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Multi-view Convolutional Neural Networks for 3D Shape Recognition
cs.CV
A longstanding question in computer vision concerns the representation of 3D shapes for recognition: should 3D shapes be represented with descriptors operating on their native 3D formats, such as voxel grid or polygon mesh, or can they be effectively represented with view-based descriptors? We address this question in ...
computer science
38,811
Visual Summary of Egocentric Photostreams by Representative Keyframes
cs.CV
Building a visual summary from an egocentric photostream captured by a lifelogging wearable camera is of high interest for different applications (e.g. memory reinforcement). In this paper, we propose a new summarization method based on keyframes selection that uses visual features extracted by means of a convolutional...
computer science
38,812
Comparing persistence diagrams through complex vectors
math.AT
The natural pseudo-distance of spaces endowed with filtering functions is precious for shape classification and retrieval; its optimal estimate coming from persistence diagrams is the bottleneck distance, which unfortunately suffers from combinatorial explosion. A possible algebraic representation of persistence diagra...
computer science
38,813
Filter characteristics in image decomposition with singular spectrum analysis
cs.CV
Singular spectrum analysis is developed as a nonparametric spectral decomposition of a time series. It can be easily extended to the decomposition of multidimensional lattice-like data through the filtering interpretation. In this viewpoint, the singular spectrum analysis can be understood as the adaptive and optimal g...
computer science
38,814
Jointly Modeling Embedding and Translation to Bridge Video and Language
cs.CV
Automatically describing video content with natural language is a fundamental challenge of multimedia. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), which models sequence dynamics, has attracted increasing attention on visual interpretation. However, most existing approaches generate a word locally with given previous words and the...
computer science
38,815
The structure of optimal parameters for image restoration problems
math.OC
We study the qualitative properties of optimal regularisation parameters in variational models for image restoration. The parameters are solutions of bilevel optimisation problems with the image restoration problem as constraint. A general type of regulariser is considered, which encompasses total variation (TV), total...
computer science
38,816
Bilevel approaches for learning of variational imaging models
math.OC
We review some recent learning approaches in variational imaging, based on bilevel optimisation, and emphasize the importance of their treatment in function space. The paper covers both analytical and numerical techniques. Analytically, we include results on the existence and structure of minimisers, as well as optimal...
computer science
38,817
A new Level-set based Protocol for Accurate Bone Segmentation from CT Imaging
cs.CV
In this work it is proposed a medical image segmentation pipeline for accurate bone segmentation from CT imaging. It is a two-step methodology, with a pre-segmentation step and a segmentation refinement step. First, the user performs a rough segmenting of the desired region of interest. Next, a fully automatic refineme...
computer science
38,818
COROLA: A Sequential Solution to Moving Object Detection Using Low-rank Approximation
cs.CV
Extracting moving objects from a video sequence and estimating the background of each individual image are fundamental issues in many practical applications such as visual surveillance, intelligent vehicle navigation, and traffic monitoring. Recently, some methods have been proposed to detect moving objects in a video ...
computer science
38,819
Task-Based Optimization of Computed Tomography Imaging Systems
cs.CV
The goal of this thesis is to provide a framework for the use of task-based metrics of image quality to aid in the design, implementation, and evaluation of CT image reconstruction algorithms and CT systems in general. We support the view that task-based metrics of image quality can be useful in guiding the algorithm d...
computer science
38,820
Place Recognition with Event-based Cameras and a Neural Implementation of SeqSLAM
cs.RO
Event-based cameras offer much potential to the fields of robotics and computer vision, in part due to their large dynamic range and extremely high "frame rates". These attributes make them, at least in theory, particularly suitable for enabling tasks like navigation and mapping on high speed robotic platforms under ch...
computer science
38,821
Joint Representation Classification for Collective Face Recognition
cs.CV
Sparse representation based classification (SRC) is popularly used in many applications such as face recognition, and implemented in two steps: representation coding and classification. For a given set of testing images, SRC codes every image over the base images as a sparse representation then classifies it to the cla...
computer science
38,822
Convective regularization for optical flow
math.OC
We argue that the time derivative in a fixed coordinate frame may not be the most appropriate measure of time regularity of an optical flow field. Instead, for a given velocity field $v$ we consider the convective acceleration $v_t + \nabla v v$ which describes the acceleration of objects moving according to $v$. Conse...
computer science
38,823
Image aesthetic evaluation using paralleled deep convolution neural network
cs.CV
Image aesthetic evaluation has attracted much attention in recent years. Image aesthetic evaluation methods heavily depend on the effective aesthetic feature. Traditional meth-ods always extract hand-crafted features. However, these hand-crafted features are always designed to adapt particu-lar datasets, and extraction...
computer science
38,824
Benchmarking KAZE and MCM for Multiclass Classification
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel approach for feature generation by appropriately fusing KAZE and SIFT features. We then use this feature set along with Minimal Complexity Machine(MCM) for object classification. We show that KAZE and SIFT features are complementary. Experimental results indicate that an elementary int...
computer science
38,825
Graph edit distance : a new binary linear programming formulation
cs.DS
Graph edit distance (GED) is a powerful and flexible graph matching paradigm that can be used to address different tasks in structural pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining. In this paper, some new binary linear programming formulations for computing the exact GED between two graphs are proposed. A maj...
computer science
38,826
GazeDPM: Early Integration of Gaze Information in Deformable Part Models
cs.CV
An increasing number of works explore collaborative human-computer systems in which human gaze is used to enhance computer vision systems. For object detection these efforts were so far restricted to late integration approaches that have inherent limitations, such as increased precision without increase in recall. We p...
computer science
38,827
Machine learning based data mining for Milky Way filamentary structures reconstruction
cs.CV
We present an innovative method called FilExSeC (Filaments Extraction, Selection and Classification), a data mining tool developed to investigate the possibility to refine and optimize the shape reconstruction of filamentary structures detected with a consolidated method based on the flux derivative analysis, through t...
computer science
38,828
New characterizations of minimum spanning trees and of saliency maps based on quasi-flat zones
cs.CV
We study three representations of hierarchies of partitions: dendrograms (direct representations), saliency maps, and minimum spanning trees. We provide a new bijection between saliency maps and hierarchies based on quasi-flat zones as used in image processing and characterize saliency maps and minimum spanning trees a...
computer science
38,829
Invertible Orientation Scores of 3D Images
math.NA
The enhancement and detection of elongated structures in noisy image data is relevant for many biomedical applications. To handle complex crossing structures in 2D images, 2D orientation scores were introduced, which already showed their use in a variety of applications. Here we extend this work to 3D orientation score...
computer science
38,830
Research on the fast Fourier transform of image based on GPU
cs.MS
Study of general purpose computation by GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) can improve the image processing capability of micro-computer system. This paper studies the parallelism of the different stages of decimation in time radix 2 FFT algorithm, designs the butterfly and scramble kernels and implements 2D FFT on GPU. Th...
computer science
38,831
General Deformations of Point Configurations Viewed By a Pinhole Model Camera
cs.CV
This paper is a theoretical study of the following Non-Rigid Structure from Motion problem. What can be computed from a monocular view of a parametrically deforming set of points? We treat various variations of this problem for affine and polynomial deformations with calibrated and uncalibrated cameras. We show that in...
computer science
38,832
Geometry of Graph Edit Distance Spaces
cs.CV
In this paper we study the geometry of graph spaces endowed with a special class of graph edit distances. The focus is on geometrical results useful for statistical pattern recognition. The main result is the Graph Representation Theorem. It states that a graph is a point in some geometrical space, called orbit space. ...
computer science
38,833
Large-Scale Electron Microscopy Image Segmentation in Spark
cs.CV
The emerging field of connectomics aims to unlock the mysteries of the brain by understanding the connectivity between neurons. To map this connectivity, we acquire thousands of electron microscopy (EM) images with nanometer-scale resolution. After aligning these images, the resulting dataset has the potential to revea...
computer science
38,834
Extended Object Tracking: Introduction, Overview and Applications
cs.CV
This article provides an elaborate overview of current research in extended object tracking. We provide a clear definition of the extended object tracking problem and discuss its delimitation to other types of object tracking. Next, different aspects of extended object modelling are extensively discussed. Subsequently,...
computer science
38,835
Direct Visual Odometry using Bit-Planes
cs.RO
Feature descriptors, such as SIFT and ORB, are well-known for their robustness to illumination changes, which has made them popular for feature-based VSLAM\@. However, in degraded imaging conditions such as low light, low texture, blur and specular reflections, feature extraction is often unreliable. In contrast, direc...
computer science
38,836
RGBD Datasets: Past, Present and Future
cs.CV
Since the launch of the Microsoft Kinect, scores of RGBD datasets have been released. These have propelled advances in areas from reconstruction to gesture recognition. In this paper we explore the field, reviewing datasets across eight categories: semantics, object pose estimation, camera tracking, scene reconstructio...
computer science
38,837
BundleFusion: Real-time Globally Consistent 3D Reconstruction using On-the-fly Surface Re-integration
cs.GR
Real-time, high-quality, 3D scanning of large-scale scenes is key to mixed reality and robotic applications. However, scalability brings challenges of drift in pose estimation, introducing significant errors in the accumulated model. Approaches often require hours of offline processing to globally correct model errors....
computer science
38,838
Cohomology of Cryo-Electron Microscopy
cs.CV
The goal of cryo-electron microscopy (EM) is to reconstruct the 3-dimensional structure of a molecule from a collection of its 2-dimensional projected images. In this article, we show that the basic premise of cryo-EM --- patching together 2-dimensional projections to reconstruct a 3-dimensional object --- is naturally...
computer science
38,839
A Convolutional Neural Network Neutrino Event Classifier
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely applied in the computer vision community to solve complex problems in image recognition and analysis. We describe an application of the CNN technology to the problem of identifying particle interactions in sampling calorimeters used commonly in high energy physics a...
computer science
38,840
Fast $(1+ε)$-approximation of the Löwner extremal matrices of high-dimensional symmetric matrices
cs.CG
Matrix data sets are common nowadays like in biomedical imaging where the Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DT-MRI) modality produces data sets of 3D symmetric positive definite matrices anchored at voxel positions capturing the anisotropic diffusion properties of water molecules in biological tissues. The...
computer science
38,841
Sublabel-Accurate Convex Relaxation of Vectorial Multilabel Energies
cs.CV
Convex relaxations of nonconvex multilabel problems have been demonstrated to produce superior (provably optimal or near-optimal) solutions to a variety of classical computer vision problems. Yet, they are of limited practical use as they require a fine discretization of the label space, entailing a huge demand in memo...
computer science
38,842
Keyboard Based Control of Four Dimensional Rotations
cs.GR
Aiming at applications to the scientific visualization of three dimensional simulations with time evolution, a keyboard based control method to specify rotations in four dimensions is proposed. It is known that four dimensional rotations are generally so-called double rotations, and a double rotation is a combination o...
computer science
38,843
A Semi-Lagrangian two-level preconditioned Newton-Krylov solver for constrained diffeomorphic image registration
math.OC
We propose an efficient numerical algorithm for the solution of diffeomorphic image registration problems. We use a variational formulation constrained by a partial differential equation (PDE), where the constraints are a scalar transport equation. We use a pseudospectral discretization in space and second-order accu...
computer science
38,844
Infrared Colorization Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
This paper proposes a method for transferring the RGB color spectrum to near-infrared (NIR) images using deep multi-scale convolutional neural networks. A direct and integrated transfer between NIR and RGB pixels is trained. The trained model does not require any user guidance or a reference image database in the recal...
computer science
38,845
A method for locally approximating regularized iterative tomographic reconstruction methods
math.NA
In many applications of tomography, the acquired projections are either limited in number or contain a significant amount of noise. In these cases, standard reconstruction methods tend to produce artifacts that can make further analysis difficult. Advanced regularized iterative methods, such as total variation minimiza...
computer science
38,846
Application of Multifractal Analysis to Segmentation of Water Bodies in Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite Images
cs.CV
A method for segmenting water bodies in optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite images is proposed. It makes use of the textural features of the different regions in the image for segmentation. The method consists in a multiscale analysis of the images, which allows us to study the images regularity both, ...
computer science
38,847
Application of the Second-Order Statistics for Estimation of the Pure Spectra of Individual Components from the Visible Hyperspectral Images of Their Mixture
cs.CV
The second-order statistics (SOS) can be applied in estimation of the pure spectra of chemical components from the spectrum of their mixture, when SOS seems to be good at estimation of spectral patterns, but their peak directions are opposite in some cases. In this paper, one method for judgment of the peak direction o...
computer science
38,848
Sweep Distortion Removal from THz Images via Blind Demodulation
cs.CV
Heavy sweep distortion induced by alignments and inter-reflections of layers of a sample is a major burden in recovering 2D and 3D information in time resolved spectral imaging. This problem cannot be addressed by conventional denoising and signal processing techniques as it heavily depends on the physics of the acquis...
computer science
38,849
From Pixels to Sentiment: Fine-tuning CNNs for Visual Sentiment Prediction
cs.CV
Visual multimedia have become an inseparable part of our digital social lives, and they often capture moments tied with deep affections. Automated visual sentiment analysis tools can provide a means of extracting the rich feelings and latent dispositions embedded in these media. In this work, we explore how Convolution...
computer science
38,850
Quantifying mesoscale neuroanatomy using X-ray microtomography
cs.CV
Methods for resolving the 3D microstructure of the brain typically start by thinly slicing and staining the brain, and then imaging each individual section with visible light photons or electrons. In contrast, X-rays can be used to image thick samples, providing a rapid approach for producing large 3D brain maps withou...
computer science
38,851
DENSER Cities: A System for Dense Efficient Reconstructions of Cities
cs.CV
This paper is about the efficient generation of dense, colored models of city-scale environments from range data and in particular, stereo cameras. Better maps make for better understanding; better understanding leads to better robots, but this comes at a cost. The computational and memory requirements of large dense m...
computer science
38,852
VConv-DAE: Deep Volumetric Shape Learning Without Object Labels
cs.CV
With the advent of affordable depth sensors, 3D capture becomes more and more ubiquitous and already has made its way into commercial products. Yet, capturing the geometry or complete shapes of everyday objects using scanning devices (e.g. Kinect) still comes with several challenges that result in noise or even incompl...
computer science
38,853
On Reducing the Number of Visual Words in the Bag-of-Features Representation
cs.CV
A new class of applications based on visual search engines are emerging, especially on smart-phones that have evolved into powerful tools for processing images and videos. The state-of-the-art algorithms for large visual content recognition and content based similarity search today use the "Bag of Features" (BoF) or "B...
computer science
38,854
Bags of Local Convolutional Features for Scalable Instance Search
cs.CV
This work proposes a simple instance retrieval pipeline based on encoding the convolutional features of CNN using the bag of words aggregation scheme (BoW). Assigning each local array of activations in a convolutional layer to a visual word produces an \textit{assignment map}, a compact representation that relates regi...
computer science
38,855
Improving Raw Image Storage Efficiency by Exploiting Similarity
cs.DC
To improve the temporal and spatial storage efficiency, researchers have intensively studied various techniques, including compression and deduplication. Through our evaluation, we find that methods such as photo tags or local features help to identify the content-based similar- ity between raw images. The images can t...
computer science
38,856
Using Apache Lucene to Search Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors
cs.CV
Surrogate Text Representation (STR) is a profitable solution to efficient similarity search on metric space using conventional text search engines, such as Apache Lucene. This technique is based on comparing the permutations of some reference objects in place of the original metric distance. However, the Achilles heel ...
computer science
38,857
Sherlock: Sparse Hierarchical Embeddings for Visually-aware One-class Collaborative Filtering
cs.IR
Building successful recommender systems requires uncovering the underlying dimensions that describe the properties of items as well as users' preferences toward them. In domains like clothing recommendation, explaining users' preferences requires modeling the visual appearance of the items in question. This makes recom...
computer science
38,858
Incremental Reconstruction of Urban Environments by Edge-Points Delaunay Triangulation
cs.CV
Urban reconstruction from a video captured by a surveying vehicle constitutes a core module of automated mapping. When computational power represents a limited resource and, a detailed map is not the primary goal, the reconstruction can be performed incrementally, from a monocular video, carving a 3D Delaunay triangula...
computer science
38,859
Visual Congruent Ads for Image Search
cs.CV
The quality of user experience online is affected by the relevance and placement of advertisements. We propose a new system for selecting and displaying visual advertisements in image search result sets. Our method compares the visual similarity of candidate ads to the image search results and selects the most visually...
computer science
38,860
Humans and deep networks largely agree on which kinds of variation make object recognition harder
cs.CV
View-invariant object recognition is a challenging problem, which has attracted much attention among the psychology, neuroscience, and computer vision communities. Humans are notoriously good at it, even if some variations are presumably more difficult to handle than others (e.g. 3D rotations). Humans are thought to so...
computer science
38,861
Modeling the Contribution of Central Versus Peripheral Vision in Scene, Object, and Face Recognition
cs.CV
It is commonly believed that the central visual field is important for recognizing objects and faces, and the peripheral region is useful for scene recognition. However, the relative importance of central versus peripheral information for object, scene, and face recognition is unclear. In a behavioral study, Larson and...
computer science
38,862
$\ell_p$-Box ADMM: A Versatile Framework for Integer Programming
cs.CV
This paper revisits the integer programming (IP) problem, which plays a fundamental role in many computer vision and machine learning applications. The literature abounds with many seminal works that address this problem, some focusing on continuous approaches (e.g. linear program relaxation) while others on discrete o...
computer science
38,863
EgoSampling: Wide View Hyperlapse from Egocentric Videos
cs.CV
The possibility of sharing one's point of view makes use of wearable cameras compelling. These videos are often long, boring and coupled with extreme shake, as the camera is worn on a moving person. Fast forwarding (i.e. frame sampling) is a natural choice for quick video browsing. However, this accentuates the shake c...
computer science
38,864
Compressive phase-only filtering at extreme compression rates
cs.CV
We introduce an efficient method for the reconstruction of the correlation between a compressively measured image and a phase-only filter. The proposed method is based on two properties of phase-only filtering: such filtering is a unitary circulant transform, and the correlation plane it produces is usually sparse. Tha...
computer science
38,865
Are Face and Object Recognition Independent? A Neurocomputational Modeling Exploration
cs.CV
Are face and object recognition abilities independent? Although it is commonly believed that they are, Gauthier et al.(2014) recently showed that these abilities become more correlated as experience with nonface categories increases. They argued that there is a single underlying visual ability, v, that is expressed in ...
computer science
38,866
Detecting Violence in Video using Subclasses
cs.MM
This paper attacks the challenging problem of violence detection in videos. Different from existing works focusing on combining multi-modal features, we go one step further by adding and exploiting subclasses visually related to violence. We enrich the MediaEval 2015 violence dataset by \emph{manually} labeling violenc...
computer science
38,867
A Novel Method to Study Bottom-up Visual Saliency and its Neural Mechanism
cs.CV
In this study, we propose a novel method to measure bottom-up saliency maps of natural images. In order to eliminate the influence of top-down signals, backward masking is used to make stimuli (natural images) subjectively invisible to subjects, however, the bottom-up saliency can still orient the subjects attention. T...
computer science
38,868
A 8 bits Pipeline Analog to Digital Converter Design for High Speed Camera Application
cs.RO
- This paper describes a pipeline analog-to-digital converter is implemented for high speed camera. In the pipeline ADC design, prime factor is designing operational amplifier with high gain so ADC have been high speed. The other advantage of pipeline is simple on concept, easy to implement in layout and have flexibili...
computer science
38,869
Design and Implementation a 8 bits Pipeline Analog to Digital Converter in the Technology 0.6 μm CMOS Process
cs.RO
This paper describes a 8 bits, 20 Msamples/s pipeline analog-to-digital converter implemented in 0.6 \mu m CMOS technology with a total power dissipation of 75.47 mW. Circuit techniques used include a precise comparator, operational amplifier and clock management. A switched capacitor is used to sample and multiplying ...
computer science
38,870
Fully Automatic Expression-Invariant Face Correspondence
cs.CV
We consider the problem of computing accurate point-to-point correspondences among a set of human face scans with varying expressions. Our fully automatic approach does not require any manually placed markers on the scan. Instead, the approach learns the locations of a set of landmarks present in a database and uses th...
computer science
38,871
Robust seed selection algorithm for k-means type algorithms
cs.CV
Selection of initial seeds greatly affects the quality of the clusters and in k-means type algorithms. Most of the seed selection methods result different results in different independent runs. We propose a single, optimal, outlier insensitive seed selection algorithm for k-means type algorithms as extension to k-means...
computer science
38,872
Efficient Web-based Facial Recognition System Employing 2DHOG
cs.CV
In this paper, a system for facial recognition to identify missing and found people in Hajj and Umrah is described as a web portal. Explicitly, we present a novel algorithm for recognition and classifications of facial images based on applying 2DPCA to a 2D representation of the Histogram of oriented gradients (2D-HOG)...
computer science
38,873
Real-time detection and tracking of multiple objects with partial decoding in H.264/AVC bitstream domain
cs.MM
In this paper, we show that we can apply probabilistic spatiotemporal macroblock filtering (PSMF) and partial decoding processes to effectively detect and track multiple objects in real time in H.264|AVC bitstreams with stationary background. Our contribution is that our method cannot only show fast processing time but...
computer science
38,874
Multilevel Image Encryption
cs.CR
With the fast evolution of digital data exchange and increased usage of multi media images, it is essential to protect the confidential image data from unauthorized access. In natural images the values and position of the neighbouring pixels are strongly correlated. The method proposed in this paper, breaks this correl...
computer science
38,875
A new hybrid jpeg image compression scheme using symbol reduction technique
cs.MM
Lossy JPEG compression is a widely used compression technique. Normally the JPEG standard technique uses three process mapping reduces interpixel redundancy, quantization, which is lossy process and entropy encoding, which is considered lossless process. In this paper, a new technique has been proposed by combining the...
computer science
38,876
Divide-and-Conquer Method for L1 Norm Matrix Factorization in the Presence of Outliers and Missing Data
cs.NA
The low-rank matrix factorization as a L1 norm minimization problem has recently attracted much attention due to its intrinsic robustness to the presence of outliers and missing data. In this paper, we propose a new method, called the divide-and-conquer method, for solving this problem. The main idea is to break the or...
computer science
38,877
Eye Pupil Location Using Webcam
cs.HC
Three different algorithms used for eye pupil location were described and tested. Algorithm efficiency comparison was based on human faces images taken from the BioID database. Moreover all the eye localisation methods were implemented in a dedicated application supporting eye movement based computer control. In this c...
computer science
38,878
Comments on "On Approximating Euclidean Metrics by Weighted t-Cost Distances in Arbitrary Dimension"
cs.NA
Mukherjee (Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 32, pp. 824-831, 2011) recently introduced a class of distance functions called weighted t-cost distances that generalize m-neighbor, octagonal, and t-cost distances. He proved that weighted t-cost distances form a family of metrics and derived an approximation for the Eucli...
computer science
38,879
Revolvable Indoor Panoramas Using a Rectified Azimuthal Projection
cs.CV
We present an algorithm for converting an indoor spherical panorama into a photograph with a simulated overhead view. The resulting image will have an extremely wide field of view covering up to 4{\pi} steradians of the spherical panorama. We argue that our method complements the stereographic projection commonly used ...
computer science
38,880
The Ultrasound Visualization Pipeline - A Survey
cs.GR
Ultrasound is one of the most frequently used imaging modality in medicine. The high spatial resolution, its interactive nature and non-invasiveness makes it the first choice in many examinations. Image interpretation is one of ultrasound's main challenges. Much training is required to obtain a confident skill level in...
computer science
38,881
The Stability of Convergence of Curve Evolutions in Vector Fields
cs.CV
Curve evolution is often used to solve computer vision problems. If the curve evolution fails to converge, we would not be able to solve the targeted problem in a lifetime. This paper studies the theoretical aspect of the convergence of a type of general curve evolutions. We establish a theory for analyzing and improvi...
computer science
38,882
Joint Reconstruction of Multi-view Compressed Images
cs.MM
The distributed representation of correlated multi-view images is an important problem that arise in vision sensor networks. This paper concentrates on the joint reconstruction problem where the distributively compressed correlated images are jointly decoded in order to improve the reconstruction quality of all the com...
computer science
38,883
Dynamic Domain Classification for Fractal Image Compression
cs.CV
Fractal image compression is attractive except for its high encoding time requirements. The image is encoded as a set of contractive affine transformations. The image is partitioned into non-overlapping range blocks, and a best matching domain block larger than the range block is identified. There are many attempts on ...
computer science
38,884
Investigation of Color Constancy for Ubiquitous Wireless LAN/Camera Positioning: An Initial Outcome
cs.CV
This paper present our color constancy investigation in the hybridization of Wireless LAN and Camera positioning in the mobile phone. Five typical color constancy schemes are analyzed in different location environment. The results can be used to combine with RF signals from Wireless LAN positioning by using model fitti...
computer science
38,885
Secure voice based authentication for mobile devices: Vaulted Voice Verification
cs.CR
As the use of biometrics becomes more wide-spread, the privacy concerns that stem from the use of biometrics are becoming more apparent. As the usage of mobile devices grows, so does the desire to implement biometric identification into such devices. A large majority of mobile devices being used are mobile phones. Whil...
computer science
38,886
A Topological Code for Plane Images
cs.CV
It is proposed a new code for contours of plane images. This code was applied for optical character recognition of printed and handwritten characters. One can apply it to recognition of any visual images.
computer science
38,887
Self Authentication of image through Daubechies Transform technique (SADT)
cs.CR
In this paper a 4 x 4 Daubechies transform based authentication technique termed as SADT has been proposed to authenticate gray scale images. The cover image is transformed into the frequency domain using 4 x 4 mask in a row major order using Daubechies transform technique, resulting four frequency subbands AF, HF, VF ...
computer science
38,888
Multi-target tracking algorithms in 3D
cs.CV
Ladars provide a unique capability for identification of objects and motions in scenes with fixed 3D field of view (FOV). This paper describes algorithms for multi-target tracking in 3D scenes including the preprocessing (mathematical morphology and Parzen windows), labeling of connected components, sorting of targets ...
computer science
38,889
Approximating rational Bezier curves by constrained Bezier curves of arbitrary degree
math.NA
In this paper, we propose a method to obtain a constrained approximation of a rational B\'{e}zier curve by a polynomial B\'{e}zier curve. This problem is reformulated as an approximation problem between two polynomial B\'{e}zier curves based on weighted least-squares method, where weight functions $\rho(t)=\omega(t)$ a...
computer science
38,890
Sketch-to-Design: Context-based Part Assembly
cs.GR
Designing 3D objects from scratch is difficult, especially when the user intent is fuzzy without a clear target form. In the spirit of modeling-by-example, we facilitate design by providing reference and inspiration from existing model contexts. We rethink model design as navigating through different possible combinati...
computer science
38,891
Automatic landmark annotation and dense correspondence registration for 3D human facial images
cs.CV
Dense surface registration of three-dimensional (3D) human facial images holds great potential for studies of human trait diversity, disease genetics, and forensics. Non-rigid registration is particularly useful for establishing dense anatomical correspondences between faces. Here we describe a novel non-rigid registra...
computer science
38,892
In Vivo Quantification of Clot Formation in Extracorporeal Circuits
cs.CV
Clot formation is a common complication in extracorporeal circuits. In this paper we describe a novel method for clot formation analysis using image processing. We assembled a closed extracorporeal circuit and circulated blood at varying speeds. Blood filters were placed in downstream of the flow, and clotting agents w...
computer science
38,893
Blinking Molecule Tracking
cs.CV
We discuss a method for tracking individual molecules which globally optimizes the likelihood of the connections between molecule positions fast and with high reliability even for high spot densities and blinking molecules. Our method works with cost functions which can be freely chosen to combine costs for distances b...
computer science
38,894
High Quality Image Interpolation via Local Autoregressive and Nonlocal 3-D Sparse Regularization
cs.MM
In this paper, we propose a novel image interpolation algorithm, which is formulated via combining both the local autoregressive (AR) model and the nonlocal adaptive 3-D sparse model as regularized constraints under the regularization framework. Estimating the high-resolution image by the local AR regularization is dif...
computer science
38,895
Correcting Camera Shake by Incremental Sparse Approximation
cs.CV
The problem of deblurring an image when the blur kernel is unknown remains challenging after decades of work. Recently there has been rapid progress on correcting irregular blur patterns caused by camera shake, but there is still much room for improvement. We propose a new blind deconvolution method using incremental s...
computer science
38,896
Cloud Computing framework for Computer Vision Research:An Introduction
cs.CV
Cloud computing offers the potential to help scientists to process massive number of computing resources often required in machine learning application such as computer vision problems. This proposal would like to show that which benefits can be obtained from cloud in order to help medical image analysis users (includi...
computer science
38,897
Eye-GUIDE (Eye-Gaze User Interface Design) Messaging for Physically-Impaired People
cs.HC
Eye-GUIDE is an assistive communication tool designed for the paralyzed or physically impaired people who were unable to move parts of their bodies especially people whose communications are limited only to eye movements. The prototype consists of a camera and a computer. Camera captures images then it will be send to ...
computer science
38,898
An Analysis of Gene Expression Data using Penalized Fuzzy C-Means Approach
cs.CV
With the rapid advances of microarray technologies, large amounts of high-dimensional gene expression data are being generated, which poses significant computational challenges. A first step towards addressing this challenge is the use of clustering techniques, which is essential in the data mining process to reveal na...
computer science
38,899
A Fresnelet-Based Encryption of Medical Images using Arnold Transform
cs.CR
Medical images are commonly stored in digital media and transmitted via Internet for certain uses. If a medical information image alters, this can lead to a wrong diagnosis which may create a serious health problem. Moreover, medical images in digital form can easily be modified by wiping off or adding small pieces of ...
computer science
38,900
Unsupervised edge map scoring: a statistical complexity approach
cs.CV
We propose a new Statistical Complexity Measure (SCM) to qualify edge maps without Ground Truth (GT) knowledge. The measure is the product of two indices, an \emph{Equilibrium} index $\mathcal{E}$ obtained by projecting the edge map into a family of edge patterns, and an \emph{Entropy} index $\mathcal{H}$, defined as a...
computer science
38,901
Image Compression By Embedding Five Modulus Method Into JPEG
cs.CV
The standard JPEG format is almost the optimum format in image compression. The compression ratio in JPEG sometimes reaches 30:1. The compression ratio of JPEG could be increased by embedding the Five Modulus Method (FMM) into the JPEG algorithm. The novel algorithm gives twice the time as the standard JPEG algorithm o...
computer science
38,902
Video Segmentation via Diffusion Bases
cs.CV
Identifying moving objects in a video sequence, which is produced by a static camera, is a fundamental and critical task in many computer-vision applications. A common approach performs background subtraction, which identifies moving objects as the portion of a video frame that differs significantly from a background m...
computer science
38,903
A Convex Functional for Image Denoising based on Patches with Constrained Overlaps and its vectorial application to Low Dose Differential Phase Tomography
math.NA
We solve the image denoising problem with a dictionary learning technique by writing a convex functional of a new form. This functional contains beside the usual sparsity inducing term and fidelity term, a new term which induces similarity between overlapping patches in the overlap regions. The functional depends on tw...
computer science
38,904
GReTA - a novel Global and Recursive Tracking Algorithm in three dimensions
cs.CV
Tracking multiple moving targets allows quantitative measure of the dynamic behavior in systems as diverse as animal groups in biology, turbulence in fluid dynamics and crowd and traffic control. In three dimensions, tracking several targets becomes increasingly hard since optical occlusions are very likely, i.e. two f...
computer science
38,905
An Adaptive Statistical Non-uniform Quantizer for Detail Wavelet Components in Lossy JPEG2000 Image Compression
cs.MM
The paper presents a non-uniform quantization method for the Detail components in the JPEG2000 standard. Incorporating the fact that the coefficients lying towards the ends of the histogram plot of each Detail component represent the structural information of an image, the quantization step sizes become smaller at they...
computer science
38,906
Early Detection of Alzheimer's - A Crucial Requirement
cs.CV
Alzheimer's, an old age disease of people over 65 years causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior. This disease progresses very slow and its identification in early stages is very difficult. The symptoms of Alzheimer's appear slowly and gradually will have worse effects. In its early stages, not only the patie...
computer science
38,907
Multi-q Pattern Classification of Polarization Curves
cs.CE
Several experimental measurements are expressed in the form of one-dimensional profiles, for which there is a scarcity of methodologies able to classify the pertinence of a given result to a specific group. The polarization curves that evaluate the corrosion kinetics of electrodes in corrosive media are an application ...
computer science
38,908
Fast Linearized Alternating Direction Minimization Algorithm with Adaptive Parameter Selection for Multiplicative Noise Removal
cs.CV
Owing to the edge preserving ability and low computational cost of the total variation (TV), variational models with the TV regularization have been widely investigated in the field of multiplicative noise removal. The key points of the successful application of these models lie in: the optimal selection of the regular...
computer science
38,909
Geometric primitive feature extraction - concepts, algorithms, and applications
cs.CV
This thesis presents important insights and concepts related to the topic of the extraction of geometric primitives from the edge contours of digital images. Three specific problems related to this topic have been studied, viz., polygonal approximation of digital curves, tangent estimation of digital curves, and ellips...
computer science