In this study, we have designed a GPGPU (General-Purpose Graphics processing Unit)-based algorithm for determining the minimum distance from the tip of a CUSA (Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator) scalpel to the cl...
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Artificial motion and warping of images taken at long range is one of the most significant and troublesome effects of atmospheric turbulence. It is important to understand and model this effect correctly in order to: ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781510604094
ISBN:
(纸本)9781510604087;9781510604094
Artificial motion and warping of images taken at long range is one of the most significant and troublesome effects of atmospheric turbulence. It is important to understand and model this effect correctly in order to: 1) fully characterize turbulence between the target and the observer, 2) devise efficient post-processing strategies for artificial motion correction, and 3) exploit information about statistics of this atmospheric motion to distinguish between real and fake movement in a scene. This paper discusses two types of motion: G-tilt and Z-tilt, highlighting the differences between them. Optimal image block size for de-warping algorithms and bandwidth considerations are given special attention. Finally, strategies for turbulence characterization based on differential image motion are discussed.
The aim of this article is to present a method to detect visual objects from color digital images by volumetric segmentation. We will discuss algorithms for visual and multimedia computing. The problem of partitioning...
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imageprocessingalgorithms applied on programmable embedded systems very often do not meet the given constraints in terms of real time capability. Mapping these algorithms to reconfigurable hardware solves this issue...
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image segmentation is a key component in many computer vision systems, and it is recovering a prominent spot in the literature as methods improve and overcome their limitations. The outputs of most recent algorithms a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467388511
image segmentation is a key component in many computer vision systems, and it is recovering a prominent spot in the literature as methods improve and overcome their limitations. The outputs of most recent algorithms are in the form of a hierarchical segmentation, which provides segmentation at different scales in a single tree-like structure. Commonly, these hierarchical methods start from some low-level features, and are not aware of the scale information of the different regions in them. As such, one might need to work on many different levels of the hierarchy to find the objects in the scene. This work tries to modify the existing hierarchical algorithm by improving their alignment, that is, by trying to modify the depth of the regions in the tree to better couple depth and scale. To do so, we first train a regressor to predict the scale of regions using mid-level features. We then define the anchor slice as the set of regions that better balance between over-segmentation and under-segmentation. The output of our method is an improved hierarchy, re-aligned by the anchor slice. To demonstrate the power of our method, we perform comprehensive experiments, which show that our method, as a post-processing step, can significantly improve the quality of the hierarchical segmentation representations, and ease the usage of hierarchical image segmentation to high-level vision tasks such as object segmentation. We also prove that the improvement generalizes well across different algorithms and datasets, with a low computational cost.
As massive open online courses (MOOCs) and online intelligent tutoring systems(ITS) have become increasingly widespread, the number of learners enrolled in online courses has shown explosive growth. However, these lea...
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Since the last decade, number of applications of Artificial Intelligence in daily livelihood has drastically increased. This is primarily because of the inclusion of high-tech gadgets in our day-to-day lives. These ga...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509010660
Since the last decade, number of applications of Artificial Intelligence in daily livelihood has drastically increased. This is primarily because of the inclusion of high-tech gadgets in our day-to-day lives. These gadgets provide high computational capabilities and geographical reach. These two features could be exerted to provide medical services to the society. This paper is based on a project which emphasizes on creating a software infrastructure which would provide healthcare services like diagnosis of diseases, advising medical tests to patients, providing medical prescription to patients by making use of personalized medicine problem solving algorithms etc., and providing medical assistance to doctors. This project, Medic, makes use of natural language processing, fuzzy logic, deep learning and a constantly evolving knowledge base to correctly diagnose diseases. It also provides various services to doctors which would help them while making decisions regarding any patient's medical treatment.
The growing interest in recent years for gender recognition from face images is mainly attributable to the wide range of possible applications that can be used for commercial and marketing purposes. It is desirable th...
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The growing interest in recent years for gender recognition from face images is mainly attributable to the wide range of possible applications that can be used for commercial and marketing purposes. It is desirable that such algorithms process high resolution video frames acquired by using surveillance cameras in real-time. To the best of our knowledge, however, there are no studies which analyze the computational impact of the methods and the difficulties related to the processing of faces extracted from videos captured in the wild. We propose a novel face descriptor based on the gradient magnitudes of facial landmarks, which are points automatically extracted from the face contour, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth and chin. We evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach on two new datasets, which we made available online and that consist of color face images and color video sequences acquired in real scenarios. The proposed approach is more efficient and effective than three commercial libraries.
The static image and video information compression algorithms development over the last 15-20 years, as well as standardized and non-standardized formats for data storage and transmission have been analyzed;the main f...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783319393452
ISBN:
(纸本)9783319393452;9783319393445
The static image and video information compression algorithms development over the last 15-20 years, as well as standardized and non-standardized formats for data storage and transmission have been analyzed;the main factors affecting the further development of approaches that eliminate the redundancy of transmitted and stored visual information have been studied. The conclusion on the current prospects for the development of image compression technologies has been made. New approaches that use new low-level quasi-orthogonal matrices as transform operators have been defined. The advantages of such approaches opening new fundamentally different opportunities in the field of applied processing of digital visual information have been identified and presented.
In this paper, an integral design that combines optical system with imageprocessing is introduced to obtain high resolution images, and the performance is evaluated and demonstrated. Traditional imaging methods often...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781510601154
In this paper, an integral design that combines optical system with imageprocessing is introduced to obtain high resolution images, and the performance is evaluated and demonstrated. Traditional imaging methods often separate the two technical procedures of optical system design and imaging processing, resulting in the failures in efficient cooperation between the optical and digital elements. Therefore, an innovative approach is presented to combine the merit function during optical design together with the constraint conditions of imageprocessingalgorithms. Specifically, an optical imaging system with low resolution is designed to collect the image signals which are indispensable for imaging processing, while the ultimate goal is to obtain high resolution images from the final system. In order to optimize the global performance, the optimization function of ZEMAX software is utilized and the number of optimization cycles is controlled. Then Wiener filter algorithm is adopted to process the image simulation and mean squared error (MSE) is taken as evaluation criterion. The results show that, although the optical figures of merit for the optical imaging systems is not the best, it can provide image signals that are more suitable for imageprocessing. In conclusion. The integral design of optical system and imageprocessing can search out the overall optimal solution which is missed by the traditional design methods. Especially, when designing some complex optical system, this integral design strategy has obvious advantages to simplify structure and reduce cost, as well as to gain high resolution images simultaneously, which has a promising perspective of industrial application.
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