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Polynomial time algorithms for bi-criteria, multi-objective and ratio problems in clustering and imaging. Part I: Normalized cut and ratio regions
cs.CV
Partitioning and grouping of similar objects plays a fundamental role in image segmentation and in clustering problems. In such problems a typical goal is to group together similar objects, or pixels in the case of image processing. At the same time another goal is to have each group distinctly dissimilar from the rest...
computer science
38,711
Acquisition Accuracy Evaluation in Visual Inspection Systems - a Practical Approach
cs.CV
This paper draws a proposal of a set of parameters and methods for accuracy evaluation of visual inspection systems. The case of a monochrome board is treated, but practically all conclusions and methods may be extended for colour acquisition. Basically, the proposed parameters are grouped in five sets as follows:Inter...
computer science
38,712
lambda-Connectedness Determination for Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Image segmentation is to separate an image into distinct homogeneous regions belonging to different objects. It is an essential step in image analysis and computer vision. This paper compares some segmentation technologies and attempts to find an automated way to better determine the parameters for image segmentation, ...
computer science
38,713
A Matlab Implementation of a Flat Norm Motivated Polygonal Edge Matching Method using a Decomposition of Boundary into Four 1-Dimensional Currents
cs.CV
We describe and provide code and examples for a polygonal edge matching method.
computer science
38,714
Stroke Fragmentation based on Geometry Features and HMM
cs.HC
Stroke fragmentation is one of the key steps in pen-based interaction. In this letter, we present a unified HMM-based stroke fragmentation technique that can do segment point location and primitive type determination simultaneously. The geometry features included are used to evaluate local features, and the HMM model i...
computer science
38,715
The Digital Restoration of Da Vinci's Sketches
cs.CV
A sketch, found in one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and covered by the written notes of this genius, has been recently restored. The restoration reveals a possible self-portrait of the artist, drawn when he was young. Here, we discuss the discovery of this self-portrait and the procedure used for restoration. Actua...
computer science
38,716
Combinatorial Ricci Curvature and Laplacians for Image Processing
cs.CV
A new Combinatorial Ricci curvature and Laplacian operators for grayscale images are introduced and tested on 2D synthetic, natural and medical images. Analogue formulae for voxels are also obtained. These notions are based upon more general concepts developed by R. Forman. Further applications, in particular a fitting...
computer science
38,717
Gradient-based adaptive interpolation in super-resolution image restoration
cs.MM
This paper presents a super-resolution method based on gradient-based adaptive interpolation. In this method, in addition to considering the distance between the interpolated pixel and the neighboring valid pixel, the interpolation coefficients take the local gradient of the original image into account. The smaller the...
computer science
38,718
Managing Distributed MARF with SNMP
cs.DC
The scope of this project's work focuses on the research and prototyping of the extension of the Distributed MARF such that its services can be managed through the most popular management protocol familiarly, SNMP. The rationale behind SNMP vs. MARF's proprietary management protocols, is that can be integrated with the...
computer science
38,719
Quality assessment of the MPEG-4 scalable video CODEC
cs.MM
In this paper, the performance of the emerging MPEG-4 SVC CODEC is evaluated. In the first part, a brief introduction on the subject of quality assessment and the development of the MPEG-4 SVC CODEC is given. After that, the used test methodologies are described in detail, followed by an explanation of the actual test ...
computer science
38,720
Coding cells of digital spaces: a framework to write generic digital topology algorithms
cs.DM
This paper proposes a concise coding of the cells of n-dimensional finite regular grids. It induces a simple, generic and efficient framework for implementing classical digital topology data structures and algorithms. Discrete subsets of multidimensional images (e.g. regions, digital surfaces, cubical cell complexes) h...
computer science
38,721
Physical Modeling Techniques in Active Contours for Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Physical modeling method, represented by simulation and visualization of the principles in physics, is introduced in the shape extraction of the active contours. The objectives of adopting this concept are to address the several major difficulties in the application of Active Contours. Primarily, a technique is develop...
computer science
38,722
Image Sampling with Quasicrystals
cs.CV
We investigate the use of quasicrystals in image sampling. Quasicrystals produce space-filling, non-periodic point sets that are uniformly discrete and relatively dense, thereby ensuring the sample sites are evenly spread out throughout the sampled image. Their self-similar structure can be attractive for creating samp...
computer science
38,723
Distributed Object Medical Imaging Model
cs.SE
Digital medical informatics and images are commonly used in hospitals today,. Because of the interrelatedness of the radiology department and other departments, especially the intensive care unit and emergency department, the transmission and sharing of medical images has become a critical issue. Our research group has...
computer science
38,724
Microstructure reconstruction using entropic descriptors
cs.CV
A multi-scale approach to the inverse reconstruction of a pattern's microstructure is reported. Instead of a correlation function, a pair of entropic descriptors (EDs) is proposed for stochastic optimization method. The first of them measures a spatial inhomogeneity, for a binary pattern, or compositional one, for a gr...
computer science
38,725
Parallelization of the LBG Vector Quantization Algorithm for Shared Memory Systems
cs.CV
This paper proposes a parallel approach for the Vector Quantization (VQ) problem in image processing. VQ deals with codebook generation from the input training data set and replacement of any arbitrary data with the nearest codevector. Most of the efforts in VQ have been directed towards designing parallel search algor...
computer science
38,726
A New Method to Extract Dorsal Hand Vein Pattern using Quadratic Inference Function
cs.CV
Among all biometric, dorsal hand vein pattern is attracting the attention of researchers, of late. Extensive research is being carried out on various techniques in the hope of finding an efficient one which can be applied on dorsal hand vein pattern to improve its accuracy and matching time. One of the crucial step in ...
computer science
38,727
A New Image Steganography Based On First Component Alteration Technique
cs.MM
In this paper, A new image steganography scheme is proposed which is a kind of spatial domain technique. In order to hide secret data in cover-image, the first component alteration technique is used. Techniques used so far focuses only on the two or four bits of a pixel in a image (at the most five bits at the edge of ...
computer science
38,728
An Improved Image Mining Technique For Brain Tumour Classification Using Efficient Classifier
cs.CV
An improved image mining technique for brain tumor classification using pruned association rule with MARI algorithm is presented in this paper. The method proposed makes use of association rule mining technique to classify the CT scan brain images into three categories namely normal, benign and malign. It combines the ...
computer science
38,729
Analytical shape determination of fiber-like objects with Virtual Image Correlation
cs.CV
This paper reports a method allowing for the determination of the shape of deformed fiber-like objects. Compared to existing methods, it provides analytical results including the local slope and curvature which are of first importance, for instance, in beam mechanics. The presented VIC (Virtual Image Correlation) metho...
computer science
38,730
A Microwave Imaging and Enhancement Technique from Noisy Synthetic Data
cs.CV
An inverse iterative algorithm for microwave imaging based on moment method solution is presented here. The iterative scheme has been developed on constrained optimization technique and is certain to converge. Different mesh size for the model has been used here to overcome the Inverse Crime. The synthetic data at the ...
computer science
38,731
Combinatorial Continuous Maximal Flows
cs.CV
Maximum flow (and minimum cut) algorithms have had a strong impact on computer vision. In particular, graph cuts algorithms provide a mechanism for the discrete optimization of an energy functional which has been used in a variety of applications such as image segmentation, stereo, image stitching and texture synthesis...
computer science
38,732
Multiplierless Modules for Forward and Backward Integer Wavelet Transform
cs.AR
This article is about the architecture of a lossless wavelet filter bank with reprogrammable logic. It is based on second generation of wavelets with a reduced of number of operations. A new basic structure for parallel architecture and modules to forward and backward integer discrete wavelet transform is proposed.
computer science
38,733
A Fast Statistical Method for Multilevel Thresholding in Wavelet Domain
nlin.CD
An algorithm is proposed for the segmentation of image into multiple levels using mean and standard deviation in the wavelet domain. The procedure provides for variable size segmentation with bigger block size around the mean, and having smaller blocks at the ends of histogram plot of each horizontal, vertical and diag...
computer science
38,734
Extending Bron Kerbosch for Solving the Maximum Weight Clique Problem
cs.DS
This contribution extends the Bron Kerbosch algorithm for solving the maximum weight clique problem, where continuous-valued weights are assigned to both, vertices and edges. We applied the proposed algorithm to graph matching problems.
computer science
38,735
Group Invariant Scattering
math.FA
This paper constructs translation invariant operators on L2(R^d), which are Lipschitz continuous to the action of diffeomorphisms. A scattering propagator is a path ordered product of non-linear and non-commuting operators, each of which computes the modulus of a wavelet transform. A local integration defines a windowe...
computer science
38,736
Content-Based Filtering for Video Sharing Social Networks
cs.CV
In this paper we compare the use of several features in the task of content filtering for video social networks, a very challenging task, not only because the unwanted content is related to very high-level semantic concepts (e.g., pornography, violence, etc.) but also because videos from social networks are extremely a...
computer science
38,737
Introduction to the Bag of Features Paradigm for Image Classification and Retrieval
cs.CV
The past decade has seen the growing popularity of Bag of Features (BoF) approaches to many computer vision tasks, including image classification, video search, robot localization, and texture recognition. Part of the appeal is simplicity. BoF methods are based on orderless collections of quantized local image descript...
computer science
38,738
Automated Image Processing for the Analysis of DNA Repair Dynamics
cs.CV
The efficient repair of cellular DNA is essential for the maintenance and inheritance of genomic information. In order to cope with the high frequency of spontaneous and induced DNA damage, a multitude of repair mechanisms have evolved. These are enabled by a wide range of protein factors specifically recognizing diffe...
computer science
38,739
A correspondence-less approach to matching of deformable shapes
cs.CV
Finding a match between partially available deformable shapes is a challenging problem with numerous applications. The problem is usually approached by computing local descriptors on a pair of shapes and then establishing a point-wise correspondence between the two. In this paper, we introduce an alternative correspond...
computer science
38,740
"Improved FCM algorithm for Clustering on Web Usage Mining"
cs.IR
In this paper we present clustering method is very sensitive to the initial center values, requirements on the data set too high, and cannot handle noisy data the proposal method is using information entropy to initialize the cluster centers and introduce weighting parameters to adjust the location of cluster centers a...
computer science
38,741
Elimination of Specular reflection and Identification of ROI: The First Step in Automated Detection of Cervical Cancer using Digital Colposcopy
cs.CV
Cervical Cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in women worldwide. Most cases of cervical cancer can be prevented through screening programs aimed at detecting precancerous lesions. During Digital Colposcopy, Specular Reflections (SR) appear as bright spots heavily saturated with white light. These occur due...
computer science
38,742
An Effect of Spatial Filtering in Visualization of Coronary Arteries Imaging
cs.CV
At present, coronary angiography is the well known standard for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Conventional coronary angiography is an invasive procedure with a small, yet inherent risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, potential arrhythmias, and death. Other noninvasive diagnostic tools, such as electrocard...
computer science
38,743
Visualization techniques for data mining of Latur district satellite imagery
cs.CE
This study presents a new visualization tool for classification of satellite imagery. Visualization of feature space allows exploration of patterns in the image data and insight into the classification process and related uncertainty. Visual Data Mining provides added value to image classifications as the user can be i...
computer science
38,744
Improving digital signal interpolation: L2-optimal kernels with kernel-invariant interpolation speed
cs.CV
Interpolation is responsible for digital signal resampling and can significantly degrade the original signal quality if not done properly. For many years, optimal interpolation algorithms were sought within constrained classes of interpolation kernel functions. We derive a new family of unconstrained L2-optimal interpo...
computer science
38,745
Bayesian approach for near-duplicate image detection
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a bayesian approach for near-duplicate image detection, and investigate how different probabilistic models affect the performance obtained. The task of identifying an image whose metadata are missing is often demanded for a myriad of applications: metadata retrieval in cultural institutions, de...
computer science
38,746
Content-Based Spam Filtering on Video Sharing Social Networks
cs.CV
In this work we are concerned with the detection of spam in video sharing social networks. Specifically, we investigate how much visual content-based analysis can aid in detecting spam in videos. This is a very challenging task, because of the high-level semantic concepts involved; of the assorted nature of social netw...
computer science
38,747
Coupled quasi-harmonic bases
cs.CV
The use of Laplacian eigenbases has been shown to be fruitful in many computer graphics applications. Today, state-of-the-art approaches to shape analysis, synthesis, and correspondence rely on these natural harmonic bases that allow using classical tools from harmonic analysis on manifolds. However, many applications ...
computer science
38,748
A Low Cost Vision Based Hybrid Fiducial Mark Tracking Technique for Mobile Industrial Robots
cs.CV
The field of robotic vision is developing rapidly. Robots can react intelligently and provide assistance to user activities through sentient computing. Since industrial applications pose complex requirements that cannot be handled by humans, an efficient low cost and robust technique is required for the tracking of mob...
computer science
38,749
Invariance of visual operations at the level of receptive fields
cs.CV
Receptive field profiles registered by cell recordings have shown that mammalian vision has developed receptive fields tuned to different sizes and orientations in the image domain as well as to different image velocities in space-time. This article presents a theoretical model by which families of idealized receptive ...
computer science
38,750
Discrete geodesic calculus in the space of viscous fluidic objects
math.NA
Based on a local approximation of the Riemannian distance on a manifold by a computationally cheap dissimilarity measure, a time discrete geodesic calculus is developed, and applications to shape space are explored. The dissimilarity measure is derived from a deformation energy whose Hessian reproduces the underlying R...
computer science
38,751
Evaluating Discussion Boards on BlackBoard as a Collaborative Learning Tool A Students Survey and Reflections
cs.CV
In this paper, we investigate how the students think of their experience in a junior level course that has a blackboard course presence where the students use the discussion boards extensively. A survey is set up through blackboard as a voluntary quiz and the student who participated were given a freebie point. The res...
computer science
38,752
Video De-fencing
cs.CV
This paper describes and provides an initial solution to a novel video editing task, i.e., video de-fencing. It targets automatic restoration of the video clips that are corrupted by fence-like occlusions during capture. Our key observation lies in the visual parallax between fences and background scenes, which is caus...
computer science
38,753
Deconvolving Images with Unknown Boundaries Using the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
math.OC
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has recently sparked interest as a flexible and efficient optimization tool for imaging inverse problems, namely deconvolution and reconstruction under non-smooth convex regularization. ADMM achieves state-of-the-art speed by adopting a divide and conquer strategy,...
computer science
38,754
An anisotropy preserving metric for DTI processing
cs.CV
Statistical analysis of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) data requires a computational framework that is both numerically tractable (to account for the high dimensional nature of the data) and geometric (to account for the nonlinear nature of diffusion tensors). Building upon earlier studies that have shown that a Rieman...
computer science
38,755
Kinects and Human Kinetics: A New Approach for Studying Crowd Behavior
cs.CV
Modeling crowd behavior relies on accurate data of pedestrian movements at a high level of detail. Imaging sensors such as cameras provide a good basis for capturing such detailed pedestrian motion data. However, currently available computer vision technologies, when applied to conventional video footage, still cannot ...
computer science
38,756
Efficient Solution to the 3D Problem of Automatic Wall Paintings Reassembly
cs.CV
This paper introduces a new approach for the automated reconstruction - reassembly of fragmented objects having one surface near to plane, on the basis of the 3D representation of their constituent fragments. The whole process starts by 3D scanning of the available fragments. The obtained representations are properly p...
computer science
38,757
Three dimensional tracking of gold nanoparticles using digital holographic microscopy
cs.CV
In this paper we present a digital holographic microscope to track gold colloids in three dimensions. We report observations of 100nm gold particles in motion in water. The expected signal and the chosen method of reconstruction are described. We also discuss about how to implement the numerical calculation to reach re...
computer science
38,758
Notes on image annotation
cs.CV
We are under the illusion that seeing is effortless, but frequently the visual system is lazy and makes us believe that we understand something when in fact we don't. Labeling a picture forces us to become aware of the difficulties underlying scene understanding. Suddenly, the act of seeing is not effortless anymore. W...
computer science
38,759
On the Role of Contrast and Regularity in Perceptual Boundary Saliency
cs.CV
Mathematical Morphology proposes to extract shapes from images as connected components of level sets. These methods prove very suitable for shape recognition and analysis. We present a method to select the perceptually significant (i.e., contrasted) level lines (boundaries of level sets), using the Helmholtz principle ...
computer science
38,760
Navigation domain representation for interactive multiview imaging
cs.MM
Enabling users to interactively navigate through different viewpoints of a static scene is a new interesting functionality in 3D streaming systems. While it opens exciting perspectives towards rich multimedia applications, it requires the design of novel representations and coding techniques in order to solve the new c...
computer science
38,761
OpenCFU, a New Free and Open-Source Software to Count Cell Colonies and Other Circular Objects
cs.CV
Counting circular objects such as cell colonies is an important source of information for biologists. Although this task is often time-consuming and subjective, it is still predominantly performed manually. The aim of the present work is to provide a new tool to enumerate circular objects from digital pictures and vide...
computer science
38,762
Mugshot Identification from Manipulated Facial Images
cs.CV
Editing on digital images is ubiquitous. Identification of deliberately modified facial images is a new challenge for face identification system. In this paper, we address the problem of identification of a face or person from heavily altered facial images. In this face identification problem, the input to the system i...
computer science
38,763
Towards building a Crowd-Sourced Sky Map
cs.CV
We describe a system that builds a high dynamic-range and wide-angle image of the night sky by combining a large set of input images. The method makes use of pixel-rank information in the individual input images to improve a "consensus" pixel rank in the combined image. Because it only makes use of ranks and the comple...
computer science
38,764
Image Tag Completion by Low-rank Factorization with Dual Reconstruction Structure Preserved
cs.CV
A novel tag completion algorithm is proposed in this paper, which is designed with the following features: 1) Low-rank and error s-parsity: the incomplete initial tagging matrix D is decomposed into the complete tagging matrix A and a sparse error matrix E. However, instead of minimizing its nuclear norm, A is further ...
computer science
38,765
Denosing Using Wavelets and Projections onto the L1-Ball
math.OC
Both wavelet denoising and denosing methods using the concept of sparsity are based on soft-thresholding. In sparsity based denoising methods, it is assumed that the original signal is sparse in some transform domains such as the wavelet domain and the wavelet subsignals of the noisy signal are projected onto L1-balls ...
computer science
38,766
Acoustic Gait-based Person Identification using Hidden Markov Models
cs.HC
We present a system for identifying humans by their walking sounds. This problem is also known as acoustic gait recognition. The goal of the system is to analyse sounds emitted by walking persons (mostly the step sounds) and identify those persons. These sounds are characterised by the gait pattern and are influenced b...
computer science
38,767
Replicating Kernels with a Short Stride Allows Sparse Reconstructions with Fewer Independent Kernels
cs.CV
In sparse coding it is common to tile an image into nonoverlapping patches, and then use a dictionary to create a sparse representation of each tile independently. In this situation, the overcompleteness of the dictionary is the number of dictionary elements divided by the patch size. In deconvolutional neural networks...
computer science
38,768
Image patch analysis and clustering of sunspots: a dimensionality reduction approach
cs.CV
Sunspots, as seen in white light or continuum images, are associated with regions of high magnetic activity on the Sun, visible on magnetogram images. Their complexity is correlated with explosive solar activity and so classifying these active regions is useful for predicting future solar activity. Current classificati...
computer science
38,769
A Fully Automated Latent Fingerprint Matcher with Embedded Self-learning Segmentation Module
cs.CR
Latent fingerprint has the practical value to identify the suspects who have unintentionally left a trace of fingerprint in the crime scenes. However, designing a fully automated latent fingerprint matcher is a very challenging task as it needs to address many challenging issues including the separation of overlapping ...
computer science
38,770
Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment of Image: A Survey
cs.MM
With the increasing demand for image-based applications, the efficient and reliable evaluation of image quality has increased in importance. Measuring the image quality is of fundamental importance for numerous image processing applications, where the goal of image quality assessment (IQA) methods is to automatically e...
computer science
38,771
Vessel Segmentation in Medical Imaging Using a Tight-Frame Based Algorithm
math.NA
Tight-frame, a generalization of orthogonal wavelets, has been used successfully in various problems in image processing, including inpainting, impulse noise removal, super-resolution image restoration, etc. Segmentation is the process of identifying object outlines within images. There are quite a few efficient algori...
computer science
38,772
Estimating 3D Human Shapes from Measurements
cs.CV
The recent advances in 3-D imaging technologies give rise to databases of human shapes, from which statistical shape models can be built. These statistical models represent prior knowledge of the human shape and enable us to solve shape reconstruction problems from partial information. Generating human shape from tradi...
computer science
38,773
Beyond pixels and regions: A non local patch means (NLPM) method for content-level restoration, enhancement, and reconstruction of degraded document images
cs.CV
A patch-based non-local restoration and reconstruction method for preprocessing degraded document images is introduced. The method collects relative data from the whole input image, while the image data are first represented by a content-level descriptor based on patches. This patch-equivalent representation of the inp...
computer science
38,774
Squiggle - A Glyph Recognizer for Gesture Input
cs.HC
Squiggle is a template-based glyph recognizer in the lineage of `$1 Recognizer' and `Protractor'. It seeks a good fit linear affine mapping between the input and template glyphs which are represented as a list of milestone points along the glyph path. The algorithm can recognize input glyphs invariant of rotation, scal...
computer science
38,775
Hypothesize and Bound: A Computational Focus of Attention Mechanism for Simultaneous 3D Shape Reconstruction, Pose Estimation and Classification from a Single 2D Image
cs.CV
This article presents a mathematical framework to simultaneously tackle the problems of 3D reconstruction, pose estimation and object classification, from a single 2D image. In sharp contrast with state of the art methods that rely primarily on 2D information and solve each of these three problems separately or iterati...
computer science
38,776
Volumetric Mapping of Genus Zero Objects via Mass Preservation
cs.CG
In this work, we present a technique to map any genus zero solid object onto a hexahedral decomposition of a solid cube. This problem appears in many applications ranging from finite element methods to visual tracking. From this, one can then hopefully utilize the proposed technique for shape analysis, registration, as...
computer science
38,777
Image Enhancement with Statistical Estimation
cs.MM
Contrast enhancement is an important area of research for the image analysis. Over the decade, the researcher worked on this domain to develop an efficient and adequate algorithm. The proposed method will enhance the contrast of image using Binarization method with the help of Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE). The p...
computer science
38,778
Hajj and Umrah Event Recognition Datasets
cs.CV
In this note, new Hajj and Umrah Event Recognition datasets (HUER) are presented. The demonstrated datasets are based on videos and images taken during 2011-2012 Hajj and Umrah seasons. HUER is the first collection of datasets covering the six types of Hajj and Umrah ritual events (rotating in Tawaf around Kabaa, perfo...
computer science
38,779
Texture Analysis And Characterization Using Probability Fractal Descriptors
cs.CV
A gray-level image texture descriptors based on fractal dimension estimation is proposed in this work. The proposed method estimates the fractal dimension using probability (Voss) method. The descriptors are computed applying a multiscale transform to the fractal dimension curves of the texture image. The proposed text...
computer science
38,780
The ideal of the trifocal variety
math.AG
Techniques from representation theory, symbolic computational algebra, and numerical algebraic geometry are used to find the minimal generators of the ideal of the trifocal variety. An effective test for determining whether a given tensor is a trifocal tensor is also given.
computer science
38,781
Pilgrims Face Recognition Dataset -- HUFRD
cs.CV
In this work, we define a new pilgrims face recognition dataset, called HUFRD dataset. The new developed dataset presents various pilgrims' images taken from outside the Holy Masjid El-Harram in Makkah during the 2011-2012 Hajj and Umrah seasons. Such dataset will be used to test our developed facial recognition and de...
computer science
38,782
Improvement of ISOM by using filter
cs.MM
Image compression helps in storing the transmitted data in proficient way by decreasing its redundancy. This technique helps in transferring more digital or multimedia data over internet as it increases the storage space. It is important to maintain the image quality even if it is compressed to certain extent. Depend u...
computer science
38,783
Efficient Prediction of DNA-Binding Proteins Using Machine Learning
cs.CV
DNA-binding proteins are a class of proteins which have a specific or general affinity to DNA and include three important components: transcription factors; nucleases, and histones. DNA-binding proteins also perform important roles in many types of cellular activities. In this paper we describe machine learning systems...
computer science
38,784
ROI Segmentation for Feature Extraction from Human Facial Images
cs.CV
Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is the biggest goal of computer vision researchers. Features form the different facial images are able to provide a very deep knowledge about the activities performed by the different facial movements. In this paper we presented a technique for feature extraction from various regions of...
computer science
38,785
Non-Local Euclidean Medians
cs.CV
In this letter, we note that the denoising performance of Non-Local Means (NLM) at large noise levels can be improved by replacing the mean by the Euclidean median. We call this new denoising algorithm the Non-Local Euclidean Medians (NLEM). At the heart of NLEM is the observation that the median is more robust to outl...
computer science
38,786
Content Based Multimedia Information Retrieval to Support Digital Libraries
cs.IR
Content-based multimedia information retrieval is an interesting research area since it allows retrieval based on inherent characteristic of multimedia objects. For example retrieval based on visual characteristics such as colour, shapes or textures of objects in images or retrieval based on spatial relationships among...
computer science
38,787
Penalty Constraints and Kernelization of M-Estimation Based Fuzzy C-Means
cs.CV
A framework of M-estimation based fuzzy C-means clustering (MFCM) algorithm is proposed with iterative reweighted least squares (IRLS) algorithm, and penalty constraint and kernelization extensions of MFCM algorithms are also developed. Introducing penalty information to the object functions of MFCM algorithms, the spa...
computer science
38,788
Autofocus Correction of Azimuth Phase Error and Residual Range Cell Migration in Spotlight SAR Polar Format Imagery
cs.CV
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are often blurred by phase perturbations induced by uncompensated sensor motion and /or unknown propagation effects caused by turbulent media. To get refocused images, autofocus proves to be useful post-processing technique applied to estimate and compensate the unknown phase error...
computer science
38,789
Verifying a platform for digital imaging: a multi-tool strategy
cs.SE
Fiji is a Java platform widely used by biologists and other experimental scientists to process digital images. In particular, in our research - made together with a biologists team; we use Fiji in some pre-processing steps before undertaking a homological digital processing of images. In a previous work, we have formal...
computer science
38,790
Classification of Segments in PolSAR Imagery by Minimum Stochastic Distances Between Wishart Distributions
cs.CV
A new classifier for Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) images is proposed and assessed in this paper. Its input consists of segments, and each one is assigned the class which minimizes a stochastic distance. Assuming the complex Wishart model, several stochastic distances are obtained from the h-phi family of divergences, and ...
computer science
38,791
Medical Information Embedding in Compressed Watermarked Intravascular Ultrasound Video
cs.MM
In medical field, intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a tomographic imaging modality, which can identify the boundaries of different layers of blood vessels. IVUS can detect myocardial infarction (heart attack) that remains ignored and unattended when only angioplasty is done. During the past decade, it became easier fo...
computer science
38,792
Intelligent Approaches to interact with Machines using Hand Gesture Recognition in Natural way: A Survey
cs.HC
Hand gestures recognition (HGR) is one of the main areas of research for the engineers, scientists and bioinformatics. HGR is the natural way of Human Machine interaction and today many researchers in the academia and industry are working on different application to make interactions more easy, natural and convenient w...
computer science
38,793
Image compression using anti-forensics method
cs.MM
A large number of image forensics methods are available which are capable of identifying image tampering. But these techniques are not capable of addressing the anti-forensics method which is able to hide the trace of image tampering. In this paper anti-forensics method for digital image compression has been proposed. ...
computer science
38,794
Computing Motion with 3D Memristive Grid
cs.CV
Computing the relative motion of objects is an important navigation task that we routinely perform by relying on inherently unreliable biological cells in the retina. The non-linear and adaptive response of memristive devices make them excellent building blocks for realizing complex synaptic-like architectures that are...
computer science
38,795
Egocentric vision IT technologies for Alzheimer disease assessment and studies
cs.HC
Egocentric vision technology consists in capturing the actions of persons from their own visual point of view using wearable camera sensors. We apply this new paradigm to instrumental activities monitoring with the objective of providing new tools for the clinical evaluation of the impact of the disease on persons with...
computer science
38,796
Methods Of Measurement The Three-Dimensional Wind Waves Spectra, Based On The Processing Of Video Images Of The Sea Surface
cs.CV
Optical instruments for measuring surface-wave characteristics provide a better spatial and temporal resolution than other methods, but they face difficulties while converting the results of indirect measurements into absolute levels of the waves. We have solved this problem to some extent. In this paper, we propose an...
computer science
38,797
Spatio-Temporal Covariance Descriptors for Action and Gesture Recognition
cs.CV
We propose a new action and gesture recognition method based on spatio-temporal covariance descriptors and a weighted Riemannian locality preserving projection approach that takes into account the curved space formed by the descriptors. The weighted projection is then exploited during boosting to create a final multicl...
computer science
38,798
Video Face Matching using Subset Selection and Clustering of Probabilistic Multi-Region Histograms
cs.CV
Balancing computational efficiency with recognition accuracy is one of the major challenges in real-world video-based face recognition. A significant design decision for any such system is whether to process and use all possible faces detected over the video frames, or whether to select only a few "best" faces. This pa...
computer science
38,799
Large-Scale Automatic Reconstruction of Neuronal Processes from Electron Microscopy Images
cs.CV
Automated sample preparation and electron microscopy enables acquisition of very large image data sets. These technical advances are of special importance to the field of neuroanatomy, as 3D reconstructions of neuronal processes at the nm scale can provide new insight into the fine grained structure of the brain. Segme...
computer science
38,800
High-Accuracy Total Variation for Compressed Video Sensing
math.OC
Numerous total variation (TV) regularizers, engaged in image restoration problem, encode the gradients by means of simple $[-1,1]$ FIR filter. Despite its low computational processing, this filter severely deviates signal's high frequency components pertinent to edge/discontinuous information and cause several deficien...
computer science
38,801
Efficient binary tomographic reconstruction
cs.CV
Tomographic reconstruction of a binary image from few projections is considered. A novel {\em heuristic} algorithm is proposed, the central element of which is a nonlinear transformation $\psi(p)=\log(p/(1-p))$ of the probability $p$ that a pixel of the sought image be 1-valued. It consists of backprojections based on ...
computer science
38,802
Real-Time and Continuous Hand Gesture Spotting: an Approach Based on Artificial Neural Networks
cs.RO
New and more natural human-robot interfaces are of crucial interest to the evolution of robotics. This paper addresses continuous and real-time hand gesture spotting, i.e., gesture segmentation plus gesture recognition. Gesture patterns are recognized by using artificial neural networks (ANNs) specifically adapted to t...
computer science
38,803
Contour Manifolds and Optimal Transport
math.DG
Describing shapes by suitable measures in object segmentation, as proposed in [24], allows to combine the advantages of the representations as parametrized contours and indicator functions. The pseudo-Riemannian structure of optimal transport can be used to model shapes in ways similar as with contours, while the Kanto...
computer science
38,804
A Non-Local Means Filter for Removing the Poisson Noise
stat.AP
A new image denoising algorithm to deal with the Poisson noise model is given, which is based on the idea of Non-Local Mean. By using the "Oracle" concept, we establish a theorem to show that the Non-Local Means Filter can effectively deal with Poisson noise with some modification. Under the theoretical result, we cons...
computer science
38,805
Photon counting compressive depth mapping
cs.CV
We demonstrate a compressed sensing, photon counting lidar system based on the single-pixel camera. Our technique recovers both depth and intensity maps from a single under-sampled set of incoherent, linear projections of a scene of interest at ultra-low light levels around 0.5 picowatts. Only two-dimensional reconstru...
computer science
38,806
An Efficient Index for Visual Search in Appearance-based SLAM
cs.CV
Vector-quantization can be a computationally expensive step in visual bag-of-words (BoW) search when the vocabulary is large. A BoW-based appearance SLAM needs to tackle this problem for an efficient real-time operation. We propose an effective method to speed up the vector-quantization process in BoW-based visual SLAM...
computer science
38,807
Rotationally Invariant Image Representation for Viewing Direction Classification in Cryo-EM
cs.CV
We introduce a new rotationally invariant viewing angle classification method for identifying, among a large number of Cryo-EM projection images, similar views without prior knowledge of the molecule. Our rotationally invariant features are based on the bispectrum. Each image is denoised and compressed using steerable ...
computer science
38,808
Quality Control in Crowdsourced Object Segmentation
cs.CV
This paper explores processing techniques to deal with noisy data in crowdsourced object segmentation tasks. We use the data collected with "Click'n'Cut", an online interactive segmentation tool, and we perform several experiments towards improving the segmentation results. First, we introduce different superpixel-base...
computer science
38,809
Electron Neutrino Classification in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Detector
cs.CV
Neutrinos are one of the least known elementary particles. The detection of neutrinos is an extremely difficult task since they are affected only by weak sub-atomic force or gravity. Therefore large detectors are constructed to reveal neutrino's properties. Among them the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr-TPC) ...
computer science