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Online Vehicle Detection For Estimating Traffic Status
cs.CV
We propose a traffic congestion estimation system based on unsupervised on-line learning algorithm. The system does not rely on background extraction or motion detection. It extracts local features inside detection regions of variable size which are drawn on lanes in advance. The extracted features are then clustered i...
computer science
23,603
Spatial Features for Multi-Font/Multi-Size Kannada Numerals and Vowels Recognition
cs.CV
This paper presents multi-font/multi-size Kannada numerals and vowels recognition based on spatial features. Directional spatial features viz stroke density, stroke length and the number of stokes in an image are employed as potential features to characterize the printed Kannada numerals and vowels. Based on these feat...
computer science
23,604
Analysis and Improvement of Low Rank Representation for Subspace segmentation
cs.CV
We analyze and improve low rank representation (LRR), the state-of-the-art algorithm for subspace segmentation of data. We prove that for the noiseless case, the optimization model of LRR has a unique solution, which is the shape interaction matrix (SIM) of the data matrix. So in essence LRR is equivalent to factorizat...
computer science
23,605
Kunchenko's Polynomials for Template Matching
cs.CV
This paper reviews Kunchenko's polynomials using as template matching method to recognize template in one-dimensional input signal. Kunchenko's polynomials method is compared with classical methods - cross-correlation and sum of squared differences according to numerical statistical example.
computer science
23,606
A Variation of the Box-Counting Algorithm Applied to Colour Images
cs.CV
The box counting method for fractal dimension estimation had not been applied to large or colour images thus far due to the processing time required. In this letter we present a fast, easy to implement and very easily expandable to any number of dimensions variation, the box merging method. It is applied here in RGB im...
computer science
23,607
Learning Hypergraph Labeling for Feature Matching
cs.CV
This study poses the feature correspondence problem as a hypergraph node labeling problem. Candidate feature matches and their subsets (usually of size larger than two) are considered to be the nodes and hyperedges of a hypergraph. A hypergraph labeling algorithm, which models the subset-wise interaction by an undirect...
computer science
23,608
A Fuzzy View on k-Means Based Signal Quantization with Application in Iris Segmentation
cs.CV
This paper shows that the k-means quantization of a signal can be interpreted both as a crisp indicator function and as a fuzzy membership assignment describing fuzzy clusters and fuzzy boundaries. Combined crisp and fuzzy indicator functions are defined here as natural generalizations of the ordinary crisp and fuzzy i...
computer science
23,609
Exploring New Directions in Iris Recognition
cs.CV
A new approach in iris recognition based on Circular Fuzzy Iris Segmentation (CFIS) and Gabor Analytic Iris Texture Binary Encoder (GAITBE) is proposed and tested here. CFIS procedure is designed to guarantee that similar iris segments will be obtained for similar eye images, despite the fact that the degree of occlusi...
computer science
23,610
Topographic Feature Extraction for Bengali and Hindi Character Images
cs.CV
Feature selection and extraction plays an important role in different classification based problems such as face recognition, signature verification, optical character recognition (OCR) etc. The performance of OCR highly depends on the proper selection and extraction of feature set. In this paper, we present novel feat...
computer science
23,611
Face Recognition using Curvelet Transform
cs.CV
Face recognition has been studied extensively for more than 20 years now. Since the beginning of 90s the subject has became a major issue. This technology is used in many important real-world applications, such as video surveillance, smart cards, database security, internet and intranet access. This report reviews rece...
computer science
23,612
Fingerprint recognition using standardized fingerprint model
cs.CV
Fingerprint recognition is one of most popular and accuracy Biometric technologies. Nowadays, it is used in many real applications. However, recognizing fingerprints in poor quality images is still a very complex problem. In recent years, many algorithms, models...are given to improve the accuracy of recognition system...
computer science
23,613
Facial Expression Classification Based on Multi Artificial Neural Network and Two Dimensional Principal Component Analysis
cs.CV
Facial expression classification is a kind of image classification and it has received much attention, in recent years. There are many approaches to solve these problems with aiming to increase efficient classification. One of famous suggestions is described as first step, project image to different spaces; second step...
computer science
23,614
Arithmetic and Frequency Filtering Methods of Pixel-Based Image Fusion Techniques
cs.CV
In remote sensing, image fusion technique is a useful tool used to fuse high spatial resolution panchromatic images (PAN) with lower spatial resolution multispectral images (MS) to create a high spatial resolution multispectral of image fusion (F) while preserving the spectral information in the multispectral image (MS...
computer science
23,615
The IHS Transformations Based Image Fusion
cs.CV
The IHS sharpening technique is one of the most commonly used techniques for sharpening. Different transformations have been developed to transfer a color image from the RGB space to the IHS space. Through literature, it appears that, various scientists proposed alternative IHS transformations and many papers have repo...
computer science
23,616
Correlation Estimation from Compressed Images
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of correlation estimation in sets of compressed images. We consider a framework where images are represented under the form of linear measurements due to low complexity sensing or security requirements. We assume that the images are correlated through the displacement of visual objects ...
computer science
23,617
Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping of High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging based on Riemannian Structure of Orientation Distribution Functions
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel large deformation diffeomorphic registration algorithm to align high angular resolution diffusion images (HARDI) characterized by orientation distribution functions (ODFs). Our proposed algorithm seeks an optimal diffeomorphism of large deformation between two ODF fields in a spatial v...
computer science
23,618
Efficient and Accurate Gaussian Image Filtering Using Running Sums
cs.CV
This paper presents a simple and efficient method to convolve an image with a Gaussian kernel. The computation is performed in a constant number of operations per pixel using running sums along the image rows and columns. We investigate the error function used for kernel approximation and its relation to the properties...
computer science
23,619
Confidence-Based Dynamic Classifier Combination For Mean-Shift Tracking
cs.CV
We introduce a novel tracking technique which uses dynamic confidence-based fusion of two different information sources for robust and efficient tracking of visual objects. Mean-shift tracking is a popular and well known method used in object tracking problems. Originally, the algorithm uses a similarity measure which ...
computer science
23,620
Compositional Dictionaries for Domain Adaptive Face Recognition
cs.CV
We present a dictionary learning approach to compensate for the transformation of faces due to changes in view point, illumination, resolution, etc. The key idea of our approach is to force domain-invariant sparse coding, i.e., design a consistent sparse representation of the same face in different domains. In this way...
computer science
23,621
Learning Robust Subspace Clustering
cs.CV
We propose a low-rank transformation-learning framework to robustify subspace clustering. Many high-dimensional data, such as face images and motion sequences, lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. The subspace clustering problem has been extensively studied in the literature to partition such high-dimensional d...
computer science
23,622
Domain-invariant Face Recognition using Learned Low-rank Transformation
cs.CV
We present a low-rank transformation approach to compensate for face variations due to changes in visual domains, such as pose and illumination. The key idea is to learn discriminative linear transformations for face images using matrix rank as the optimization criteria. The learned linear transformations restore a sha...
computer science
23,623
Sparse Dictionary-based Attributes for Action Recognition and Summarization
cs.CV
We present an approach for dictionary learning of action attributes via information maximization. We unify the class distribution and appearance information into an objective function for learning a sparse dictionary of action attributes. The objective function maximizes the mutual information between what has been lea...
computer science
23,624
Hybrid Focal Stereo Networks for Pattern Analysis in Homogeneous Scenes
cs.CV
In this paper we address the problem of multiple camera calibration in the presence of a homogeneous scene, and without the possibility of employing calibration object based methods. The proposed solution exploits salient features present in a larger field of view, but instead of employing active vision we replace the ...
computer science
23,625
Head Gesture Recognition using Optical Flow based Classification with Reinforcement of GMM based Background Subtraction
cs.CV
This paper describes a technique of real time head gesture recognition system. The method includes Gaussian mixture model (GMM) accompanied by optical flow algorithm which provided us the required information regarding head movement. The proposed model can be implemented in various control system. We are also presentin...
computer science
23,626
Image interpolation using Shearlet based iterative refinement
cs.CV
This paper proposes an image interpolation algorithm exploiting sparse representation for natural images. It involves three main steps: (a) obtaining an initial estimate of the high resolution image using linear methods like FIR filtering, (b) promoting sparsity in a selected dictionary through iterative thresholding, ...
computer science
23,627
Bayesian ensemble learning for image denoising
cs.CV
Natural images are often affected by random noise and image denoising has long been a central topic in Computer Vision. Many algorithms have been introduced to remove the noise from the natural images, such as Gaussian, Wiener filtering and wavelet thresholding. However, many of these algorithms remove the fine edges a...
computer science
23,628
A Framework for the Analysis of Computational Imaging Systems with Practical Applications
cs.CV
Over the last decade, a number of Computational Imaging (CI) systems have been proposed for tasks such as motion deblurring, defocus deblurring and multispectral imaging. These techniques increase the amount of light reaching the sensor via multiplexing and then undo the deleterious effects of multiplexing by appropria...
computer science
23,629
Local image registration a comparison for bilateral registration mammography
cs.CV
Early tumor detection is key in reducing the number of breast cancer death and screening mammography is one of the most widely available and reliable method for early detection. However, it is difficult for the radiologist to process with the same attention each case, due the large amount of images to be read. Computer...
computer science
23,630
Gradient Magnitude Similarity Deviation: A Highly Efficient Perceptual Image Quality Index
cs.CV
It is an important task to faithfully evaluate the perceptual quality of output images in many applications such as image compression, image restoration and multimedia streaming. A good image quality assessment (IQA) model should not only deliver high quality prediction accuracy but also be computationally efficient. T...
computer science
23,631
Influences Combination of Multi-Sensor Images on Classification Accuracy
cs.CV
This paper focuses on two main issues; first one is the impact of combination of multi-sensor images on the supervised learning classification accuracy using segment Fusion (SF). The second issue attempts to undertake the study of supervised machine learning classification technique of remote sensing images by using fo...
computer science
23,632
A review on handwritten character and numeral recognition for Roman, Arabic, Chinese and Indian scripts
cs.CV
There are a lot of intensive researches on handwritten character recognition (HCR) for almost past four decades. The research has been done on some of popular scripts such as Roman, Arabic, Chinese and Indian. In this paper we present a review on HCR work on the four popular scripts. We have summarized most of the publ...
computer science
23,633
Suspicious Object Recognition Method in Video Stream Based on Visual Attention
cs.CV
We propose a state of the art method for intelligent object recognition and video surveillance based on human visual attention. Bottom up and top down attention are applied respectively in the process of acquiring interested object(saliency map) and object recognition. The revision of 4 channel PFT method is proposed f...
computer science
23,634
Edge-detection applied to moving sand dunes on Mars
cs.CV
Here we discuss the application of an edge detection filter, the Sobel filter of GIMP, to the recently discovered motion of some sand dunes on Mars. The filter allows a good comparison of an image HiRISE of 2007 and an image of 1999 recorded by the Mars Global Surveyor of the dunes in the Nili Patera caldera, measuring...
computer science
23,635
Hierarchized block wise image approximation by greedy pursuit strategies
cs.CV
An approach for effective implementation of greedy selection methodologies, to approximate an image partitioned into blocks, is proposed. The method is specially designed for approximating partitions on a transformed image. It evolves by selecting, at each iteration step, i) the elements for approximating each of the b...
computer science
23,636
Brain MRI Segmentation with Fast and Globally Convex Multiphase Active Contours
cs.CV
Multiphase active contour based models are useful in identifying multiple regions with different characteristics such as the mean values of regions. This is relevant in brain magnetic resonance images (MRIs), allowing the differentiation of white matter against gray matter. We consider a well defined globally convex fo...
computer science
23,637
Text recognition in both ancient and cartographic documents
cs.CV
This paper deals with the recognition and matching of text in both cartographic maps and ancient documents. The purpose of this work is to find similar text regions based on statistical and global features. A phase of normalization is done first, in object to well categorize the same quantity of information. A phase of...
computer science
23,638
Categorizing ancient documents
cs.CV
The analysis of historical documents is still a topical issue given the importance of information that can be extracted and also the importance given by the institutions to preserve their heritage. The main idea in order to characterize the content of the images of ancient documents after attempting to clean the image ...
computer science
23,639
A proposition of a robust system for historical document images indexation
cs.CV
Characterizing noisy or ancient documents is a challenging problem up to now. Many techniques have been done in order to effectuate feature extraction and image indexation for such documents. Global approaches are in general less robust and exact than local approaches. That's why, we propose in this paper, a hybrid sys...
computer science
23,640
GNCGCP - Graduated NonConvexity and Graduated Concavity Procedure
cs.CV
In this paper we propose the Graduated NonConvexity and Graduated Concavity Procedure (GNCGCP) as a general optimization framework to approximately solve the combinatorial optimization problems on the set of partial permutation matrices. GNCGCP comprises two sub-procedures, graduated nonconvexity (GNC) which realizes a...
computer science
23,641
A Synergistic Approach for Recovering Occlusion-Free Textured 3D Maps of Urban Facades from Heterogeneous Cartographic Data
cs.CV
In this paper we present a practical approach for generating an occlusion-free textured 3D map of urban facades by the synergistic use of terrestrial images, 3D point clouds and area-based information. Particularly in dense urban environments, the high presence of urban objects in front of the facades causes significan...
computer science
23,642
Image Set based Collaborative Representation for Face Recognition
cs.CV
With the rapid development of digital imaging and communication technologies, image set based face recognition (ISFR) is becoming increasingly important. One key issue of ISFR is how to effectively and efficiently represent the query face image set by using the gallery face image sets. The set-to-set distance based met...
computer science
23,643
Conditional Expressions for Blind Deconvolution: Derivative form
cs.CV
We developed novel conditional expressions (CEs) for Lane and Bates' blind deconvolution. The CEs are given in term of the derivatives of the zero-values of the z-transform of given images. The CEs make it possible to automatically detect multiple blur convolved in the given images all at once without performing any an...
computer science
23,644
Camera motion estimation through planar deformation determination
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a global method for estimating the motion of a camera which films a static scene. Our approach is direct, fast and robust, and deals with adjacent frames of a sequence. It is based on a quadratic approximation of the deformation between two images, in the case of a scene with constant depth in...
computer science
23,645
Spatio-activity based object detection
cs.CV
We present the SAMMI lightweight object detection method which has a high level of accuracy and robustness, and which is able to operate in an environment with a large number of cameras. Background modeling is based on DCT coefficients provided by cameras. Foreground detection uses similarity in temporal characteristic...
computer science
23,646
Using Spatially Varying Pixels Exposures and Bayer-covered Photosensors for High Dynamic Range Imaging
cs.CV
The method of a linear high dynamic range imaging using solid-state photosensors with Bayer colour filters array is provided in this paper. Using information from neighbour pixels, it is possible to reconstruct linear images with wide dynamic range from the oversaturated images. Bayer colour filters array is considered...
computer science
23,647
Obtaining Depth Maps From Color Images By Region Based Stereo Matching Algorithms
cs.CV
In the paper, region based stereo matching algorithms are developed for extraction depth information from two color stereo image pair. A filter eliminating unreliable disparity estimation was used for increasing reliability of the disparity map. Obtained results by algorithms were represented and compared.
computer science
23,648
Sparse Component Analysis (SCA) in Random-valued and Salt and Pepper Noise Removal
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a new method for impulse noise removal from images. It uses the sparsity of images in the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) domain. The zeros in this domain give us the exact mathematical equation to reconstruct the pixels that are corrupted by random-value impulse noises. The proposed method ca...
computer science
23,649
Recognition of Regular Shapes in Satelite Images
cs.CV
This paper has been withdrawn by the author ali pourmohammad.
computer science
23,650
Real-time Texture Error Detection
cs.CV
This paper advocates an improved solution for real-time error detection of texture errors that occurs in the production process in textile industry. The research is focused on the mono-color products with 3D texture model (Jaquard fabrics). This is a more difficult task than, for example, 2D multicolor textures.
computer science
23,651
Digital Restoration of Ancient Papyri
cs.CV
Image processing can be used for digital restoration of ancient papyri, that is, for a restoration performed on their digital images. The digital manipulation allows reducing the background signals and enhancing the readability of texts. In the case of very old and damaged documents, this is fundamental for identificat...
computer science
23,652
Segmentation of Facial Expressions Using Semi-Definite Programming and Generalized Principal Component Analysis
cs.CV
In this paper, we use semi-definite programming and generalized principal component analysis (GPCA) to distinguish between two or more different facial expressions. In the first step, semi-definite programming is used to reduce the dimension of the image data and "unfold" the manifold which the data points (correspondi...
computer science
23,653
Combinatorial pyramids and discrete geometry for energy-minimizing segmentation
cs.CV
This paper defines the basis of a new hierarchical framework for segmentation algorithms based on energy minimization schemes. This new framework is based on two formal tools. First, a combinatorial pyramid encode efficiently a hierarchy of partitions. Secondly, discrete geometric estimators measure precisely some impo...
computer science
23,654
Deformable Model with a Complexity Independent from Image Resolution
cs.CV
We present a parametric deformable model which recovers image components with a complexity independent from the resolution of input images. The proposed model also automatically changes its topology and remains fully compatible with the general framework of deformable models. More precisely, the image space is equipped...
computer science
23,655
Adaptive Regularization of Ill-Posed Problems: Application to Non-rigid Image Registration
cs.CV
We introduce an adaptive regularization approach. In contrast to conventional Tikhonov regularization, which specifies a fixed regularization operator, we estimate it simultaneously with parameters. From a Bayesian perspective we estimate the prior distribution on parameters assuming that it is close to some given mode...
computer science
23,656
Automatic Defect Detection and Classification Technique from Image: A Special Case Using Ceramic Tiles
cs.CV
Quality control is an important issue in the ceramic tile industry. On the other hand maintaining the rate of production with respect to time is also a major issue in ceramic tile manufacturing. Again, price of ceramic tiles also depends on purity of texture, accuracy of color, shape etc. Considering this criteria, an ...
computer science
23,657
Automatic Spatially-Adaptive Balancing of Energy Terms for Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Image segmentation techniques are predominately based on parameter-laden optimization. The objective function typically involves weights for balancing competing image fidelity and segmentation regularization cost terms. Setting these weights suitably has been a painstaking, empirical process. Even if such ideal weights...
computer science
23,658
Efficient IRIS Recognition through Improvement of Feature Extraction and subset Selection
cs.CV
The selection of the optimal feature subset and the classification has become an important issue in the field of iris recognition. In this paper we propose several methods for iris feature subset selection and vector creation. The deterministic feature sequence is extracted from the iris image by using the contourlet t...
computer science
23,659
A new approach for digit recognition based on hand gesture analysis
cs.CV
We present in this paper a new approach for hand gesture analysis that allows digit recognition. The analysis is based on extracting a set of features from a hand image and then combining them by using an induction graph. The most important features we extract from each image are the fingers locations, their heights an...
computer science
23,660
Multi-Label MRF Optimization via Least Squares s-t Cuts
cs.CV
There are many applications of graph cuts in computer vision, e.g. segmentation. We present a novel method to reformulate the NP-hard, k-way graph partitioning problem as an approximate minimal s-t graph cut problem, for which a globally optimal solution is found in polynomial time. Each non-terminal vertex in the orig...
computer science
23,661
An Iterative Fingerprint Enhancement Algorithm Based on Accurate Determination of Orientation Flow
cs.CV
We describe an algorithm to enhance and binarize a fingerprint image. The algorithm is based on accurate determination of orientation flow of the ridges of the fingerprint image by computing variance of the neighborhood pixels around a pixel in different directions. We show that an iterative algorithm which captures th...
computer science
23,662
Bounding the Probability of Error for High Precision Recognition
cs.CV
We consider models for which it is important, early in processing, to estimate some variables with high precision, but perhaps at relatively low rates of recall. If some variables can be identified with near certainty, then they can be conditioned upon, allowing further inference to be done efficiently. Specifically, w...
computer science
23,663
Augmenting Light Field to model Wave Optics effects
cs.CV
The ray-based 4D light field representation cannot be directly used to analyze diffractive or phase--sensitive optical elements. In this paper, we exploit tools from wave optics and extend the light field representation via a novel "light field transform". We introduce a key modification to the ray--based model to supp...
computer science
23,664
Multiresolution Elastic Medical Image Registration in Standard Intensity Scale
cs.CV
Medical image registration is a difficult problem. Not only a registration algorithm needs to capture both large and small scale image deformations, it also has to deal with global and local image intensity variations. In this paper we describe a new multiresolution elastic image registration method that challenges the...
computer science
23,665
Registration of Standardized Histological Images in Feature Space
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose three novel and important methods for the registration of histological images for 3D reconstruction. First, possible intensity variations and nonstandardness in images are corrected by an intensity standardization process which maps the image scale into a standard scale where the similar inten...
computer science
23,666
Fully Automatic 3D Reconstruction of Histological Images
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a computational framework for 3D volume reconstruction from 2D histological slices using registration algorithms in feature space. To improve the quality of reconstructed 3D volume, first, intensity variations in images are corrected by an intensity standardization process which maps image int...
computer science
23,667
Parallel AdaBoost Algorithm for Gabor Wavelet Selection in Face Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper, the problem of automatic Gabor wavelet selection for face recognition is tackled by introducing an automatic algorithm based on Parallel AdaBoosting method. Incorporating mutual information into the algorithm leads to the selection procedure not only based on classification accuracy but also on efficienc...
computer science
23,668
Learning Object Location Predictors with Boosting and Grammar-Guided Feature Extraction
cs.CV
We present BEAMER: a new spatially exploitative approach to learning object detectors which shows excellent results when applied to the task of detecting objects in greyscale aerial imagery in the presence of ambiguous and noisy data. There are four main contributions used to produce these results. First, we introduce ...
computer science
23,669
Automatic local Gabor Features extraction for face recognition
cs.CV
We present in this paper a biometric system of face detection and recognition in color images. The face detection technique is based on skin color information and fuzzy classification. A new algorithm is proposed in order to detect automatically face features (eyes, mouth and nose) and extract their correspondent geome...
computer science
23,670
Multiple pattern classification by sparse subspace decomposition
cs.CV
A robust classification method is developed on the basis of sparse subspace decomposition. This method tries to decompose a mixture of subspaces of unlabeled data (queries) into class subspaces as few as possible. Each query is classified into the class whose subspace significantly contributes to the decomposed subspac...
computer science
23,671
Modular Traffic Sign Recognition applied to on-vehicle real-time visual detection of American and European speed limit signs
cs.CV
We present a new modular traffic signs recognition system, successfully applied to both American and European speed limit signs. Our sign detection step is based only on shape-detection (rectangles or circles). This enables it to work on grayscale images, contrary to most European competitors, which eases robustness to...
computer science
23,672
3D/2D Registration of Mapping Catheter Images for Arrhythmia Interventional Assistance
cs.CV
Radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation has transformed treatment for tachyarrhythmias and has become first-line therapy for some tachycardias. The precise localization of the arrhythmogenic site and the positioning of the RF catheter over that site are problematic: they can impair the efficiency of the procedure and are...
computer science
23,673
Color Image Clustering using Block Truncation Algorithm
cs.CV
With the advancement in image capturing device, the image data been generated at high volume. If images are analyzed properly, they can reveal useful information to the human users. Content based image retrieval address the problem of retrieving images relevant to the user needs from image databases on the basis of low...
computer science
23,674
Fractional differentiation based image processing
cs.CV
There are many resources useful for processing images, most of them freely available and quite friendly to use. In spite of this abundance of tools, a study of the processing methods is still worthy of efforts. Here, we want to discuss the possibilities arising from the use of fractional differential calculus. This cal...
computer science
23,675
Behavior Subtraction
cs.CV
Background subtraction has been a driving engine for many computer vision and video analytics tasks. Although its many variants exist, they all share the underlying assumption that photometric scene properties are either static or exhibit temporal stationarity. While this works in some applications, the model fails whe...
computer science
23,676
A $p$-adic RanSaC algorithm for stereo vision using Hensel lifting
cs.CV
A $p$-adic variation of the Ran(dom) Sa(mple) C(onsensus) method for solving the relative pose problem in stereo vision is developped. From two 2-adically encoded images a random sample of five pairs of corresponding points is taken, and the equations for the essential matrix are solved by lifting solutions modulo 2 to...
computer science
23,677
An Iterative Shrinkage Approach to Total-Variation Image Restoration
cs.CV
The problem of restoration of digital images from their degraded measurements plays a central role in a multitude of practically important applications. A particularly challenging instance of this problem occurs in the case when the degradation phenomenon is modeled by an ill-conditioned operator. In such a case, the p...
computer science
23,678
Accelerating Competitive Learning Graph Quantization
cs.CV
Vector quantization(VQ) is a lossy data compression technique from signal processing for which simple competitive learning is one standard method to quantize patterns from the input space. Extending competitive learning VQ to the domain of graphs results in competitive learning for quantizing input graphs. In this cont...
computer science
23,679
Boosting k-NN for categorization of natural scenes
cs.CV
The k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) classification rule has proven extremely successful in countless many computer vision applications. For example, image categorization often relies on uniform voting among the nearest prototypes in the space of descriptors. In spite of its good properties, the classic k-NN rule suffers fro...
computer science
23,680
A Topological derivative based image segmentation for sign language recognition system using isotropic filter
cs.CV
The need of sign language is increasing radically especially to hearing impaired community. Only few research groups try to automatically recognize sign language from video, colored gloves and etc. Their approach requires a valid segmentation of the data that is used for training and of the data that is used to be reco...
computer science
23,681
Features Based Text Similarity Detection
cs.CV
As the Internet help us cross cultural border by providing different information, plagiarism issue is bound to arise. As a result, plagiarism detection becomes more demanding in overcoming this issue. Different plagiarism detection tools have been developed based on various detection techniques. Nowadays, fingerprint m...
computer science
23,682
3D Skull Recognition Using 3D Matching Technique
cs.CV
Biometrics has become a "hot" area. Governments are funding research programs focused on biometrics. In this paper the problem of person recognition and verification based on a different biometric application has been addressed. The system is based on the 3DSkull recognition using 3D matching technique, in fact this pa...
computer science
23,683
Hybrid Medical Image Classification Using Association Rule Mining with Decision Tree Algorithm
cs.CV
The main focus of image mining in the proposed method is concerned with the classification of brain tumor in the CT scan brain images. The major steps involved in the system are: pre-processing, feature extraction, association rule mining and hybrid classifier. The pre-processing step has been done using the median fil...
computer science
23,684
Gradient Based Seeded Region Grow method for CT Angiographic Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Segmentation of medical images using seeded region growing technique is increasingly becoming a popular method because of its ability to involve high-level knowledge of anatomical structures in seed selection process. Region based segmentation of medical images are widely used in varied clinical applications like visua...
computer science
23,685
Detection and Demarcation of Tumor using Vector Quantization in MRI images
cs.CV
Segmenting a MRI images into homogeneous texture regions representing disparate tissue types is often a useful preprocessing step in the computer-assisted detection of breast cancer. That is why we proposed new algorithm to detect cancer in mammogram breast cancer images. In this paper we proposed segmentation using ve...
computer science
23,686
Multi-camera Realtime 3D Tracking of Multiple Flying Animals
cs.CV
Automated tracking of animal movement allows analyses that would not otherwise be possible by providing great quantities of data. The additional capability of tracking in realtime - with minimal latency - opens up the experimental possibility of manipulating sensory feedback, thus allowing detailed explorations of the ...
computer science
23,687
Kannada Character Recognition System A Review
cs.CV
Intensive research has been done on optical character recognition ocr and a large number of articles have been published on this topic during the last few decades. Many commercial OCR systems are now available in the market, but most of these systems work for Roman, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic characters. There are no...
computer science
23,688
Threshold Based Indexing of Commercial Shoe Print to Create Reference and Recovery Images
cs.CV
One of the important evidence in a crime scene that is normally overlooked but very important evidence is shoe print as the criminal is normally unaware of the mask for this. In this paper we use image processing technique to process reference shoe images to make it index-able for a search from the database the shoe pr...
computer science
23,689
Visual-hint Boundary to Segment Algorithm for Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Image segmentation has been a very active research topic in image analysis area. Currently, most of the image segmentation algorithms are designed based on the idea that images are partitioned into a set of regions preserving homogeneous intra-regions and inhomogeneous inter-regions. However, human visual intuition doe...
computer science
23,690
Convolutional Matching Pursuit and Dictionary Training
cs.CV
Matching pursuit and K-SVD is demonstrated in the translation invariant setting
computer science
23,691
Joint interpretation of on-board vision and static GPS cartography for determination of correct speed limit
cs.CV
We present here a first prototype of a "Speed Limit Support" Advance Driving Assistance System (ADAS) producing permanent reliable information on the current speed limit applicable to the vehicle. Such a module can be used either for information of the driver, or could even serve for automatic setting of the maximum sp...
computer science
23,692
3-D Rigid Models from Partial Views - Global Factorization
cs.CV
The so-called factorization methods recover 3-D rigid structure from motion by factorizing an observation matrix that collects 2-D projections of features. These methods became popular due to their robustness - they use a large number of views, which constrains adequately the solution - and computational simplicity - t...
computer science
23,693
Maximum Likelihood Mosaics
cs.CV
The majority of the approaches to the automatic recovery of a panoramic image from a set of partial views are suboptimal in the sense that the input images are aligned, or registered, pair by pair, e.g., consecutive frames of a video clip. These approaches lead to propagation errors that may be very severe, particularl...
computer science
23,694
ANSIG - An Analytic Signature for Arbitrary 2D Shapes (or Bags of Unlabeled Points)
cs.CV
In image analysis, many tasks require representing two-dimensional (2D) shape, often specified by a set of 2D points, for comparison purposes. The challenge of the representation is that it must not only capture the characteristics of the shape but also be invariant to relevant transformations. Invariance to geometric ...
computer science
23,695
Revisiting Complex Moments For 2D Shape Representation and Image Normalization
cs.CV
When comparing 2D shapes, a key issue is their normalization. Translation and scale are easily taken care of by removing the mean and normalizing the energy. However, defining and computing the orientation of a 2D shape is not so simple. In fact, although for elongated shapes the principal axis can be used to define on...
computer science
23,696
Statistical Compressive Sensing of Gaussian Mixture Models
cs.CV
A new framework of compressive sensing (CS), namely statistical compressive sensing (SCS), that aims at efficiently sampling a collection of signals that follow a statistical distribution and achieving accurate reconstruction on average, is introduced. For signals following a Gaussian distribution, with Gaussian or Ber...
computer science
23,697
Collaborative Sources Identification in Mixed Signals via Hierarchical Sparse Modeling
cs.CV
A collaborative framework for detecting the different sources in mixed signals is presented in this paper. The approach is based on C-HiLasso, a convex collaborative hierarchical sparse model, and proceeds as follows. First, we build a structured dictionary for mixed signals by concatenating a set of sub-dictionaries, ...
computer science
23,698
Selective Image Super-Resolution
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a vision system that performs image Super Resolution (SR) with selectivity. Conventional SR techniques, either by multi-image fusion or example-based construction, have failed to capitalize on the intrinsic structural and semantic context in the image, and performed "blind" resolution recovery ...
computer science
23,699
A Framework for Real-Time Face and Facial Feature Tracking using Optical Flow Pre-estimation and Template Tracking
cs.CV
This work presents a framework for tracking head movements and capturing the movements of the mouth and both the eyebrows in real-time. We present a head tracker which is a combination of a optical flow and a template based tracker. The estimation of the optical flow head tracker is used as starting point for the templ...
computer science
23,700
Binary and nonbinary description of hypointensity in human brain MR images
cs.CV
Accumulating evidence has shown that iron is involved in the mechanism underlying many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. Abnormal (higher) iron accumulation has been detected in the brains of most neurodegenerative patients, especially in the basal ga...
computer science
23,701
Combining Neural Networks for Skin Detection
cs.CV
Two types of combining strategies were evaluated namely combining skin features and combining skin classifiers. Several combining rules were applied where the outputs of the skin classifiers are combined using binary operators such as the AND and the OR operators, "Voting", "Sum of Weights" and a new neural network. Th...
computer science