A novel integrated system is developed to obtain a record of the patient's occlusion using computervision. Data acquisition is obtained using intra-oral video camera. A modified Shape from Shading (SFS) technique...
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A novel integrated system is developed to obtain a record of the patient's occlusion using computervision. Data acquisition is obtained using intra-oral video camera. A modified Shape from Shading (SFS) technique using perspective projection and camera calibration is then used to extract accurate 3D information from a sequence of 2D images of the jaw. A novel technique for 3D data registration using Grid Closest Point (GCP) transform and genetic algorithms (GA) is used to register the output of the SFS stage. Triangulization is then performed, and a solid 3D model is obtained via a rapid prototype machine. The overall purpose of this research is to develop a model-based vision system for orthodontics that will replace traditional approaches and can be used in diagnosis, treatment planning, surgical simulation and implant purposes.
Orthogonal subspace projection (OSP) has been successfully applied to hyperspectral imageprocessing. In order for OSP to be effective, the number of bands must be no less than that of signatures to be classified so t...
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Motion can be estimated by detecting the edges of a moving object using Active Contours, and registering them together to obtain the motion model parameters. This idea can be applied to patient motion during the acqui...
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Motion can be estimated by detecting the edges of a moving object using Active Contours, and registering them together to obtain the motion model parameters. This idea can be applied to patient motion during the acquisition of an MRI to eliminate motion artifacts in the image. The data obtained during the MRI acquistion, the k-space, can be divided into several subbands such that each subband is acquired in a small fraction of the full imaging time. These subbands create invariant tissue feature maps called subband images. Using Active Contours, the relative motion is analyzed across the different subband images to determine the motion parameters. Using these motion parameters it is possible to correct the subbands, thus correcting the k-space. This has the potential to yield clear, noise-free MR images.
Ultrasonic range sensors are used to obtain the information required for collision-free navigation of a mobile robot in a semi-structured or unstructured environment. A set of range readings from a ring of sonars are ...
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Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT), proposed by Said and Pearlman [1996], is generally regarded as a very efficient wavelet-based still image compression scheme. The algorithm uses an efficient, joint scan...
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Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT), proposed by Said and Pearlman [1996], is generally regarded as a very efficient wavelet-based still image compression scheme. The algorithm uses an efficient, joint scanning and bit-allocation mechanism for quantizing the scalar wavelet coefficients, and produces a perfectly embedded bitstream. This work extends set partitioning to scan vectors of wavelet coefficients, and uses successive refinement VQ techniques such as multistage and tree-structured VQ, to quantize several wavelet coefficients at once. The new scheme is named VSPIHT (Vector SPIHT). Coding results are presented to demonstrate that the vector-based approach (without arithmetic coding) surpasses the scalar counterpart (also without arithmetic coding), in the mean-squared-error sense, for most images at low bitrates. The superiority of the vector-based approach is more pronounced for images that are generally regarded as difficult to code (such as Barbara) because of a large amount of detail.
Subjective testing of speaker recognizability is an intricate, time consuming and very expensive process, but using objectively measurable descriptors to augment the subjective speaker recognizability tests could resu...
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Rate scalable video compression is appealing for low bit rate applications, such as video telephony and wireless communication, where bandwidth available to an application cannot be guaranteed. A technique known as sc...
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Rate scalable video compression is appealing for low bit rate applications, such as video telephony and wireless communication, where bandwidth available to an application cannot be guaranteed. A technique known as scalable adaptive motion compensated wavelet (SAMCoW) compression is described. SAMCoW is well suited for data rates less than 32 kbps. Several techniques to improve the subjective picture quality of SAMCoW are investigated. These include the use of B frames, half-pixel accuracy, and unrestricted motion vectors.
A new lossless image compression method for progressive-resolution transmission of color images is proposed. It is based on spatial and spectral transforms. Reversible wavelet transforms are performed across the red, ...
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A new lossless image compression method for progressive-resolution transmission of color images is proposed. It is based on spatial and spectral transforms. Reversible wavelet transforms are performed across the red, green, and blue color components first. Then adaptive spectral transforms are applied to the associated color subbands. Simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm can achieve bit rates that are about 20% lower than results obtained with comparable lossless image compression techniques supporting progressive-resolution transmission.
We present a new stochastic model for pixels in an edge-enhanced image. The model is robust because it allows for the possibilities of false and multiple edges, and may be efficiently estimated using a expectation-max...
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We present a new stochastic model for pixels in an edge-enhanced image. The model is robust because it allows for the possibilities of false and multiple edges, and may be efficiently estimated using a expectation-maximization technique with a minimum description length metric. The direct applicability of the model for the sequential edge linking algorithm is investigated.
Video Browsing Environment (ViBE) is a unique browseable/searchable paradigm for organizing video databases containing a large number of sequences. The system first segments video sequences into shots by using the gen...
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Video Browsing Environment (ViBE) is a unique browseable/searchable paradigm for organizing video databases containing a large number of sequences. The system first segments video sequences into shots by using the generalized trace obtained from the DC-sequence of the compressed data stream. Each video shot is then represented by a hierarchical tree structure of key frames, and the shots are automatically classified into predetermined pseudo-semantic classes. Finally, the results are presented to the user in an active browsing environment using a similarity pyramid data structure. The similarity pyramid allows the user to view the video database at various levels of detail. The user can also define semantic classes and reorganize the browsing environment based on relevance feedback.
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