In previous work, singular points (or top points) in the scalespace representation of generic images have proven valuable for image matching. In this paper, we propose a construction that encodes the scalespace desc...
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According to Marr39;s paradigm of computational vision the first process is an extraction of relevant features. The goal of this paper is to quantify and characterize the information carried by features using image-...
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According to Marr's paradigm of computational vision the first process is an extraction of relevant features. The goal of this paper is to quantify and characterize the information carried by features using image-structure measured at feature-points to reconstruct images. In this way, we indirectly evaluate the concept of feature-based image analysis. The main conclusions are that (i) a reasonably low number of features characterize the image to such a high degree, that visually appealing reconstructions are possible, (ii) different feature-types complement each other and all carry important information. The strategy is to define metamery classes of images and examine the information content of a canonical least informative representative of this class. Algorithms for identifying these are given. Finally, feature detectors localizing the most informative points relative to different complexity measures derived from models of natural image statistics, are given.
This paper presents two approaches for evaluating multi-scale feature-based object models. Within the first approach, a scale-invariant distance measure is proposed for comparing two image representations in terms of ...
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This paper presents two approaches for evaluating multi-scale feature-based object models. Within the first approach, a scale-invariant distance measure is proposed for comparing two image representations in terms of multi-scale features. Based on this measure, the maximisation of the likelihood of parameterised feature models allows for simultaneous model selection and parameter estimation. The idea of the second approach is to avoid an explicit feature extraction step and to evaluate models using a function defined directly from the image data. For this purpose, we propose the concept of a feature likelihood map, which is a function normalised to the interval [0, 1], and that approximates the likelihood of image features at all points in scale-space. To illustrate the applicability of both methods, we consider the area of hand gesture analysis and show how the proposed evaluation schemes can be integrated within a particle filtering approach for performing simultaneous tracking and recognition of hand models under variations in the position, orientation, size and posture of the hand. The experiments demonstrate the feasibility of the approach, and that real time performance can be obtained by pyramid implementations of the proposed concepts.
We develop a novel time-selection strategy for iterative image restoration techniques: the stopping time is chosen so that the correlation of signal and noise in the filtered image is minimized. The new method is appl...
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We develop a novel time-selection strategy for iterative image restoration techniques: the stopping time is chosen so that the correlation of signal and noise in the filtered image is minimized. The new method is applicable to any images where the noise to be removed is uncorrelated with the signal, under the assumptions that the filter used is suitable for the given type of data, and that neither the additive noise nor the filtering procedure alter the average gray value;no other knowledge (e. g. the noise variance, training data etc.) is needed. We analyse the theoretical properties of the method, then test the performance of our time estimation procedure experimentally, and demonstrate that it yields near-optimal results for a wide range of noise levels and for various filtering methods.
The proceedings contain 56 papers. The special focus in this conference is on Deep Structure Representation, scalespace Mathematics, Equivalences, Implementing scalespaces and Other Evolution Equations. The topics i...
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(纸本)354040368X
The proceedings contain 56 papers. The special focus in this conference is on Deep Structure Representation, scalespace Mathematics, Equivalences, Implementing scalespaces and Other Evolution Equations. The topics include: Many-to-many matching of scale-space feature hierarchies using metric embedding;content based image retrieval using multiscale top points;feature coding with a statistically independent cortical representation;scale-space image analysis based on hermite polynomials theory;a complete system of measurement invariants for abelian lie transformation groups;equivalence results for TV diffusion and TV regularisation;correspondences between wavelet shrinkage and nonlinear diffusion;a generalized discrete scale-space formulation for 2-d and 3-d signals;real-time scale selection in hybrid multi-scale representations;a scalespace for contour registration using minimal surfaces;the maximum principle for Beltrami color flow;the monogenic scalespace on a bounded domain and its applications;least squares and robust estimation of local image structure;mode estimation using pessimistic scalespace tracking;properties of Brownian image models in scale-space;image decomposition application to SAR images;basic morphological operations, band-limited images and sampling;an explanation for the logarithmic connection between linear and morphological systems;interest point detection and scale selection in space-time;towards recognition-based variational segmentation using shape priors and dynamic labeling;a Markov random field approach to multi-scale shape analysis and regularizing a set of unstructured 3d points from a sequence of stereo images.
Recently, several different approaches for digital inpainting have been proposed in the literature. We give a review and introduce a novel approach based on the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. The use of this equati...
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(纸本)354040368X
Recently, several different approaches for digital inpainting have been proposed in the literature. We give a review and introduce a novel approach based on the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. The use of this equation is motivated by some of its remarkable analytical properties. While common inpainting technology is especially designed for restorations of two dimensional image data, the Ginzburg-Landau equation can straight forwardly be applied to restore higher dimensional data, which has applications in frame interpolation, improving sparsely sampled volumetric data and to fill in fragmentary surfaces. The latter application is of importance in architectural heritage preservation. We discuss a stable and efficient scheme for the numerical solution of the Ginzburg-Landau equation and present some numerical experiments. We compare the performance of our algorithm with other well established methods for inpainting.
The proceedings contain 41 papers. The special focus in this conference is on scale-space and Morphology in computervision. The topics include: Using the vector distance functions to evolve manifolds of arbitrary cod...
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(纸本)9783540423171
The proceedings contain 41 papers. The special focus in this conference is on scale-space and Morphology in computervision. The topics include: Using the vector distance functions to evolve manifolds of arbitrary codimension;computing optic flow by scalespace integration of normal flow;image registration, optical flow, and local rigidity;tracking of multi-state hand models using particle filtering and a hierarchy of multi-scale image features;a note on two classical shock filters and their asymptotics;Bayesian object detection through level curves selection;a multi-scale feature likelihood map for direct evaluation of object hypotheses;total variation based oversampling of noisy images;down scaling for better transform compression;algebraic and PDE approaches for multiscale image operators with global constraints;adjunctions in pyramids and curve evolution;hierarchies of partitions and morphological segmentation;scale-space theories for scalar and vector images;generic multi-scale segmentation and curve approximation method;exploring non-linear diffusion;bilateral filtering and anisotropic diffusion;an accurate operator splitting scheme for nonlinear diffusion filtering;selection of optimal stopping time for nonlinear diffusion filtering;combing a porcupine via stereographic direction diffusion;indentation and protrusion detection and its applications;geodesic active contours applied to texture feature space;geometry motivated variational segmentation for color images;hierarchical segmentation using dynamics of multiscale color gradient watersheds;fast statistical level sets image segmentation for biomedical applications and morphological tools for robust key-region extraction and video shot modeling.
We propose image enhancement, edge detection, and segmentation models for the multi-channel case, motivated by the philosophy of processing images as surfaces, and generalizing the Mumford-Shah functional. Refer to ht...
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In this paper we derive scalespacemethods for inverse problems which satisfy the fundamental axioms of fidelity and causality and we provide numerical illustrations of the use of such methods in deblurring. These sc...
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(纸本)3540423176
In this paper we derive scalespacemethods for inverse problems which satisfy the fundamental axioms of fidelity and causality and we provide numerical illustrations of the use of such methods in deblurring. These scalespacemethods are asymptotic formulations of the Tikhonov-Morozov regularization method. The analysis and illustrations relate diffusion filtering methods in image processing to Tikhonov regularization methods in inverse theory.
We develop a novel time-selection strategy for iterative image restoration techniques: the stopping time is chosen so that the correlation of signal and noise in the filtered image is minimised. The new method is appl...
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ISBN:
(纸本)3540423176
We develop a novel time-selection strategy for iterative image restoration techniques: the stopping time is chosen so that the correlation of signal and noise in the filtered image is minimised. The new method is applicable to any images where the noise to be removed is uncorrelated with the signal, no other knowledge (e.g. the noise variance, training data etc.) is needed. We test the performance of our time estimation procedure experimentally, and demonstrate that it yields near-optimal results for a wide range of noise levels and for various filtering methods.
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