Object-oriented motion segmentation is a basic step of the effective coding of image-series. Following the MPEG-4 standard we should define such objects. In this paper, a fully parallel and locally connected computati...
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Object-oriented motion segmentation is a basic step of the effective coding of image-series. Following the MPEG-4 standard we should define such objects. In this paper, a fully parallel and locally connected computation model is described for segmenting frames of image sequences based on spatial and motion information. The first type of the algorithm is called early segmentation. It is based on spatial information only and aims at providing an over-segmentation of the frame in real-time. Even if the obtained results do not minimize the number of regions, it is a good starting point for higher level post processing, when the decision on how to regroup regions in object can rely on both spatial and temporal information. In the second type of the algorithm stochastic optimization methods are used to form homogenous dense optical vector fields which act directly on motion vectors instead of 2D or 3D motion parameters. This makes the algorithm simple and less time consuming than many other relaxation methods. Then we apply morphological operators to handle disocclusion effects and to map the motion field to the spatial content. computer simulations of the CNN architecture demonstrate the usefulness of our methods. All solutions in our approach suggest a fully parallel implementation in a newly developed CNN-UM VLSI chip architecture.
Computational mathematical morphology provides zeta-function-based representation for windowed, translation-invariant image operators taking their values in a complete lattice. image operators are induced via windowin...
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(纸本)0819419273
Computational mathematical morphology provides zeta-function-based representation for windowed, translation-invariant image operators taking their values in a complete lattice. image operators are induced via windowing by product lattice operators and, in both the increasing and nonincreasing cases, these reduce to classical logical representation for binary operators. The present paper presents the image-operator theory for increasing filters. In particular, it treats gray-to-binary and gray-to-gray morphological operators, as well as representation of lattice-valued stack filters via threshold decomposition.
Visual occlusion events constitute a major source of depth information. This paper presents a self-organizing neural network that learns to detect, represent, and predict the visibility and invisibility relationships ...
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Deconvolution of images of the same object from multiple sensors with different point spread functions as suggested by Berenstein [Proc. IEEE 78, 723 (1990);stochastic and neural methods in signal processing, image Pr...
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Deconvolution of images of the same object from multiple sensors with different point spread functions as suggested by Berenstein [Proc. IEEE 78, 723 (1990);stochastic and neural methods in signal processing, image processing, and computervision, S. Chen, ed., Proc. Soc. Photo-Opt. Instrum. Eng. 1569, 35 (1991)], opens new opportunities in solving the image-deconvolution problem, which has challenged researchers for years. We attack this problem in a more realistic formulation than that used by Berenstein;it explicitly takes into account image sensor noise and the necessity for adaptive restoration with estimation of all required signal and noise parameters directly from the observed noisy signals. We show that arbitrary restoration accuracy can be achieved by the appropriate choice of the number of sensor channels and the signal-to-noise ratio in each channel. The results are then extended to the practically important situation when true images in different sensor channels are not identical.
Markov random field techniques for region labeling have become prevalent in image processing research since the seminal work of Geman and Geman in the early 1 980's. Their use in actual working systems, however, h...
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(纸本)0819416282
Markov random field techniques for region labeling have become prevalent in image processing research since the seminal work of Geman and Geman in the early 1 980's. Their use in actual working systems, however, has been hampered by a number ofdifficult problems. Perhaps the most intractable of the problems has been the convergence rate of the algorithm. In this paper, we present a technique that introduces stable points in the labeling array of the random field. The stable points are determined by using a simple statistical pixel classifier together with a confidencemeasure at each pixel. The most confident (top 1% )pixellabels are selected and these labels are used to initiate the evolution of the random field. The stable points introduce pockets of "certainty" in the evolution of the process. The labeling is locally stable and even small numbers of stable points vastly decrease convergence rates of the algorithm.
A general class of stochastic search algorithms, random heuristic search, is reviewed. A general convergence theorem for this class is proved. Since the simple genetic algorithm is an instance of random heuristic sear...
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(纸本)0819416282
A general class of stochastic search algorithms, random heuristic search, is reviewed. A general convergence theorem for this class is proved. Since the simple genetic algorithm is an instance of random heuristic search, a corollary is a result concerning GAs and logarithmic time to convergence.
EEG signal analysis is a key to the understanding of brain activities. Traditionally, this process involves quantifying the signal in terms of frequency and amplitude, on which basis a number of waveforms have been id...
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Genetic algorithms have been used for many diverse applications. In these applications, possible solutions are represented by linear strings. In many other applications, however, strings can not adequately model the s...
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Model-based 2-D object recognition is investigated by using neural network. Object recognition is treated as a subgraph matching. A neural network system is proposed to complete subgraph matching. The system consists ...
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(纸本)0819416282
Model-based 2-D object recognition is investigated by using neural network. Object recognition is treated as a subgraph matching. A neural network system is proposed to complete subgraph matching. The system consists of a large Hopfield network, called global network, and several small Hopfield networks, called subnetworks. The system starts with a randomly set initial state of the global network. The subnetworks are dynamically created based on the stable output state of the global network and then the outputs of the subnetworks are feedbacked to the global network to reset its initial state. This process continues until the whole system is stabilized, where the optimal subgraph matching is obtained. This method avoids the local minimum problem from using a single Hopfield network and also uses much less calculating time than simulated annealing algorithm. computer simulation is done to verify it.
In this paper, several image compression theories are unified. These theories are: Hilbert image compression, Fractal image compression, image compression using Boltzmann machines, using stochastic artificial neural n...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819415421
In this paper, several image compression theories are unified. These theories are: Hilbert image compression, Fractal image compression, image compression using Boltzmann machines, using stochastic artificial neural network (SANN), using stochastic cellular automata (SCA) and 0-image encoding.
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