We consider the problem of estimating parameters of a model described by a system of equations which underlies a wide class of computervision applications. One method to solve such a problem is the fundamental numeri...
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In order to transform image contrast and enhance vision effect the enhancement processing of image is need in the system of object recognition and automatic target tracking. The methods of image enhancement are more, ...
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(纸本)9780819469533
In order to transform image contrast and enhance vision effect the enhancement processing of image is need in the system of object recognition and automatic target tracking. The methods of image enhancement are more, for example, linearity, line segment, nonlinear, histogram equalization, histogram normalization, power exponent, local gray-level statistic feature and so on. Through analyzing gradient characteristic of image gray-level, in this paper the method of image enhancement is presented based on the local statistic arithmetic of neighborhood grads even. Experiment results show the correctness and utility of this method.
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is one of these applications where usually only 2D information is available to perform a 3D task. It requires a high degree of sensory-motor skills to overcome the disengagement betwee...
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(纸本)9783540728481
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is one of these applications where usually only 2D information is available to perform a 3D task. It requires a high degree of sensory-motor skills to overcome the disengagement between action and perception caused by the physical separation of the surgeon with the operative site. The integration of body movements with visual information serves to assist the surgeon providing a sense of position. Our purpose in this paper is to present a solution to the exterior orientation problem based on computervision, as a tool in assisted interventions, locating the instruments with respect to the surgeon. Having knowledge of the 3D transformations applied to the instrument and its projections in the image plane, we show it is possible to estimate its orientation with only two different rotations and also its relative position if scale information is supplied. Experimental results show some advantages of this new algorithm such as simplicity and real-time performance.
Image contrast is an objective measure representing one of the distinct visual information. Although several contrast definitions are available in the literatures, most fail to match human perception. In this paper, w...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781601320438
Image contrast is an objective measure representing one of the distinct visual information. Although several contrast definitions are available in the literatures, most fail to match human perception. In this paper, we propose a no-reference objective contrast metric for complex images which follows the human visual perception. The contrast metric is obtained using the contrast perception depending image spatial frequency. Furthermore, the proposed contrast measurement includes integrating factors of human visual characteristics such as multi-scale property, contrast constancy property (supra-threshold region), color channel property and local adaptation property of the contrast sensitivity function (CSF).
The map-seeking circuit (MSC) is an explicit biologically-motivated computational mechanism which provides practical solution of problems in object recognition, image registration and stabilization, limb inverse-kinem...
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The map-seeking circuit (MSC) is an explicit biologically-motivated computational mechanism which provides practical solution of problems in object recognition, image registration and stabilization, limb inverse-kinematics and other inverse problems which involve transformation discovery. We formulate this algorithm as discrete dynamical system on a set Delta = Pi(L)(l=1)Delta((l)), where each Delta((l)) is a compact subset of a nonnegative orthant of R-n, and show that for an open and dense set of initial conditions in Delta the corresponding solutions converge to either a vector with unique nonzero element in each Delta((l)) or to a zero vector. The first result implies that the circuit finds a unique best mapping which relates reference pattern to a target pattern;the second result is interpreted as "no match found". These results verify numerically observed behavior in numerous practical applications.
This paper presents a complete machine vision system for automatic descriptive sensory evaluation of meals. A human sensory panel first developed a set of 72 sensory attributes describing the appearance of a prototypi...
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This paper presents a complete machine vision system for automatic descriptive sensory evaluation of meals. A human sensory panel first developed a set of 72 sensory attributes describing the appearance of a prototypical meal, and then evaluated the intensities of those attributes on a data set of 58 images of example meals. This data was then used both to train and validate the performance of the artificial system. This system covers all stages of image analysis from pre-processing to patternrecognition, including novel techniques for enhancing the segmentation of meal components and extracting image features that mimic the attributes developed by the panel. Artificial neural networks were used to learn the mapping from image features to attribute intensity values. The results showed that the new system was extremely good in learning and reproducing the opinion of the human sensory experts, achieving almost the same performance as the panel members themselves. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
To perform as desired in a dynamic environment a vision system must adapt to a variety of operating conditions by selecting vision modules, tuning their parameters, and controlling image acquisition. Knowleage-based (...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780769527864
To perform as desired in a dynamic environment a vision system must adapt to a variety of operating conditions by selecting vision modules, tuning their parameters, and controlling image acquisition. Knowleage-based (KB) controller-agents that reason over explicitly represented knowledge and interact with their environment can be used for this task;however the lack of a unifying methodology and development tools makes KB controllers difficult to create, maintain, and reuse. This paper presents the INVICON toolkit, based on the IndiGolog agent programming language with elements from control theory. It provides a basic methodology, a vision module declaration template, a suite of control components, and support tools for KB controller development. We have evaluated INVICON in two case studies that involved controlling vision-based pose estimation systems. The case studies show that INVICON reduces the effort needed to build. KB controllers for challenging domains and improves their flexibility and robustness.
The visual detection and recognition of objects is facilitated by context. This paper studies two types of learning methods for realizing context-based object detection in paintings. The first method is called the gra...
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The visual detection and recognition of objects is facilitated by context. This paper studies two types of learning methods for realizing context-based object detection in paintings. The first method is called the gradient method;it learns to transform the spatial context into a gradient towards the object. The second method, the context-detection method, learns to detect image regions that are likely to contain objects. The accuracy and speed of both methods are evaluated on a face-detection task involving natural and painted faces in a wide variety of contexts. The experimental results show that the gradient method enhances accuracy at the cost of computational speed, whereas the context-detection method optimises speed at the cost of accuracy. The different results of both methods are argued to arise from the different ways in which the methods trade-off accuracy and speed. We conclude that both the gradient method and the context-detection method can be applied to reliable and fast object detection in paintings and that the choice for either method depends on the application and user constraints. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A very important problem in computervision is the matching, of features extracted from pairs of images. At this proposal, a new neural network, the Double Asynchronous Competitor (DAC) is presented. It exploits the s...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783540748175
A very important problem in computervision is the matching, of features extracted from pairs of images. At this proposal, a new neural network, the Double Asynchronous Competitor (DAC) is presented. It exploits the self-organization for solving the matching as a patternrecognition problem. As a consequence, a set of attributes is required for each image feature. The network is able to find the variety of the input space. DAC exploits two intercoupled neural networks and outputs the matches together with the occlusion maps of the pair of frames taken in consideration. DAC can also solve other matching problems.
Cognitive informatics is a very hot topic today, trying to provide solutions to problems in computation that are easily solved by the brain but are hard for a computer. The information processing properties of the bra...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781615677214
Cognitive informatics is a very hot topic today, trying to provide solutions to problems in computation that are easily solved by the brain but are hard for a computer. The information processing properties of the brain are taken as the basis for such artificial systems. The first step of visual information processing, the extraction of orientation selective contours, is done in the primary visual cortex. A similar, orientation based filtering can be the first step in many vision systems of cognitive informatics. This paper presents a new approach to orientation selective contour detection. Oriented motion blur is used to filter for the desired orientations. The motion blur operation is performed before digitalization, using a vibrating mirror. The proposed technique not only provides a very high speed, high resolution contour detector, but also solves the problem of contour discontinuities.
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