The popular formulas currently used to evaluate the similarity of digital watermarks have serious drawbacks: when the similarity degree is 1, the watermarks are not unique. This paper firstly analyze the drawbacks in ...
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Accelerometers integrated in modern smartphones pave the way to intuitively use gestures for collaboratively controlling interactive applications. Using and holding smartphones has become natural and ensures user acce...
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Accelerometers integrated in modern smartphones pave the way to intuitively use gestures for collaboratively controlling interactive applications. Using and holding smartphones has become natural and ensures user acceptance as well as intuitive handling. We focus on using accelerators in several smartphones at the same time to interactively control a medical imaging solution. To this end, we introduce a framework to collect, modify, and distribute acceleration sensor data from multiple smartphones and integrate it with a medical imaging system which results in an environment suitable for e.g. doctors reviewing and explaining diagnostic findings. We performed some experiments to evaluate the usability of this approach and present an ongoing research in adapting the smartphone interface to physical simulation applications.
In this paper we present a new cross-platform approach for video game delivery in wired and wireless local networks. The developed 3D streaming and video streaming approaches enable users to access video games on set ...
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Surface colour changes and specular reflections are two major problems in 3D modelling using shape-from-shading (SFS). This paper proposes to pre-process the input image for a typical SFS algorithm, so that the result...
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Surface colour changes and specular reflections are two major problems in 3D modelling using shape-from-shading (SFS). This paper proposes to pre-process the input image for a typical SFS algorithm, so that the resultant image has no colour changes and specular reflection. First, a chromaticity-based specular reflection removal algorithm is applied to achieve a pure diffuse (Lambertian) reflected image. Then, a novel chromaticity-based colour adjustment approach is proposed to generate an image without surface colour changes. The standard SFS algorithms can then be applied successfully onto the processed images to produce plausible 3D models. In experiments, the proposed approach was tested on standard SFS datasets with complex surface colours. The experimental results show it's promising to facilitate SFS algorithms to handle SFS problems with more complex surface properties and illumination conditions.
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C.H. TingU.U. SheikhS.A.R Abu-BakarComputer Vision
Video and Image Processing Research Laboratory Department of Microelectronics and Computer Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia
In this paper, we present a gender estimation technique that will determine whether a person looking at the camera is a male or female. Several facial features extracted from a face are passed to post-image-processing...
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In this paper, we present a gender estimation technique that will determine whether a person looking at the camera is a male or female. Several facial features extracted from a face are passed to post-image-processing operations before they are sent to a rule-base classifier. We applied our technique to both static passport-like photos as well as several video sequences consisting of a single face each. Our database also contains images of females wearing headscarf as well as bald men. Our initial results showed a very promising outcome. For static face images, we obtained an accuracy of 100% correct gender estimation for females and 98% for males while for video sequences, the accuracy obtained was 87.5% for females and 70% for males.
image retrieval based on region is one of the most promising and active research directions in recent year's CBIR, while region segmentation, feature selection and feature extraction of region are key issues. Howe...
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This paper deals with a novel method for object tracking. In the first step interest points are detected and feature descriptors around them are calculated. Sets of known points are created, allowing tracking based on...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424475421
This paper deals with a novel method for object tracking. In the first step interest points are detected and feature descriptors around them are calculated. Sets of known points are created, allowing tracking based on point matching. The set representation is updated online at every tracking step. Our method uses one-shot learning with the first frame, so no offline and no supervised learning is required. Following an object recognition based approach there is no need for a background model or motion model, allowing tracking of abrupt motion and with non-stationary cameras. We compare our method to Mean Shift and Tracking via Online Boosting, showing the benefits of our approach.
Photonic mixer devices (PMDs) are able to create reliable depth maps of indoor environments. Yet, their application in mobile robotics, especially in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) applications, is hampe...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424478149
Photonic mixer devices (PMDs) are able to create reliable depth maps of indoor environments. Yet, their application in mobile robotics, especially in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) applications, is hampered by the limited field of view. Enhancing the field of view by optical devices is not trivial, because the active light source and the sensor rays need to be redirected in a defined manner. In this work we propose an omnidirectional PMD sensor which is well suited for indoor SLAM and easy to calibrate. Using a single sensor and multiple planar mirrors, we are able to reliably navigate in indoor environments to create geometrically consistent maps, even on optically difficult surfaces.
Skeleton extraction is essential for general shape representation. A typical skeletonization algorithm should obtain the ability to preserve original object's topological and hierarchical properties. However, most...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424463886;9780769539874
Skeleton extraction is essential for general shape representation. A typical skeletonization algorithm should obtain the ability to preserve original object's topological and hierarchical properties. However, most of current methods are high memory cost, computationally intensive, and also require complex data structures. In this paper, we propose an efficient and accurate skeletonization method for the skeleton feature points extracted from human body based on silhouette images. First, the gradient of distance transform is used to detect critical points inside the foreground. Then, we converge and simplify critical points in order to generate the most important and elegant skeleton feature points. Finally, we present an algorithm which connects the skeleton feature points and estimates the position of skeleton joints.
We propose a novel Markovian segmentation model which takes into account edge information. By construction, the model uses only pairwise interactions and its energy is sub modular. Thus the exact energy minima is obta...
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We propose a novel Markovian segmentation model which takes into account edge information. By construction, the model uses only pairwise interactions and its energy is sub modular. Thus the exact energy minima is obtained via a max-flow/min-cut algorithm. The method has been quantitatively evaluated on synthetic images as well as on fluorescence microscopic images of live cells.
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