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Metric Localization using Google Street View
cs.RO
Accurate metrical localization is one of the central challenges in mobile robotics. Many existing methods aim at localizing after building a map with the robot. In this paper, we present a novel approach that instead uses geotagged panoramas from the Google Street View as a source of global positioning. We model the pr...
computer science
39,011
Towards radio astronomical imaging using an arbitrary basis
cs.CV
The new generation of radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), requires dramatic advances in computer hardware and software, in order to process the large amounts of produced data efficiently. In this document, we explore a new approach to wide-field imaging. By generalizing the image reconstruction,...
computer science
39,012
Phase and TV Based Convex Sets for Blind Deconvolution of Microscopic Images
math.OC
In this article, two closed and convex sets for blind deconvolution problem are proposed. Most blurring functions in microscopy are symmetric with respect to the origin. Therefore, they do not modify the phase of the Fourier transform (FT) of the original image. As a result blurred image and the original image have the...
computer science
39,013
A Comparative Analysis of Tensor Decomposition Models Using Hyper Spectral Image
cs.NA
Hyper spectral imaging is a remote sensing technology, providing variety of applications such as material identification, space object identification, planetary exploitation etc. It deals with capturing continuum of images of the earth surface from different angles. Due to the multidimensional nature of the image, mult...
computer science
39,014
Non-contact transmittance photoplethysmographic imaging (PPGI) for long-distance cardiovascular monitoring
cs.CV
Photoplethysmography (PPG) devices are widely used for monitoring cardiovascular function. However, these devices require skin contact, which restrict their use to at-rest short-term monitoring using single-point measurements. Photoplethysmographic imaging (PPGI) has been recently proposed as a non-contact monitoring a...
computer science
39,015
Fast keypoint detection in video sequences
cs.CV
A number of computer vision tasks exploit a succinct representation of the visual content in the form of sets of local features. Given an input image, feature extraction algorithms identify a set of keypoints and assign to each of them a description vector, based on the characteristics of the visual content surrounding...
computer science
39,016
Content-Based Bird Retrieval using Shape context, Color moments and Bag of Features
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a new descriptor for birds search. First, our work was carried on the choice of a descriptor. This choice is usually driven by the application requirements such as robustness to noise, stability with respect to bias, the invariance to geometrical transformations or tolerance to occlusions. In t...
computer science
39,017
Real-time multi-view deconvolution
cs.CV
In light-sheet microscopy, overall image content and resolution are improved by acquiring and fusing multiple views of the sample from different directions. State-of-the-art multi-view (MV) deconvolution employs the point spread functions (PSF) of the different views to simultaneously fuse and deconvolve the images in ...
computer science
39,018
Monge's Optimal Transport Distance with Applications for Nearest Neighbour Image Classification
cs.CV
This paper focuses on a similarity measure, known as the Wasserstein distance, with which to compare images. The Wasserstein distance results from a partial differential equation (PDE) formulation of Monge's optimal transport problem. We present an efficient numerical solution method for solving Monge's problem. To dem...
computer science
39,019
Flight Dynamics-based Recovery of a UAV Trajectory using Ground Cameras
cs.CV
We propose a new method to estimate the 6-dof trajectory of a flying object such as a quadrotor UAV within a 3D airspace monitored using multiple fixed ground cameras. It is based on a new structure from motion formulation for the 3D reconstruction of a single moving point with known motion dynamics. Our main contribut...
computer science
39,020
Global Minimum for a Finsler Elastica Minimal Path Approach
cs.CG
In this paper, we propose a novel curvature-penalized minimal path model via an orientation-lifted Finsler metric and the Euler elastica curve. The original minimal path model computes the globally minimal geodesic by solving an Eikonal partial differential equation (PDE). Essentially, this first-order model is unable ...
computer science
39,021
A Visual Representation for Editing Face Images
cs.CV
We propose a new approach for editing face images, which enables numerous exciting applications including face relighting, makeup transfer and face detail editing. Our face edits are based on a visual representation, which includes geometry, face segmentation, albedo, illumination and detail map. To recover our visual ...
computer science
39,022
Photorealistic Facial Texture Inference Using Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
We present a data-driven inference method that can synthesize a photorealistic texture map of a complete 3D face model given a partial 2D view of a person in the wild. After an initial estimation of shape and low-frequency albedo, we compute a high-frequency partial texture map, without the shading component, of the vi...
computer science
39,023
Mining Spatio-temporal Data on Industrialization from Historical Registries
cs.CV
Despite the growing availability of big data in many fields, historical data on socioevironmental phenomena are often not available due to a lack of automated and scalable approaches for collecting, digitizing, and assembling them. We have developed a data-mining method for extracting tabulated, geocoded data from prin...
computer science
39,024
A Distance Function for Comparing Straight-Edge Geometric Figures
cs.CV
This paper defines a distance function that measures the dissimilarity between planar geometric figures formed with straight lines. This function can in turn be used in partial matching of different geometric figures. For a given pair of geometric figures that are graphically isomorphic, one function measures the angul...
computer science
39,025
Binary Subspace Coding for Query-by-Image Video Retrieval
cs.MM
The query-by-image video retrieval (QBIVR) task has been attracting considerable research attention recently. However, most existing methods represent a video by either aggregating or projecting all its frames into a single datum point, which may easily cause severe information loss. In this paper, we propose an effici...
computer science
39,026
Revisiting Winner Take All (WTA) Hashing for Sparse Datasets
cs.CV
WTA (Winner Take All) hashing has been successfully applied in many large scale vision applications. This hashing scheme was tailored to take advantage of the comparative reasoning (or order based information), which showed significant accuracy improvements. In this paper, we identify a subtle issue with WTA, which gro...
computer science
39,027
Discrete Schroedinger Transform For Texture Recognition
cs.CV
This work presents a new procedure to extract features of grey-level texture images based on the discrete Schroedinger transform. This is a non-linear transform where the image is mapped as the initial probability distribution of a wave function and such distribution evolves in time following the Schroedinger equation ...
computer science
39,028
3D Shape Segmentation with Projective Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
This paper introduces a deep architecture for segmenting 3D objects into their labeled semantic parts. Our architecture combines image-based Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) and surface-based Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to yield coherent segmentations of 3D shapes. The image-based FCNs are used for efficient vi...
computer science
39,029
Automatic Model Based Dataset Generation for Fast and Accurate Crop and Weeds Detection
cs.CV
Selective weeding is one of the key challenges in the field of agriculture robotics. To accomplish this task, a farm robot should be able to accurately detect plants and to distinguish them between crop and weeds. Most of the promising state-of-the-art approaches make use of appearance-based models trained on large ann...
computer science
39,030
A probabilistic graphical model approach in 30 m land cover mapping with multiple data sources
stat.AP
There is a trend to acquire high accuracy land-cover maps using multi-source classification methods, most of which are based on data fusion, especially pixel- or feature-level fusions. A probabilistic graphical model (PGM) approach is proposed in this research for 30 m resolution land-cover mapping with multi-temporal ...
computer science
39,031
Statistics of Visual Responses to Object Stimuli from Primate AIT Neurons to DNN Neurons
cs.CV
Cadieu et al. (Cadieu,2014) reported that deep neural networks(DNNs) could rival the representation of primate inferotemporal cortex for object recognition. Lehky et al. (Lehky,2011) provided a statistical analysis on neural responses to object stimuli in primate AIT cortex. They found the intrinsic dimensionality of o...
computer science
39,032
Autoencoder-based holographic image restoration
cs.CV
We propose a holographic image restoration method using an autoencoder, which is an artificial neural network. Because holographic reconstructed images are often contaminated by direct light, conjugate light, and speckle noise, the discrimination of reconstructed images may be difficult. In this paper, we demonstrate t...
computer science
39,033
Efficient phase retrieval based on dark fringe recognition with an ability of bypassing invalid fringes
cs.CV
This paper discusses the noisy phase retrieval problem: recovering a complex image signal with independent noise from quadratic measurements. Inspired by the dark fringes shown in the measured images of the array detector, a novel phase retrieval approach is proposed and demonstrated both theoretically and experimental...
computer science
39,034
Beam Search for Learning a Deep Convolutional Neural Network of 3D Shapes
cs.CV
This paper addresses 3D shape recognition. Recent work typically represents a 3D shape as a set of binary variables corresponding to 3D voxels of a uniform 3D grid centered on the shape, and resorts to deep convolutional neural networks(CNNs) for modeling these binary variables. Robust learning of such CNNs is currentl...
computer science
39,035
Cloud Dictionary: Sparse Coding and Modeling for Point Clouds
cs.CV
With the development of range sensors such as LIDAR and time-of-flight cameras, 3D point cloud scans have become ubiquitous in computer vision applications, the most prominent ones being gesture recognition and autonomous driving. Parsimony-based algorithms have shown great success on images and videos where data point...
computer science
39,036
A Stochastic Large Deformation Model for Computational Anatomy
cs.CV
In the study of shapes of human organs using computational anatomy, variations are found to arise from inter-subject anatomical differences, disease-specific effects, and measurement noise. This paper introduces a stochastic model for incorporating random variations into the Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mappi...
computer science
39,037
Mirrored Light Field Video Camera Adapter
cs.RO
This paper proposes the design of a custom mirror-based light field camera adapter that is cheap, simple in construction, and accessible. Mirrors of different shape and orientation reflect the scene into an upwards-facing camera to create an array of virtual cameras with overlapping field of view at specified depths, a...
computer science
39,038
A Message Passing Algorithm for the Minimum Cost Multicut Problem
cs.DS
We propose a dual decomposition and linear program relaxation of the NP -hard minimum cost multicut problem. Unlike other polyhedral relaxations of the multicut polytope, it is amenable to efficient optimization by message passing. Like other polyhedral elaxations, it can be tightened efficiently by cutting planes. We ...
computer science
39,039
A Dual Ascent Framework for Lagrangean Decomposition of Combinatorial Problems
cs.DS
We propose a general dual ascent framework for Lagrangean decomposition of combinatorial problems. Although methods of this type have shown their efficiency for a number of problems, so far there was no general algorithm applicable to multiple problem types. In his work, we propose such a general algorithm. It depends ...
computer science
39,040
Crowd collectiveness measure via graph-based node clique learning
cs.CV
Collectiveness motions of crowd systems have attracted a great deal of attentions in recently years. In this paper, we try to measure the collectiveness of a crowd system by the proposed node clique learning method. The proposed method is a graph based method, and investigates the influence from one node to other nodes...
computer science
39,041
Detecting Unexpected Obstacles for Self-Driving Cars: Fusing Deep Learning and Geometric Modeling
cs.CV
The detection of small road hazards, such as lost cargo, is a vital capability for self-driving cars. We tackle this challenging and rarely addressed problem with a vision system that leverages appearance, contextual as well as geometric cues. To utilize the appearance and contextual cues, we propose a new deep learnin...
computer science
39,042
Unsupervised Perceptual Rewards for Imitation Learning
cs.CV
Reward function design and exploration time are arguably the biggest obstacles to the deployment of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in the real world. In many real-world tasks, designing a reward function takes considerable hand engineering and often requires additional sensors to be installed just to measure whethe...
computer science
39,043
Stochastic Multidimensional Scaling
math.OC
Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a popular dimensionality reduction techniques that has been widely used for network visualization and cooperative localization. However, the traditional stress minimization formulation of MDS necessitates the use of batch optimization algorithms that are not scalable to large-sized pro...
computer science
39,044
Imaging around corners with single-pixel detector by computational ghost imaging
cs.CV
We have designed a single-pixel camera with imaging around corners based on computational ghost imaging. It can obtain the image of an object when the camera cannot look at the object directly. Our imaging system explores the fact that a bucket detector in a ghost imaging setup has no spatial resolution capability. A s...
computer science
39,045
Efficient Action Detection in Untrimmed Videos via Multi-Task Learning
cs.CV
This paper studies the joint learning of action recognition and temporal localization in long, untrimmed videos. We employ a multi-task learning framework that performs the three highly related steps of action proposal, action recognition, and action localization refinement in parallel instead of the standard sequentia...
computer science
39,046
MultiNet: Real-time Joint Semantic Reasoning for Autonomous Driving
cs.CV
While most approaches to semantic reasoning have focused on improving performance, in this paper we argue that computational times are very important in order to enable real time applications such as autonomous driving. Towards this goal, we present an approach to joint classification, detection and semantic segmentati...
computer science
39,047
Probabilistic graphical model based approach for water mapping using GaoFen-2 (GF-2) high resolution imagery and Landsat 8 time series
stat.AP
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the potential of Gaofen-2 (GF-2) high resolution multispectral sensor (MS) and panchromatic (PAN) imagery on water mapping. Difficulties of water mapping on high resolution data includes: 1) misclassification between water and shadows or other low-reflectance ground objects, w...
computer science
39,048
EgoReID: Cross-view Self-Identification and Human Re-identification in Egocentric and Surveillance Videos
cs.CV
Human identification remains to be one of the challenging tasks in computer vision community due to drastic changes in visual features across different viewpoints, lighting conditions, occlusion, etc. Most of the literature has been focused on exploring human re-identification across viewpoints that are not too drastic...
computer science
39,049
Joint denoising and distortion correction of atomic scale scanning transmission electron microscopy images
cs.CV
Nowadays, modern electron microscopes deliver images at atomic scale. The precise atomic structure encodes information about material properties. Thus, an important ingredient in the image analysis is to locate the centers of the atoms shown in micrographs as precisely as possible. Here, we consider scanning transmissi...
computer science
39,050
Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Synchronous Brain-Computer Interfaces
cs.CV
A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a system that aims for establishing a non-muscular communication path for subjects who had suffer from a neurodegenerative disease. Many BCI systems make use of the phenomena of event-related synchronization and de-synchronization of brain waves as a main feature for classification o...
computer science
39,051
Semantic Perceptual Image Compression using Deep Convolution Networks
cs.MM
It has long been considered a significant problem to improve the visual quality of lossy image and video compression. Recent advances in computing power together with the availability of large training data sets has increased interest in the application of deep learning cnns to address image recognition and image proce...
computer science
39,052
An FFT-based Synchronization Approach to Recognize Human Behaviors using STN-LFP Signal
cs.CV
Classification of human behavior is key to developing closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) systems, which may be able to decrease the power consumption and side effects of the existing systems. Recent studies have shown that the Local Field Potential (LFP) signals from both Subthalamic Nuclei (STN) of the brain can...
computer science
39,053
Fast color transfer from multiple images
cs.CV
Color transfer between images uses the statistics information of image effectively. We present a novel approach of local color transfer between images based on the simple statistics and locally linear embedding. A sketching interface is proposed for quickly and easily specifying the color correspondences between target...
computer science
39,054
Automatic labeling of molecular biomarkers of whole slide immunohistochemistry images using fully convolutional networks
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of quantifying biomarkers in multi-stained tissues, based on color and spatial information. A deep learning based method that can automatically localize and quantify the cells expressing biomarker(s) in a whole slide image is proposed. The deep learning network is a fully convolutional ...
computer science
39,055
Memory Efficient Multi-Scale Line Detector Architecture for Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation
cs.CV
This paper presents a memory efficient architecture that implements the Multi-Scale Line Detector (MSLD) algorithm for real-time retinal blood vessel detection in fundus images on a Zynq FPGA. This implementation benefits from the FPGA parallelism to drastically reduce the memory requirements of the MSLD from two image...
computer science
39,056
Rough Sets Computations to Impute Missing Data
cs.CV
Many techniques for handling missing data have been proposed in the literature. Most of these techniques are overly complex. This paper explores an imputation technique based on rough set computations. In this paper, characteristic relations are introduced to describe incompletely specified decision tables.It is shown ...
computer science
39,057
Addendum to Research MMMCV; A Man/Microbio/Megabio/Computer Vision
cs.CV
In October 2007, a Research Proposal for the University of Sydney, Australia, the author suggested that biovie-physical phenomenon as `electrodynamic dependant biological vision', is governed by relativistic quantum laws and biovision. The phenomenon on the basis of `biovielectroluminescence', satisfies man/microbio/me...
computer science
39,058
Securing Interactive Sessions Using Mobile Device through Visual Channel and Visual Inspection
cs.CR
Communication channel established from a display to a device's camera is known as visual channel, and it is helpful in securing key exchange protocol. In this paper, we study how visual channel can be exploited by a network terminal and mobile device to jointly verify information in an interactive session, and how such...
computer science
39,059
Secured Cryptographic Key Generation From Multimodal Biometrics: Feature Level Fusion of Fingerprint and Iris
cs.CR
Human users have a tough time remembering long cryptographic keys. Hence, researchers, for so long, have been examining ways to utilize biometric features of the user instead of a memorable password or passphrase, in an effort to generate strong and repeatable cryptographic keys. Our objective is to incorporate the vol...
computer science
39,060
On MMSE and MAP Denoising Under Sparse Representation Modeling Over a Unitary Dictionary
cs.CV
Among the many ways to model signals, a recent approach that draws considerable attention is sparse representation modeling. In this model, the signal is assumed to be generated as a random linear combination of a few atoms from a pre-specified dictionary. In this work we analyze two Bayesian denoising algorithms -- th...
computer science
39,061
The Projected GSURE for Automatic Parameter Tuning in Iterative Shrinkage Methods
cs.CV
Linear inverse problems are very common in signal and image processing. Many algorithms that aim at solving such problems include unknown parameters that need tuning. In this work we focus on optimally selecting such parameters in iterative shrinkage methods for image deblurring and image zooming. Our work uses the pro...
computer science
39,062
Towards automated high-throughput screening of C. elegans on agar
cs.CV
High-throughput screening (HTS) using model organisms is a promising method to identify a small number of genes or drugs potentially relevant to human biology or disease. In HTS experiments, robots and computers do a significant portion of the experimental work. However, one remaining major bottleneck is the manual ana...
computer science
39,063
Image Compression and Watermarking scheme using Scalar Quantization
cs.CV
This paper presents a new compression technique and image watermarking algorithm based on Contourlet Transform (CT). For image compression, an energy based quantization is used. Scalar quantization is explored for image watermarking. Double filter bank structure is used in CT. The Laplacian Pyramid (LP) is used to capt...
computer science
39,064
Fast L1-Minimization Algorithms For Robust Face Recognition
cs.CV
L1-minimization refers to finding the minimum L1-norm solution to an underdetermined linear system b=Ax. Under certain conditions as described in compressive sensing theory, the minimum L1-norm solution is also the sparsest solution. In this paper, our study addresses the speed and scalability of its algorithms. In par...
computer science
39,065
Orthogonal multifilters image processing of astronomical images from scanned photographic plates
cs.CV
In this paper orthogonal multifilters for astronomical image processing are presented. We obtained new orthogonal multifilters based on the orthogonal wavelet of Haar and Daubechies. Recently, multiwavelets have been introduced as a more powerful multiscale analysis tool. It adds several degrees of freedom in multifilt...
computer science
39,066
Modeling the growth of fingerprints improves matching for adolescents
cs.CV
We study the effect of growth on the fingerprints of adolescents, based on which we suggest a simple method to adjust for growth when trying to recover a juvenile's fingerprint in a database years later. Based on longitudinal data sets in juveniles' criminal records, we show that growth essentially leads to an isotropi...
computer science
39,067
On Euclidean Norm Approximations
cs.NA
Euclidean norm calculations arise frequently in scientific and engineering applications. Several approximations for this norm with differing complexity and accuracy have been proposed in the literature. Earlier approaches were based on minimizing the maximum error. Recently, Seol and Cheun proposed an approximation bas...
computer science
39,068
Meaningful Matches in Stereovision
cs.CV
This paper introduces a statistical method to decide whether two blocks in a pair of of images match reliably. The method ensures that the selected block matches are unlikely to have occurred "just by chance." The new approach is based on the definition of a simple but faithful statistical "background model" for image ...
computer science
39,069
A new variational principle for the Euclidean distance function: Linear approach to the non-linear eikonal problem
cs.CV
We present a fast convolution-based technique for computing an approximate, signed Euclidean distance function $S$ on a set of 2D and 3D grid locations. Instead of solving the non-linear, static Hamilton-Jacobi equation ($\|\nabla S\|=1$), our solution stems from first solving for a scalar field $\phi$ in a linear diff...
computer science
39,070
GPU-based Image Analysis on Mobile Devices
cs.GR
With the rapid advances in mobile technology many mobile devices are capable of capturing high quality images and video with their embedded camera. This paper investigates techniques for real-time processing of the resulting images, particularly on-device utilizing a graphical processing unit. Issues and limitations of...
computer science
39,071
Higher-Order Momentum Distributions and Locally Affine LDDMM Registration
cs.CV
To achieve sparse parametrizations that allows intuitive analysis, we aim to represent deformation with a basis containing interpretable elements, and we wish to use elements that have the description capacity to represent the deformation compactly. To accomplish this, we introduce in this paper higher-order momentum d...
computer science
39,072
Automatic post-picking improves particle image detection from Cryo-EM micrographs
cs.CV
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) studies using single particle reconstruction is extensively used to reveal structural information of macromolecular complexes. Aiming at the highest achievable resolution, state of the art electron microscopes acquire thousands of high-quality images. Having collected these data, each...
computer science
39,073
A Non-Blind Watermarking Scheme for Gray Scale Images in Discrete Wavelet Transform Domain using Two Subbands
cs.MM
Digital watermarking is the process to hide digital pattern directly into a digital content. Digital watermarking techniques are used to address digital rights management, protect information and conceal secrets. An invisible non-blind watermarking approach for gray scale images is proposed in this paper. The host imag...
computer science
39,074
Sketch Recognition using Domain Classification
cs.CV
Conceptualizing away the sketch processing details in a user interface will enable general users and domain experts to create more complex sketches. There are many domains for which sketch recognition systems are being developed. But they entail image-processing skill if they are to handle the details of each domain, a...
computer science
39,075
An Effective Fingerprint Classification and Search Method
cs.CV
This paper presents an effective fingerprint classification method designed based on a hierarchical agglomerative clustering technique. The performance of the technique was evaluated in terms of several real-life datasets and a significant improvement in reducing the misclassification error has been noticed. This paper...
computer science
39,076
Five Modulus Method For Image Compression
cs.CV
Data is compressed by reducing its redundancy, but this also makes the data less reliable, more prone to errors. In this paper a novel approach of image compression based on a new method that has been created for image compression which is called Five Modulus Method (FMM). The new method consists of converting each pix...
computer science
39,077
An Effective Method for Fingerprint Classification
cs.CV
This paper presents an effective method for fingerprint classification using data mining approach. Initially, it generates a numeric code sequence for each fingerprint image based on the ridge flow patterns. Then for each class, a seed is selected by using a frequent itemsets generation technique. These seeds are subse...
computer science
39,078
Content based video retrieval
cs.MM
Content based video retrieval is an approach for facilitating the searching and browsing of large image collections over World Wide Web. In this approach, video analysis is conducted on low level visual properties extracted from video frame. We believed that in order to create an effective video retrieval system, visua...
computer science
39,079
Mahotas: Open source software for scriptable computer vision
cs.CV
Mahotas is a computer vision library for Python. It contains traditional image processing functionality such as filtering and morphological operations as well as more modern computer vision functions for feature computation, including interest point detection and local descriptors. The interface is in Python, a dynam...
computer science
39,080
Improving Perceptual Color Difference using Basic Color Terms
cs.CV
We suggest a new color distance based on two observations. First, perceptual color differences were designed to be used to compare very similar colors. They do not capture human perception for medium and large color differences well. Thresholding was proposed to solve the problem for large color differences, i.e. two t...
computer science
39,081
SVD Based Image Processing Applications: State of The Art, Contributions and Research Challenges
cs.CV
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) has recently emerged as a new paradigm for processing different types of images. SVD is an attractive algebraic transform for image processing applications. The paper proposes an experimental survey for the SVD as an efficient transform in image processing applications. Despite the we...
computer science
39,082
Increasing Compression Ratio in PNG Images by k-Modulus Method for Image Transformation
cs.CV
Image compression is an important filed in image processing. The science welcomes any tinny contribution that may increase the compression ratio by whichever insignificant percentage. Therefore, the essential contribution in this paper is to increase the compression ratio for the well known Portable Network Graphics (P...
computer science
39,083
A Novel Robust Method to Add Watermarks to Bitmap Images by Fading Technique
cs.CV
Digital water marking is one of the essential fields in image security and copyright protection. The proposed technique in this paper was based on the principle of protecting images by hide an invisible watermark in the image. The technique starts with merging the cover image and the watermark image with suitable ratio...
computer science
39,084
Further results on dissimilarity spaces for hyperspectral images RF-CBIR
cs.IR
Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems are powerful search tools in image databases that have been little applied to hyperspectral images. Relevance feedback (RF) is an iterative process that uses machine learning techniques and user's feedback to improve the CBIR systems performance. We pursued to expand previou...
computer science
39,085
A Sub-block Based Image Retrieval Using Modified Integrated Region Matching
cs.IR
This paper proposes a content based image retrieval (CBIR) system using the local colour and texture features of selected image sub-blocks and global colour and shape features of the image. The image sub-blocks are roughly identified by segmenting the image into partitions of different configuration, finding the edge d...
computer science
39,086
Anatomical Feature-guided Volumeric Registration of Multimodal Prostate MRI
cs.CV
Radiological imaging of prostate is becoming more popular among researchers and clinicians in searching for diseases, primarily cancer. Scans might be acquired at different times, with patient movement between scans, or with different equipment, resulting in multiple datasets that need to be registered. For this issue,...
computer science
39,087
Detection of Outer Rotations on 3D-Vector Fields with Iterative Geometric Correlation and its Efficiency
cs.CV
Correlation is a common technique for the detection of shifts. Its generalization to the multidimensional geometric correlation in Clifford algebras has been proven a useful tool for color image processing, because it additionally contains information about a rotational misalignment. But so far the exact correction of ...
computer science
39,088
Exploiting Data Parallelism in the yConvex Hypergraph Algorithm for Image Representation using GPGPUs
cs.DC
To define and identify a region-of-interest (ROI) in a digital image, the shape descriptor of the ROI has to be described in terms of its boundary characteristics. To address the generic issues of contour tracking, the yConvex Hypergraph (yCHG) model was proposed by Kanna et al [1]. In this work, we propose a parallel ...
computer science
39,089
Anisotropic Diffusion for Details Enhancement in Multi-Exposure Image Fusion
cs.MM
We develop a multiexposure image fusion method based on texture features, which exploits the edge preserving and intraregion smoothing property of nonlinear diffusion filters based on partial differential equations (PDE). With the captured multiexposure image series, we first decompose images into base layers and detai...
computer science
39,090
Image color transfer to evoke different emotions based on color combinations
cs.CV
In this paper, a color transfer framework to evoke different emotions for images based on color combinations is proposed. The purpose of this color transfer is to change the "look and feel" of images, i.e., evoking different emotions. Colors are confirmed as the most attractive factor in images. In addition, various st...
computer science
39,091
Tensor-based formulation and nuclear norm regularization for multi-energy computed tomography
cs.CV
The development of energy selective, photon counting X-ray detectors allows for a wide range of new possibilities in the area of computed tomographic image formation. Under the assumption of perfect energy resolution, here we propose a tensor-based iterative algorithm that simultaneously reconstructs the X-ray attenuat...
computer science
39,092
Using a Dynamic Neural Field Model to Explore a Direct Collicular Inhibition Account of Inhibition of Return
cs.CV
When the interval between a transient ash of light (a "cue") and a second visual response signal (a "target") exceeds at least 200ms, responding is slowest in the direction indicated by the first signal. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as inhibition of return (IOR). The dynamic neural field model (DNF) has prov...
computer science
39,093
Top-down and Bottom-up Feature Combination for Multi-sensor Attentive Robots
cs.RO
The information available to robots in real tasks is widely distributed both in time and space, requiring the agent to search for relevant data. In humans, that face the same problem when sounds, images and smells are presented to their sensors in a daily scene, a natural system is applied: Attention. As vision plays a...
computer science
39,094
Numerical Methods for Coupled Reconstruction and Registration in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
cs.CV
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) provides an insight into the fine details of normal fibroglandular tissues and abnormal lesions by reconstructing a pseudo-3D image of the breast. In this respect, DBT overcomes a major limitation of conventional X-ray mammography by reducing the confounding effects caused by the supe...
computer science
39,095
Reduced egomotion estimation drift using omnidirectional views
cs.CV
Estimation of camera motion from a given image sequence becomes degraded as the length of the sequence increases. In this letter, this phenomenon is demonstrated and an approach to increase the estimation accuracy is proposed. The proposed method uses an omnidirectional camera in addition to the perspective one and tak...
computer science
39,096
Optical Flow on Evolving Surfaces with Space and Time Regularisation
math.OC
We extend the concept of optical flow with spatiotemporal regularisation to a dynamic non-Euclidean setting. Optical flow is traditionally computed from a sequence of flat images. The purpose of this paper is to introduce variational motion estimation for images that are defined on an evolving surface. Volumetric micro...
computer science
39,097
Director Field Model of the Primary Visual Cortex for Contour Detection
cs.CV
We aim to build the simplest possible model capable of detecting long, noisy contours in a cluttered visual scene. For this, we model the neural dynamics in the primate primary visual cortex in terms of a continuous director field that describes the average rate and the average orientational preference of active neuron...
computer science
39,098
Early Fire Detection Using HEP and Space-time Analysis
cs.CV
In this article, a video base early fire alarm system is developed by monitoring the smoke in the scene. There are two major contributions in this work. First, to find the best texture feature for smoke detection, a general framework, named Histograms of Equivalent Patterns (HEP), is adopted to achieve an extensive eva...
computer science
39,099
Feature Selection Strategies for Classifying High Dimensional Astronomical Data Sets
cs.CV
The amount of collected data in many scientific fields is increasing, all of them requiring a common task: extract knowledge from massive, multi parametric data sets, as rapidly and efficiently possible. This is especially true in astronomy where synoptic sky surveys are enabling new research frontiers in the time doma...
computer science
39,100
Wavelet methods for shape perception in electro-sensing
math.NA
This paper aims at presenting a new approach to the electro-sensing problem using wavelets. It provides an efficient algorithm for recognizing the shape of a target from micro-electrical impedance measurements. Stability and resolution capabilities of the proposed algorithm are quantified in numerical simulations.
computer science
39,101
Image Restoration using Total Variation with Overlapping Group Sparsity
cs.CV
Image restoration is one of the most fundamental issues in imaging science. Total variation (TV) regularization is widely used in image restoration problems for its capability to preserve edges. In the literature, however, it is also well known for producing staircase-like artifacts. Usually, the high-order total varia...
computer science
39,102
ImageSpirit: Verbal Guided Image Parsing
cs.GR
Humans describe images in terms of nouns and adjectives while algorithms operate on images represented as sets of pixels. Bridging this gap between how humans would like to access images versus their typical representation is the goal of image parsing, which involves assigning object and attribute labels to pixel. In t...
computer science
39,103
Calibration of an Articulated Camera System with Scale Factor Estimation
cs.CV
Multiple Camera Systems (MCS) have been widely used in many vision applications and attracted much attention recently. There are two principle types of MCS, one is the Rigid Multiple Camera System (RMCS); the other is the Articulated Camera System (ACS). In a RMCS, the relative poses (relative 3-D position and orientat...
computer science
39,104
On Convergent Finite Difference Schemes for Variational - PDE Based Image Processing
cs.CV
We study an adaptive anisotropic Huber functional based image restoration scheme. By using a combination of L2-L1 regularization functions, an adaptive Huber functional based energy minimization model provides denoising with edge preservation in noisy digital images. We study a convergent finite difference scheme based...
computer science
39,105
Reconstruction of Complex-Valued Fractional Brownian Motion Fields Based on Compressive Sampling and Its Application to PSF Interpolation in Weak Lensing Survey
cs.CV
A new reconstruction method of complex-valued fractional Brownian motion (CV-fBm) field based on Compressive Sampling (CS) is proposed. The decay property of Fourier coefficients magnitude of the fBm signals/ fields indicates that fBms are compressible. Therefore, a few numbers of samples will be sufficient for a CS ba...
computer science
39,106
Tracking Deformable Parts via Dynamic Conditional Random Fields
cs.CV
Despite the success of many advanced tracking methods in this area, tracking targets with drastic variation of appearance such as deformation, view change and partial occlusion in video sequences is still a challenge in practical applications. In this letter, we take these serious tracking problems into account simulta...
computer science
39,107
A Parallel Compressive Imaging Architecture for One-Shot Acquisition
cs.CV
A limitation of many compressive imaging architectures lies in the sequential nature of the sensing process, which leads to long sensing times. In this paper we present a novel architecture that uses fewer detectors than the number of reconstructed pixels and is able to acquire the image in a single acquisition. This p...
computer science
39,108
Motion and audio analysis in mobile devices for remote monitoring of physical activities and user authentication
cs.HC
In this article we propose the use of accelerometer embedded by default in smartphone as a cost-effective, reliable and efficient way to provide remote physical activity monitoring for the elderly and people requiring healthcare service. Mobile phones are regularly carried by users during their day-to-day work routine,...
computer science
39,109
Vision-Guided Robot Hearing
cs.RO
Natural human-robot interaction in complex and unpredictable environments is one of the main research lines in robotics. In typical real-world scenarios, humans are at some distance from the robot and the acquired signals are strongly impaired by noise, reverberations and other interfering sources. In this context, the...
computer science