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Fixed-Rank Representation for Unsupervised Visual Learning
cs.CV
Subspace clustering and feature extraction are two of the most commonly used unsupervised learning techniques in computer vision and pattern recognition. State-of-the-art techniques for subspace clustering make use of recent advances in sparsity and rank minimization. However, existing techniques are computationally ex...
computer science
38,611
On-Board Visual Tracking with Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)
cs.CV
This paper presents the development of a real time tracking algorithm that runs on a 1.2 GHz PC/104 computer on-board a small UAV. The algorithm uses zero mean normalized cross correlation to detect and locate an object in the image. A kalman filter is used to make the tracking algorithm computationally efficient. Obje...
computer science
38,612
Hybrid Poisson and multi-Bernoulli filters
cs.SY
The probability hypothesis density (PHD) and multi-target multi-Bernoulli (MeMBer) filters are two leading algorithms that have emerged from random finite sets (RFS). In this paper we study a method which combines these two approaches. Our work is motivated by a sister paper, which proves that the full Bayes RFS filter...
computer science
38,613
Marginal multi-Bernoulli filters: RFS derivation of MHT, JIPDA and association-based MeMBer
cs.SY
Recent developments in random finite sets (RFSs) have yielded a variety of tracking methods that avoid data association. This paper derives a form of the full Bayes RFS filter and observes that data association is implicitly present, in a data structure similar to MHT. Subsequently, algorithms are obtained by approxima...
computer science
38,614
Scilab and SIP for Image Processing
cs.MS
This paper is an overview of Image Processing and Analysis using Scilab, a free prototyping environment for numerical calculations similar to Matlab. We demonstrate the capabilities of SIP -- the Scilab Image Processing Toolbox -- which extends Scilab with many functions to read and write images in over 100 major file ...
computer science
38,615
Reconstruction of hidden 3D shapes using diffuse reflections
cs.CV
We analyze multi-bounce propagation of light in an unknown hidden volume and demonstrate that the reflected light contains sufficient information to recover the 3D structure of the hidden scene. We formulate the forward and inverse theory of secondary and tertiary scattering reflection using ideas from energy front pro...
computer science
38,616
Real-time Image-based 6-DOF Localization in Large-Scale Environments
cs.CV
We present a real-time approach for image-based localization within large scenes that have been reconstructed offline using structure from motion (Sfm). From monocular video, our method continuously computes a precise 6-DOF camera pose, by efficiently tracking natural features and matching them to 3D points in the Sfm ...
computer science
38,617
Acceleration of the shiftable O(1) algorithm for bilateral filtering and non-local means
cs.CV
A direct implementation of the bilateral filter [1] requires O(\sigma_s^2) operations per pixel, where \sigma_s is the (effective) width of the spatial kernel. A fast implementation of the bilateral filter was recently proposed in [2] that required O(1) operations per pixel with respect to \sigma_s. This was done by us...
computer science
38,618
A Framework for Automated Cell Tracking in Phase Contrast Microscopic Videos based on Normal Velocities
cs.CV
This paper introduces a novel framework for the automated tracking of cells, with a particular focus on the challenging situation of phase contrast microscopic videos. Our framework is based on a topology preserving variational segmentation approach applied to normal velocity components obtained from optical flow compu...
computer science
38,619
Skull-stripping for Tumor-bearing Brain Images
cs.CV
Skull-stripping separates the skull region of the head from the soft brain tissues. In many cases of brain image analysis, this is an essential preprocessing step in order to improve the final result. This is true for both registration and segmentation tasks. In fact, skull-stripping of magnetic resonance images (MRI) ...
computer science
38,620
New approach using Bayesian Network to improve content based image classification systems
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new approach based on augmented naive Bayes for image classification. Initially, each image is cutting in a whole of blocks. For each block, we compute a vector of descriptors. Then, we propose to carry out a classification of the vectors of descriptors to build a vector of labels for each image. ...
computer science
38,621
Watersheds, waterfalls, on edge or node weighted graphs
cs.CV
We present an algebraic approach to the watershed adapted to edge or node weighted graphs. Starting with the flooding adjunction, we introduce the flooding graphs, for which node and edge weights may be deduced one from the other. Each node weighted or edge weighted graph may be transformed in a flooding graph, showing...
computer science
38,622
Image Restoration with Signal-dependent Camera Noise
cs.CV
This article describes a fast iterative algorithm for image denoising and deconvolution with signal-dependent observation noise. We use an optimization strategy based on variable splitting that adapts traditional Gaussian noise-based restoration algorithms to account for the observed image being corrupted by mixed Pois...
computer science
38,623
Compensating Interpolation Distortion by Using New Optimized Modular Method
cs.CV
A modular method was suggested before to recover a band limited signal from the sample and hold and linearly interpolated (or, in general, an nth-order-hold) version of the regular samples. In this paper a novel approach for compensating the distortion of any interpolation based on modular method has been proposed. In ...
computer science
38,624
Statistical Multiresolution Estimation for Variational Imaging: With an Application in Poisson-Biophotonics
stat.AP
In this paper we present a spatially-adaptive method for image reconstruction that is based on the concept of statistical multiresolution estimation as introduced in [Frick K, Marnitz P, and Munk A. "Statistical multiresolution Dantzig estimation in imaging: Fundamental concepts and algorithmic framework". Electron. J....
computer science
38,625
Dynamic Template Tracking and Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper we address the problem of tracking non-rigid objects whose local appearance and motion changes as a function of time. This class of objects includes dynamic textures such as steam, fire, smoke, water, etc., as well as articulated objects such as humans performing various actions. We model the temporal evo...
computer science
38,626
Morphological Filtering in Shape Spaces: Applications using Tree-Based Image Representations
cs.CV
Connected operators are filtering tools that act by merging elementary regions of an image. A popular strategy is based on tree-based image representations: for example, one can compute an attribute on each node of the tree and keep only the nodes for which the attribute is sufficiently strong. This operation can be se...
computer science
38,627
A Unified Multiscale Framework for Discrete Energy Minimization
cs.CV
Discrete energy minimization is a ubiquitous task in computer vision, yet is NP-hard in most cases. In this work we propose a multiscale framework for coping with the NP-hardness of discrete optimization. Our approach utilizes algebraic multiscale principles to efficiently explore the discrete solution space, yielding ...
computer science
38,628
A 3D Segmentation Method for Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Volume Data
cs.CV
With the introduction of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT), much larger image datasets are routinely acquired compared to what was possible using the previous generation of time-domain OCT. Thus, the need for 3-D segmentation methods for processing such data is becoming increasingly important. We prese...
computer science
38,629
OCT Segmentation Survey and Summary Reviews and a Novel 3D Segmentation Algorithm and a Proof of Concept Implementation
cs.CV
We overview the existing OCT work, especially the practical aspects of it. We create a novel algorithm for 3D OCT segmentation with the goals of speed and/or accuracy while remaining flexible in the design and implementation for future extensions and improvements. The document at this point is a running draft being ite...
computer science
38,630
A phase-sensitive method for filtering on the sphere
math.RT
This paper examines filtering on a sphere, by first examining the roles of spherical harmonic magnitude and phase. We show that phase is more important than magnitude in determining the structure of a spherical function. We examine the properties of linear phase shifts in the spherical harmonic domain, which suggest a ...
computer science
38,631
A Novel Approach of Color Image Hiding using RGB Color planes and DWT
cs.CR
This work proposes a wavelet based Steganographic technique for the color image. The true color cover image and the true color secret image both are decomposed into three separate color planes namely R, G and B. Each plane of the images is decomposed into four sub bands using DWT. Each color plane of the secret image i...
computer science
38,632
Shape Tracking With Occlusions via Coarse-To-Fine Region-Based Sobolev Descent
cs.CV
We present a method to track the precise shape of an object in video based on new modeling and optimization on a new Riemannian manifold of parameterized regions. Joint dynamic shape and appearance models, in which a template of the object is propagated to match the object shape and radiance in the next frame, are ad...
computer science
38,633
A Missing and Found Recognition System for Hajj and Umrah
cs.CV
This note describes an integrated recognition system for identifying missing and found objects as well as missing, dead, and found people during Hajj and Umrah seasons in the two Holy cities of Makkah and Madina in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is assumed that the total estimated number of pilgrims will reach 20 mill...
computer science
38,634
Tenacious tagging of images via Mellin monomials
cs.CV
We describe a method for attaching persistent metadata to an image. The method can be interpreted as a template-based blind watermarking scheme, robust to common editing operations, namely: cropping, rotation, scaling, stretching, shearing, compression, printing, scanning, noise, and color removal. Robustness is achiev...
computer science
38,635
A Session Based Blind Watermarking Technique within the NROI of Retinal Fundus Images for Authentication Using DWT, Spread Spectrum and Harris Corner Detection
cs.CV
Digital Retinal Fundus Images helps to detect various ophthalmic diseases by detecting morphological changes in optical cup, optical disc and macula. Present work proposes a method for the authentication of medical images based on Discrete Wavelet Transformation (DWT) and Spread Spectrum. Proper selection of the Non Re...
computer science
38,636
Compressive Optical Deflectometric Tomography: A Constrained Total-Variation Minimization Approach
cs.CV
Optical Deflectometric Tomography (ODT) provides an accurate characterization of transparent materials whose complex surfaces present a real challenge for manufacture and control. In ODT, the refractive index map (RIM) of a transparent object is reconstructed by measuring light deflection under multiple orientations. W...
computer science
38,637
Constructing the L2-Graph for Robust Subspace Learning and Subspace Clustering
cs.CV
Under the framework of graph-based learning, the key to robust subspace clustering and subspace learning is to obtain a good similarity graph that eliminates the effects of errors and retains only connections between the data points from the same subspace (i.e., intra-subspace data points). Recent works achieve good pe...
computer science
38,638
Visual Exploration of Simulated and Measured Blood Flow
cs.GR
Morphology of cardiovascular tissue is influenced by the unsteady behavior of the blood flow and vice versa. Therefore, the pathogenesis of several cardiovascular diseases is directly affected by the blood-flow dynamics. Understanding flow behavior is of vital importance to understand the cardiovascular system and pote...
computer science
38,639
Visual Tracking with Similarity Matching Ratio
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel approach to visual tracking: Similarity Matching Ratio (SMR). The traditional approach of tracking is minimizing some measures of the difference between the template and a patch from the frame. This approach is vulnerable to outliers and drastic appearance changes and an extensive study is f...
computer science
38,640
Writing Reusable Digital Geometry Algorithms in a Generic Image Processing Framework
cs.MS
Digital Geometry software should reflect the generality of the underlying mathe- matics: mapping the latter to the former requires genericity. By designing generic solutions, one can effectively reuse digital geometry data structures and algorithms. We propose an image processing framework focused on the Generic Progra...
computer science
38,641
Refinability of splines from lattice Voronoi cells
math.NA
Splines can be constructed by convolving the indicator function of the Voronoi cell of a lattice. This paper presents simple criteria that imply that only a small subset of such spline families can be refined: essentially the well-known box splines and tensor-product splines. Among the many non-refinable constructions ...
computer science
38,642
PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones
cs.CR
As smartphones become more pervasive, they are increasingly targeted by malware. At the same time, each new generation of smartphone features increasingly powerful onboard sensor suites. A new strain of sensor malware has been developing that leverages these sensors to steal information from the physical environment (e...
computer science
38,643
Reclassification formula that provides to surpass K-means method
cs.CV
The paper presents a formula for the reclassification of multidimensional data points (columns of real numbers, "objects", "vectors", etc.). This formula describes the change in the total squared error caused by reclassification of data points from one cluster into another and prompts the way to calculate the sequence ...
computer science
38,644
Review of Statistical Shape Spaces for 3D Data with Comparative Analysis for Human Faces
cs.CV
With systems for acquiring 3D surface data being evermore commonplace, it has become important to reliably extract specific shapes from the acquired data. In the presence of noise and occlusions, this can be done through the use of statistical shape models, which are learned from databases of clean examples of the shap...
computer science
38,645
Investigating the performance of Correspondence Algorithms in Vision based Driver-assistance in Indoor Environment
cs.CV
This paper presents the experimental comparison of fourteen stereo matching algorithms in variant illumination conditions. Different adaptations of global and local stereo matching techniques are chosen for evaluation The variant strength and weakness of the chosen correspondence algorithms are explored by employing th...
computer science
38,646
Optical Flow on Evolving Surfaces with an Application to the Analysis of 4D Microscopy Data
math.OC
We extend the concept of optical flow to a dynamic non-Euclidean setting. Optical flow is traditionally computed from a sequence of flat images. It is the purpose of this paper to introduce variational motion estimation for images that are defined on an evolving surface. Volumetric microscopy images depicting a live ze...
computer science
38,647
Image Registration for Stability Testing of MEMS
cs.CV
Image registration, or alignment of two or more images covering the same scenes or objects, is of great interest in many disciplines such as remote sensing, medical imaging, astronomy, and computer vision. In this paper, we introduce a new application of image registration algorithms. We demonstrate how through a wavel...
computer science
38,648
Application of Hopfield Network to Saccades
cs.CV
Human eye movement mechanisms (saccades) are very useful for scene analysis, including object representation and pattern recognition. In this letter, a Hopfield neural network to emulate saccades is proposed. The network uses an energy function that includes location and identification tasks. Computer simulation shows ...
computer science
38,649
Enhancing the retrieval performance by combing the texture and edge features
cs.CV
In this paper, anew algorithm which is based on geometrical moments and local binary patterns (LBP) for content based image retrieval (CBIR) is proposed. In geometrical moments, each vector is compared with the all other vectors for edge map generation. The same concept is utilized at LBP calculation which is generatin...
computer science
38,650
Binocular disparity as an explanation for the moon illusion
cs.CV
We present another explanation for the moon illusion, the phenomenon in which the moon looks larger near the horizon than near the zenith. In our model of the moon illusion, the sky is considered a spatially-contiguous and geometrically-smooth surface. When an object such as the moon breaks the contiguity of the surfac...
computer science
38,651
Convex Variational Image Restoration with Histogram Priors
math.OC
We present a novel variational approach to image restoration (e.g., denoising, inpainting, labeling) that enables to complement established variational approaches with a histogram-based prior enforcing closeness of the solution to some given empirical measure. By minimizing a single objective function, the approach uti...
computer science
38,652
Multi-Class Detection and Segmentation of Objects in Depth
cs.CV
The quality of life of many people could be improved by autonomous humanoid robots in the home. To function in the human world, a humanoid household robot must be able to locate itself and perceive the environment like a human; scene perception, object detection and segmentation, and object spatial localization in 3D a...
computer science
38,653
Compressive adaptive computational ghost imaging
cs.CV
Compressive sensing is considered a huge breakthrough in signal acquisition. It allows recording an image consisting of $N^2$ pixels using much fewer than $N^2$ measurements if it can be transformed to a basis where most pixels take on negligibly small values. Standard compressive sensing techniques suffer from the com...
computer science
38,654
Patch-based Probabilistic Image Quality Assessment for Face Selection and Improved Video-based Face Recognition
cs.CV
In video based face recognition, face images are typically captured over multiple frames in uncontrolled conditions, where head pose, illumination, shadowing, motion blur and focus change over the sequence. Additionally, inaccuracies in face localisation can also introduce scale and alignment variations. Using all face...
computer science
38,655
Shadow Detection: A Survey and Comparative Evaluation of Recent Methods
cs.CV
This paper presents a survey and a comparative evaluation of recent techniques for moving cast shadow detection. We identify shadow removal as a critical step for improving object detection and tracking. The survey covers methods published during the last decade, and places them in a feature-based taxonomy comprised of...
computer science
38,656
Fast Approximate L_infty Minimization: Speeding Up Robust Regression
cs.CV
Minimization of the $L_\infty$ norm, which can be viewed as approximately solving the non-convex least median estimation problem, is a powerful method for outlier removal and hence robust regression. However, current techniques for solving the problem at the heart of $L_\infty$ norm minimization are slow, and therefore...
computer science
38,657
Hiding Image in Image by Five Modulus Method for Image Steganography
cs.MM
This paper is to create a practical steganographic implementation to hide color image (stego) inside another color image (cover). The proposed technique uses Five Modulus Method to convert the whole pixels within both the cover and the stego images into multiples of five. Since each pixels inside the stego image is div...
computer science
38,658
Client-Driven Content Extraction Associated with Table
cs.CV
The goal of the project is to extract content within table in document images based on learnt patterns. Real-world users i.e., clients first provide a set of key fields within the table which they think are important. These are first used to represent the graph where nodes are labelled with semantics including other fe...
computer science
38,659
Dynamic Amelioration of Resolution Mismatches for Local Feature Based Identity Inference
cs.CV
While existing face recognition systems based on local features are robust to issues such as misalignment, they can exhibit accuracy degradation when comparing images of differing resolutions. This is common in surveillance environments where a gallery of high resolution mugshots is compared to low resolution CCTV prob...
computer science
38,660
Embedding of Blink Frequency in Electrooculography Signal using Difference Expansion based Reversible Watermarking Technique
cs.CV
In the past few years, like other fields, rapid expansion of digitization and globalization has influenced the medical field as well. For progress of diagnostic results most of the reputed hospitals and diagnostic centres all over the world have started exchanging medical information. In this proposed method, the calcu...
computer science
38,661
Merging Satellite Measurements of Rainfall Using Multi-scale Imagery Technique
cs.CV
Several passive microwave satellites orbit the Earth and measure rainfall. These measurements have the advantage of almost full global coverage when compared to surface rain gauges. However, these satellites have low temporal revisit and missing data over some regions. Image fusion is a useful technique to fill in the ...
computer science
38,662
Astronomical Image Denoising Using Dictionary Learning
cs.CV
Astronomical images suffer a constant presence of multiple defects that are consequences of the intrinsic properties of the acquisition equipments, and atmospheric conditions. One of the most frequent defects in astronomical imaging is the presence of additive noise which makes a denoising step mandatory before process...
computer science
38,663
GPU Acclerated Automated Feature Extraction from Satellite Images
cs.DC
The availability of large volumes of remote sensing data insists on higher degree of automation in feature extraction, making it a need of the hour.The huge quantum of data that needs to be processed entails accelerated processing to be enabled.GPUs, which were originally designed to provide efficient visualization, ar...
computer science
38,664
A Health Monitoring System for Elder and Sick Persons
cs.CV
This paper discusses a vision based health monitoring system which would be very easy in use and deployment. Elder and sick people who are not able to talk or walk they are dependent on other human beings for their daily needs and need continuous monitoring. The developed system provides facility to the sick or elder p...
computer science
38,665
Filament and Flare Detection in Hα image sequences
cs.CV
Solar storms can have a major impact on the infrastructure of the earth. Some of the causing events are observable from ground in the H{\alpha} spectral line. In this paper we propose a new method for the simultaneous detection of flares and filaments in H{\alpha} image sequences. Therefore we perform several preproces...
computer science
38,666
Pulmonary Vascular Tree Segmentation from Contrast-Enhanced CT Images
cs.CV
We present a pulmonary vessel segmentation algorithm, which is fast, fully automatic and robust. It uses a coarse segmentation of the airway tree and a left and right lung labeled volume to restrict a vessel enhancement filter, based on an offset medialness function, to the lungs. We show the application of our algorit...
computer science
38,667
Markovian models for one dimensional structure estimation on heavily noisy imagery
cs.CV
Radar (SAR) images often exhibit profound appearance variations due to a variety of factors including clutter noise produced by the coherent nature of the illumination. Ultrasound images and infrared images have similar cluttered appearance, that make 1 dimensional structures, as edges and object boundaries difficult t...
computer science
38,668
Using a bag of Words for Automatic Medical Image Annotation with a Latent Semantic
cs.IR
We present in this paper a new approach for the automatic annotation of medical images, using the approach of "bag-of-words" to represent the visual content of the medical image combined with text descriptors based approach tf.idf and reduced by latent semantic to extract the co-occurrence between terms and visual term...
computer science
38,669
PyHST2: an hybrid distributed code for high speed tomographic reconstruction with iterative reconstruction and a priori knowledge capabilities
math.NA
We present the PyHST2 code which is in service at ESRF for phase-contrast and absorption tomography. This code has been engineered to sustain the high data flow typical of the third generation synchrotron facilities (10 terabytes per experiment) by adopting a distributed and pipelined architecture. The code implements,...
computer science
38,670
OPS-QFTs: A new type of quaternion Fourier transforms based on the orthogonal planes split with one or two general pure quaternions
math.RA
We explain the orthogonal planes split (OPS) of quaternions based on the arbitrary choice of one or two linearly independent pure unit quaternions $f,g$. Next we systematically generalize the quaternionic Fourier transform (QFT) applied to quaternion fields to conform with the OPS determined by $f,g$, or by only one pu...
computer science
38,671
Quaternionic Fourier-Mellin Transform
math.RA
In this contribution we generalize the classical Fourier Mellin transform [S. Dorrode and F. Ghorbel, Robust and efficient Fourier-Mellin transform approximations for gray-level image reconstruction and complete invariant description, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 83(1) (2001), 57-78, DOI 10.1006/cviu.2001.0...
computer science
38,672
Algebraic foundations of split hypercomplex nonlinear adaptive filtering
cs.CV
A split hypercomplex learning algorithm for the training of nonlinear finite impulse response adaptive filters for the processing of hypercomplex signals of any dimension is proposed. The derivation strictly takes into account the laws of hypercomplex algebra and hypercomplex calculus, some of which have been neglected...
computer science
38,673
Clifford Fourier-Mellin transform with two real square roots of -1 in Cl(p,q), p+q=2
math.RA
We describe a non-commutative generalization of the complex Fourier-Mellin transform to Clifford algebra valued signal functions over the domain $\R^{p,q}$ taking values in Cl(p,q), p+q=2. Keywords: algebra, Fourier transforms; Logic, set theory, and algebra, Fourier analysis, Integral transforms
computer science
38,674
Stopping Criterion for the Mean Shift Iterative Algorithm
cs.CV
Image segmentation is a critical step in computer vision tasks constituting an essential issue for pattern recognition and visual interpretation. In this paper, we propose a new stopping criterion for the mean shift iterative algorithm by using images defined in Zn ring, with the goal of reaching a better segmentation....
computer science
38,675
Sparse Representation-based Image Quality Assessment
cs.CV
A successful approach to image quality assessment involves comparing the structural information between a distorted and its reference image. However, extracting structural information that is perceptually important to our visual system is a challenging task. This paper addresses this issue by employing a sparse represe...
computer science
38,676
Symmetries in LDDMM with higher order momentum distributions
math.DS
In some implementations of the Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping formulation for image registration we consider the motion of particles which locally translate image data. We then lift the motion of the particles to obtain a motion on the entire image. However, it is certainly possible to consider particle...
computer science
38,677
Finite Element Based Tracking of Deforming Surfaces
cs.CV
We present an approach to robustly track the geometry of an object that deforms over time from a set of input point clouds captured from a single viewpoint. The deformations we consider are caused by applying forces to known locations on the object's surface. Our method combines the use of prior information on the geom...
computer science
38,678
Computer simulation based parameter selection for resistance exercise
cs.CV
In contrast to most scientific disciplines, sports science research has been characterized by comparatively little effort investment in the development of relevant phenomenological models. Scarcer yet is the application of said models in practice. We present a framework which allows resistance training practitioners to...
computer science
38,679
Analysing Word Importance for Image Annotation
cs.IR
Image annotation provides several keywords automatically for a given image based on various tags to describe its contents which is useful in Image retrieval. Various researchers are working on text based and content based image annotations [7,9]. It is seen, in traditional Image annotation approaches, annotation words ...
computer science
38,680
Determining Points on Handwritten Mathematical Symbols
cs.CV
In a variety of applications, such as handwritten mathematics and diagram labelling, it is common to have symbols of many different sizes in use and for the writing not to follow simple baselines. In order to understand the scale and relative positioning of individual characters, it is necessary to identify the locatio...
computer science
38,681
P-HGRMS: A Parallel Hypergraph Based Root Mean Square Algorithm for Image Denoising
cs.DC
This paper presents a parallel Salt and Pepper (SP) noise removal algorithm in a grey level digital image based on the Hypergraph Based Root Mean Square (HGRMS) approach. HGRMS is generic algorithm for identifying noisy pixels in any digital image using a two level hierarchical serial approach. However, for SP noise re...
computer science
38,682
Characterizing Ambiguity in Light Source Invariant Shape from Shading
cs.CV
Shape from shading is a classical inverse problem in computer vision. This shape reconstruction problem is inherently ill-defined; it depends on the assumed light source direction. We introduce a novel mathematical formulation for calculating local surface shape based on covariant derivatives of the shading flow field,...
computer science
38,683
Digital Image Tamper Detection Techniques - A Comprehensive Study
cs.CR
Photographs are considered to be the most powerful and trustworthy media of expression. For a long time, those were accepted as proves of evidences in varied fields such as journalism, forensic investigations, military intelligence, scientific research and publications, crime detection and legal proceedings, investigat...
computer science
38,684
The Theory of Unified Relativity for a Biovielectroluminescence Phenomenon via Fly's Visual and Imaging System
cs.CE
The elucidation upon fly's neuronal patterns as a link to computer graphics and memory cards I/O's, is investigated for the phenomenon by propounding a unified theory of Einstein's two known relativities. It is conclusive that flies could contribute a certain amount of neuromatrices indicating an imagery function of a ...
computer science
38,685
Colour image segmentation by the vector-valued Allen-Cahn phase-field model: a multigrid solution
cs.CV
We propose a new method for the numerical solution of a PDE-driven model for colour image segmentation and give numerical examples of the results. The method combines the vector-valued Allen-Cahn phase field equation with initial data fitting terms. This method is known to be closely related to the Mumford-Shah problem...
computer science
38,686
Lossless Representation of Graphs using Distributions
math.CO
We consider complete graphs with edge weights and/or node weights taking values in some set. In the first part of this paper, we show that a large number of graphs are completely determined, up to isomorphism, by the distribution of their sub-triangles. In the second part, we propose graph representations in terms of o...
computer science
38,687
The entropy of keys derived from laser speckle
cs.CR
Laser speckle has been proposed in a number of papers as a high-entropy source of unpredictable bits for use in security applications. Bit strings derived from speckle can be used for a variety of security purposes such as identification, authentication, anti-counterfeiting, secure key storage, random number generation...
computer science
38,688
Code Similarity on High Level Programs
cs.CV
This paper presents a new approach for code similarity on High Level programs. Our technique is based on Fast Dynamic Time Warping, that builds a warp path or points relation with local restrictions. The source code is represented into Time Series using the operators inside programming languages that makes possible the...
computer science
38,689
Detecting the Most Unusual Part of a Digital Image
cs.CV
The purpose of this paper is to introduce an algorithm that can detect the most unusual part of a digital image. The most unusual part of a given shape is defined as a part of the image that has the maximal distance to all non intersecting shapes with the same form. The method can be used to scan image databases with...
computer science
38,690
Sparse image representation by discrete cosine/spline based dictionaries
math.NA
Mixed dictionaries generated by cosine and B-spline functions are considered. It is shown that, by highly nonlinear approaches such as Orthogonal Matching Pursuit, the discrete version of the proposed dictionaries yields a significant gain in the sparsity of an image representation.
computer science
38,691
An Efficient Secure Multimodal Biometric Fusion Using Palmprint and Face Image
cs.CV
Biometrics based personal identification is regarded as an effective method for automatically recognizing, with a high confidence a person's identity. A multimodal biometric systems consolidate the evidence presented by multiple biometric sources and typically better recognition performance compare to system based on a...
computer science
38,692
Improvements of the 3D images captured with Time-of-Flight cameras
cs.CV
3D Time-of-Flight camera's images are affected by errors due to the diffuse (indirect) light and to the flare light. The presented method improves the 3D image reducing the distance's errors to dark surface objects. This is achieved by placing one or two contrast tags in the scene at different distances from the ToF ca...
computer science
38,693
Unstructured Human Activity Detection from RGBD Images
cs.RO
Being able to detect and recognize human activities is essential for several applications, including personal assistive robotics. In this paper, we perform detection and recognition of unstructured human activity in unstructured environments. We use a RGBD sensor (Microsoft Kinect) as the input sensor, and compute a se...
computer science
38,694
3D Terrestrial lidar data classification of complex natural scenes using a multi-scale dimensionality criterion: applications in geomorphology
cs.CV
3D point clouds of natural environments relevant to problems in geomorphology often require classification of the data into elementary relevant classes. A typical example is the separation of riparian vegetation from ground in fluvial environments, the distinction between fresh surfaces and rockfall in cliff environmen...
computer science
38,695
Prostate biopsy tracking with deformation estimation
cs.CV
Transrectal biopsies under 2D ultrasound (US) control are the current clinical standard for prostate cancer diagnosis. The isoechogenic nature of prostate carcinoma makes it necessary to sample the gland systematically, resulting in a low sensitivity. Also, it is difficult for the clinician to follow the sampling proto...
computer science
38,696
Median 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
38,697
The Chan-Vese Algorithm
cs.CV
Segmentation is the process of partitioning a digital image into multiple segments (sets of pixels). Such common segmentation tasks including segmenting written text or segmenting tumors from healthy brain tissue in an MRI image, etc. Chan-Vese model for active contours is a powerful and flexible method which is able t...
computer science
38,698
Label-Specific Training Set Construction from Web Resource for Image Annotation
cs.MM
Recently many research efforts have been devoted to image annotation by leveraging on the associated tags/keywords of web images as training labels. A key issue to resolve is the relatively low accuracy of the tags. In this paper, we propose a novel semi-automatic framework to construct a more accurate and effective tr...
computer science
38,699
A Hilbert Scheme in Computer Vision
math.AG
Multiview geometry is the study of two-dimensional images of three-dimensional scenes, a foundational subject in computer vision. We determine a universal Groebner basis for the multiview ideal of n generic cameras. As the cameras move, the multiview varieties vary in a family of dimension 11n-15. This family is the di...
computer science
38,700
Applying Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) spectral indices for geological mapping and mineral identification on the Tibetan Plateau
cs.CV
The Tibetan Plateau holds clues to understanding the dynamics and mechanisms associated with continental growth. Part of the region is characterized by zones of ophiolitic melange believed to represent the remnants of ancient oceanic crust and underlying upper mantle emplaced during oceanic closures. However, due to th...
computer science
38,701
3-Phase Recognition Approach to Pseudo 3D Building Generation from 2D Floor Plan
cs.GR
Nowadays three dimension (3D) architectural visualisation has become a powerful tool in the conceptualisation, design and presentation of architectural products in the construction industry, providing realistic interaction and walkthrough on engineering products. Traditional ways of implementing 3D models involves the ...
computer science
38,702
Constant-time filtering using shiftable kernels
cs.CV
It was recently demonstrated in [5] that the non-linear bilateral filter [14] can be efficiently implemented using a constant-time or O(1) algorithm. At the heart of this algorithm was the idea of approximating the Gaussian range kernel of the bilateral filter using trigonometric functions. In this letter, we explain h...
computer science
38,703
On the Hilbert transform of wavelets
math.FA
A wavelet is a localized function having a prescribed number of vanishing moments. In this correspondence, we provide precise arguments as to why the Hilbert transform of a wavelet is again a wavelet. In particular, we provide sharp estimates of the localization, vanishing moments, and smoothness of the transformed wav...
computer science
38,704
Fast multi-scale edge-detection in medical ultrasound signals
cs.CV
In this article we suggest a fast multi-scale edge-detection scheme for medical ultrasound signals. The edge-detector is based on well-known properties of the continuous wavelet trans- form. To achieve both good localization of edges and detect only significant edges, we study the maxima-lines of the wavelet transform....
computer science
38,705
MAS for video objects segmentation and tracking based on active contours and SURF descriptor
cs.MM
In computer vision, video segmentation and tracking is an important challenging issue. In this paper, we describe a new video sequences segmentation and tracking algorithm based on MAS "multi-agent systems" and SURF "Speeded Up Robust Features". Our approach consists in modelling a multi-agent system for segmenting the...
computer science
38,706
Multimodal Approach for Video Surveillance Indexing and Retrieval
cs.MM
In this paper, we present an overview of a multimodal system to indexing and searching video sequence by the content that has been developed within the REGIMVid project. A large part of our system has been developed as part of TRECVideo evaluation. The MAVSIR platform provides High-level feature extraction from audio-v...
computer science
38,707
Satellite image classification methods and Landsat 5TM bands
cs.CV
This paper attempts to find the most accurate classification method among parallelepiped, minimum distance and chain methods. Moreover, this study also challenges to find the suitable combination of bands, which can lead to better results in case combinations of bands occur. After comparing these three methods, the cha...
computer science
38,708
Detection of copy-move forgery in digital images based on DCT
cs.CV
With rapid advances in digital information processing systems, and more specifically in digital image processing software, there is a widespread development of advanced tools and techniques for digital image forgery. One of the techniques most commonly used is the Copy-move forgery which proceeds by copying a part of a...
computer science
38,709
A Low-Dimensional Representation for Robust Partial Isometric Correspondences Computation
cs.CV
Intrinsic isometric shape matching has become the standard approach for pose invariant correspondence estimation among deformable shapes. Most existing approaches assume global consistency, i.e., the metric structure of the whole manifold must not change significantly. While global isometric matching is well understood...
computer science