In order to preserve our cultural heritage and for automated document processing libraries and national archives have started digitizing historical documents. In the case of degraded manuscripts (e.g. by mold, humidit...
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Two medieval manuscripts are recorded, investigated and analyzed by philologists in collaboration with computer scientists. Due to mold, air humidity and water the parchment is partially damaged and consequently hard ...
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Two medieval manuscripts are recorded, investigated and analyzed by philologists in collaboration with computer scientists. Due to mold, air humidity and water the parchment is partially damaged and consequently hard to read. In order to enhance the readability of the text, the manuscript pages are imaged in different spectral bands ranging from 360 to 1000nm. A registration process is necessary for further imageprocessing methods which combine the information gained by the different spectral bands. Therefore, the images are coarsely aligned using rotationally invariant features and an affine transformation. Afterwards, the similarity of the different images is computed by means of the normalized cross correlation. Finally, the images are accurately mapped to each other by the local weighted mean transformation. The algorithms used for the registration and results in enhancing the texts using Multivariate Spatial Correlation are presented in this paper. copyright by EURASIP.
In this paper, a novel subspace learning method, semi-supervised marginal discriminant analysis (SMDA), is proposed for classification. SMDA aims at maintaining the intrinsic neighborhood relations between the data po...
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(纸本)9781424421749
In this paper, a novel subspace learning method, semi-supervised marginal discriminant analysis (SMDA), is proposed for classification. SMDA aims at maintaining the intrinsic neighborhood relations between the data points from the same class, while maximizing the margin between the neighboring data points with different class labels. Different from traditional dimensionality reduction algorithms like linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and maximum margin criterion (MMC) which seeks only the global Euclidean structure, SMDA takes local structure of the data into account. Moreover, it is designed for semi-supervised learning which incorporates both labeled and unlabeled data points and avoids suffering the small sample size (SSS) problem. QR decomposition is then employed to find the optimal transformation which makes the algorithm scalable and more efficient. Experiments on face recognition are presented to show the effectiveness of the method.
In recent years, iris recognition is becoming a very active topic in both research and practical applications. However, fake iris is a potential threat there are potential threats for iris-based systems. This paper pr...
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In this article, we present the projective equation of a circle in a perspective view, which naturally encodes such important geometric entities as the projected circle center, the vanishing point of the normal direct...
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(纸本)9781424421749
In this article, we present the projective equation of a circle in a perspective view, which naturally encodes such important geometric entities as the projected circle center, the vanishing point of the normal direction of the circlepsilas supporting plane and the degenerate conic envelope spanned by the image of circular points (ICPs). Based on this projective equation, we propose an easy technique to calibrate the focal length and the extrinsic parameters of a camera merely by using one perspective view of two arbitrary coplanar circles. Unlike existing optimization algorithm, our method offers a closed form solution through simple matrix manipulation. Experimental results verify the correctness and efficiency of our proposed technique.
This paper presents a novel pattern classification approach- a kernel and Bhattacharyya distance based classifier which utilizes the distribution characteristics of the samples in each class. Bhattacharyya distance in...
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This paper presents a novel pattern classification approach- a kernel and Bhattacharyya distance based classifier which utilizes the distribution characteristics of the samples in each class. Bhattacharyya distance in the subspace spanned by the eigenvectors which are associated with the smaller eigenvalues in each class is adopted as the classification criterion. The smaller eigenvalues are substituted by a small value threshold in such a way that the classification error in a given database is minimized. Application of the proposed classifier to the issue of handwritten numeral recognition demonstrates that it is promising in practical applications.
We present a method for tracking deformable surfaces in 3D using a stereo rig. Different from traditional recursive tracking approaches that provide a strong prior on the pose for each new frame, the proposed method t...
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(纸本)9781424421749
We present a method for tracking deformable surfaces in 3D using a stereo rig. Different from traditional recursive tracking approaches that provide a strong prior on the pose for each new frame, the proposed method tracks deformable surfaces by detecting them in individual frames. In our method, the model of the surface is represented by a triangulated mesh. The constraints for model to image keypoint correspondences, together with the constraints that preserve the lengths of mesh edges, are formulated as second order cone programming (SOCP) constraints, leading this tracking-by-detection method to be an SOCP problem that can be effectively solved. Experiments on a piece of deformed paper demonstrate the capability of the proposed tracking-by-detection method.
A new calibration algorithm for multi-camera systems using the 1D calibration objects is proposed. The algorithm integrates the rank-4 factorization with Zhangpsilas method. The intrinsic parameters as well as the ext...
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A new calibration algorithm for multi-camera systems using the 1D calibration objects is proposed. The algorithm integrates the rank-4 factorization with Zhangpsilas method. The intrinsic parameters as well as the extrinsic parameters are recovered only by capturing with cameras the 1D objectpsilas rotations around a fixed point. The algorithm is based on factorization of the scaled measurement matrix, the projective depths of which is estimated in an analytic equation instead of a recursive form. For the conditions that there are more than 3 points on the 1D object, our algorithm may solve them by extending the scaled measurement matrix. The obtained parameters are finally refined through the maximum likelihood inference. The validity of the proposed technique was verified through simulation and experiments with real images.
A novel evolutionary algorithm called probability evolutionary algorithm (PEA), and a method based on PEA for visual tracking of human body using voxel data are presented. PEA is inspired by the quantum computation an...
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A novel evolutionary algorithm called probability evolutionary algorithm (PEA), and a method based on PEA for visual tracking of human body using voxel data are presented. PEA is inspired by the quantum computation and the quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm, and it has a good balance between exploration and exploitation with very fast computation speed. The individual in PEA is encoded by the probabilistic compound bit, defined as the smallest unit of information, for the probabilistic representation. The observation step is used in PEA to obtain the observed states of the individual, and the update operator is used to evolve the individual. In the PEA based human tracking framework, tracking is considered to be a function optimization problem, so the aim is to optimize the matching function between the model and the image observation. Since the matching function is a very complex function in high-dimensional space, PEA is used to optimize it. Experiments on 3D human motion tracking using voxel data demonstrate the effectiveness, significance and computation efficiency of the proposed human tracking method.
image quality evaluation is becoming essential in many imageprocessing problems. This paper proposes a new image quality evaluation approach based on decision fusion method of canonical correlation analysis (CCA). By...
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image quality evaluation is becoming essential in many imageprocessing problems. This paper proposes a new image quality evaluation approach based on decision fusion method of canonical correlation analysis (CCA). By exploring several diverse visual models, we constructed a comprehensive quality metric which can deal with complicated image distortion problem with increasing accuracy and robustness. Validation by comparing the proposed metric against other image quality metrics (IQMs) demonstrates that its fidelity prediction performs better across wide distortion range and types.
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