This paper deals with automated detection and identification of internal defects in hardwood logs using computed tomography (CT) images. We have developed a system that employs artificial neural networks (ANNs) to per...
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This paper deals with automated detection and identification of internal defects in hardwood logs using computed tomography (CT) images. We have developed a system that employs artificial neural networks (ANNs) to perform tentative classification of logs on a pixel-by-pixel basis. This approach achieves a high level of classification accuracy for several hardwood species (northern red oak, Quercus rubra, L., water oak, Q. nigra, L., yellow poplar, Liriodendron tulipifera, L., and black cherry, Prunus serotina, Ehrh.), and three common defect types (knots, splits, and decay). Although the results are very satisfactory statistically, a subjective examination reveals situations that could be refined in a subsequent post-processing step. We are currently developing a rule-based, contextual approach to region refinement that augments the initial emphasis on local information. The resulting rules are domain dependent, utilizing information that depends on region shape and type of defect. For example splits tend to be long and narrow, and this knowledge can be used to merge smaller, disjoint regions that have tentatively been labeled as splits. Similarly, image regions that represent knots, decay, and clear wood can be refined by removing small, spurious regions and by smoothing the boundaries of these regions. Mathematical morphology operators can be used for most of these tasks. This paper provides details concerning the domain-dependent rules by which morphology operators are chosen, and for merging results from different operations. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.v. All rights reserved.
This paper presents a new visual gesture recognition method for the human-machine interface of mobile robot teleoperation. The interface uses seven static hand gestures, each of which represents an individual control ...
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This paper presents a new visual gesture recognition method for the human-machine interface of mobile robot teleoperation. The interface uses seven static hand gestures, each of which represents an individual control command for the motion control of the remote robot. All the important aspects to develop such a interface are explored, including image acquisition, adaptive object segmentation with color image in RGB, HLS representation, morphological filtering, hand finding and labeling, and recognition with edge codes, template matching, and skeletonizing. By choosing processing methods and procedures properly, a higher ratio of correct recognition and a faster speed are achieved from the experiments.
In this paper, we use a type of morphological filters, the openings and closings with reconstruction criteria, for image segmentation purposes. Those filters are a class of extended levelings, and they present interes...
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In this paper, we use a type of morphological filters, the openings and closings with reconstruction criteria, for image segmentation purposes. Those filters are a class of extended levelings, and they present interesting features for imageprocessing and analysis. These transformations include a criterion that allow us to control the reconstruction process, and they can avoid some of the undesirable effects shown by the classical openings and closings by reconstruction in some situations. In particular, we can limit the excessive flat zones reconstruction that sometimes arises. In addition, we can separate, if desired, certain regions in images. We use these two effects in image segmentation. Among others we use morphological techniques to segment an input image, and we take advantage of the desirable properties of those filters to compute markers or significant regions. We will focus in this work especially on medical images applications.
Nonlinear rank-order-based filtering of color images is difficult to implement; the multivariate nature of colors does not allow the introduction of a mathematically-correct and topology-preserving ordering relation. ...
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Nonlinear rank-order-based filtering of color images is difficult to implement; the multivariate nature of colors does not allow the introduction of a mathematically-correct and topology-preserving ordering relation. The most widely investigated approach is based on the use of reduced ordering relations introduced according to different scalars. We propose pseudo-morphologic and median operators based on reduced ordering of colors, with respect to scalars computed as geometrical shape invariants of a triangle representation of colors. The same color representation allows the introduction of a luminance invariant intercolor distance, used with good results in distance-based color filters.
The categorisation of labelling of phytoplankton specimens is carried out manually using microscopes by marine ecologists and taxonomists. Research to automate the task has been on going for many years. Although many ...
The categorisation of labelling of phytoplankton specimens is carried out manually using microscopes by marine ecologists and taxonomists. Research to automate the task has been on going for many years. Although many systems have been shown to work in small-scale laboratory conditions with cultured populations, few have succeeded when applied to field collected specimens. The reasons are diverse, but are principally due to severely degraded performance of the chosen processing algorithms in the presence of noise and natural morphologicalvariability of the organisms. The application of statistical and neural network pattern learning methods have allowed progress to be made in this difficult area. The machine learning system DiCANN was trained on 128 of the 310 image data set and tested on the 182 samples. This study has highlighted the difficulties facing human ecologists and has shown that automation methods can perform as well as humans on complex categorisations.
Colour imageprocessing is investigated in this paper using an algebraic approach based on triplet numbers. In the algebraic approach, each image element is considered not as a 3D vector, but as a triplet number. The ...
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(纸本)081944488X
Colour imageprocessing is investigated in this paper using an algebraic approach based on triplet numbers. In the algebraic approach, each image element is considered not as a 3D vector, but as a triplet number. The main goal of the paper is to show that triplet algebra can be used to solve colour imageprocessing problems in a natural and effective manner. In this work we propose novel methods for wavelet transforms implementation in colour triplet-valued space.
Mathematical morphology (MM) appears as a theory that can solve some drawbacks of the classical lineal imageprocessing. Linear filters generate a spatial distortion from initial image, what gives as result that speci...
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Mathematical morphology (MM) appears as a theory that can solve some drawbacks of the classical lineal imageprocessing. Linear filters generate a spatial distortion from initial image, what gives as result that specific algorithms are usually needed for each process with a complexity that cannot be implemented in vLSI systems for real time imageprocessing. MM overcome the inherent drawbacks of the linear processing based on the comparison of an initial image with some well-known geometric figures. In this paper we present the implementation of a specific processor that computes MM basic operations. Using a clock frequency of 250 MHz this processor is able to handle real time 512 X 512 pixels video images. MM allows non-linear processing of images and it is based on dilation and erosion operations using a geometric figure called structural element (SE). More complex imageprocessing can be performed using these two basic operations. In this implementation the SE of 3 X 3 pixels was chosen. 0.6 mum HGaAs standard cells technology, from vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, has been used achieving a logic level gate description with the possibility of migration to another technologies. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Our paper describes the design and implementation of a fingerprint thinning algorithm by means of morphologicalimageprocessing operations in order to improve the minutiae map involved. The final goal will aim to inc...
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(纸本)0780374363
Our paper describes the design and implementation of a fingerprint thinning algorithm by means of morphologicalimageprocessing operations in order to improve the minutiae map involved. The final goal will aim to incorporate the thinning algorithm proposed with the minutiae extraction algorithm for fingerprint identification systems, developed and presented at IEEE ICCST'01 [1].
Mathematical morphology (MM) appears as a theory that can solve some drawbacks of the classical lineal imageprocessing. Linear filters generate a spatial distortion from initial image, what gives as result that speci...
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Mathematical morphology (MM) appears as a theory that can solve some drawbacks of the classical lineal imageprocessing. Linear filters generate a spatial distortion from initial image, what gives as result that specific algorithms are usually needed for each process with a complexity that cannot be implemented in vLSI systems for real time imageprocessing. MM overcome the inherent drawbacks of the linear processing based on the comparison of an initial image with some well-known geometric figures. In this paper we present the implementation of a specific processor that computes MM basic operations. Using a clock frequency of 250 MHz this processor is able to handle real time 512 X 512 pixels video images. MM allows non-linear processing of images and it is based on dilation and erosion operations using a geometric figure called structural element (SE). More complex imageprocessing can be performed using these two basic operations. In this implementation the SE of 3 X 3 pixels was chosen. 0.6 mum HGaAs standard cells technology, from vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, has been used achieving a logic level gate description with the possibility of migration to another technologies. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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