We present a new method to determine contraction kernels for the construction of graph pyramids. The new method works with undirected graphs and yields a reduction factor of at least 2.0. This means that with our meth...
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Head detection is an important, but difficult task, if no restrictions such as static illumination, frontal face appearance or uniform background can be assumed. We present a system that is able to perform head detect...
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Methods for mobile robot localization that use eigenspaces of panoramic snapshots of the environment are in general sensitive to changes in the illumination of the environment. Therefore, we propose an approach which ...
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Methods for mobile robot localization that use eigen spaces of panoramic snapshots of the environment are in general sensitive to changes in the illumination of the environment. Therefore, we propose an approach which...
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Methods for mobile robot localization that use eigenspaces of panoramic snapshots of the environment are in general sensitive to changes in the illumination of the environment. Therefore, we propose an approach which ...
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Methods for mobile robot localization that use eigenspaces of panoramic snapshots of the environment are in general sensitive to changes in the illumination of the environment. Therefore, we propose an approach which achieves a reliable localization under severe illumination conditions. The method uses gradient filtering of the eigenspace. After testing the approach on images obtained by a mobile robot, we show that it outperforms the standard eigenspace-based recognition method.
Graph pyramids allow to combine pruning of skeletons with a concept known from the representation of line images, i.e. generalization of paths without branchings by single edges. Pruning will enable further generaliza...
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An algorithm for the automatic construction of a 3D model of archaeological vessels is presented. In archeology the determination of the exact volume of arbitrary vessels is of importance since this provides informati...
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(纸本)0769509843
An algorithm for the automatic construction of a 3D model of archaeological vessels is presented. In archeology the determination of the exact volume of arbitrary vessels is of importance since this provides information about the manufacturer and the usage of the vessel. To acquire the shape of objects with handles in 3d is complicated, since occlusions of the object's surface are introduced by the handle and can only be resolved by taking multiple views. Therefore, the 3d reconstruction is based on a sequence of images of the object taken from different viewpoints. The object's silhouette is the only feature which is extracted from an input image. images are acquired by rotating the object on a turntable in front of a stationary camera. The algorithm uses an octree representation of the model, and builds this model incrementally, by performing limited processing of all input images for each level of the octree. Beginning from the root node at the level 0 a rough model of the object is obtained quickly and is refined as the processed level of the octree increases. Results of the algorithm developed are presented for both synthetic and real input images.
Variations in illumination can have a dramatic effect on the appearance of an object in an image. In this paper we propose how to deal with illumination variations in eigenspace methods. We demonstrate that the eigeni...
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(纸本)0769511430
Variations in illumination can have a dramatic effect on the appearance of an object in an image. In this paper we propose how to deal with illumination variations in eigenspace methods. We demonstrate that the eigenimages obtained by a training set under a single illumination condition (ambient light) can be used for recognition of objects taken under different illumination conditions. The major idea is to incorporate a set of gradient based filter banks into the eigenspace recognition framework. This can be achieved since the eigenimage coefficients are invariant for linearly filtered images (input and eigenimages). To achieve further illumination insensitivity we devised a robust procedure for coefficient recovery. The proposed approach has been extensively evaluated on a set of 2160 images and the results were compared to other approaches.
Fingerprint recognition and verification are often based on local fingerprint features, usually ridge endings or terminations, also called minutiae. By exploiting the structural uniqueness of the image region around a...
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Fingerprint recognition and verification are often based on local fingerprint features, usually ridge endings or terminations, also called minutiae. By exploiting the structural uniqueness of the image region around a minutia, the fingerprint recognition performance can be significantly enhanced. However, for most fingerprint images the number of minutia image regions (MIRs) becomes dramatically large, which imposes - especially for embedded systems - an enormous memory requirement. Therefore, we are investigating different algorithms for compression of minutia regions. The requirement for these algorithms is to achieve a high compression rate (about 20) with minimum loss in the matching performance of minutia image region matching. We investigate the matching performance for compression algorithms based on the principal component and the wavelet transformation. The matching results are presented in form of normalized ROC curves and interpreted in terms of compression rates and the MIR dimension.
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