many interesting face-like structure are detected. Throughout this fact, we believe that science and technologies ca...
computer science
23,568
Segmentation et Interprétation de Nuages de Points pour la Modélisation d'Environnements Urbains
cs.CV
Dans cet article, nous pr\'esentons une m\'ethode pour la d\'etection et la classification d'artefacts au niveau du sol, comme phase de filtrage pr\'ealable \`a la mod\'elisation d'environnements urbains. La m\'ethode de d\'etection est r\'ealis\'ee sur l'image profondeur, une projection de nuage de points sur un plan ...
computer science
23,569
Feature Learning by Multidimensional Scaling and its Applications in Object Recognition
cs.CV
We present the MDS feature learning framework, in which multidimensional scaling (MDS) is applied on high-level pairwise image distances to learn fixed-length vector representations of images. The aspects of the images that are captured by the learned features, which we call MDS features, completely depend on what kind...
computer science
23,570
Matching objects across the textured-smooth continuum
cs.CV
The problem of 3D object recognition is of immense practical importance, with the last decade witnessing a number of breakthroughs in the state of the art. Most of the previous work has focused on the matching of textured objects using local appearance descriptors extracted around salient image points. The recently pro...
computer science
23,571
Live-wire 3D medical images segmentation
cs.CV
This report describes the design, implementation, evaluation and original enhancements to the Live-Wire method for 2D and 3D image segmentation. Live-Wire 2D employs a semi-automatic paradigm; the user is asked to select a few boundary points of the object to segment, to steer the process in the right direction, while ...
computer science
23,572
iCub World: Friendly Robots Help Building Good Vision Data-Sets
cs.CV
In this paper we present and start analyzing the iCub World data-set, an object recognition data-set, we acquired using a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scheme and the iCub humanoid robot platform. Our set up allows for rapid acquisition and annotation of data with corresponding ground truth. While more constrained in i...
computer science
23,573
Non-Uniform Blind Deblurring with a Spatially-Adaptive Sparse Prior
cs.CV
Typical blur from camera shake often deviates from the standard uniform convolutional script, in part because of problematic rotations which create greater blurring away from some unknown center point. Consequently, successful blind deconvolution requires the estimation of a spatially-varying or non-uniform blur operat...
computer science
23,574
Two-View Matching with View Synthesis Revisited
cs.CV
Wide-baseline matching focussing on problems with extreme viewpoint change is considered. We introduce the use of view synthesis with affine-covariant detectors to solve such problems and show that matching with the Hessian-Affine or MSER detectors outperforms the state-of-the-art ASIFT. To minimise the loss of speed...
computer science
23,575
Classifying and Visualizing Motion Capture Sequences using Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
The gesture recognition using motion capture data and depth sensors has recently drawn more attention in vision recognition. Currently most systems only classify dataset with a couple of dozens different actions. Moreover, feature extraction from the data is often computational complex. In this paper, we propose a nove...
computer science
23,576
A Novel Block-DCT and PCA Based Image Perceptual Hashing Algorithm
cs.CV
Image perceptual hashing finds applications in content indexing, large-scale image database management, certification and authentication and digital watermarking. We propose a Block-DCT and PCA based image perceptual hash in this article and explore the algorithm in the application of tamper detection. The main idea of...
computer science
23,577
An Overview of the Research on Texture Based Plant Leaf Classification
cs.CV
Plant classification has a broad application prospective in agriculture and medicine, and is especially significant to the biology diversity research. As plants are vitally important for environmental protection, it is more important to identify and classify them accurately. Plant leaf classification is a technique whe...
computer science
23,578
Felzenszwalb-Baum-Welch: Event Detection by Changing Appearance
cs.CV
We propose a method which can detect events in videos by modeling the change in appearance of the event participants over time. This method makes it possible to detect events which are characterized not by motion, but by the changing state of the people or objects involved. This is accomplished by using object detector...
computer science
23,579
Computer Aided ECG Analysis - State of the Art and Upcoming Challenges
cs.CV
In this paper we present current achievements in computer aided ECG analysis and their applicability in real world medical diagnosis process. Most of the current work is covering problems of removing noise, detecting heartbeats and rhythm-based analysis. There are some advancements in particular ECG segments detection ...
computer science
23,580
Fine-Grained Visual Classification of Aircraft
cs.CV
This paper introduces FGVC-Aircraft, a new dataset containing 10,000 images of aircraft spanning 100 aircraft models, organised in a three-level hierarchy. At the finer level, differences between models are often subtle but always visually measurable, making visual recognition challenging but possible. A benchmark is o...
computer science
23,581
New Approach of Estimating PSNR-B For De-blocked Images
cs.CV
Measurement of image quality is very crucial to many image processing applications. Quality metrics are used to measure the quality of improvement in the images after they are processed and compared with the original images. Compression is one of the applications where it is required to monitor the quality of decompres...
computer science
23,582
A maximal-information color to gray conversion method for document images: Toward an optimal grayscale representation for document image binarization
cs.CV
A novel method to convert color/multi-spectral images to gray-level images is introduced to increase the performance of document binarization methods. The method uses the distribution of the pixel data of the input document image in a color space to find a transformation, called the dual transform, which balances the a...
computer science
23,583
Persian Heritage Image Binarization Competition (PHIBC 2012)
cs.CV
The first competition on the binarization of historical Persian documents and manuscripts (PHIBC 2012) has been organized in conjunction with the first Iranian conference on pattern recognition and image analysis (PRIA 2013). The main objective of PHIBC 2012 is to evaluate performance of the binarization methodologies,...
computer science
23,584
Active Contour Models for Manifold Valued Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Image segmentation is the process of partitioning a image into different regions or groups based on some characteristics like color, texture, motion or shape etc. Active contours is a popular variational method for object segmentation in images, in which the user initializes a contour which evolves in order to optimize...
computer science
23,585
A Novel Active Contour Model for Texture Segmentation
cs.CV
Texture is intuitively defined as a repeated arrangement of a basic pattern or object in an image. There is no mathematical definition of a texture though. The human visual system is able to identify and segment different textures in a given image. Automating this task for a computer is far from trivial. There are thre...
computer science
23,586
New Mathematical and Algorithmic Schemes for Pattern Classification with Application to the Identification of Writers of Important Ancient Documents
cs.CV
In this paper, a novel approach is introduced for classifying curves into proper families, according to their similarity. First, a mathematical quantity we call plane curvature is introduced and a number of propositions are stated and proved. Proper similarity measures of two curves are introduced and a subsequent stat...
computer science
23,587
Graph rigidity, Cyclic Belief Propagation and Point Pattern Matching
cs.CV
A recent paper \cite{CaeCaeSchBar06} proposed a provably optimal, polynomial time method for performing near-isometric point pattern matching by means of exact probabilistic inference in a chordal graphical model. Their fundamental result is that the chordal graph in question is shown to be globally rigid, implying tha...
computer science
23,588
High-Order Nonparametric Belief-Propagation for Fast Image Inpainting
cs.CV
In this paper, we use belief-propagation techniques to develop fast algorithms for image inpainting. Unlike traditional gradient-based approaches, which may require many iterations to converge, our techniques achieve competitive results after only a few iterations. On the other hand, while belief-propagation techniques...
computer science
23,589
An Affinity Propagation Based method for Vector Quantization Codebook Design
cs.CV
In this paper, we firstly modify a parameter in affinity propagation (AP) to improve its convergence ability, and then, we apply it to vector quantization (VQ) codebook design problem. In order to improve the quality of the resulted codebook, we combine the improved AP (IAP) with the conventional LBG algorithm to gener...
computer science
23,590
Comparison and Combination of State-of-the-art Techniques for Handwritten Character Recognition: Topping the MNIST Benchmark
cs.CV
Although the recognition of isolated handwritten digits has been a research topic for many years, it continues to be of interest for the research community and for commercial applications. We show that despite the maturity of the field, different approaches still deliver results that vary enough to allow improvements b...
computer science
23,591
Hierarchical Bag of Paths for Kernel Based Shape Classification
cs.CV
Graph kernels methods are based on an implicit embedding of graphs within a vector space of large dimension. This implicit embedding allows to apply to graphs methods which where until recently solely reserved to numerical data. Within the shape classification framework, graphs are often produced by a skeletonization s...
computer science
23,592
Camera distortion self-calibration using the plumb-line constraint and minimal Hough entropy
cs.CV
In this paper we present a simple and robust method for self-correction of camera distortion using single images of scenes which contain straight lines. Since the most common distortion can be modelled as radial distortion, we illustrate the method using the Harris radial distortion model, but the method is applicable ...
computer science
23,593
Graph-based classification of multiple observation sets
cs.CV
We consider the problem of classification of an object given multiple observations that possibly include different transformations. The possible transformations of the object generally span a low-dimensional manifold in the original signal space. We propose to take advantage of this manifold structure for the effective...
computer science
23,594
3D Face Recognition with Sparse Spherical Representations
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of 3D face recognition using simultaneous sparse approximations on the sphere. The 3D face point clouds are first aligned with a novel and fully automated registration process. They are then represented as signals on the 2D sphere in order to preserve depth and geometry information. Nex...
computer science
23,595
Scale-Based Gaussian Coverings: Combining Intra and Inter Mixture Models in Image Segmentation
cs.CV
By a "covering" we mean a Gaussian mixture model fit to observed data. Approximations of the Bayes factor can be availed of to judge model fit to the data within a given Gaussian mixture model. Between families of Gaussian mixture models, we propose the R\'enyi quadratic entropy as an excellent and tractable model comp...
computer science
23,596
Kernel Spectral Curvature Clustering (KSCC)
cs.CV
Multi-manifold modeling is increasingly used in segmentation and data representation tasks in computer vision and related fields. While the general problem, modeling data by mixtures of manifolds, is very challenging, several approaches exist for modeling data by mixtures of affine subspaces (which is often referred to...
computer science
23,597
Motion Segmentation by SCC on the Hopkins 155 Database
cs.CV
We apply the Spectral Curvature Clustering (SCC) algorithm to a benchmark database of 155 motion sequences, and show that it outperforms all other state-of-the-art methods. The average misclassification rate by SCC is 1.41% for sequences having two motions and 4.85% for three motions.
computer science
23,598
A Method for Extraction and Recognition of Isolated License Plate Characters
cs.CV
A method to extract and recognize isolated characters in license plates is proposed. In extraction stage, the proposed method detects isolated characters by using Difference-of-Gaussian (DOG) function, The DOG function, similar to Laplacian of Gaussian function, was proven to produce the most stable image features comp...
computer science
23,599
Information tracking approach to segmentation of ultrasound imagery of prostate
cs.CV
The size and geometry of the prostate are known to be pivotal quantities used by clinicians to assess the condition of the gland during prostate cancer screening. As an alternative to palpation, an increasing number of methods for estimation of the above-mentioned quantities are based on using imagery data of prostate....
computer science
23,600
Iterative Shrinkage Approach to Restoration of Optical Imagery
cs.CV
The problem of reconstruction of digital images from their degraded measurements is regarded as a problem of central importance in various fields of engineering and imaging sciences. In such cases, the degradation is typically caused by the resolution limitations of an imaging device in use and/or by the destructive in...
computer science
23,601
Automatic Road Lighting System (ARLS) Model Based on Image Processing of Moving Object
cs.CV
Using a vehicle toy (in next future called vehicle) as a moving object an automatic road lighting system (ARLS) model is constructed. A digital video camera with 25 fps is used to capture the vehicle motion as it moves in the test segment of the road. Captured images are then processed to calculate vehicle speed. This ...
computer science