Artificial 3D object compositing has recently gained interest in the context of emerging augmented and virtual reality technology. The problem takes as input the initial scene and places a 3D object anywhere within it...
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(纸本)9781450364027
Artificial 3D object compositing has recently gained interest in the context of emerging augmented and virtual reality technology. The problem takes as input the initial scene and places a 3D object anywhere within it, rendering a realistic output. This approach is challenging in the absence of prior knowledge of scene geometry, or user annotation to approximate it. Single images of a scene may not reveal all the present illumination conditions, nor reliable depth information. The state-of-the-art methods do not account for compositing 3D objects in between existing scene topology, nor cater for the inclusion of objects behind transparent areas within the original scene. We contribute a framework capable of realistic 3D object compositing with physically accurate soft shadows into a 2D scene derived from a stereo image pair which does not rely on the user's scene annotations for recreating a realistic result or on the availability of RGB-D capable hardware. The benefit of this approach is that hardware information and user knowledge are not required factors in either the 3D reconstruction stage, nor the compositing stage of the framework. We conclude with a stepby-step analysis across all of the stages of the pipeline.
The impacts of climate change are felt by most critical systems, such as infrastructure, ecological systems, and power-plants. However, contemporary Earth System Models (ESM) are run at spatial resolutions too coarse ...
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(纸本)9780999241127
The impacts of climate change are felt by most critical systems, such as infrastructure, ecological systems, and power-plants. However, contemporary Earth System Models (ESM) are run at spatial resolutions too coarse for assessing effects this localized. Local scale projections can be obtained using statistical downscaling, a technique which uses historical climate observations to learn a low-resolution to high-resolution mapping. The spatio-temporal nature of the climate system motivates the adaptation of super-resolution imageprocessing techniques to statistical downscaling. In our work, we present DeepSD, a generalized stacked super resolution convolutional neural network (SRCNN) framework with multi-scale input channels for statistical downscaling of climate variables. A comparison of DeepSD to four state-of-the-art methods downscaling daily precipitation from 1 degree (100km) to 1/8 degrees (12.5km) over the Continental United States. Furthermore, a framework using the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) platform is discussed for downscaling more than 20 ESM models with multiple emission scenarios.
This paper describes a framework for action recognition which aims to recognize the goals and activities of one or more human from a series of observations. We propose an approach for the human action recognition base...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781510621886
ISBN:
(纸本)9781510621886
This paper describes a framework for action recognition which aims to recognize the goals and activities of one or more human from a series of observations. We propose an approach for the human action recognition based on the 3D dense micro-block difference. The proposed algorithm is a two-stage procedure: (a) image preprocessing using a 3D Gabor filter and (b) a descriptor calculation using 3D dense micro-block difference with SVM classifier. At the first step, an efficient spatial computational scheme designed for the convolution with a bank of 3D Gabor filters is present. This filter intensifies motion using a convolution for a set of 3D patches and arbitrarily-oriented anisotropic Gaussian. For preprocessed frames, we calculate the local features such as 3D dense micro-block difference (3D DMD), which capture the local structure from the image patches at high scales. This approach is processing the small 3D blocks with different scales from frames which capture the microstructure from it. The proposed image representation is combined with fisher vector method and linear SVM classifier. We evaluate the proposed approach on the UCF50, HMDB51 and UCF101 databases. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach on video with a stochastic textures background with comparisons of the state-of-the-art methods.
In the study of virtual fitting techniques, human body modeling has always occupied a very important position. Whether a model that is roughly consistent with users can be established has a direct impact on the fittin...
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In this work, we present a method for automatic topic classification of educational videos using a speech transcript transform. Our method works as follows: First, speech recognition is used to generate video transcri...
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Nowadays, process supervision occupies an important place in quality control, cooperative localization in mobile robotics, video and imageprocessing, and intelligent system design, to name a few. Indeed, any failure ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728103815
Nowadays, process supervision occupies an important place in quality control, cooperative localization in mobile robotics, video and imageprocessing, and intelligent system design, to name a few. Indeed, any failure of such processes can reduce performance and have serious consequences. The development of statisticalmethods, capable of detecting and locating anomalies in these dynamic systems as quickly as possible, is of real interest. In this context, we have proposed in a previous study a reformulation of the change detection strategy using an entropy-based criterion. Our approach allowed the calculation of an adaptive threshold, unlike the Bayes criterion. In this paper, we propose an improvement of this study by introducing the use of an optimal window of observations. We validate the proposed approach to the Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) control charts, which is a commonly used change detection technique. Our strategy is illustrated on a well-known example of the literature. Finally, this windowed entropy-based criterion allows one to design a fault-tolerant fusion methodology, which is experimentally validated from an extended Kalman filter (EKF) in collaborative mobile robotics.
Histopathology is a critical tool in the diagnosis and stratification of cancer. Digital Pathology involves the scanning of stained and fixed tissue samples to produce high resolution images that can be used for compu...
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(纸本)9781538636466
Histopathology is a critical tool in the diagnosis and stratification of cancer. Digital Pathology involves the scanning of stained and fixed tissue samples to produce high resolution images that can be used for computer-aided diagnosis and research. A common challenge in digital pathology related to the quality and characteristics of staining, which can vary widely from center to center and also within the same institution depending on the age of the stain and other human factors. In this paper we examine the use of deep learning models for colorizing H&E stained tissue images and compare the results with traditional imageprocessing/statistical approaches that have been developed for standardizing or normalizing histopathology images. We adapt existing deep learning models that have been developed for colorizing natural images and compare the results with models developed specifically for digital pathology. Our results show that deep learning approaches can standardize the colorization of H&E images. The performance as measured by the chi-square statistic shows that the deep learning approach can be nearly as good as current state-of-the art normalization methods.
Super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) allows for producing a high-resolution (HR) image from a set of low-resolution (LR) observations. The majority of existing methods require tuning a number of hyper-parameters whic...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319775388
Super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) allows for producing a high-resolution (HR) image from a set of low-resolution (LR) observations. The majority of existing methods require tuning a number of hyper-parameters which control the reconstruction process and configure the imaging model that is supposed to reflect the relation between high and low resolution. In this paper, we demonstrate that the reconstruction process is very sensitive to the actual relation between LR and HR images, and we argue that this is a substantial obstacle in deploying SRR in practice. We propose to search the hyper-parameter space using a genetic algorithm (GA), thus adapting to the actual relation between LR and HR, which has not been reported in the literature so far. The results of our extensive experimental study clearly indicate that our GA improves the capacities of SRR. Importantly, the GA converges to different values of the hyper-parameters depending on the applied degradation procedure, which is confirmed using statistical tests.
The problem of images enhancement in automatic mode with an acceptable level of computational costs is considered. The task of adaptive enhancement of integral contrast for complex monochrome images on the basis of th...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538663837
The problem of images enhancement in automatic mode with an acceptable level of computational costs is considered. The task of adaptive enhancement of integral contrast for complex monochrome images on the basis of their nonlinear statistical non-inertial transformations is considered. The research of the effectiveness of the main histogram-based methods of enhancement of the integral contrast of complex images with low-contrast small-sized objects and non-uniform illumination is carried out. A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of no-reference assessing the generalized contrast of complex images using the histogram-based metrics of integral contrast and on the basis of expert assessments is carried out.
Ultrasound image despeckling is an important research field, since it can improve the interpretability of one of the main categories of medical imaging. Many techniques have been tried over the years for ultrasound de...
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Ultrasound image despeckling is an important research field, since it can improve the interpretability of one of the main categories of medical imaging. Many techniques have been tried over the years for ultrasound despeckling, and more recently, a great deal of attention has been focused on patch-based methods, such as non-local means and block-matching collaborative filtering (BM3D). A common idea in these recent methods is the measure of distance between patches, originally proposed as the Euclidean distance, for filtering additive white Gaussian noise. In this paper, we derive new stochastic distances for the Fisher-Tippett distribution, based on well-known statistical divergences, and use them as patch distance measures in a modified version of the BM3D algorithm for despeckling log-compressed ultrasound images. State-of-the-art results in filtering simulated, synthetic, and real ultrasound images confirm the potential of the proposed approach.
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