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38,910
Indexing Medical Images based on Collaborative Experts Reports
cs.CV
A patient is often willing to quickly get, from his physician, reliable analysis and concise explanation according to provided linked medical images. The fact of making choices individually by the patient's physician may lead to malpractices and consequently generates unforeseeable damages. The Institute of Medicine of...
computer science
38,911
Flying Triangulation - towards the 3D movie camera
cs.CV
Flying Triangulation sensors enable a free-hand and motion-robust 3D data acquisition of complex shaped objects. The measurement principle is based on a multi-line light-sectioning approach and uses sophisticated algorithms for real-time registration (S. Ettl et al., Appl. Opt. 51 (2012) 281-289). As "single-shot princ...
computer science
38,912
Applications of Clifford's Geometric Algebra
math.RA
We survey the development of Clifford's geometric algebra and some of its engineering applications during the last 15 years. Several recently developed applications and their merits are discussed in some detail. We thus hope to clearly demonstrate the benefit of developing problem solutions in a unified framework for a...
computer science
38,913
Pectoral Muscles Suppression in Digital Mammograms using Hybridization of Soft Computing Methods
cs.CV
Breast region segmentation is an essential prerequisite in computerized analysis of mammograms. It aims at separating the breast tissue from the background of the mammogram and it includes two independent segmentations. The first segments the background region which usually contains annotations, labels and frames from ...
computer science
38,914
Hand-guided 3D surface acquisition by combining simple light sectioning with real-time algorithms
cs.CV
Precise 3D measurements of rigid surfaces are desired in many fields of application like quality control or surgery. Often, views from all around the object have to be acquired for a full 3D description of the object surface. We present a sensor principle called "Flying Triangulation" which avoids an elaborate "stop-an...
computer science
38,915
Enhancement performance of road recognition system of autonomous robots in shadow scenario
cs.RO
Road region recognition is a main feature that is gaining increasing attention from intellectuals because it helps autonomous vehicle to achieve a successful navigation without accident. However, different techniques based on camera sensor have been used by various researchers and outstanding results have been achieved...
computer science
38,916
Multilinear Wavelets: A Statistical Shape Space for Human Faces
cs.CV
We present a statistical model for $3$D human faces in varying expression, which decomposes the surface of the face using a wavelet transform, and learns many localized, decorrelated multilinear models on the resulting coefficients. Using this model we are able to reconstruct faces from noisy and occluded $3$D face sca...
computer science
38,917
An Alternate Approach for Designing a Domain Specific Image Search Prototype Using Histogram
cs.CV
Everyone knows that thousand of words are represented by a single image. As a result image search has become a very popular mechanism for the Web searchers. Image search means, the search results are produced by the search engine should be a set of images along with their Web page Unified Resource Locator. Now Web sear...
computer science
38,918
An Enhanced Method For Evaluating Automatic Video Summaries
cs.CV
Evaluation of automatic video summaries is a challenging problem. In the past years, some evaluation methods are presented that utilize only a single feature like color feature to detect similarity between automatic video summaries and ground-truth user summaries. One of the drawbacks of using a single feature is that ...
computer science
38,919
Leaf Classification Using Shape, Color, and Texture Features
cs.CV
Several methods to identify plants have been proposed by several researchers. Commonly, the methods did not capture color information, because color was not recognized as an important aspect to the identification. In this research, shape and vein, color, and texture features were incorporated to classify a leaf. In thi...
computer science
38,920
Modelling Observation Correlations for Active Exploration and Robust Object Detection
cs.RO
Today, mobile robots are expected to carry out increasingly complex tasks in multifarious, real-world environments. Often, the tasks require a certain semantic understanding of the workspace. Consider, for example, spoken instructions from a human collaborator referring to objects of interest; the robot must be able to...
computer science
38,921
Image Block Loss Restoration Using Sparsity Pattern as Side Information
cs.MM
In this paper, we propose a method for image block loss restoration based on the notion of sparse representation. We use the sparsity pattern as side information to efficiently restore block losses by iteratively imposing the constraints of spatial and transform domains on the corrupted image. Two novel features, inclu...
computer science
38,922
smart application for AMS using Face Recognition
cs.CY
Attendance Management System (AMS) can be made into smarter way by using face recognition technique, where we use a CCTV camera to be fixed at the entry point of a classroom, which automatically captures the image of the person and checks the observed image with the face database using android enhanced smart phone. It ...
computer science
38,923
Video Compressive Sensing for Dynamic MRI
cs.CV
We present a video compressive sensing framework, termed kt-CSLDS, to accelerate the image acquisition process of dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We are inspired by a state-of-the-art model for video compressive sensing that utilizes a linear dynamical system (LDS) to model the motion manifold. Given compress...
computer science
38,924
Cross-calibration of Time-of-flight and Colour Cameras
cs.CV
Time-of-flight cameras provide depth information, which is complementary to the photometric appearance of the scene in ordinary images. It is desirable to merge the depth and colour information, in order to obtain a coherent scene representation. However, the individual cameras will have different viewpoints, resolutio...
computer science
38,925
An Optimization Method For Slice Interpolation Of Medical Images
cs.CV
Slice interpolation is a fast growing field in medical image processing. Intensity-based interpolation and object-based interpolation are two major groups of methods in the literature. In this paper, we describe an object-oriented, optimization method based on a modified version of curvature-based image registration, i...
computer science
38,926
Performance of Hull-Detection Algorithms For Proton Computed Tomography Reconstruction
cs.CV
Proton computed tomography (pCT) is a novel imaging modality developed for patients receiving proton radiation therapy. The purpose of this work was to investigate hull-detection algorithms used for preconditioning of the large and sparse linear system of equations that needs to be solved for pCT image reconstruction. ...
computer science
38,927
Efficient Low Dose X-ray CT Reconstruction through Sparsity-Based MAP Modeling
stat.AP
Ultra low radiation dose in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is an important clinical objective in order to minimize the risk of carcinogenesis. Compressed Sensing (CS) enables significant reductions in radiation dose to be achieved by producing diagnostic images from a limited number of CT projections. However, the exce...
computer science
38,928
Signal Reconstruction Framework Based On Projections Onto Epigraph Set Of A Convex Cost Function (PESC)
math.OC
A new signal processing framework based on making orthogonal Projections onto the Epigraph Set of a Convex cost function (PESC) is developed. In this way it is possible to solve convex optimization problems using the well-known Projections onto Convex Set (POCS) approach. In this algorithm, the dimension of the minimiz...
computer science
38,929
Image Search Reranking
cs.IR
The existing methods for image search reranking suffer from the unfaithfulness of the assumptions under which the text-based images search result. The resulting images contain more irrelevant images. Hence the re ranking concept arises to re rank the retrieved images based on the text around the image and data of data ...
computer science
38,930
Sparsity averaging for radio-interferometric imaging
cs.CV
We propose a novel regularization method for compressive imaging in the context of the compressed sensing (CS) theory with coherent and redundant dictionaries. Natural images are often complicated and several types of structures can be present at once. It is well known that piecewise smooth images exhibit gradient spar...
computer science
38,931
Animation of 3D Human Model Using Markerless Motion Capture Applied To Sports
cs.GR
Markerless motion capture is an active research in 3D virtualization. In proposed work we presented a system for markerless motion capture for 3D human character animation, paper presents a survey on motion and skeleton tracking techniques which are developed or are under development. The paper proposed a method to tra...
computer science
38,932
Hand-Eye and Robot-World Calibration by Global Polynomial Optimization
cs.CV
The need to relate measurements made by a camera to a different known coordinate system arises in many engineering applications. Historically, it appeared for the first time in the connection with cameras mounted on robotic systems. This problem is commonly known as hand-eye calibration. In this paper, we present sever...
computer science
38,933
Intrinsically Motivated Learning of Visual Motion Perception and Smooth Pursuit
cs.CV
We extend the framework of efficient coding, which has been used to model the development of sensory processing in isolation, to model the development of the perception/action cycle. Our extension combines sparse coding and reinforcement learning so that sensory processing and behavior co-develop to optimize a shared i...
computer science
38,934
A Narrative Vehicle Protection Representation for Vehicle Speed Regulator Under Driver Exhaustion -- A Study
cs.CV
Driver fatigue is one of the important factors that cause traffic accidents, and the ever-increasing number due to diminished drivers vigilance level has become a problem of serious concern to society. Drivers with a diminished vigilance level suffer from a marked decline in their abilities of perception, recognition, ...
computer science
38,935
Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation for Image Representation
cs.CV
Triangular meshes have gained much interest in image representation and have been widely used in image processing. This paper introduces a framework of anisotropic mesh adaptation (AMA) methods to image representation and proposes a GPRAMA method that is based on AMA and greedy-point removal (GPR) scheme. Different tha...
computer science
38,936
Real-time Automatic Emotion Recognition from Body Gestures
cs.HC
Although psychological research indicates that bodily expressions convey important affective information, to date research in emotion recognition focused mainly on facial expression or voice analysis. In this paper we propose an approach to realtime automatic emotion recognition from body movements. A set of postural, ...
computer science
38,937
Temporal Image Fusion
cs.CV
This paper introduces temporal image fusion. The proposed technique builds upon previous research in exposure fusion and expands it to deal with the limited Temporal Dynamic Range of existing sensors and camera technologies. In particular, temporal image fusion enables the rendering of long-exposure effects on full fra...
computer science
38,938
Summarisation of Short-Term and Long-Term Videos using Texture and Colour
cs.CV
We present a novel approach to video summarisation that makes use of a Bag-of-visual-Textures (BoT) approach. Two systems are proposed, one based solely on the BoT approach and another which exploits both colour information and BoT features. On 50 short-term videos from the Open Video Project we show that our BoT and f...
computer science
38,939
Geometry-based Adaptive Symbolic Approximation for Fast Sequence Matching on Manifolds
cs.CV
In this paper, we consider the problem of fast and efficient indexing techniques for sequences evolving in non-Euclidean spaces. This problem has several applications in the areas of human activity analysis, where there is a need to perform fast search, and recognition in very high dimensional spaces. The problem is ma...
computer science
38,940
Ubic: Bridging the gap between digital cryptography and the physical world
cs.CR
Advances in computing technology increasingly blur the boundary between the digital domain and the physical world. Although the research community has developed a large number of cryptographic primitives and has demonstrated their usability in all-digital communication, many of them have not yet made their way into the...
computer science
38,941
Shape-Based Plagiarism Detection for Flowchart Figures in Texts
cs.CV
Plagiarism detection is well known phenomenon in the academic arena. Copying other people is considered as serious offence that needs to be checked. There are many plagiarism detection systems such as turn-it-in that has been developed to provide this checks. Most, if not all, discard the figures and charts before chec...
computer science
38,942
Image reconstruction from limited range projections using orthogonal moments
cs.CV
A set of orthonormal polynomials is proposed for image reconstruction from projection data. The relationship between the projection moments and image moments is discussed in detail, and some interesting properties are demonstrated. Simulation results are provided to validate the method and to compare its performance wi...
computer science
38,943
Efficient Legendre moment computation for grey level images
cs.CV
Legendre orthogonal moments have been widely used in the field of image analysis. Because their computation by a direct method is very time expensive, recent efforts have been devoted to the reduction of computational complexity. Nevertheless, the existing algorithms are mainly focused on binary images. We propose here...
computer science
38,944
Numerical Approaches for Linear Left-invariant Diffusions on SE(2), their Comparison to Exact Solutions, and their Applications in Retinal Imaging
math.NA
Left-invariant PDE-evolutions on the roto-translation group $SE(2)$ (and their resolvent equations) have been widely studied in the fields of cortical modeling and image analysis. They include hypo-elliptic diffusion (for contour enhancement) proposed by Citti & Sarti, and Petitot, and they include the direction proces...
computer science
38,945
Spontaneous expression classification in the encrypted domain
cs.CV
To date, most facial expression analysis have been based on posed image databases and is carried out without being able to protect the identity of the subjects whose expressions are being recognised. In this paper, we propose and implement a system for classifying facial expressions of images in the encrypted domain ba...
computer science
38,946
Image processing using miniKanren
cs.CV
An integral image is one of the most efficient optimization technique for image processing. However an integral image is only a special case of delayed stream or memoization. This research discusses generalizing concept of integral image optimization technique, and how to generate an integral image optimized program co...
computer science
38,947
Stabilizing dual-energy X-ray computed tomography reconstructions using patch-based regularization
cs.CV
Recent years have seen growing interest in exploiting dual- and multi-energy measurements in computed tomography (CT) in order to characterize material properties as well as object shape. Material characterization is performed by decomposing the scene into constitutive basis functions, such as Compton scatter and photo...
computer science
38,948
Image Retargeting by Content-Aware Synthesis
cs.GR
Real-world images usually contain vivid contents and rich textural details, which will complicate the manipulation on them. In this paper, we design a new framework based on content-aware synthesis to enhance content-aware image retargeting. By detecting the textural regions in an image, the textural image content can ...
computer science
38,949
KPCA Spatio-temporal trajectory point cloud classifier for recognizing human actions in a CBVR system
cs.IR
We describe a content based video retrieval (CBVR) software system for identifying specific locations of a human action within a full length film, and retrieving similar video shots from a query. For this, we introduce the concept of a trajectory point cloud for classifying unique actions, encoded in a spatio-temporal ...
computer science
38,950
Pupil: An Open Source Platform for Pervasive Eye Tracking and Mobile Gaze-based Interaction
cs.CV
Commercial head-mounted eye trackers provide useful features to customers in industry and research but are expensive and rely on closed source hardware and software. This limits the application areas and use of mobile eye tracking to expert users and inhibits user-driven development, customisation, and extension. In th...
computer science
38,951
VSCAN: An Enhanced Video Summarization using Density-based Spatial Clustering
cs.CV
In this paper, we present VSCAN, a novel approach for generating static video summaries. This approach is based on a modified DBSCAN clustering algorithm to summarize the video content utilizing both color and texture features of the video frames. The paper also introduces an enhanced evaluation method that depends on ...
computer science
38,952
Optimal measurement of visual motion across spatial and temporal scales
cs.CV
Sensory systems use limited resources to mediate the perception of a great variety of objects and events. Here a normative framework is presented for exploring how the problem of efficient allocation of resources can be solved in visual perception. Starting with a basic property of every measurement, captured by Gabor'...
computer science
38,953
Study on performance improvement of oil paint image filter algorithm using parallel pattern library
cs.CV
This paper gives a detailed study on the performance of oil paint image filter algorithm with various parameters applied on an image of RGB model. Oil Paint image processing, being very performance hungry, current research tries to find improvement using parallel pattern library. With increasing kernel-size, the proces...
computer science
38,954
Variational Image Segmentation Model Coupled with Image Restoration Achievements
cs.CV
Image segmentation and image restoration are two important topics in image processing with great achievements. In this paper, we propose a new multiphase segmentation model by combining image restoration and image segmentation models. Utilizing image restoration aspects, the proposed segmentation model can effectively ...
computer science
38,955
Image Segmentation Using Frequency Locking of Coupled Oscillators
cs.CV
Synchronization of coupled oscillators is observed at multiple levels of neural systems, and has been shown to play an important function in visual perception. We propose a computing system based on locally coupled oscillator networks for image segmentation. The system can serve as the preprocessing front-end of an ima...
computer science
38,956
Image Restoration Using Joint Statistical Modeling in Space-Transform Domain
cs.MM
This paper presents a novel strategy for high-fidelity image restoration by characterizing both local smoothness and nonlocal self-similarity of natural images in a unified statistical manner. The main contributions are three-folds. First, from the perspective of image statistics, a joint statistical modeling (JSM) in ...
computer science
38,957
Newton-Type Iterative Solver for Multiple View $L2$ Triangulation
cs.CV
In this note, we show that the L2 optimal solutions to most real multiple view L2 triangulation problems can be efficiently obtained by two-stage Newton-like iterative methods, while the difficulty of such problems mainly lies in how to verify the L2 optimality. Such a working two-stage bundle adjustment approach featu...
computer science
38,958
Kronecker PCA Based Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Video for Dismount Classification
cs.CV
We consider the application of KronPCA spatio-temporal modeling techniques [Greenewald et al 2013, Tsiligkaridis et al 2013] to the extraction of spatiotemporal features for video dismount classification. KronPCA performs a low-rank type of dimensionality reduction that is adapted to spatio-temporal data and is charact...
computer science
38,959
Single camera pose estimation using Bayesian filtering and Kinect motion priors
cs.CV
Traditional approaches to upper body pose estimation using monocular vision rely on complex body models and a large variety of geometric constraints. We argue that this is not ideal and somewhat inelegant as it results in large processing burdens, and instead attempt to incorporate these constraints through priors obta...
computer science
38,960
Detection Bank: An Object Detection Based Video Representation for Multimedia Event Recognition
cs.MM
While low-level image features have proven to be effective representations for visual recognition tasks such as object recognition and scene classification, they are inadequate to capture complex semantic meaning required to solve high-level visual tasks such as multimedia event detection and recognition. Recognition o...
computer science
38,961
Variational Depth from Focus Reconstruction
cs.CV
This paper deals with the problem of reconstructing a depth map from a sequence of differently focused images, also known as depth from focus or shape from focus. We propose to state the depth from focus problem as a variational problem including a smooth but nonconvex data fidelity term, and a convex nonsmooth regular...
computer science
38,962
On Pairwise Costs for Network Flow Multi-Object Tracking
cs.CV
Multi-object tracking has been recently approached with the min-cost network flow optimization techniques. Such methods simultaneously resolve multiple object tracks in a video and enable modeling of dependencies among tracks. Min-cost network flow methods also fit well within the "tracking-by-detection" paradigm where...
computer science
38,963
A fast patch-dictionary method for whole image recovery
cs.CV
Various algorithms have been proposed for dictionary learning. Among those for image processing, many use image patches to form dictionaries. This paper focuses on whole-image recovery from corrupted linear measurements. We address the open issue of representing an image by overlapping patches: the overlapping leads to...
computer science
38,964
Unsupervised learning segmentation for dynamic speckle activity images
cs.CV
This paper proposes the design of decision models based on Computational Intelligence techniques applied to image sequences of dynamic laser speckle. These models aim to identify image regions of biological specimens illuminated by a coherent beam coming from a laser. The field image is pseudo colored using a Self Orga...
computer science
38,965
Offline Signature-Based Fuzzy Vault (OSFV: Review and New Results
cs.CV
An offline signature-based fuzzy vault (OSFV) is a bio-cryptographic implementation that uses handwritten signature images as biometrics instead of traditional passwords to secure private cryptographic keys. Having a reliable OSFV implementation is the first step towards automating financial and legal authentication pr...
computer science
38,966
Object Segmentation in Images using EEG Signals
cs.CV
This paper explores the potential of brain-computer interfaces in segmenting objects from images. Our approach is centered around designing an effective method for displaying the image parts to the users such that they generate measurable brain reactions. When an image region, specifically a block of pixels, is display...
computer science
38,967
Unsupervised Spike Sorting Based on Discriminative Subspace Learning
cs.CV
Spike sorting is a fundamental preprocessing step for many neuroscience studies which rely on the analysis of spike trains. In this paper, we present two unsupervised spike sorting algorithms based on discriminative subspace learning. The first algorithm simultaneously learns the discriminative feature subspace and per...
computer science
38,968
Compression, Restoration, Re-sampling, Compressive Sensing: Fast Transforms in Digital Imaging
cs.CV
Transform image processing methods are methods that work in domains of image transforms, such as Discrete Fourier, Discrete Cosine, Wavelet and alike. They are the basic tool in image compression, in image restoration, in image re-sampling and geometrical transformations and can be traced back to early 1970-ths. The pa...
computer science
38,969
Efficient refinement of GPS-based localization in urban areas using visual information and sensor parameter
cs.CV
An efficient method is proposed for refining GPS-acquired location coordinates in urban areas using camera images, Google Street View (GSV) and sensor parameters. The main goal is to compensate for GPS location imprecision in dense area of cities due to proximity to walls and buildings. Avail-able methods for better lo...
computer science
38,970
Fast and Robust Feature Matching for RGB-D Based Localization
cs.CV
In this paper we present a novel approach to global localization using an RGB-D camera in maps of visual features. For large maps, the performance of pure image matching techniques decays in terms of robustness and computational cost. Particularly, repeated occurrences of similar features due to repeating structure in ...
computer science
38,971
ORB-SLAM: a Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM System
cs.RO
This paper presents ORB-SLAM, a feature-based monocular SLAM system that operates in real time, in small and large, indoor and outdoor environments. The system is robust to severe motion clutter, allows wide baseline loop closing and relocalization, and includes full automatic initialization. Building on excellent algo...
computer science
38,972
A specialized face-processing network consistent with the representational geometry of monkey face patches
cs.CV
Ample evidence suggests that face processing in human and non-human primates is performed differently compared with other objects. Converging reports, both physiologically and psychophysically, indicate that faces are processed in specialized neural networks in the brain -i.e. face patches in monkeys and the fusiform f...
computer science
38,973
Fast unsupervised Bayesian image segmentation with adaptive spatial regularisation
stat.CO
This paper presents a new Bayesian estimation technique for hidden Potts-Markov random fields with unknown regularisation parameters, with application to fast unsupervised K-class image segmentation. The technique is derived by first removing the regularisation parameter from the Bayesian model by marginalisation, foll...
computer science
38,974
Ring artifacts correction in compressed sensing tomographic reconstruction
cs.CV
We present a novel approach to handle ring artifacts correction in compressed sensing tomographic reconstruction. The correction is part of the reconstruction process, which differs from classical sinogram pre-processing and image post-processing techniques. The principle of compressed sensing tomographic reconstructio...
computer science
38,975
Performance Analysis of Cone Detection Algorithms
cs.CV
Many algorithms have been proposed to help clinicians evaluate cone density and spacing, as these may be related to the onset of retinal diseases. However, there has been no rigorous comparison of the performance of these algorithms. In addition, the performance of such algorithms is typically determined by comparison ...
computer science
38,976
Learning Articulated Motions From Visual Demonstration
cs.RO
Many functional elements of human homes and workplaces consist of rigid components which are connected through one or more sliding or rotating linkages. Examples include doors and drawers of cabinets and appliances; laptops; and swivel office chairs. A robotic mobile manipulator would benefit from the ability to acquir...
computer science
38,977
Talk to the Hand: Generating a 3D Print from Photographs
math.HO
This manuscript presents a linear algebra-based technique that only requires two unique photographs from a digital camera to mathematically construct a 3D surface representation which can then be 3D printed. Basic computer vision theory and manufacturing principles are also briefly discussed.
computer science
38,978
Simulation of Color Blindness and a Proposal for Using Google Glass as Color-correcting Tool
cs.HC
The human visual color response is driven by specialized cells called cones, which exist in three types, viz. R, G, and B. Software is developed to simulate how color images are displayed for different types of color blindness. Specified the default color deficiency associated with a user, it generates a preview of the...
computer science
38,979
NEFI: Network Extraction From Images
cs.CV
Networks and network-like structures are amongst the central building blocks of many technological and biological systems. Given a mathematical graph representation of a network, methods from graph theory enable a precise investigation of its properties. Software for the analysis of graphs is widely available and has b...
computer science
38,980
Intra-and-Inter-Constraint-based Video Enhancement based on Piecewise Tone Mapping
cs.CV
Video enhancement plays an important role in various video applications. In this paper, we propose a new intra-and-inter-constraint-based video enhancement approach aiming to 1) achieve high intra-frame quality of the entire picture where multiple region-of-interests (ROIs) can be adaptively and simultaneously enhanced...
computer science
38,981
Boosting of Image Denoising Algorithms
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a generic recursive algorithm for improving image denoising methods. Given the initial denoised image, we suggest repeating the following "SOS" procedure: (i) (S)trengthen the signal by adding the previous denoised image to the degraded input image, (ii) (O)perate the denoising method on the st...
computer science
38,982
Describing Colors, Textures and Shapes for Content Based Image Retrieval - A Survey
cs.IR
Visual media has always been the most enjoyed way of communication. From the advent of television to the modern day hand held computers, we have witnessed the exponential growth of images around us. Undoubtedly it's a fact that they carry a lot of information in them which needs be utilized in an effective manner. Henc...
computer science
38,983
Exploiting Feature and Class Relationships in Video Categorization with Regularized Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we study the challenging problem of categorizing videos according to high-level semantics such as the existence of a particular human action or a complex event. Although extensive efforts have been devoted in recent years, most existing works combined multiple video features using simple fusion strategie...
computer science
38,984
Highly corrupted image inpainting through hypoelliptic diffusion
cs.CV
We present a new image inpainting algorithm, the Averaging and Hypoelliptic Evolution (AHE) algorithm, inspired by the one presented in [SIAM J. Imaging Sci., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 669--695, 2014] and based upon a semi-discrete variation of the Citti-Petitot-Sarti model of the primary visual cortex V1. The AHE algorithm i...
computer science
38,985
Coercive Region-level Registration for Multi-modal Images
cs.CV
We propose a coercive approach to simultaneously register and segment multi-modal images which share similar spatial structure. Registration is done at the region level to facilitate data fusion while avoiding the need for interpolation. The algorithm performs alternating minimization of an objective function informed ...
computer science
38,986
Automatic Optimization of Hardware Accelerators for Image Processing
cs.PL
In the domain of image processing, often real-time constraints are required. In particular, in safety-critical applications, such as X-ray computed tomography in medical imaging or advanced driver assistance systems in the automotive domain, timing is of utmost importance. A common approach to maintain real-time capabi...
computer science
38,987
Landmark-Guided Elastic Shape Analysis of Human Character Motions
cs.CV
Motions of virtual characters in movies or video games are typically generated by recording actors using motion capturing methods. Animations generated this way often need postprocessing, such as improving the periodicity of cyclic animations or generating entirely new motions by interpolation of existing ones. Further...
computer science
38,988
Hybrid coding of visual content and local image features
cs.MM
Distributed visual analysis applications, such as mobile visual search or Visual Sensor Networks (VSNs) require the transmission of visual content on a bandwidth-limited network, from a peripheral node to a processing unit. Traditionally, a Compress-Then-Analyze approach has been pursued, in which sensing nodes acquire...
computer science
38,989
Coding local and global binary visual features extracted from video sequences
cs.MM
Binary local features represent an effective alternative to real-valued descriptors, leading to comparable results for many visual analysis tasks, while being characterized by significantly lower computational complexity and memory requirements. When dealing with large collections, a more compact representation based o...
computer science
38,990
Image Segmentation in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Detector
cs.CV
The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr-TPC) detectors provide excellent imaging and particle identification ability for studying neutrinos. An efficient and automatic reconstruction procedures are required to exploit potential of this imaging technology. Herein, a novel method for segmentation of images from LAr...
computer science
38,991
Efficient Upsampling of Natural Images
cs.CV
We propose a novel method of efficient upsampling of a single natural image. Current methods for image upsampling tend to produce high-resolution images with either blurry salient edges, or loss of fine textural detail, or spurious noise artifacts. In our method, we mitigate these effects by modeling the input image ...
computer science
38,992
Activity Recognition Using A Combination of Category Components And Local Models for Video Surveillance
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel approach for automatic recognition of human activities for video surveillance applications. We propose to represent an activity by a combination of category components, and demonstrate that this approach offers flexibility to add new activities to the system and an ability to deal with the p...
computer science
38,993
Macroblock Classification Method for Video Applications Involving Motions
cs.MM
In this paper, a macroblock classification method is proposed for various video processing applications involving motions. Based on the analysis of the Motion Vector field in the compressed video, we propose to classify Macroblocks of each video frame into different classes and use this class information to describe th...
computer science
38,994
Constrained $H^1$-regularization schemes for diffeomorphic image registration
math.OC
We propose regularization schemes for deformable registration and efficient algorithms for their numerical approximation. We treat image registration as a variational optimal control problem. The deformation map is parametrized by its velocity. Tikhonov regularization ensures well-posedness. Our scheme augments standar...
computer science
38,995
A Survey On Video Forgery Detection
cs.MM
The Digital Forgeries though not visibly identifiable to human perception it may alter or meddle with underlying natural statistics of digital content. Tampering involves fiddling with video content in order to cause damage or make unauthorized alteration/modification. Tampering detection in video is cumbersome compare...
computer science
38,996
Anisotropic Diffusion in ITK
cs.CV
Anisotropic Non-Linear Diffusion is a powerful image processing technique, which allows to simultaneously remove the noise and enhance sharp features in two or three dimensional images. Anisotropic Diffusion is understood here in the sense of Weickert, meaning that diffusion tensors are anisotropic and reflect the loca...
computer science
38,997
A Hierarchical Approach for Joint Multi-view Object Pose Estimation and Categorization
cs.CV
We propose a joint object pose estimation and categorization approach which extracts information about object poses and categories from the object parts and compositions constructed at different layers of a hierarchical object representation algorithm, namely Learned Hierarchy of Parts (LHOP). In the proposed approach,...
computer science
38,998
Convex Optimization for Parallel Energy Minimization
cs.CV
Energy minimization has been an intensely studied core problem in computer vision. With growing image sizes (2D and 3D), it is now highly desirable to run energy minimization algorithms in parallel. But many existing algorithms, in particular, some efficient combinatorial algorithms, are difficult to par-allelize. By e...
computer science
38,999
Frequency Domain TOF: Encoding Object Depth in Modulation Frequency
cs.CV
Time of flight cameras may emerge as the 3-D sensor of choice. Today, time of flight sensors use phase-based sampling, where the phase delay between emitted and received, high-frequency signals encodes distance. In this paper, we present a new time of flight architecture that relies only on frequency---we refer to this...
computer science
39,000
Partial light field tomographic reconstruction from a fixed-camera focal stack
cs.CV
This paper describes a novel approach to partially reconstruct high-resolution 4D light fields from a stack of differently focused photographs taken with a fixed camera. First, a focus map is calculated from this stack using a simple approach combining gradient detection and region expansion with graph-cut. Then, this ...
computer science
39,001
Tomographic Image Reconstruction using Training images
cs.CV
We describe and examine an algorithm for tomographic image reconstruction where prior knowledge about the solution is available in the form of training images. We first construct a nonnegative dictionary based on prototype elements from the training images; this problem is formulated as a regularized non-negative matri...
computer science
39,002
DESAT: an SSW tool for SDO/AIA image de-saturation
cs.CV
Saturation affects a significant rate of images recorded by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on the Solar Dynamics Observatory. This paper describes a computational method and a technological pipeline for the de-saturation of such images, based on several mathematical ingredients like Expectation Maximization, image co...
computer science
39,003
Understanding Image Virality
cs.SI
Virality of online content on social networking websites is an important but esoteric phenomenon often studied in fields like marketing, psychology and data mining. In this paper we study viral images from a computer vision perspective. We introduce three new image datasets from Reddit, and define a virality score usin...
computer science
39,004
Fast and Robust Fixed-Rank Matrix Recovery
cs.CV
We address the problem of efficient sparse fixed-rank (S-FR) matrix decomposition, i.e., splitting a corrupted matrix $M$ into an uncorrupted matrix $L$ of rank $r$ and a sparse matrix of outliers $S$. Fixed-rank constraints are usually imposed by the physical restrictions of the system under study. Here we propose a m...
computer science
39,005
Parallel Statistical Multi-resolution Estimation
cs.CV
We discuss several strategies to implement Dykstra's projection algorithm on NVIDIA's compute unified device architecture (CUDA). Dykstra's algorithm is the central step in and the computationally most expensive part of statistical multi-resolution methods. It projects a given vector onto the intersection of convex set...
computer science
39,006
Appearance-based indoor localization: A comparison of patch descriptor performance
cs.CV
Vision is one of the most important of the senses, and humans use it extensively during navigation. We evaluated different types of image and video frame descriptors that could be used to determine distinctive visual landmarks for localizing a person based on what is seen by a camera that they carry. To do this, we cre...
computer science
39,007
Low-Level Features for Image Retrieval Based on Extraction of Directional Binary Patterns and Its Oriented Gradients Histogram
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a novel approach for image retrieval based on extraction of low level features using techniques such as Directional Binary Code, Haar Wavelet transform and Histogram of Oriented Gradients. The DBC texture descriptor captures the spatial relationship between any pair of neighbourhood pixels in ...
computer science
39,008
Starting engagement detection towards a companion robot using multimodal features
cs.RO
Recognition of intentions is a subconscious cognitive process vital to human communication. This skill enables anticipation and increases the quality of interactions between humans. Within the context of engagement, non-verbal signals are used to communicate the intention of starting the interaction with a partner. In ...
computer science
39,009
Image patch analysis of sunspots and active regions. I. Intrinsic dimension and correlation analysis
cs.CV
The flare-productivity of an active region is observed to be related to its spatial complexity. Mount Wilson or McIntosh sunspot classifications measure such complexity but in a categorical way, and may therefore not use all the information present in the observations. Moreover, such categorical schemes hinder a system...
computer science