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Performing edge detection by difference of Gaussians using q-Gaussian kernels
cs.CV
In image processing, edge detection is a valuable tool to perform the extraction of features from an image. This detection reduces the amount of information to be processed, since the redundant information (considered less relevant) can be unconsidered. The technique of edge detection consists of determining the points...
computer science
39,111
Contour polygonal approximation using shortest path in networks
cs.CV
Contour polygonal approximation is a simplified representation of a contour by line segments, so that the main characteristics of the contour remain in a small number of line segments. This paper presents a novel method for polygonal approximation based on the Complex Networks theory. We convert each point of the conto...
computer science
39,112
Texture descriptor combining fractal dimension and artificial crawlers
cs.CV
Texture is an important visual attribute used to describe images. There are many methods available for texture analysis. However, they do not capture the details richness of the image surface. In this paper, we propose a new method to describe textures using the artificial crawler model. This model assumes that each ag...
computer science
39,113
On Nonrigid Shape Similarity and Correspondence
cs.CV
An important operation in geometry processing is finding the correspondences between pairs of shapes. The Gromov-Hausdorff distance, a measure of dissimilarity between metric spaces, has been found to be highly useful for nonrigid shape comparison. Here, we explore the applicability of related shape similarity measures...
computer science
39,114
Dictionary-Learning-Based Reconstruction Method for Electron Tomography
cs.CV
Electron tomography usually suffers from so called missing wedge artifacts caused by limited tilt angle range. An equally sloped tomography (EST) acquisition scheme (which should be called the linogram sampling scheme) was recently applied to achieve 2.4-angstrom resolution. On the other hand, a compressive sensing-ins...
computer science
39,115
Wavelet and Fast Fourier Transform based analysis of Solar Image
cs.CV
Both of Wavelet and Fast Fourier Transform are strong signal processing tools in the field of Data Analysis. In this paper fast fourier transform (FFT) and Wavelet Transform are employed to observe some important features of Solar image (December, 2004). We have tried to find out the periodicity and coherence of differ...
computer science
39,116
Real-time High Resolution Fusion of Depth Maps on GPU
cs.GR
A system for live high quality surface reconstruction using a single moving depth camera on a commodity hardware is presented. High accuracy and real-time frame rate is achieved by utilizing graphics hardware computing capabilities via OpenCL and by using sparse data structure for volumetric surface representation. Dep...
computer science
39,117
Glasgow's Stereo Image Database of Garments
cs.RO
To provide insight into cloth perception and manipulation with an active binocular robotic vision system, we compiled a database of 80 stereo-pair colour images with corresponding horizontal and vertical disparity maps and mask annotations, for 3D garment point cloud rendering has been created and released. The stereo-...
computer science
39,118
Shape from Texture using Locally Scaled Point Processes
stat.AP
Shape from texture refers to the extraction of 3D information from 2D images with irregular texture. This paper introduces a statistical framework to learn shape from texture where convex texture elements in a 2D image are represented through a point process. In a first step, the 2D image is preprocessed to generate a ...
computer science
39,119
A compact formula for the derivative of a 3-D rotation in exponential coordinates
cs.CV
We present a compact formula for the derivative of a 3-D rotation matrix with respect to its exponential coordinates. A geometric interpretation of the resulting expression is provided, as well as its agreement with other less-compact but better-known formulas. To the best of our knowledge, this simpler formula does no...
computer science
39,120
Automatic White Blood Cell Measuring Aid for Medical Diagnosis
cs.CY
Blood related invasive pathological investigations play a major role in diagnosis of diseases. But in India and other third world countries there are no enough pathological infrastructures for medical diagnosis. Moreover, most of the remote places of those countries have neither pathologists nor physicians. Telemedicin...
computer science
39,121
Medical Aid for Automatic Detection of Malaria
cs.CY
The analysis and counting of blood cells in a microscope image can provide useful information concerning to the health of a person. In particular, morphological analysis of red blood cells deformations can effectively detect important disease like malaria. Blood images, obtained by the microscope, which is coupled with...
computer science
39,122
Region and Location Based Indexing and Retrieval of MR-T2 Brain Tumor Images
cs.CV
In this paper, region based and location based retrieval systems have been implemented for retrieval of MR-T2 axial 2-D brain images. This is done by extracting and characterizing the tumor portion of 2-D brain slices by use of a suitable threshold computed over the entire image. Indexing and retrieval is then performe...
computer science
39,123
ARIANNA: pAth Recognition for Indoor Assisted NavigatioN with Augmented perception
cs.CV
ARIANNA stands for pAth Recognition for Indoor Assisted Navigation with Augmented perception. It is a flexible and low cost navigation system for vi- sually impaired people. Arianna permits to navigate colored paths painted or sticked on the floor revealing their directions through vibrational feedback on commercial sm...
computer science
39,124
Teleoperation System Using Past Image Records Considering Narrow Communication Band
cs.RO
Teleoperation is necessary when the robot is applied to real missions, for example surveillance, search and rescue. We proposed teleoperation system using past image records (SPIR). SPIR virtually generates the bird's-eye view image by overlaying the CG model of the robot at the corresponding current position on the ba...
computer science
39,125
Decomposition of Optical Flow on the Sphere
math.OC
We propose a number of variational regularisation methods for the estimation and decomposition of motion fields on the $2$-sphere. While motion estimation is based on the optical flow equation, the presented decomposition models are motivated by recent trends in image analysis. In particular we treat $u+v$ decompositio...
computer science
39,126
Estimation of Human Body Shape and Posture Under Clothing
cs.CV
Estimating the body shape and posture of a dressed human subject in motion represented as a sequence of (possibly incomplete) 3D meshes is important for virtual change rooms and security. To solve this problem, statistical shape spaces encoding human body shape and posture variations are commonly used to constrain the ...
computer science
39,127
Evaluation of Plane Detection with RANSAC According to Density of 3D Point Clouds
cs.RO
We have implemented a method that detects planar regions from 3D scan data using Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) algorithm to address the issue of a trade-off between the scanning speed and the point density of 3D scanning. However, the limitation of the implemented method has not been clear yet. In this paper, we con...
computer science
39,128
Sparse similarity-preserving hashing
cs.CV
In recent years, a lot of attention has been devoted to efficient nearest neighbor search by means of similarity-preserving hashing. One of the plights of existing hashing techniques is the intrinsic trade-off between performance and computational complexity: while longer hash codes allow for lower false positive rates...
computer science
39,129
Efficient Visual Coding: From Retina To V2
cs.CV
The human visual system has a hierarchical structure consisting of layers of processing, such as the retina, V1, V2, etc. Understanding the functional roles of these visual processing layers would help to integrate the psychophysiological and neurophysiological models into a consistent theory of human vision, and would...
computer science
39,130
Total variation with overlapping group sparsity for image deblurring under impulse noise
math.NA
The total variation (TV) regularization method is an effective method for image deblurring in preserving edges. However, the TV based solutions usually have some staircase effects. In this paper, in order to alleviate the staircase effect, we propose a new model for restoring blurred images with impulse noise. The mode...
computer science
39,131
New explicit thresholding/shrinkage formulas for one class of regularization problems with overlapping group sparsity and their applications
math.NA
The least-square regression problems or inverse problems have been widely studied in many fields such as compressive sensing, signal processing, and image processing. To solve this kind of ill-posed problems, a regularization term (i.e., regularizer) should be introduced, under the assumption that the solutions have so...
computer science
39,132
Monte Carlo non local means: Random sampling for large-scale image filtering
cs.CV
We propose a randomized version of the non-local means (NLM) algorithm for large-scale image filtering. The new algorithm, called Monte Carlo non-local means (MCNLM), speeds up the classical NLM by computing a small subset of image patch distances, which are randomly selected according to a designed sampling pattern. W...
computer science
39,133
Stopping Rules for Bag-of-Words Image Search and Its Application in Appearance-Based Localization
cs.CV
We propose a technique to improve the search efficiency of the bag-of-words (BoW) method for image retrieval. We introduce a notion of difficulty for the image matching problems and propose methods that reduce the amount of computations required for the feature vector-quantization task in BoW by exploiting the fact tha...
computer science
39,134
A Novel Scheme for Generating Secure Face Templates Using BDA
cs.CV
In identity management system, frequently used biometric recognition system needs awareness towards issue of protecting biometric template as far as more reliable solution is apprehensive. In sight of this biometric template protection algorithm should gratify the basic requirements viz. security, discriminability and ...
computer science
39,135
Implementation of Hand Detection based Techniques for Human Computer Interaction
cs.CV
The computer industry is developing at a fast pace. With this development almost all of the fields under computers have advanced in the past couple of decades. But the same technology is being used for human computer interaction that was used in 1970s. Even today the same type of keyboard and mouse is used for interact...
computer science
39,136
Theory and Application of Shapelets to the Analysis of Surface Self-assembly Imaging
cs.CV
A method for quantitative analysis of local pattern strength and defects in surface self-assembly imaging is presented and applied to images of stripe and hexagonal ordered domains. The presented method uses "shapelet" functions which were originally developed for quantitative analysis of images of galaxies ($\propto 1...
computer science
39,137
GPU Accelerated Fractal Image Compression for Medical Imaging in Parallel Computing Platform
cs.DC
In this paper, we implemented both sequential and parallel version of fractal image compression algorithms using CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) programming model for parallelizing the program in Graphics Processing Unit for medical images, as they are highly similar within the image itself. There are severa...
computer science
39,138
Real-time Decolorization using Dominant Colors
cs.GR
Decolorization is the process to convert a color image or video to its grayscale version, and it has received great attention in recent years. An ideal decolorization algorithm should preserve the original color contrast as much as possible. Meanwhile, it should provide the final decolorized result as fast as possible....
computer science
39,139
Motion-Compensated Coding and Frame-Rate Up-Conversion: Models and Analysis
cs.MM
Block-based motion estimation (ME) and compensation (MC) techniques are widely used in modern video processing algorithms and compression systems. The great variety of video applications and devices results in numerous compression specifications. Specifically, there is a diversity of frame-rates and bit-rates. In this ...
computer science
39,140
iPiano: Inertial Proximal Algorithm for Non-Convex Optimization
cs.CV
In this paper we study an algorithm for solving a minimization problem composed of a differentiable (possibly non-convex) and a convex (possibly non-differentiable) function. The algorithm iPiano combines forward-backward splitting with an inertial force. It can be seen as a non-smooth split version of the Heavy-ball m...
computer science
39,141
Bias Correction and Modified Profile Likelihood under the Wishart Complex Distribution
cs.CV
This paper proposes improved methods for the maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of the equivalent number of looks $L$. This parameter has a meaningful interpretation in the context of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images. Due to the presence of coherent illumination in their processing, PolSAR systems ...
computer science
39,142
Find my mug: Efficient object search with a mobile robot using semantic segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose an efficient semantic segmentation framework for indoor scenes, tailored to the application on a mobile robot. Semantic segmentation can help robots to gain a reasonable understanding of their environment, but to reach this goal, the algorithms not only need to be accurate, but also fast and r...
computer science
39,143
Proximal Iteratively Reweighted Algorithm with Multiple Splitting for Nonconvex Sparsity Optimization
cs.NA
This paper proposes the Proximal Iteratively REweighted (PIRE) algorithm for solving a general problem, which involves a large body of nonconvex sparse and structured sparse related problems. Comparing with previous iterative solvers for nonconvex sparse problem, PIRE is much more general and efficient. The computation...
computer science
39,144
Code Minimization for Fringe Projection Based 3D Stereo Sensors by Calibration Improvement
math.MG
Code minimization provides a speed-up of the processing time of fringe projection based stereo sensors and possibly makes them real-time applicable. This paper reports a methodology which enables such sensors to completely omit Gray code or other additional code. Only a sequence of sinusoidal images is necessary. The c...
computer science
39,145
Imaging with Kantorovich-Rubinstein discrepancy
cs.CV
We propose the use of the Kantorovich-Rubinstein norm from optimal transport in imaging problems. In particular, we discuss a variational regularisation model endowed with a Kantorovich-Rubinstein discrepancy term and total variation regularization in the context of image denoising and cartoon-texture decomposition. We...
computer science
39,146
A New Path to Construct Parametric Orientation Field: Sparse FOMFE Model and Compressed Sparse FOMFE Model
cs.CV
Orientation field, representing the fingerprint ridge structure direction, plays a crucial role in fingerprint-related image processing tasks. Orientation field is able to be constructed by either non-parametric or parametric methods. In this paper, the advantages and disadvantages regarding to the existing non-paramet...
computer science
39,147
The jump set under geometric regularisation. Part 1: Basic technique and first-order denoising
math.FA
Let $u \in \mbox{BV}(\Omega)$ solve the total variation denoising problem with $L^2$-squared fidelity and data $f$. Caselles et al. [Multiscale Model. Simul. 6 (2008), 879--894] have shown the containment $\mathcal{H}^{m-1}(J_u \setminus J_f)=0$ of the jump set $J_u$ of $u$ in that of $f$. Their proof unfortunately dep...
computer science
39,148
PAINTER: a spatio-spectral image reconstruction algorithm for optical interferometry
cs.CV
Astronomical optical interferometers sample the Fourier transform of the intensity distribution of a source at the observation wavelength. Because of rapid perturbations caused by atmospheric turbulence, the phases of the complex Fourier samples (visibilities) cannot be directly exploited. Consequently, specific image ...
computer science
39,149
Tracking Individual Targets in High Density Crowd Scenes Analysis of a Video Recording in Hajj 2009
cs.CV
In this paper we present a number of methods (manual, semi-automatic and automatic) for tracking individual targets in high density crowd scenes where thousand of people are gathered. The necessary data about the motion of individuals and a lot of other physical information can be extracted from consecutive image seque...
computer science
39,150
The jump set under geometric regularisation. Part 2: Higher-order approaches
math.FA
In Part 1, we developed a new technique based on Lipschitz pushforwards for proving the jump set containment property $\mathcal{H}^{m-1}(J_u \setminus J_f)=0$ of solutions $u$ to total variation denoising. We demonstrated that the technique also applies to Huber-regularised TV. Now, in this Part 2, we extend the techni...
computer science
39,151
Compressed sensing for longitudinal MRI: An adaptive-weighted approach
cs.CV
Purpose: Repeated brain MRI scans are performed in many clinical scenarios, such as follow up of patients with tumors and therapy response assessment. In this paper, the authors show an approach to utilize former scans of the patient for the acceleration of repeated MRI scans. Methods: The proposed approach utilizes ...
computer science
39,152
Adaptive Image Denoising by Targeted Databases
cs.CV
We propose a data-dependent denoising procedure to restore noisy images. Different from existing denoising algorithms which search for patches from either the noisy image or a generic database, the new algorithm finds patches from a database that contains only relevant patches. We formulate the denoising problem as an ...
computer science
39,153
Certifying the Existence of Epipolar Matrices
cs.CV
Given a set of point correspondences in two images, the existence of a fundamental matrix is a necessary condition for the points to be the images of a 3-dimensional scene imaged with two pinhole cameras. If the camera calibration is known then one requires the existence of an essential matrix. We present an efficien...
computer science
39,154
Multichannel Compressive Sensing MRI Using Noiselet Encoding
cs.CV
The incoherence between measurement and sparsifying transform matrices and the restricted isometry property (RIP) of measurement matrix are two of the key factors in determining the performance of compressive sensing (CS). In CS-MRI, the randomly under-sampled Fourier matrix is used as the measurement matrix and the wa...
computer science
39,155
Learning Rich Features from RGB-D Images for Object Detection and Segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper we study the problem of object detection for RGB-D images using semantically rich image and depth features. We propose a new geocentric embedding for depth images that encodes height above ground and angle with gravity for each pixel in addition to the horizontal disparity. We demonstrate that this geocen...
computer science
39,156
scikit-image: Image processing in Python
cs.MS
scikit-image is an image processing library that implements algorithms and utilities for use in research, education and industry applications. It is released under the liberal "Modified BSD" open source license, provides a well-documented API in the Python programming language, and is developed by an active, internatio...
computer science
39,157
Pushbroom Stereo for High-Speed Navigation in Cluttered Environments
cs.RO
We present a novel stereo vision algorithm that is capable of obstacle detection on a mobile-CPU processor at 120 frames per second. Our system performs a subset of standard block-matching stereo processing, searching only for obstacles at a single depth. By using an onboard IMU and state-estimator, we can recover the ...
computer science
39,158
Discovering Discriminative Cell Attributes for HEp-2 Specimen Image Classification
cs.CV
Recently, there has been a growing interest in developing Computer Aided Diagnostic (CAD) systems for improving the reliability and consistency of pathology test results. This paper describes a novel CAD system for the Anti-Nuclear Antibody (ANA) test via Indirect Immunofluorescence protocol on Human Epithelial Type 2 ...
computer science
39,159
A New Model of Array Grammar for generating Connected Patterns on an Image Neighborhood
cs.FL
Study of patterns on images is recognized as an important step in characterization and classification of image. The ability to efficiently analyze and describe image patterns is thus of fundamental importance. The study of syntactic methods of describing pictures has been of interest for researchers. Array Grammars can...
computer science
39,160
Persistent Homology in Sparse Regression and Its Application to Brain Morphometry
stat.ME
Sparse systems are usually parameterized by a tuning parameter that determines the sparsity of the system. How to choose the right tuning parameter is a fundamental and difficult problem in learning the sparse system. In this paper, by treating the the tuning parameter as an additional dimension, persistent homological...
computer science
39,161
Visual Passwords Using Automatic Lip Reading
cs.CV
This paper presents a visual passwords system to increase security. The system depends mainly on recognizing the speaker using the visual speech signal alone. The proposed scheme works in two stages: setting the visual password stage and the verification stage. At the setting stage the visual passwords system request t...
computer science
39,162
Focused Proofreading: Efficiently Extracting Connectomes from Segmented EM Images
cs.CV
Identifying complex neural circuitry from electron microscopic (EM) images may help unlock the mysteries of the brain. However, identifying this circuitry requires time-consuming, manual tracing (proofreading) due to the size and intricacy of these image datasets, thus limiting state-of-the-art analysis to very small b...
computer science
39,163
Automatic Neuron Type Identification by Neurite Localization in the Drosophila Medulla
cs.CV
Mapping the connectivity of neurons in the brain (i.e., connectomics) is a challenging problem due to both the number of connections in even the smallest organisms and the nanometer resolution required to resolve them. Because of this, previous connectomes contain only hundreds of neurons, such as in the C.elegans conn...
computer science
39,164
Time-domain multiscale shape identification in electro-sensing
math.NA
This paper presents premier and innovative time-domain multi-scale method for shape identification in electro-sensing using pulse-type signals. The method is based on transform-invariant shape descriptors computed from filtered polarization tensors at multi-scales. The proposed algorithm enjoys a remarkable noise robus...
computer science
39,165
Design of Novel Algorithm and Architecture for Gaussian Based Color Image Enhancement System for Real Time Applications
cs.AR
This paper presents the development of a new algorithm for Gaussian based color image enhancement system. The algorithm has been designed into architecture suitable for FPGA/ASIC implementation. The color image enhancement is achieved by first convolving an original image with a Gaussian kernel since Gaussian distribut...
computer science
39,166
A feasible roadmap for developing volumetric probability atlas of localized prostate cancer
cs.CV
A statistical volumetric model, showing the probability map of localized prostate cancer within the host anatomical structure, has been developed from 90 optically-imaged surgical specimens. This master model permits an accurate characterization of prostate cancer distribution patterns and an atlas-informed biopsy samp...
computer science
39,167
DISA at ImageCLEF 2014 Revised: Search-based Image Annotation with DeCAF Features
cs.IR
This paper constitutes an extension to the report on DISA-MU team participation in the ImageCLEF 2014 Scalable Concept Image Annotation Task as published in [3]. Specifically, we introduce a new similarity search component that was implemented into the system, report on the results achieved by utilizing this component,...
computer science
39,168
Tensity Research Based on the Information of Eye Movement
cs.RO
User's mental state is concerned gradually, during the interaction course of human robot. As the measurement and identification method of psychological state, tension, has certain practical significance role. At presents there is no suitable method of measuring the tension. Firstly, sum up some availability of eye move...
computer science
39,169
Unified Heat Kernel Regression for Diffusion, Kernel Smoothing and Wavelets on Manifolds and Its Application to Mandible Growth Modeling in CT Images
cs.CV
We present a novel kernel regression framework for smoothing scalar surface data using the Laplace-Beltrami eigenfunctions. Starting with the heat kernel constructed from the eigenfunctions, we formulate a new bivariate kernel regression framework as a weighted eigenfunction expansion with the heat kernel as the weight...
computer science
39,170
Ctrax extensions for tracking in difficult lighting conditions
cs.CV
The fly tracking software Ctrax by Branson et al. is popular for positional tracking of animals both within and beyond the fly community. Ctrax was not designed to handle tracking in difficult lighting conditions with strong shadows or recurring "on"/"off" changes in lighting - a condition that will likely become incre...
computer science
39,171
Two-stage Geometric Information Guided Image Reconstruction
math.OC
In compressive sensing, it is challenging to reconstruct image of high quality from very few noisy linear projections. Existing methods mostly work well on piecewise constant images but not so well on piecewise smooth images such as natural images, medical images that contain a lot of details. We propose a two-stage me...
computer science
39,172
Hyper-Spectral Image Analysis with Partially-Latent Regression and Spatial Markov Dependencies
stat.AP
Hyper-spectral data can be analyzed to recover physical properties at large planetary scales. This involves resolving inverse problems which can be addressed within machine learning, with the advantage that, once a relationship between physical parameters and spectra has been established in a data-driven fashion, the l...
computer science
39,173
Feature Learning from Incomplete EEG with Denoising Autoencoder
cs.CV
An alternative pathway for the human brain to communicate with the outside world is by means of a brain computer interface (BCI). A BCI can decode electroencephalogram (EEG) signals of brain activities, and then send a command or an intent to an external interactive device, such as a wheelchair. The effectiveness of th...
computer science
39,174
Computational Beauty: Aesthetic Judgment at the Intersection of Art and Science
cs.CV
In part one of the Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant wrote that "the judgment of taste...is not a cognitive judgment, and so not logical, but is aesthetic."\cite{Kant} While the condition of aesthetic discernment has long been the subject of philosophical discourse, the role of the arbiters of that judgment has more ...
computer science
39,175
A unified approach for multi-object triangulation, tracking and camera calibration
cs.CV
Object triangulation, 3-D object tracking, feature correspondence, and camera calibration are key problems for estimation from camera networks. This paper addresses these problems within a unified Bayesian framework for joint multi-object tracking and sensor registration. Given that using standard filtering approaches ...
computer science
39,176
Computing Topology Preservation of RBF Transformations for Landmark-Based Image Registration
math.NA
In image registration, a proper transformation should be topology preserving. Especially for landmark-based image registration, if the displacement of one landmark is larger enough than those of neighbourhood landmarks, topology violation will be occurred. This paper aim to analyse the topology preservation of some Rad...
computer science
39,177
Tag Relevance Fusion for Social Image Retrieval
cs.IR
Due to the subjective nature of social tagging, measuring the relevance of social tags with respect to the visual content is crucial for retrieving the increasing amounts of social-networked images. Witnessing the limit of a single measurement of tag relevance, we introduce in this paper tag relevance fusion as an exte...
computer science
39,178
Building pattern recognition applications with the SPARE library
cs.CV
This paper presents the SPARE C++ library, an open source software tool conceived to build pattern recognition and soft computing systems. The library follows the requirement of the generality: most of the implemented algorithms are able to process user-defined input data types transparently, such as labeled graphs and...
computer science
39,179
Mobility Enhancement for Elderly
cs.CV
Loss of Mobility is a common handicap to senior citizens. It denies them the ease of movement they would like to have like outdoor visits, movement in hospitals, social outgoings, but more seriously in the day to day in-house routine functions necessary for living etc. Trying to overcome this handicap by means of serva...
computer science
39,180
A Regularization Approach to Blind Deblurring and Denoising of QR Barcodes
cs.CV
QR bar codes are prototypical images for which part of the image is a priori known (required patterns). Open source bar code readers, such as ZBar, are readily available. We exploit both these facts to provide and assess purely regularization-based methods for blind deblurring of QR bar codes in the presence of noise.
computer science
39,181
Detecting Figures and Part Labels in Patents: Competition-Based Development of Image Processing Algorithms
cs.CV
We report the findings of a month-long online competition in which participants developed algorithms for augmenting the digital version of patent documents published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The goal was to detect figures and part labels in U.S. patent drawing pages. The challenge drew ...
computer science
39,182
Improved depth imaging by constrained full-waveform inversion
cs.CV
We propose a formulation of full-wavefield inversion (FWI) as a constrained optimization problem, and describe a computationally efficient technique for solving constrained full-wavefield inversion (CFWI). The technique is based on using a total-variation regularization method, with the regularization weighted in favor...
computer science
39,183
A method for context-based adaptive QRS clustering in real-time
cs.CV
Continuous follow-up of heart condition through long-term electrocardiogram monitoring is an invaluable tool for diagnosing some cardiac arrhythmias. In such context, providing tools for fast locating alterations of normal conduction patterns is mandatory and still remains an open issue. This work presents a real-time ...
computer science
39,184
A Short Image Series Based Scheme for Time Series Digital Image Correlation
cs.CV
A new scheme for digital image correlation, i.e., short time series DIC (STS-DIC) is proposed. Instead of processing the original deformed speckle images individually, STS-DIC combines several adjacent deformed speckle images from a short time series and then processes the averaged image, for which deformation continui...
computer science
39,185
Super-resolution method using sparse regularization for point-spread function recovery
cs.CV
In large-scale spatial surveys, such as the forthcoming ESA Euclid mission, images may be undersampled due to the optical sensors sizes. Therefore, one may consider using a super-resolution (SR) method to recover aliased frequencies, prior to further analysis. This is particularly relevant for point-source images, whic...
computer science
39,186
A Weighted Common Subgraph Matching Algorithm
cs.DS
We propose a weighted common subgraph (WCS) matching algorithm to find the most similar subgraphs in two labeled weighted graphs. WCS matching, as a natural generalization of the equal-sized graph matching or subgraph matching, finds wide applications in many computer vision and machine learning tasks. In this paper, t...
computer science
39,187
Simultaneous Localization, Mapping, and Manipulation for Unsupervised Object Discovery
cs.RO
We present an unsupervised framework for simultaneous appearance-based object discovery, detection, tracking and reconstruction using RGBD cameras and a robot manipulator. The system performs dense 3D simultaneous localization and mapping concurrently with unsupervised object discovery. Putative objects that are spatia...
computer science
39,188
A random algorithm for low-rank decomposition of large-scale matrices with missing entries
cs.NA
A Random SubMatrix method (RSM) is proposed to calculate the low-rank decomposition of large-scale matrices with known entry percentage \rho. RSM is very fast as the floating-point operations (flops) required are compared favorably with the state-of-the-art algorithms. Meanwhile RSM is very memory-saving. With known en...
computer science
39,189
Online SLAM with Any-time Self-calibration and Automatic Change Detection
cs.CV
A framework for online simultaneous localization, mapping and self-calibration is presented which can detect and handle significant change in the calibration parameters. Estimates are computed in constant-time by factoring the problem and focusing on segments of the trajectory that are most informative for the purposes...
computer science
39,190
On Chord and Sagitta in ${\mathbb Z}^2$: An Analysis towards Fast and Robust Circular Arc Detection
cs.CG
Although chord and sagitta, when considered in tandem, may reflect many underlying geometric properties of circles on the Euclidean plane, their implications on the digital plane are not yet well-understood. In this paper, we explore some of their fundamental properties on the digital plane that have a strong bearing o...
computer science
39,191
Applications of sampling Kantorovich operators to thermographic images for seismic engineering
cs.CV
In this paper, we present some applications of the multivariate sampling Kantorovich operators $S_w$ to seismic engineering. The mathematical theory of these operators, both in the space of continuous functions and in Orlicz spaces, show how it is possible to approximate/reconstruct multivariate signals, such as images...
computer science
39,192
Gaze Stabilization for Humanoid Robots: a Comprehensive Framework
cs.RO
Gaze stabilization is an important requisite for humanoid robots. Previous work on this topic has focused on the integration of inertial and visual information. Little attention has been given to a third component, which is the knowledge that the robot has about its own movement. In this work we propose a comprehensive...
computer science
39,193
Structured Hough Voting for Vision-based Highway Border Detection
cs.CV
We propose a vision-based highway border detection algorithm using structured Hough voting. Our approach takes advantage of the geometric relationship between highway road borders and highway lane markings. It uses a strategy where a number of trained road border and lane marking detectors are triggered, followed by Ho...
computer science
39,194
Efficient Media Retrieval from Non-Cooperative Queries
cs.IR
Text is ubiquitous in the artificial world and easily attainable when it comes to book title and author names. Using the images from the book cover set from the Stanford Mobile Visual Search dataset and additional book covers and metadata from openlibrary.org, we construct a large scale book cover retrieval dataset, co...
computer science
39,195
Visual Noise from Natural Scene Statistics Reveals Human Scene Category Representations
cs.CV
Our perceptions are guided both by the bottom-up information entering our eyes, as well as our top-down expectations of what we will see. Although bottom-up visual processing has been extensively studied, comparatively little is known about top-down signals. Here, we describe REVEAL (Representations Envisioned Via Evol...
computer science
39,196
An Automated Images-to-Graphs Framework for High Resolution Connectomics
cs.CV
Reconstructing a map of neuronal connectivity is a critical challenge in contemporary neuroscience. Recent advances in high-throughput serial section electron microscopy (EM) have produced massive 3D image volumes of nanoscale brain tissue for the first time. The resolution of EM allows for individual neurons and their...
computer science
39,197
Real time Detection of Lane Markers in Urban Streets
cs.CV
We present a robust and real time approach to lane marker detection in urban streets. It is based on generating a top view of the road, filtering using selective oriented Gaussian filters, using RANSAC line fitting to give initial guesses to a new and fast RANSAC algorithm for fitting Bezier Splines, which is then foll...
computer science
39,198
Edge direction matrixes-based local binar patterns descriptor for shape pattern recognition
cs.CV
Shapes and texture image recognition usage is an essential branch of pattern recognition. It is made up of techniques that aim at extracting information from images via human knowledge and works. Local Binary Pattern (LBP) ensures encoding global and local information and scaling invariance by introducing a look-up tab...
computer science
39,199
Bi-objective Optimization for Robust RGB-D Visual Odometry
cs.RO
This paper considers a new bi-objective optimization formulation for robust RGB-D visual odometry. We investigate two methods for solving the proposed bi-objective optimization problem: the weighted sum method (in which the objective functions are combined into a single objective function) and the bounded objective met...
computer science
39,200
Open-source code for manifold-based 3D rotation recovery of X-ray scattering patterns
cs.CV
Single particle 3D imaging with ultrashort X-ray laser pulses is based on collecting and combining the information content of 2D scattering patterns of an object at different orientations. Typical sample-delivery schemes leave little or no room for controlling the orientations. As such, the orientation associated with ...
computer science
39,201
Simple pairs of points in digital spaces. Topology-preserving transformations of digital spaces by contracting simple pairs of points
cs.DM
Transformations of digital spaces preserving local and global topology play an important role in thinning, skeletonization and simplification of digital images. In the present paper, we introduce and study contractions of simple pair of points based on the notions of a digital contractible space and contractible transf...
computer science
39,202
Colorisation et texturation temps réel d'environnements urbains par système mobile avec scanner laser et caméra fish-eye
cs.RO
We present here a real time mobile mapping system mounted on a vehicle. The terrestrial acquisition system is based on a geolocation system and two sensors, namely, a laser scanner and a camera with a fish-eye lens. We produce 3D colored points cloud and textured models of the environment. Once the system has been cali...
computer science
39,203
Statistical models and regularization strategies in statistical image reconstruction of low-dose X-ray CT: a survey
cs.CV
Statistical image reconstruction (SIR) methods have shown potential to substantially improve the image quality of low-dose X-ray computed tomography (CT) as compared to the conventional filtered back-projection (FBP) method for various clinical tasks. According to the maximum a posterior (MAP) estimation, the SIR metho...
computer science
39,204
An algorithm for improving Non-Local Means operators via low-rank approximation
cs.CV
We present a method for improving a Non Local Means operator by computing its low-rank approximation. The low-rank operator is constructed by applying a filter to the spectrum of the original Non Local Means operator. This results in an operator which is less sensitive to noise while preserving important properties of ...
computer science
39,205
HyperSpectral classification with adaptively weighted L1-norm regularization and spatial postprocessing
math.OC
Sparse regression methods have been proven effective in a wide range of signal processing problems such as image compression, speech coding, channel equalization, linear regression and classification. In this paper a new convex method of hyperspectral image classification is developed based on the sparse unmixing algor...
computer science
39,206
Subspace based low rank and joint sparse matrix recovery
cs.NA
We consider the recovery of a low rank and jointly sparse matrix from under sampled measurements of its columns. This problem is highly relevant in the recovery of dynamic MRI data with high spatio-temporal resolution, where each column of the matrix corresponds to a frame in the image time series; the matrix is highly...
computer science
39,207
Real-Time Grasp Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.RO
We present an accurate, real-time approach to robotic grasp detection based on convolutional neural networks. Our network performs single-stage regression to graspable bounding boxes without using standard sliding window or region proposal techniques. The model outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by 14 percentage p...
computer science
39,208
Memory vectors for similarity search in high-dimensional spaces
cs.CV
We study an indexing architecture to store and search in a database of high-dimensional vectors from the perspective of statistical signal processing and decision theory. This architecture is composed of several memory units, each of which summarizes a fraction of the database by a single representative vector. The pot...
computer science
39,209
EgoSampling: Fast-Forward and Stereo for Egocentric Videos
cs.CV
While egocentric cameras like GoPro are gaining popularity, the videos they capture are long, boring, and difficult to watch from start to end. Fast forwarding (i.e. frame sampling) is a natural choice for faster video browsing. However, this accentuates the shake caused by natural head motion, making the fast forwarde...
computer science