This paper presents a multi-perspective (i.e., four camera views) multi-modal (i.e., thermal infrared and color) video based system for robust and real-time 3D tracking of important body *** multi-perspective characte...
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A new method for the reduction of the number of colors in a digital image is proposed. The new method is based on the developed of a new neural network classifier that combines the advantages of the Growing Neural Gas...
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Actual observed scenes usually produce a wide dynamic range. Currently available visual systems use low dynamic range light detector that provide only 8 bits of brightness information at each pixel. This greatly limit...
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An effective and robust image enhancement algorithm is presented for improving the visual quality of digital images captured under extremely low or non-uniform lighting conditions. The proposed algorithm is composed o...
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Development of a visibility improvement system for helping drivers with poor vision during night and bad weather conditions is proposed in this paper. Video streams captured by a CCD camera and an infrared camera are ...
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Principal components analysis (PCA) has been widely used in many applications, particularly, data compression. Independent component analysis (ICA) has been also developed for blind source separation along with many o...
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Principal components analysis (PCA) has been widely used in many applications, particularly, data compression. Independent component analysis (ICA) has been also developed for blind source separation along with many other applications such as channel equalization, speech processing. Recently, it has been shown that the ICA can be also used for hyperspectral data compression. This paper investigates these two transforms in hyperspectral data compression and further evaluates their strengths and weaknesses in applications of target detection, mixed pixel classification and abundance quantification. In order to take advantage of the strengths of both transform, a new transform, called mixed PCA/ICA transform is developed in this paper. The idea of the proposed mixed PCA/ICA transform is derived from the fact that it can integrate different levels of information captured by the PCA and ICA. In doing so, it combines m principal components (PCs) resulting from the PCA and n independent components (ICs) generated by the ICA to form a new set of (m+n) mixed components used for hyperspectral data compression. The resulting transform is referred to as mixed (m,n)-PCA/ICA transform. In order to determine the total number of components, p needed to be generated for the mixed (m,m)-PCA/ICA transform, a recently developed virtual dimensionality (VD) is introduced to estimate the p where p = m + n. If m = p and n = 0, then mixed (m,n)-PCA/ICA transform is reduced to PCA transform. On the other hand, if m = 0 and n = p, then mixed (m,n)-PCA/ICA transform is reduced to ICA. Since various combinations of m and n have different impacts on the performance of the mixed PCA/ICA spectral/spatial compression in applications, experiments based on subpixel detection and mixed pixel quantification are conducted for performance evaluation.
A modified approach on Modular PCA for face recognition is presented in this paper. The proposed changes aim to improve the recognition rates for modular PCA for face images with large variation in light and facial ex...
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Form document image processing has become an increasingly essential technology in office automation tasks. One of the problems is that the document image may appear skewed for many reasons. Therefore, the skew estimat...
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Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) uses backre-flected light to provide micron-resolution, cross-sectional scans of biological tissues useful in diagnosing, monitoring, and studying glaucoma. The ratio of the area of ...
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Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) uses backre-flected light to provide micron-resolution, cross-sectional scans of biological tissues useful in diagnosing, monitoring, and studying glaucoma. The ratio of the area of the central portion of the optic nerve (the cup) to that of the complete nerve (the disk) is an indicator of ocular health. Measuring this cup-to-disk ratio accurately requires precise detection of the cup and disk limits in scans traversing the optic nervehead. A hybrid edge-supported boundary detector first finds the contour separating the retina and optic nervehead (on one side) from the vitreous humor on the other. We then partition this boundary using a model-based technique to identify the optic cup. The lower retinal-choroid boundaries are extracted using Markov models first derived by Koozekanani et al.. The endpoints of these lower boundaries represent the limits of the optic disk. Points along the Markov path are then represented in a feature space comprising two low order unitary transform coefficients and a measure of differential edge strength. By minimizing the trace of the within-class scatter matrices for optic nerve and retina, optimal estimates of the nervehead extent are found. We present thorough experimental results to establish the stability and robustness of the technique, as well as its performance limitations.
This paper introduces a new region based feature for object recognition and image matching. In contrast to many other region based features, this one makes use of colour in the feature extraction stage. We perform exp...
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This paper introduces a new region based feature for object recognition and image matching. In contrast to many other region based features, this one makes use of colour in the feature extraction stage. We perform experiments on the repeatability rate of the features across scale and inclination angle changes, and show that avoiding to merge regions connected by only a few pixels improves the repeatability. Finally we introduce two voting schemes that allow us to find correspondences automatically, and compare them with respect to the number of valid correspondences they give, and their inlier ratios.
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