This first article was aimed at providing the basic formulations of moments, a classification, and an introductory bibliography. This first part presents a classification of moments, and, rather than entering into the...
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This first article was aimed at providing the basic formulations of moments, a classification, and an introductory bibliography. This first part presents a classification of moments, and, rather than entering into theoretical details, it sketches their different expressions. The companion articles will review their properties and the potential contributions they already bring to imaging.
In this work, an integrated imaging system to obtain accurate and reproducible multi-spectral images and a novel multi-spectral image segmentation algorithm are proposed. The system collects up to 20 different spectra...
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In this work, an integrated imaging system to obtain accurate and reproducible multi-spectral images and a novel multi-spectral image segmentation algorithm are proposed. The system collects up to 20 different spectral bands within a range that vary from 395 nm to 970 nm. The system is designed to acquire geometrically and chromatically corrected images in homogeneous and diffuse illumination, so images can be compared over time. The proposed segmentation algorithm combines the information provided by all the spectral bands to segment the different regions of interest. Three experiments are conducted to show the ability of the system to acquire highly precise, reproducible and standardized multi-spectral images and to show its applicabilities in different situations. (C) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The implementation of a specific image recognition technique for an artificial vision system is presented. The proposed algorithm involves two steps. First, smaller images are obtained using Discrete Wavelet Transform...
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(纸本)9783540771289
The implementation of a specific image recognition technique for an artificial vision system is presented. The proposed algorithm involves two steps. First, smaller images are obtained using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) after four stages of decomposition and taking only the approximations. This way the volume of information to process is reduced considerably and the system memory requirements are reduced as well. Another purpose of DWT is to filter noise that could be induced in the images. Second, the Morphological Associative Memories (MAM) are used to recognize landmarks. The proposed algorithm provides flexibility, possibility to parallelize algorithms and high overall performance of hardware implemented image retrieval system. The resulted hardware implementation has low memory requirements, needs in limited arithmetical precision and reduced number of simple operations. These benefits are guaranteed due to the simplicity of MAM learning/restoration process that uses simple morphological operations, dilation and erosion, in other words, MAM calculate maximums or minimums of sums. These features turn out the artificial vision system to be robust and optimal for the use in real-time autonomous systems. The proposed image recognition system has, among others, the following useful features: robustness to the noise induced in the patter to process, high processing speed, and it can be easily adapted to diverse operation circumstances.
A contour detection model, inspired by the behavior of the primary visual cortex, is presented. The response of a central stimulus in the receptive field is affected by the presence of surrounding stimuli - for some s...
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A contour detection model, inspired by the behavior of the primary visual cortex, is presented. The response of a central stimulus in the receptive field is affected by the presence of surrounding stimuli - for some stimulus conditions, the response is suppressed and for other conditions the response is enhanced. The visual mechanisms of contextual influences are utilized to extract "coherent" configurations. This is mainly due to the following two reasons: (1) on the one hand, a smooth contour can yield collinear excitation, which highlights smooth contours from irregularly textured surround;(2) on the other hand, similar orientation textures receive iso-orientation surround suppression and region boundary is subjected to the less inhibition, which makes boundary more salient for perceptual pop-out. Accordingly, smooth contours progressively stand out from their surround and at the same time textures are gradually suppressed by their surround through dynamic fine-tuning of contextual information. The proposed method which distinguishes between contours and texture edges is more effective for contour-based object recognition tasks. Initial experiments show that the model can be successfully applied to contour detection. Especially, when object contours are lumped together with unwantedly cluttered surround, the advantage of our approach is more prominent. This study provides a biological scheme for contour detection in computervision. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Tracking is an important topic in computervision and object recognition. Recently, a probabilistic approach using particle filters has been applied to track moving objects. This kind of approach often uses a color hi...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9784901122078
Tracking is an important topic in computervision and object recognition. Recently, a probabilistic approach using particle filters has been applied to track moving objects. This kind of approach often uses a color histogram to estimate a likelihood function for probabilistic tracking. When two similar objects cross each other in view, the likelihood becomes high for both. This often causes tracking to fail. This paper proposes a new method to address the object crossing problem. The method estimates the object region, splits the region into horizontal zones, and calculates similarity based on each split region and each horizontal zone of the target. The new method makes the tracking of similar targets more robust when those targets cross. Results are demonstrated on real video sequences.
Face and facial feature detection plays an important role in various applications such as human computer interaction, video surveillance, face tracking, and face recognition. Efficient face and facial feature detectio...
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Face and facial feature detection plays an important role in various applications such as human computer interaction, video surveillance, face tracking, and face recognition. Efficient face and facial feature detection algorithms are required for applying to those tasks. This paper presents the algorithms for all types of face images in the presence of several image conditions. There are two main stages. In the first stage, the faces are detected from an original image by using Canny edge detection and our proposed average face templates. Second, a proposed neural visual model (NVM) is used to recognize all possibilities of facial feature positions. Input parameters are obtained from the positions of facial features and the face characteristics that are low sensitive to intensity change. Finally, to improve the results, image dilation is applied for removing some irrelevant regions. Additionally, the algorithms can be extended to rotational invariance problem by using Radon transformation to extract the main angle of the face. With more than 1000 images, the algorithms are successfully tested with various types of faces affected by intensity, occlusion, structural components, facial expression, illumination, noise, and orientation. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
IC packages, in semiconductor industries, are being marked through certain sequence by either laser marker or ink markers. A critical step in the final visual inspection is the orientation check of ICs that can be det...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424415502
IC packages, in semiconductor industries, are being marked through certain sequence by either laser marker or ink markers. A critical step in the final visual inspection is the orientation check of ICs that can be determined by detecting images of Pin-1 notch or Pin-1 dimple, which are molded/marked on the IC packages. This study accomplishes a software interface for a simple cost-effective approach to develop an automated low cost vision system that is capable of detecting the IC orientation on a JEDEC tray for a Laser/Ink Marker System used in the IC industries. The algorithm has the competence and flexibility to distinguish correct orientation for various types of IC packages (QFP, PGA, BGA, Flip chip etc.). The workable prototype possesses input variables, control system and output variables along with software implementation using the patternrecognition template based on RGB (red-green-blue) color method for every pixel of the images. Images of Pin-1 dimple or Pin-1 Notch of the IC packages are considered to perform image matching with the software development. The accuracy level has been achieved to a threshold value of above 80% of the total pixels scanned between the matched images. With this threshold value, matching efficiency between two similar images has been attained near about 100%, based on the proposed algorithmic results. Illumination variation, vibration of the machine on conveyors and handlers, computer's timing gap with the web camera and low resolution (320 x 240 or 277 x 245 pixels) of the taken images have made the image matching a complicated one. However, all the constraints are taken into account for setting the threshold value and obtaining the matching accuracy and have been achieved the appropriate matching algorithm to implement the cost effective automated IC orientation checking system.
We propose a new approach to stereo matching for obstacle detection in the autonomous navigation framework. An accurate but slow reconstruction of the ID scene is not needed;rather, it is more important to have a fast...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783540729020
We propose a new approach to stereo matching for obstacle detection in the autonomous navigation framework. An accurate but slow reconstruction of the ID scene is not needed;rather, it is more important to have a fast localization of the obstacles to avoid them. All the methods in the literature, based on a punctual stereo matching, are ineffective in realistic contexts because they are either computationally too expensive, or unable to deal with the presence of uniform patterns, or of perturbations between the left and right images. Our idea is to face the stereo matching problem as a matching between homologous regions. The stereo images are represented as graphs and a graph matching is computed to find homologous regions. Our method is strongly robust in a realistic environment, requires little parameter tuning, and is adequately fast, as experimentally demonstrated in a comparison with the best algorithms in the literature.
This paper presents an automatic sign language translator, which is able to translate Malaysian sign language using pattern-matching algorithm. The sign language translator is a vision-based system where the image of ...
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