High quality depth map estimation is required for better visualization of 3D views as there is great impact of depth map quality on overall 3D image quality. If the depth is estimated from conventional ways using two ...
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High quality depth map estimation is required for better visualization of 3D views as there is great impact of depth map quality on overall 3D image quality. If the depth is estimated from conventional ways using two or more images, some defects come into picture, mostly in regions without texture. We utilised Microsoft Kinect RGBD dataset to obtain input color images and depth maps which also includes some noise factors. We proposed a method to remove this noise and get quality depth images. First the color and depth images are aligned to each other using intensity based image registration. This method of image alignment is mostly used in medical field, but we applied this technique to correct kinect depth maps by which one can avoid cumbersome task of feature based point correspondence between images. There is no requirement of preprocessing or segmentation steps if we use intensity based image alignment method. Second, we proposed an algorithm to fill the unwanted gaps in kinect depth maps and upsampled it using corresponding high resolution color image. Finally we applied 9×9 median filtering on implementation results and get high quality and improved depth maps.
In this paper, an approach for the classification of different hardwood species of open access database, using texture feature extraction and supervised machine learning technique has been implemented. Edges of comple...
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In this paper, an approach for the classification of different hardwood species of open access database, using texture feature extraction and supervised machine learning technique has been implemented. Edges of complex cellular structure of microscopic images of hardwood are enhanced with the application of Gabor filter, and Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) as an effective texture feature extraction technique is being revalidated. About, 44 features have been extracted from GLCM; these features have been further normalized in the range [0.1, 1]. Multilayer Perceptron Backpropagation Artificial Neural Network have been used for classification. Experiments conducted on 25 wood species have resulted in recognition accuracy of about 88.60% and 92.60% using Levenberg-Marquardt backpropagation training function with two different datasets for training, validation and testing ratio (70%, 15%, 15% and 80%, 10%, 10%) respectively. Proposed methodology can be extended with optimized machine learning techniques for online identification of wood.
In this paper, a shape recognition method is proposed for a few common geometrical shapes including straight line, circle, ellipse, triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon and hexagon. In the present work, two indices namel...
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In this paper, a shape recognition method is proposed for a few common geometrical shapes including straight line, circle, ellipse, triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon and hexagon. In the present work, two indices namely Unique Shape Signature (USS) and Condensibility (C) are employed for shape recognition of an object. Using the USS index, all the above mentioned non-circular shapes are neatly recognized, whereas, the C index recognized the circular objects. An added advantage of the proposed method is that it can further differentiate triangles, quadrilaterals and both symmetric and non-symmetric shapes of pentagon and hexagon using distance variance (V ar(d si )) parameter calculated from USS. Applying the proposed method on above mentioned shapes, an overall recognition rate of 98.80% is achieved on several simulated and real objects of different shapes. Proposed method has also been compared with two existing methods, presents better result. Performance of the proposed method is illustrated by applying it on underwater images and it is observed to perform satisfactory on all the images under test.
Dopaminergic imaging using Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) with 123 I-Ioflupane have shown to increase the diagnostic accuracy in Parkinson's Disease (PD). Studies show that around 10% of subje...
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Dopaminergic imaging using Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) with 123 I-Ioflupane have shown to increase the diagnostic accuracy in Parkinson's Disease (PD). Studies show that around 10% of subjects who are clinically diagnosed as PD, have SPECT scans in the normal range and are called Scans Without Evidence of Dopaminergic Deficit (SWEDD) subjects. Subsequent follow-up on these subjects has indicated that they are unlikely to have PD. Detection and differentiation of PD and SWEDD is problematic in the early stages of the disease. Early and accurate diagnosis of PD and also SWEDD is crucial for early management, avoidance of unnecessary medical examinations and therapies; and their side-effects. We in our paper, use the SPECT images from 35 Normal, 36 PD and 38 SWEDD subjects as obtained from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) database, to carry out intensity-based surface fitting using polynomial model. This is the first time that such kind of modeling is carried out on the SPECT images for the characterization of PD. Our results show that the surface profile in terms of model coefficients and goodness-of-fit parameters is different for Normal, Early PD and SWEDD subjects. Such kind of modeling may aid in the diagnosis of early PD and SWEDD from SPECT images.
We present an efficient GPU technique for rendering rich geometric detail (e.g., surface mesostructure) of complex surfaces. We use sphere-tracing aided by directional distance maps (DDMs) to quickly find ray-mesostru...
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Nonlocal means (NLM) video denoising algorithm though provide very competitive results, suffer from high computational cost. We propose to reduce the computations through the concept of dimensionality reduction using ...
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Motion detection using background modeling is a widely used technique in object tracking. To meet the demands of real-time multi-target tracking applications in large and/or high resolution imagery fast parallel algor...
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Patch-based techniques are proven to generate promising results and outperform many of the existing state-of-art techniques for most of the applications in digital imageprocessing. In this work we develop a patch bas...
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The problem of retargeting a larger image in a small display is to maintain recognizability of the objects. The retargeting scheme proposed in this paper provides a suitable solution to this. The input image is partit...
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Estimation of the area of mouth opening from a video of the speaker's face and processing of the simultaneously recorded speech signal can be used for estimation of vocal tract shape during speech production. A te...
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