Shape from focus (SFF) method determines the degree of focus in a sequence of observations to estimate the shape of a 3-D object. Existing SFF algorithms use an ad hoc interpolation strategy to account for the error d...
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Shape from focus (SFF) method determines the degree of focus in a sequence of observations to estimate the shape of a 3-D object. Existing SFF algorithms use an ad hoc interpolation strategy to account for the error due to the finite step-size by which the translational table is moved while capturing the images. We propose an improved SFF method that uses relative defocus blur derived from actual image data to arrive at the final estimates of the shape of the object. A space-variant image restoration scheme is also proposed to obtain a focused image of the 3-D object. The shape estimates as well as the quality of the restored image using the proposed method are superior to that of traditional SFF
In this paper we make use of the idea that a robot can autonomously discover objects and learn their appearances by poking and prodding at interesting parts of a scene. In order to make the resultant object recognitio...
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In this paper, we propose a fast method for separating reflection components using a single color image. We first propose a specular-free two-band image that is a specularity-invariant color image representation. Refl...
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In this paper, we propose a fast method for separating reflection components using a single color image. We first propose a specular-free two-band image that is a specularity-invariant color image representation. Reflection components separation is achieved by comparing local ratios at each pixel and making those ratios equal in an iterative framework. The proposed method is very fast and shows reasonable results for textured indoor/outdoor images.
Recently, many global stereo methods have achieved good results by modeling a disparity surface as a Markov random field (MRF) and by solving an optimization problem with various techniques. However, most global metho...
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Recently, many global stereo methods have achieved good results by modeling a disparity surface as a Markov random field (MRF) and by solving an optimization problem with various techniques. However, most global methods mainly focus on how to minimize conventional cost functions efficiently, although it is more important to define cost functions well to improve performance. In this paper, we propose new symmetric cost functions for global stereo methods. We first present a symmetric data cost function for the likelihood and then propose a symmetric discontinuity cost function for the prior in the MRF model for stereo. In defining cost function, both the reference image and the target image are taken into account to improve performance without modeling half-occluded pixels explicitly and without using color segmentation. The performance improvement of stereo matching due to the proposed symmetric cost functions is verified by applying the proposed symmetric cost functions to the belief propagation (BP) based stereo method. Experimental results for standard testbed images show that the performance of the BP based stereo method is greatly improved by the proposed symmetric cost functions.
In this paper a coarse-to-fine system framework for analyzing the head gesture is presented. We discuss several important modules from computervision aspects, including the pose-invariant face detection, face trackin...
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In this paper a coarse-to-fine system framework for analyzing the head gesture is presented. We discuss several important modules from computervision aspects, including the pose-invariant face detection, face tracking, pose determination and high-resolution image reconstruction for eye pupils detection. Visual cues using intensity images obtained from in-car cameras are explored. A pose-invariant face detection algorithm is used to get the initial face area; afterwards face tracking and validation step is proposed to segment the face region for pose determination. The algorithm is tested on the drivers images under natural driving conditions. Experimental results show that the algorithm is robust to the head pose changes as well as the illumination changes. In this system framework, we propose that when coarse analysis utilizing the head pose alone is not sufficient for driver's behavior analysis, a finer analysis based on the eye gaze tracking is used, which requires images with sufficient resolution. A novel super-resolution reconstruction algorithm is proposed to help reveal more facial details, so as to facilitate the pupil detection. Experiment on the synthesis data shows the effectiveness of the super-resolution reconstruction algorithm
A regression model in the tensorPCA subspace is proposed in this paper for face super-resolution reconstruction. An approximate conditional probability model is used for the tensor subspace coefficients and maximum-li...
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A regression model in the tensorPCA subspace is proposed in this paper for face super-resolution reconstruction. An approximate conditional probability model is used for the tensor subspace coefficients and maximum-likelihood estimator gives a linear regression model. The approximation is corrected by adding non-linear component from a RBF-type regressor. Experiments on face images from FERET database validate the algorithm. Although each projection coefficient is estimated by a local estimator, tensorPCA subspace analysis is still a global descriptor, which makes the algorithm have certain ability to deal with partially occluded images
In this paper we make use of the idea that a robot can autonomously discover objects and learn their appearances by poking and prodding at interesting parts of a scene. In order to make the resultant object recognitio...
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In this paper we make use of the idea that a robot can autonomously discover objects and learn their appearances by poking and prodding at interesting parts of a scene. In order to make the resultant object recognition ability more robust, and discriminative, we replace earlier used colour histogram features with an invariant texture-patch method. The texture patches are extracted in a similarity invariant frame which is constructed from short colour contour segments. We demonstrate the robustness of our invariant frames with a repeatability test under general homography transformations of a planar scene. Through the repeatability test, we find that defining the frame using using ellipse segments instead of lines where this is appropriate improves repeatability. We also apply the developed features to autonomous learning of object appearances, and show how the learned objects can be recognised under out-of-plane rotation and scale changes.
In this paper, design principles and application of a thin and flexible intravascular top hat monopole probe with increased signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and improved longitudinal and radial coverage are described and c...
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