The method of using log-polar mapping with spectral band separation to form feature vectors for an associative memory is investigated. Log-polar mapping is used to provide the scale and rotation invariant properties. ...
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Many image compression techniques involve segmentation of a gray level image. With such techniques, information is extracted that describes the regions in the segmented image, and this information is then used to form...
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It is proposed that the medial axis transformation (MAT), being an invertible transformation, has value in lossless data compression, and, since the MAT conveys the line structure of an image, that it is also useful f...
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It is proposed that the medial axis transformation (MAT), being an invertible transformation, has value in lossless data compression, and, since the MAT conveys the line structure of an image, that it is also useful for vector conversion. To this end, some properties of the MAT are established and then exploited to devise a specialized chain-code representation. This MAT-based chain-code language captures any binary image but is particularly suited to line drawings. An extension of the language that can express chain-code sequences as linear and quadratic line segments under tunable error tolerance is described. The representation has achieved acceptable lossless data compression and significant additional compression for line drawings when vectorization is employed. As the error tolerance is increased, the amount of compression increases together with distortion. Thus, the method can be used to obtain a rate/distortion curve for binary images.< >
The problem of obtaining reliable estimates of the optic flow field and its variation is discussed. It is argued that circuitry in the middle temporal (MT) visual area is arranged to provide mean field approximations ...
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The problem of obtaining reliable estimates of the optic flow field and its variation is discussed. It is argued that circuitry in the middle temporal (MT) visual area is arranged to provide mean field approximations of the optical flow field, that is, the maximal neighborhood over which the local field can be well-approximated as uniform, parallel translation. In addition, the way the mean field approximation varies with neighborhood size and position is informative about the variation of the flow field. It is shown how receptive fields can be synthesized to represent the first-order differential information about the flow field. The same ideas are applicable to the binocular disparity vector field, and lead one to predict the existence of extrastriate neurons that are specialized for the local shear and stretch of the disparity and motion vector fields.< >
Consideration is given to switched linear resistive networks and nonlinear resistive networks for image smoothing and segmentation problems in robot vision. The latter network type is derived from the former by way of...
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Consideration is given to switched linear resistive networks and nonlinear resistive networks for image smoothing and segmentation problems in robot vision. The latter network type is derived from the former by way of an intermediate stochastic formulation, and a new result relating the solution sets of the two is given for the so-called zero-temperature limit. The authors present simulation studies of several continuation methods that can be gracefully implemented in analog VLSI and that seem to given good results for these nonconvex optimization problems.< >
A new fast transform from curve samples to least-squares normalized B-spline control points is developed and their relation to Fourier descriptors is established. Contour control point sequence scale, translation, and...
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A new fast transform from curve samples to least-squares normalized B-spline control points is developed and their relation to Fourier descriptors is established. Contour control point sequence scale, translation, and rotation are known to produce identical shape model variations. It is shown that under the conditions of our transform, such sequences are also directly applicable to efficient computation of many useful shape features or characteristics. First, methods for computing boundary curvature and mean contour sample from control points are presented. Then, transforms from contour control points to shape moments and projections are developed and tested.
If an autonomous vehilce is to operate in an environment of arbitrary complexity, it must be able to perceive the locations of the obstacles in its environment and store this information in a world model. It is import...
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We present a scheme of extracting edge information from parallel spatial frequency bands. From these we create an integrated image of most significant edges of different scales. The frequency bands are realized using ...
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The basic biological principles of nonuniform image representation in the combined frequency-position space are utilized in an approach to image representation and processing. A scheme of image decomposition into opti...
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The basic biological principles of nonuniform image representation in the combined frequency-position space are utilized in an approach to image representation and processing. A scheme of image decomposition into optimal localized frequency operators, the so-called Gabor elementary functions which minimize the uncertainty inherent in image representation, is accordingly proposed. Applications to size-invariance and object-separable pattern analysis, localized texture discrimination, and representation by partial information are discussed, illustrating the advantages of the Gabor transform.< >
Stereo algorithms using a wide baseline must cope with a large search space on top of the problems due to noise. A single pair of images is not a reliable source of depth information. One solution is to integrate the ...
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Stereo algorithms using a wide baseline must cope with a large search space on top of the problems due to noise. A single pair of images is not a reliable source of depth information. One solution is to integrate the information from several image pairs. By incrementally refining estimates of the depth as the camera changes position, it is possible to build a description of the scene which, in turn, can be used as feedback to improve the extraction of depth information. The authors have developed a stereo algorithm based on correlation matching that is especially suited to being integrated into a proposed feedback loop. They have begun experiments with the integration of depth information over a sequence into a single environmental map.< >
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