this work is concerned with multiscale extraction of linear features in speckled images. the methodology combines the a trous algorithm, Hough transform and the line detectors D1 and D2. the noisy image is decomposed ...
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(纸本)0769520324
this work is concerned with multiscale extraction of linear features in speckled images. the methodology combines the a trous algorithm, Hough transform and the line detectors D1 and D2. the noisy image is decomposed in several scales by applying a redundant discrete wavelet algorithm (a trous) and the detectors D1 and D2 extract in each scale the straight lines. An associative symmetrical sum is used to merge information from both D1 and D2. In order to supress responses due to small isolated structures a local Hough transform is applied to each scale and the best scale results are associated by using the symmetrical sum again. Real SAR images were used to test the algorithm.
this article presents the language LinF for L-System specification. L-Systems are formal string rewriting systems introduced in 1968 by the botanist Aristid Lindenmayer that are used to model fractal images. LinF allo...
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(纸本)0769520324
this article presents the language LinF for L-System specification. L-Systems are formal string rewriting systems introduced in 1968 by the botanist Aristid Lindenmayer that are used to model fractal images. LinF allows the definition of three-dimensional fractals and stochastic fractals. Together withthe LinF definition this paper presents the implementation of cFLC, an OpenGL-based system that generates fractal images from LinF specifications. Results obtained through the LinF formalism show the ease of use and generality of the developed tools with respect to the existing literature.
We introduce concepts and algorithms for control of visual motor commands and realistic simulation of basic abilities as visual servoing and perception for robotics simulation. the introduced tools can also be used in...
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(纸本)076951846X
We introduce concepts and algorithms for control of visual motor commands and realistic simulation of basic abilities as visual servoing and perception for robotics simulation. the introduced tools can also be used in a straightforward way to build computer animated devices as virtual agents, and avatars. We use the tools to build part of a humanoid (arms and head) robot, effectively named "C (a) over cap mbio". We will describe C (a) over cap mbio's design, providing an overview on the most used feature extraction techniques for perception, discussing implementation issues. We intend to show the usefulness of a simulated platform as an inexpensive alternative for testing and developing computer vision algorithms in real-time robotics applications and its possible extensions to computer animated agents and avatars.
this paper presents a new approach for 3D reconstruction of X-ray tomographic images of a magnetic structure, called coronal loop, observed on the solar atmosphere by the Japanese satellite Yohkoh. In this approach, t...
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(纸本)0769520324
this paper presents a new approach for 3D reconstruction of X-ray tomographic images of a magnetic structure, called coronal loop, observed on the solar atmosphere by the Japanese satellite Yohkoh. In this approach, the intermediate cross sections images of the magnetic loop are generated withimage morphing controlled by a Bezier curve in arc shape. In space science, this approach has an important application to obtain information about the solar explosions that may cause serious perturbations in terrestrial communication systems.
In this work we describe an approach to extract sulcal lines from cerebral MRI data using the image Foresting Transform. this technique, based on graph theory, provides a sound framework for the implementation of many...
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(纸本)0769520324
In this work we describe an approach to extract sulcal lines from cerebral MRI data using the image Foresting Transform. this technique, based on graph theory, provides a sound framework for the implementation of many imageprocessing operators, and has been successfully applied to the solution of many problems, including some in medical imaging. We show the results of applying the technique to slices of MRI data from four subjects and compare these to the computation of the morphological skeleton and to the conditional thickening. A shorter version of this paper has already been submitted to ICIP 2003, but the comparison to the conditional thickening has only been presented in this paper Also, we present a correction to the IFT procedure which prevents the sulcal lines from breaking.
this paper presents a new approach based on morphological operators for application of biometric identification of individuals by segmentation and analysis of the iris. Algorithms based on morphological operators are ...
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(纸本)0769520324
this paper presents a new approach based on morphological operators for application of biometric identification of individuals by segmentation and analysis of the iris. Algorithms based on morphological operators are developed to segment the iris region from the eye image and also to highlight chosen iris patterns. the extracted features are used to represent and characterize the iris. In order to properly extract the desired patterns, an algorithm is proposed to produce skeletons with unique paths among end-points and nodes. the representation obtained by the morphological processing is stored for identification purposes. To illustrate the efficiency of the morphological approach some results are presented. the proposed system was derived to present low complexity implementation and low storage requirements.
this paper presents a new method for precise registration of multiple range images with low overlap based on Enhanced Genetic Algorithms (GAs). the proposed method minimizes the alignment error within the common overl...
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(纸本)0769520324
this paper presents a new method for precise registration of multiple range images with low overlap based on Enhanced Genetic Algorithms (GAs). the proposed method minimizes the alignment error within the common overlap area among a set of views, which is computed by a novel robust evaluation metric, called the Surface Interpenetration Measure. Because they search in a space of transformations, GAs are capable of registering surfaces without need for prealignment, as opposed to methods based on the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm, the most popular to date. the experimental results confirm that the new method ensures more precise alignments than combined sequential pairwise alignments for multiview registration, providing accurate global alignment among overlapping views.
We present methods for synthesizing 3D shape features on subdivision surfaces using multi-scale procedural techniques. Multi-scale synthesis is a powerful approach for creating surfaces with different levels of detail...
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We present methods for synthesizing 3D shape features on subdivision surfaces using multi-scale procedural techniques. Multi-scale synthesis is a powerful approach for creating surfaces with different levels of detail. Our methods can also blend multiple example multi-resolution surfaces, including procedurally defined surfaces as well as captured models. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
We propose a GPU-based version of the image Foresting Transform by Seed Competition (IFT-SC) operator and instantiate it to produce compact watershed-based superpixels (Waterpixels). Superpixels are usually applied as...
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(纸本)9789897583544
We propose a GPU-based version of the image Foresting Transform by Seed Competition (IFT-SC) operator and instantiate it to produce compact watershed-based superpixels (Waterpixels). Superpixels are usually applied as a pre-processing step to reduce the amount of processed data to perform object segmentation. However, recent advances in image acquisition techniques can easily produce 3D images with billions of voxels in roughly 1 second, making the time necessary to compute Waterpixels using the CPU-version of the IFT-SC quickly escalate. We aim to address this fundamental issue, since the efficiency of the entire object segmentation methodology may be hindered by the initial process of estimating superpixels. We demonstrate that our CUDA-based version of the sequential IFT-SC operator can speed up computation by a factor of up to 180x for 2D images, with consistent optimum-path forests without requiring additional CPU post-processing.
this work presents a method to output the 3D structure of an urban area from only one aerial photo. the reconstruction is based on the inverse process done when a parallel projection is used to construct a two-dimensi...
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(纸本)076951846X
this work presents a method to output the 3D structure of an urban area from only one aerial photo. the reconstruction is based on the inverse process done when a parallel projection is used to construct a two-dimensional image from a three-dimensional object. A new algorithm for reconstruction is developed and implemented. It recovers depth information by identification of object height on the image plane. While the 3D-objects are reconstructed, their original texture is used for rendering, using control points defined by the user. Results show that when seen from the same capture angle, the virtual 3D scene and the original picture are exactly the same. In the virtual environment of this implementation, the user can visualize, visit and interact withthe structure of the 3D scenario. the spatial structure of the real world is recovered at real time;it is possible to see the 3D growing out of the 2D images.
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