The so called associative thinking, which humans are known to perform on every day basis, is attributed to the fact that human brain memorizes information using the dynamical system made of interconnected neurons. Ret...
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Many natural image sets are samples of a low dimensional manifold in the space of all possible images. When the image data set is not a linear combination of a small number of basis images, then linear dimensionality ...
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Efficient detection of globally optimal surfaces representing object boundaries in volumetric datasets is important and remains challenging in many medical image analysis applications. We have developed an optimal sur...
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Efficient detection of globally optimal surfaces representing object boundaries in volumetric datasets is important and remains challenging in many medical image analysis applications. We have developed an optimal surface detection method that is capable of simultaneously detecting multiple interacting surfaces, in which the optimality is controlled by the cost functions designed for individual surfaces and several geometric constraints defining the surface smoothness and interrelations. The method solves the surface detection problems by transforming them into computing minimum s-t cuts in the derived edge-weighted directed graphs. The proposed algorithm has low-order polynomial complexity and is computationally efficient The method has been validated on over 100 computer generated volumetric images and 96 CT-scanned datasets of different-sized plexiglas tubes, yielding highly accurate results (mean signed error of the measured inner- and outer-diameters of the plexiglas tubes was 0.21 × 3.20%). Our approach can be readily extended to higher dimensional image segmentation.
Semantic scene classification is an open problem in computervision especially when information from only a single image is employed. In applications involving image collections, however, images are clustered sequenti...
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We show quite good face clustering is possible for a dataset of inaccurately and ambiguously labelled face images. Our dataset is 44,773 face images, obtained by applying a face finder to approximately half a million ...
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We show quite good face clustering is possible for a dataset of inaccurately and ambiguously labelled face images. Our dataset is 44,773 face images, obtained by applying a face finder to approximately half a million captioned news images. This dataset is more realistic than usual face recognition datasets, because it contains faces captured "in the wild" in a variety of configurations with respect to the camera, taking a variety of expressions, and under illumination of widely varying color. Each face image is associated with a set of names, automatically extracted from the associated caption. Many, but not all such sets contain the correct name. We cluster face images in appropriate discriminant coordinates. We use a clustering procedure to break ambiguities in labelling and identify incorrectly labelled faces. A merging procedure then identifies variants of names that refer to the same individual. The resulting representation can be used to label faces in news images or to organize news pictures by individuals present. An alternative view of our procedure is as a process that cleans up noisy supervised data. We demonstrate how to use entropy measures to evaluate such procedures.
Our contribution in this paper is two-fold. First, we extend our previous curve evolution method based on pairwise similarities. This curve evolution equation combines the grouping abilities of active contours and gra...
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There are many useful observable characteristics of the state of a tracked object. These characteristics could include normalized size, normalized speed, normalized direction, object color, position, and object shape ...
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Our objective is to learn representations for the shape and the appearance of moving (dynamic) objects that supports tasks such as synthesis, pose recovery, reconstruction and tracking. In this paper we introduce a fr...
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Several example-based systems for shape retrieval and shape classification directly match input shapes to stored shapes, without using class membership information to perform the matching. We propose a method for impr...
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We present an algorithm to estimate the body pose of a walking person given synchronized video input from multiple uncalibrated cameras. We construct an appearance model of human walking motion by generating examples ...
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