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A path following algorithm for the graph matching problem
cs.CV
We propose a convex-concave programming approach for the labeled weighted graph matching problem. The convex-concave programming formulation is obtained by rewriting the weighted graph matching problem as a least-square problem on the set of permutation matrices and relaxing it to two different optimization problems: a...
computer science
38,511
Some Aspects of Testing Process for Transport Streams in Digital Video Broadcasting
cs.CV
This paper presents some aspects related to the DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) investigation. The basic aspects of DVB are presented, with an emphasis on DVB-T version of standard. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the way that the transmission of the transport streams is realized in case of the Terrest...
computer science
38,512
Implementing a Test Strategy for an Advanced Video Acquisition and Processing Architecture
cs.CV
This paper presents some aspects related to test process of an advanced video system used in remote IP surveillance. The system is based on a Pentium compatible architecture using the industrial standard PC104+. First the overall architecture of the system is presented, involving both hardware or software aspects. The ...
computer science
38,513
Fast k Nearest Neighbor Search using GPU
cs.CV
The recent improvements of graphics processing units (GPU) offer to the computer vision community a powerful processing platform. Indeed, a lot of highly-parallelizable computer vision problems can be significantly accelerated using GPU architecture. Among these algorithms, the k nearest neighbor search (KNN) is a well...
computer science
38,514
Technical Report - Automatic Contour Extraction from 2D Neuron Images
cs.CV
This work describes a novel methodology for automatic contour extraction from 2D images of 3D neurons (e.g. camera lucida images and other types of 2D microscopy). Most contour-based shape analysis methods can not be used to characterize such cells because of overlaps between neuronal processes. The proposed framework ...
computer science
38,515
Natural pseudo-distance and optimal matching between reduced size functions
cs.CG
This paper studies the properties of a new lower bound for the natural pseudo-distance. The natural pseudo-distance is a dissimilarity measure between shapes, where a shape is viewed as a topological space endowed with a real-valued continuous function. Measuring dissimilarity amounts to minimizing the change in the fu...
computer science
38,516
The Euler-Poincare theory of Metamorphosis
cs.CV
In the pattern matching approach to imaging science, the process of ``metamorphosis'' is template matching with dynamical templates. Here, we recast the metamorphosis equations of into the Euler-Poincare variational framework of and show that the metamorphosis equations contain the equations for a perfect complex fluid...
computer science
38,517
Audio Classification from Time-Frequency Texture
cs.CV
Time-frequency representations of audio signals often resemble texture images. This paper derives a simple audio classification algorithm based on treating sound spectrograms as texture images. The algorithm is inspired by an earlier visual classification scheme particularly efficient at classifying textures. While sol...
computer science
38,518
Faster Retrieval with a Two-Pass Dynamic-Time-Warping Lower Bound
cs.DB
The Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a popular similarity measure between time series. The DTW fails to satisfy the triangle inequality and its computation requires quadratic time. Hence, to find closest neighbors quickly, we use bounding techniques. We can avoid most DTW computations with an inexpensive lower bound (LB K...
computer science
38,519
chi2TeX Semi-automatic translation from chiwriter to LaTeX
cs.SE
Semi-automatic translation of math-filled book from obsolete ChiWriter format to LaTeX. Is it possible? Idea of criterion whether to use automatic or hand mode for translation. Illustrations.
computer science
38,520
Automatic Generation of the Axial Lines of Urban Environments to Capture What We Perceive
cs.CG
Based on the concepts of isovists and medial axes, we developed a set of algorithms that can automatically generate axial lines for representing individual linearly stretched parts of open space of an urban environment. Open space is the space between buildings, where people can freely move around. The generation of th...
computer science
38,521
Exact Histogram Specification Optimized for Structural Similarity
cs.CV
An exact histogram specification (EHS) method modifies its input image to have a specified histogram. Applications of EHS include image (contrast) enhancement (e.g., by histogram equalization) and histogram watermarking. Performing EHS on an image, however, reduces its visual quality. Starting from the output of a gene...
computer science
38,522
Model-Based Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
cs.NI
In this paper we present an application of techniques from statistical signal processing to the problem of event detection in wireless sensor networks used for environmental monitoring. The proposed approach uses the well-established Principal Component Analysis (PCA) technique to build a compact model of the observed ...
computer science
38,523
Over-enhancement Reduction in Local Histogram Equalization using its Degrees of Freedom
cs.CV
A well-known issue of local (adaptive) histogram equalization (LHE) is over-enhancement (i.e., generation of spurious details) in homogenous areas of the image. In this paper, we show that the LHE problem has many solutions due to the ambiguity in ranking pixels with the same intensity. The LHE solution space can be se...
computer science
38,524
Better Global Polynomial Approximation for Image Rectification
cs.CV
When using images to locate objects, there is the problem of correcting for distortion and misalignment in the images. An elegant way of solving this problem is to generate an error correcting function that maps points in an image to their corrected locations. We generate such a function by fitting a polynomial to a se...
computer science
38,525
Generalized Kernel-based Visual Tracking
cs.CV
In this work we generalize the plain MS trackers and attempt to overcome standard mean shift trackers' two limitations. It is well known that modeling and maintaining a representation of a target object is an important component of a successful visual tracker. However, little work has been done on building a robust...
computer science
38,526
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge: Current State and Future Directions
cs.CV
The Semantic Robot Vision Competition provided an excellent opportunity for our research lab to integrate our many ideas under one umbrella, inspiring both collaboration and new research. The task, visual search for an unknown object, is relevant to both the vision and robotics communities. Moreover, since the interpla...
computer science
38,527
Non-quadratic convex regularized reconstruction of MR images from spiral acquisitions
cs.CV
Combining fast MR acquisition sequences and high resolution imaging is a major issue in dynamic imaging. Reducing the acquisition time can be achieved by using non-Cartesian and sparse acquisitions. The reconstruction of MR images from these measurements is generally carried out using gridding that interpolates the mis...
computer science
38,528
Geometric Analysis of the Conformal Camera for Intermediate-Level Vision and Perisaccadic Perception
cs.CV
A binocular system developed by the author in terms of projective Fourier transform (PFT) of the conformal camera, which numerically integrates the head, eyes, and visual cortex, is used to process visual information during saccadic eye movements. Although we make three saccades per second at the eyeball's maximum spee...
computer science
38,529
Co-occurrence Matrix and Fractal Dimension for Image Segmentation
stat.AP
One of the most important tasks in image processing problem and machine vision is object recognition, and the success of many proposed methods relies on a suitable choice of algorithm for the segmentation of an image. This paper focuses on how to apply texture operators based on the concept of fractal dimension and coo...
computer science
38,530
CanICA: Model-based extraction of reproducible group-level ICA patterns from fMRI time series
cs.CV
Spatial Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is an increasingly used data-driven method to analyze functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data. To date, it has been used to extract meaningful patterns without prior information. However, ICA is not robust to mild data variation and remains a parameter-sensitive al...
computer science
38,531
Laser Actuated Presentation System
cs.HC
We present here a pattern sensitive PowerPoint presentation scheme. The presentation is actuated by simple patterns drawn on the presentation screen by a laser pointer. A specific pattern corresponds to a particular command required to operate the presentation. Laser spot on the screen is captured by a RGB webcam with ...
computer science
38,532
Reversible Image Authentication with Tamper Localization Based on Integer Wavelet Transform
cs.CR
In this paper, a new reversible image authentication technique with tamper localization based on watermarking in integer wavelet transform is proposed. If the image authenticity is verified, then the distortion due to embedding the watermark can be completely removed from the watermarked image. If the image is tampered...
computer science
38,533
Fingerprint Verification based on Gabor Filter Enhancement
cs.CR
Human fingerprints are reliable characteristics for personnel identification as it is unique and persistence. A fingerprint pattern consists of ridges, valleys and minutiae. In this paper we propose Fingerprint Verification based on Gabor Filter Enhancement (FVGFE) algorithm for minutiae feature extraction and post pro...
computer science
38,534
Robust Multi biometric Recognition Using Face and Ear Images
cs.CR
This study investigates the use of ear as a biometric for authentication and shows experimental results obtained on a newly created dataset of 420 images. Images are passed to a quality module in order to reduce False Rejection Rate. The Principal Component Analysis (eigen ear) approach was used, obtaining 90.7 percent...
computer science
38,535
Genus Computing for 3D digital objects: algorithm and implementation
cs.CV
This paper deals with computing topological invariants such as connected components, boundary surface genus, and homology groups. For each input data set, we have designed or implemented algorithms to calculate connected components, boundary surfaces and their genus, and homology groups. Due to the fact that genus calc...
computer science
38,536
An Improved DC Recovery Method from AC Coefficients of DCT-Transformed Images
cs.MM
Motivated by the work of Uehara et al. [1], an improved method to recover DC coefficients from AC coefficients of DCT-transformed images is investigated in this work, which finds applications in cryptanalysis of selective multimedia encryption. The proposed under/over-flow rate minimization (FRM) method employs an opti...
computer science
38,537
The Fast Haar Wavelet Transform for Signal & Image Processing
cs.MM
A method for the design of Fast Haar wavelet for signal processing and image processing has been proposed. In the proposed work, the analysis bank and synthesis bank of Haar wavelet is modified by using polyphase structure. Finally, the Fast Haar wavelet was designed and it satisfies alias free and perfect reconstructi...
computer science
38,538
Assessment Of The Wind Farm Impact On The Radar
cs.CV
This study shows the means to evaluate the wind farm impact on the radar. It proposes the set of tools, which can be used to realise this objective. The big part of report covers the study of complex pattern propagation factor as the critical issue of the Advanced Propagation Model (APM). Finally, the reader can find h...
computer science
38,539
Iterative exact global histogram specification and SSIM gradient ascent: a proof of convergence, step size and parameter selection
cs.CV
The SSIM-optimized exact global histogram specification (EGHS) is shown to converge in the sense that the first order approximation of the result's quality (i.e., its structural similarity with input) does not decrease in an iteration, when the step size is small. Each iteration is composed of SSIM gradient ascent and ...
computer science
38,540
CLD-shaped Brushstrokes in Non-Photorealistic Rendering
cs.CV
Rendering techniques based on a random grid can be improved by adapting brushstrokes to the shape of different areas of the original picture. In this paper, the concept of Coherence Length Diagram is applied to determine the adaptive brushstrokes, in order to simulate an impressionist painting. Some examples are provid...
computer science
38,541
Object-image correspondence for curves under finite and affine cameras
cs.CV
We provide criteria for deciding whether a given planar curve is an image of a given spatial curve, obtained by a central or a parallel projection with unknown parameters. These criteria reduce the projection problem to a certain modification of the equivalence problem of planar curves under affine and projective trans...
computer science
38,542
SAR Image Segmentation using Vector Quantization Technique on Entropy Images
cs.MM
The development and application of various remote sensing platforms result in the production of huge amounts of satellite image data. Therefore, there is an increasing need for effective querying and browsing in these image databases. In order to take advantage and make good use of satellite images data, we must be abl...
computer science
38,543
Graphic Symbol Recognition using Graph Based Signature and Bayesian Network Classifier
cs.CV
We present a new approach for recognition of complex graphic symbols in technical documents. Graphic symbol recognition is a well known challenge in the field of document image analysis and is at heart of most graphic recognition systems. Our method uses structural approach for symbol representation and statistical cla...
computer science
38,544
Employing fuzzy intervals and loop-based methodology for designing structural signature: an application to symbol recognition
cs.CV
Motivation of our work is to present a new methodology for symbol recognition. We support structural methods for representing visual associations in graphic documents. The proposed method employs a structural approach for symbol representation and a statistical classifier for recognition. We vectorize a graphic symbol,...
computer science
38,545
L2-optimal image interpolation and its applications to medical imaging
cs.CV
Digital medical images are always displayed scaled to fit particular view. Interpolation is responsible for this scaling, and if not done properly, can significantly degrade diagnostic image quality. However, theoretically-optimal interpolation algorithms may also be the most time-consuming and impractical. We propose ...
computer science
38,546
Algorithm for Sector Spectra Calculation from Images Registered by the Spectral Airglow Temperature Imager
cs.CV
The Spectral Airglow Temperature Imager is an instrument, specially designed for investigation of the wave processes in the Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere. In order to determine the kinematic parameters of a wave, the values of a physical quantity in different space points and their changes in the time should be known. ...
computer science
38,547
Large gaps imputation in remote sensed imagery of the environment
stat.AP
Imputation of missing data in large regions of satellite imagery is necessary when the acquired image has been damaged by shadows due to clouds, or information gaps produced by sensor failure. The general approach for imputation of missing data, that could not be considered missed at random, suggests the use of other...
computer science
38,548
Polyharmonic Daubechies type wavelets in Image Processing and Astronomy, II
math.NA
We consider the application of the polyharmonic subdivision wavelets (of Daubechies type) to Image Processing, in particular to Astronomical Images. The results show an essential advantage over some standard multivariate wavelets and a potential for better compression.
computer science
38,549
Variational Iteration Method for Image Restoration
math.NA
The famous Perona-Malik (P-M) equation which was at first introduced for image restoration has been solved via various numerical methods. In this paper we will solve it for the first time via applying a new numerical method called the Variational Iteration Method (VIM) and the correspondent approximated solutions will ...
computer science
38,550
Defining and Generating Axial Lines from Street Center Lines for better Understanding of Urban Morphologies
cs.CV
Axial lines are defined as the longest visibility lines for representing individual linear spaces in urban environments. The least number of axial lines that cover the free space of an urban environment or the space between buildings constitute what is often called an axial map. This is a fundamental tool in space synt...
computer science
38,551
Fast Color Quantization Using Weighted Sort-Means Clustering
cs.CV
Color quantization is an important operation with numerous applications in graphics and image processing. Most quantization methods are essentially based on data clustering algorithms. However, despite its popularity as a general purpose clustering algorithm, k-means has not received much respect in the color quantizat...
computer science
38,552
Image Segmentation with Multidimensional Refinement Indicators
math.NA
We transpose an optimal control technique to the image segmentation problem. The idea is to consider image segmentation as a parameter estimation problem. The parameter to estimate is the color of the pixels of the image. We use the adaptive parameterization technique which builds iteratively an optimal representation ...
computer science
38,553
Tensor-SIFT based Earth Mover's Distance for Contour Tracking
cs.CV
Contour tracking in adverse environments is a challenging problem due to cluttered background, illumination variation, occlusion, and noise, among others. This paper presents a robust contour tracking method by contributing to some of the key issues involved, including (a) a region functional formulation and its optimi...
computer science
38,554
An Effective Method of Image Retrieval using Image Mining Techniques
cs.CV
The present research scholars are having keen interest in doing their research activities in the area of Data mining all over the world. Especially, [13]Mining Image data is the one of the essential features in this present scenario since image data plays vital role in every aspect of the system such as business for ma...
computer science
38,555
Image Deblurring and Super-resolution by Adaptive Sparse Domain Selection and Adaptive Regularization
cs.CV
As a powerful statistical image modeling technique, sparse representation has been successfully used in various image restoration applications. The success of sparse representation owes to the development of l1-norm optimization techniques, and the fact that natural images are intrinsically sparse in some domain. The i...
computer science
38,556
Automatic Image Segmentation by Dynamic Region Merging
cs.CV
This paper addresses the automatic image segmentation problem in a region merging style. With an initially over-segmented image, in which the many regions (or super-pixels) with homogeneous color are detected, image segmentation is performed by iteratively merging the regions according to a statistical test. There are ...
computer science
38,557
Characterizing Structure Through Shape Matching and Applications to Self Assembly
cs.CV
Structural quantities such as order parameters and correlation functions are often employed to gain insight into the physical behavior and properties of condensed matter systems. While standard quantities for characterizing structure exist, often they are insufficient for treating problems in the emerging field of nano...
computer science
38,558
Natural images from the birthplace of the human eye
cs.CV
Here we introduce a database of calibrated natural images publicly available through an easy-to-use web interface. Using a Nikon D70 digital SLR camera, we acquired about 5000 six-megapixel images of Okavango Delta of Botswana, a tropical savanna habitat similar to where the human eye is thought to have evolved. Some s...
computer science
38,559
Total variation regularization for fMRI-based prediction of behaviour
cs.CV
While medical imaging typically provides massive amounts of data, the extraction of relevant information for predictive diagnosis remains a difficult challenge. Functional MRI (fMRI) data, that provide an indirect measure of task-related or spontaneous neuronal activity, are classically analyzed in a mass-univariate pr...
computer science
38,560
A Comparison of Two Human Brain Tumor Segmentation Methods for MRI Data
cs.CV
The most common primary brain tumors are gliomas, evolving from the cerebral supportive cells. For clinical follow-up, the evaluation of the preoperative tumor volume is essential. Volumetric assessment of tumor volume with manual segmentation of its outlines is a time-consuming process that can be overcome with the he...
computer science
38,561
An Efficient and Integrated Algorithm for Video Enhancement in Challenging Lighting Conditions
cs.GR
We describe a novel integrated algorithm for real-time enhancement of video acquired under challenging lighting conditions. Such conditions include low lighting, haze, and high dynamic range situations. The algorithm automatically detects the dominate source of impairment, then depending on whether it is low lighting, ...
computer science
38,562
Searching in one billion vectors: re-rank with source coding
cs.IR
Recent indexing techniques inspired by source coding have been shown successful to index billions of high-dimensional vectors in memory. In this paper, we propose an approach that re-ranks the neighbor hypotheses obtained by these compressed-domain indexing methods. In contrast to the usual post-verification scheme, wh...
computer science
38,563
Weighted Radial Variation for Node Feature Classification
cs.CV
Connections created from a node-edge matrix have been traditionally difficult to visualize and analyze because of the number of flows to be rendered in a limited feature or cartographic space. Because analyzing connectivity patterns is useful for understanding the complex dynamics of human and information flow that con...
computer science
38,564
Continuous Multiclass Labeling Approaches and Algorithms
cs.CV
We study convex relaxations of the image labeling problem on a continuous domain with regularizers based on metric interaction potentials. The generic framework ensures existence of minimizers and covers a wide range of relaxations of the originally combinatorial problem. We focus on two specific relaxations that diffe...
computer science
38,565
An Algorithm for Repairing Low-Quality Video Enhancement Techniques Based on Trained Filter
cs.CV
Multifarious image enhancement algorithms have been used in different applications. Still, some algorithms or modules are imperfect for practical use. When the image enhancement modules have been fixed or combined by a series of algorithms, we need to repair them as a whole part without changing the inside. This report...
computer science
38,566
A Medial Axis Based Thinning Strategy for Character Images
cs.CV
Thinning of character images is a big challenge. Removal of strokes or deformities in thinning is a difficult problem. In this paper, we have proposed a medial axis based thinning strategy used for performing skeletonization of printed and handwritten character images. In this method, we have used shape characteristics...
computer science
38,567
Aorta Segmentation for Stent Simulation
cs.CV
Simulation of arterial stenting procedures prior to intervention allows for appropriate device selection as well as highlights potential complications. To this end, we present a framework for facilitating virtual aortic stenting from a contrast computer tomography (CT) scan. More specifically, we present a method for b...
computer science
38,568
Adaptive mosaic image representation for image processing
cs.CV
Method for a mosaic image representation (MIR) is proposed for a selective treatment of image fragments of different transition frequency. MIR method is based on piecewise-constant image approximation on a non-uniform orthogonal grid constructed by the following recurrent multigrid algorithm. A sequence of nested unifo...
computer science
38,569
SO(3)-invariant asymptotic observers for dense depth field estimation based on visual data and known camera motion
math.OC
In this paper, we use known camera motion associated to a video sequence of a static scene in order to estimate and incrementally refine the surrounding depth field. We exploit the SO(3)-invariance of brightness and depth fields dynamics to customize standard image processing techniques. Inspired by the Horn-Schunck me...
computer science
38,570
Multi-parameter acoustic imaging of uniform objects in inhomogeneous media
cs.CV
The problem studied in this paper is ultrasound image reconstruction from frequency-domain measurements of the scattered field from an object with contrast in attenuation and sound speed. The case where the object has uniform but unknown contrast in these properties relative to the background is considered. Background ...
computer science
38,571
A comparison of Gap statistic definitions with and without logarithm function
stat.ME
The Gap statistic is a standard method for determining the number of clusters in a set of data. The Gap statistic standardizes the graph of $\log(W_{k})$, where $W_{k}$ is the within-cluster dispersion, by comparing it to its expectation under an appropriate null reference distribution of the data. We suggest to use $W...
computer science
38,572
A Parametric Level Set Approach to Simultaneous Object Identification and Background Reconstruction for Dual Energy Computed Tomography
cs.CV
Dual energy computerized tomography has gained great interest because of its ability to characterize the chemical composition of a material rather than simply providing relative attenuation images as in conventional tomography. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel polychromatic dual energy processing algor...
computer science
38,573
Streaming Multimedia Information Using the Features of the DVB-S Card
cs.MM
This paper presents a study of audio-video streaming using the additional possibilities of a DVB-S card. The board used for experiments (Technisat SkyStar 2) is one of the most frequently used cards for this purpose. Using the main blocks of the board's software support it is possible the implement a really useful and ...
computer science
38,574
View subspaces for indexing and retrieval of 3D models
cs.CV
View-based indexing schemes for 3D object retrieval are gaining popularity since they provide good retrieval results. These schemes are coherent with the theory that humans recognize objects based on their 2D appearances. The viewbased techniques also allow users to search with various queries such as binary images, ra...
computer science
38,575
Salient Local 3D Features for 3D Shape Retrieval
cs.CV
In this paper we describe a new formulation for the 3D salient local features based on the voxel grid inspired by the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT). We use it to identify the salient keypoints (invariant points) on a 3D voxelized model and calculate invariant 3D local feature descriptors at these keypoints. ...
computer science
38,576
Retrieval and Clustering from a 3D Human Database based on Body and Head Shape
cs.CV
In this paper, we describe a framework for similarity based retrieval and clustering from a 3D human database. Our technique is based on both body and head shape representation and the retrieval is based on similarity of both of them. The 3D human database used in our study is the CAESAR anthropometric database which c...
computer science
38,577
Face Shape and Reflectance Acquisition using a Multispectral Light Stage
cs.CV
In this thesis, we discuss the design and calibration (geometric and radiometric) of a novel shape and reflectance acquisition device called the "Multispectral Light Stage". This device can capture highly detailed facial geometry (down to the level of skin pores detail) and Multispectral reflectance map which can be us...
computer science
38,578
Benchmarks, Performance Evaluation and Contests for 3D Shape Retrieval
cs.CV
Benchmarking of 3D Shape retrieval allows developers and researchers to compare the strengths of different algorithms on a standard dataset. Here we describe the procedures involved in developing a benchmark and issues involved. We then discuss some of the current 3D shape retrieval benchmarks efforts of our group and ...
computer science
38,579
Hierarchical Recursive Running Median
cs.DS
To date, the histogram-based running median filter of Perreault and H\'ebert is considered the fastest for 8-bit images, being roughly O(1) in average case. We present here another approximately constant time algorithm which further improves the aforementioned one and exhibits lower associated constant, being at the ti...
computer science
38,580
Human Identity Verification based on Heart Sounds: Recent Advances and Future Directions
cs.CV
Identity verification is an increasingly important process in our daily lives, and biometric recognition is a natural solution to the authentication problem. One of the most important research directions in the field of biometrics is the characterization of novel biometric traits that can be used in conjunction with ...
computer science
38,581
Scale-Invariant Local Descriptor for Event Recognition in 1D Sensor Signals
cs.MM
In this paper, we introduce a shape-based, time-scale invariant feature descriptor for 1-D sensor signals. The time-scale invariance of the feature allows us to use feature from one training event to describe events of the same semantic class which may take place over varying time scales such as walking slow and walkin...
computer science
38,582
RASID: A Robust WLAN Device-free Passive Motion Detection System
cs.NI
WLAN Device-free passive DfP indoor localization is an emerging technology enabling the localization of entities that do not carry any devices nor participate actively in the localization process using the already installed wireless infrastructure. This technology is useful for a variety of applications such as intrusi...
computer science
38,583
Who clicks there!: Anonymizing the photographer in a camera saturated society
cs.CR
In recent years, social media has played an increasingly important role in reporting world events. The publication of crowd-sourced photographs and videos in near real-time is one of the reasons behind the high impact. However, the use of a camera can draw the photographer into a situation of conflict. Examples include...
computer science
38,584
Nested Graph Words for Object Recognition
cs.MM
In this paper, we propose a new, scalable approach for the task of object based image search or object recognition. Despite the very large literature existing on the scalability issues in CBIR in the sense of retrieval approaches, the scalability of media and scalability of features remain an issue. In our work we tack...
computer science
38,585
Visual Secret Sharing Scheme using Grayscale Images
cs.CR
Pixel expansion and the quality of the reconstructed secret image has been a major issue of visual secret sharing (VSS) schemes. A number of probabilistic VSS schemes with minimum pixel expansion have been proposed for black and white (binary) secret images. This paper presents a probabilistic (2, 3)-VSS scheme for gra...
computer science
38,586
A Invertible Dimension Reduction of Curves on a Manifold
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel lower dimensional representation of a shape sequence. The proposed dimension reduction is invertible and computationally more efficient in comparison to other related works. Theoretically, the differential geometry tools such as moving frame and parallel transportation are successfully...
computer science
38,587
Hamiltonian Streamline Guided Feature Extraction with Applications to Face Detection
cs.CV
We propose a new feature extraction method based on two dynamical systems induced by intensity landscape: the negative gradient system and the Hamiltonian system. We build features based on the Hamiltonian streamlines. These features contain nice global topological information about the intensity landscape, and can be ...
computer science
38,588
Solving Principal Component Pursuit in Linear Time via $l_1$ Filtering
cs.NA
In the past decades, exactly recovering the intrinsic data structure from corrupted observations, which is known as robust principal component analysis (RPCA), has attracted tremendous interests and found many applications in computer vision. Recently, this problem has been formulated as recovering a low-rank component...
computer science
38,589
Runtime Guarantees for Regression Problems
cs.DS
We study theoretical runtime guarantees for a class of optimization problems that occur in a wide variety of inference problems. these problems are motivated by the lasso framework and have applications in machine learning and computer vision. Our work shows a close connection between these problems and core question...
computer science
38,590
A robust, low-cost approach to Face Detection and Face Recognition
cs.CV
In the domain of Biometrics, recognition systems based on iris, fingerprint or palm print scans etc. are often considered more dependable due to extremely low variance in the properties of these entities with respect to time. However, over the last decade data processing capability of computers has increased manifold, ...
computer science
38,591
Securing Biometric Images using Reversible Watermarking
cs.CV
Biometric security is a fast growing area. Protecting biometric data is very important since it can be misused by attackers. In order to increase security of biometric data there are different methods in which watermarking is widely accepted. A more acceptable, new important development in this area is reversible water...
computer science
38,592
Speculative Parallel Evaluation Of Classification Trees On GPGPU Compute Engines
cs.DC
We examine the problem of optimizing classification tree evaluation for on-line and real-time applications by using GPUs. Looking at trees with continuous attributes often used in image segmentation, we first put the existing algorithms for serial and data-parallel evaluation on solid footings. We then introduce a spec...
computer science
38,593
Face Recognition Using Discrete Cosine Transform for Global and Local Features
cs.CV
Face Recognition using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) for Local and Global Features involves recognizing the corresponding face image from the database. The face image obtained from the user is cropped such that only the frontal face image is extracted, eliminating the background. The image is restricted to a size of ...
computer science
38,594
Digital Manifolds and the Theorem of Jordan-Brouwer
cs.CV
We give an answer to the question given by T.Y.Kong in his article "Can 3-D Digital Topology be Based on Axiomatically Defined Digital Spaces?" In this article he asks the question, if so called "good pairs" of neighborhood relations can be found on the set Z^n such that the existence of digital manifolds of dimension ...
computer science
38,595
A prototype system for handwritten sub-word recognition: Toward Arabic-manuscript transliteration
cs.CV
A prototype system for the transliteration of diacritics-less Arabic manuscripts at the sub-word or part of Arabic word (PAW) level is developed. The system is able to read sub-words of the input manuscript using a set of skeleton-based features. A variation of the system is also developed which reads archigraphemic Ar...
computer science
38,596
The Object Projection Feature Estimation Problem in Unsupervised Markerless 3D Motion Tracking
cs.CV
3D motion tracking is a critical task in many computer vision applications. Existing 3D motion tracking techniques require either a great amount of knowledge on the target object or specific hardware. These requirements discourage the wide spread of commercial applications based on 3D motion tracking. 3D motion trackin...
computer science
38,597
Enhancement of Image Resolution by Binarization
cs.CV
Image segmentation is one of the principal approaches of image processing. The choice of the most appropriate Binarization algorithm for each case proved to be a very interesting procedure itself. In this paper, we have done the comparison study between the various algorithms based on Binarization algorithms and propos...
computer science
38,598
A New IRIS Normalization Process For Recognition System With Cryptographic Techniques
cs.CV
Biometric technologies are the foundation of personal identification systems. It provides an identification based on a unique feature possessed by the individual. This paper provides a walkthrough for image acquisition, segmentation, normalization, feature extraction and matching based on the Human Iris imaging. A Cann...
computer science
38,599
Distributed Representation of Geometrically Correlated Images with Compressed Linear Measurements
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of distributed coding of images whose correlation is driven by the motion of objects or positioning of the vision sensors. It concentrates on the problem where images are encoded with compressed linear measurements. We propose a geometry-based correlation model in order to describe the ...
computer science
38,600
Minutiae Extraction from Fingerprint Images - a Review
cs.CV
Fingerprints are the oldest and most widely used form of biometric identification. Everyone is known to have unique, immutable fingerprints. As most Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems are based on local ridge features known as minutiae, marking minutiae accurately and rejecting false ones is very important. Howe...
computer science
38,601
An efficient FPGA implementation of MRI image filtering and tumor characterization using Xilinx system generator
cs.AR
This paper presents an efficient architecture for various image filtering algorithms and tumor characterization using Xilinx System Generator (XSG). This architecture offers an alternative through a graphical user interface that combines MATLAB, Simulink and XSG and explores important aspects concerned to hardware impl...
computer science
38,602
Enhancing Volumetric Bouligand-Minkowski Fractal Descriptors by using Functional Data Analysis
cs.CV
This work proposes and study the concept of Functional Data Analysis transform, applying it to the performance improving of volumetric Bouligand-Minkowski fractal descriptors. The proposed transform consists essentially in changing the descriptors originally defined in the space of the calculus of fractal dimension int...
computer science
38,603
Shape analysis using fractal dimension: a curvature based approach
cs.CV
The present work shows a novel fractal dimension method for shape analysis. The proposed technique extracts descriptors from the shape by applying a multiscale approach to the calculus of the fractal dimension of that shape. The fractal dimension is obtained by the application of the curvature scale-space technique to ...
computer science
38,604
Assessing the Value of 3D Reconstruction in Building Construction
cs.HC
3-dimensional (3D) reconstruction is an emerging field in image processing and computer vision that aims to create 3D visualizations/ models of objects/ scenes from image sets. However, its commercial applications and benefits are yet to be fully explored. In this paper, we describe ongoing work towards assessing the v...
computer science
38,605
A New Color Feature Extraction Method Based on Dynamic Color Distribution Entropy of Neighborhoods
cs.CV
One of the important requirements in image retrieval, indexing, classification, clustering and etc. is extracting efficient features from images. The color feature is one of the most widely used visual features. Use of color histogram is the most common way for representing color feature. One of disadvantage of the col...
computer science
38,606
Fractal Descriptors Based on Fourier Spectrum Applied to Texture Analysis
cs.CV
This work proposes the development and study of a novel technique for the generation of fractal descriptors used in texture analysis. The novel descriptors are obtained from a multiscale transform applied to the Fourier technique of fractal dimension calculus. The power spectrum of the Fourier transform of the image is...
computer science
38,607
Multi-Level Feature Descriptor for Robust Texture Classification via Locality-Constrained Collaborative Strategy
cs.CV
This paper introduces a simple but highly efficient ensemble for robust texture classification, which can effectively deal with translation, scale and changes of significant viewpoint problems. The proposed method first inherits the spirit of spatial pyramid matching model (SPM), which is popular for encoding spatial d...
computer science
38,608
Using Hausdorff Distance for New Medical Image Annotation
cs.IR
Medical images annotation is most of the time a repetitive hard task. Collecting old similar annotations and assigning them to new medical images may not only enhance the annotation process, but also reduce ambiguity caused by repetitive annotations. The goal of this work is to propose an approach based on Hausdorff di...
computer science
38,609
Enhancement Techniques for Local Content Preservation and Contrast Improvement in Images
cs.CV
There are several images that do not have uniform brightness which pose a challenging problem for image enhancement systems. As histogram equalization has been successfully used to correct for uniform brightness problems, a histogram equalization method that utilizes human visual system based thresholding(human vision ...
computer science