This paper addresses the shape-based segmentation problem using level sets. In particular, we propose a fast algorithm to solve the piece-wise constant Chan-Vese segmentation model with shape priors and labeling funct...
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This paper addresses the shape-based segmentation problem using level sets. In particular, we propose a fast algorithm to solve the piece-wise constant Chan-Vese segmentation model with shape priors and labeling functions. Instead of directly solving the underlying PDE, we calculate the energy and check how it changes when we move image points from inside the region enclosed by the evolving interface to the outside region and vice-vera. This algorithm is then extended to the case of multi-phase Chan-Vese model, with multiple selective shape priors and a corresponding labeling function for each prior. This makes our algorithm different from that in [1] and other similar works in different aspects. On one hand, our algorithm is not restricted to two regions, but allows segmentation into several regions. On the other hand, more than one shape prior can be taken into account in our implementation. In addition, the proposed algorithm improves dramatically the computational speed. Experimental results, on both synthetic and real images, demonstrate the performance of our algorithm and the computational improvements it offers.
Conventional subspace construction approaches suffer from the need of "large-enough" image ensemble rendering numerical methods intractable. In this paper, we propose an analytic formulation for low-dimensio...
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(纸本)9781467364102
Conventional subspace construction approaches suffer from the need of "large-enough" image ensemble rendering numerical methods intractable. In this paper, we propose an analytic formulation for low-dimensional subspace construction in which shading cues lie while preserving the natural structure of an image sample. Using the frequency-space representation of the image irradiance equation, the process of finding such subspace is cast as establishing a relation between its principal components and that of a deterministic set of basis functions, termed as irradiance harmonics. Representing images as matrices further lessen the number of parameters to be estimated to define a bilinear projection which maps the image sample to a lower-dimensional bilinear subspace. Results show significant impact on dimensionality reduction with minimal loss of information as well as robustness against noise.
In this paper, we propose a new 3D framework to identify and segment VBs and TBs in clinical computed tomography (CT) images without any user intervention. The Matched filter is employed to detect the VB region automa...
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In this paper, we propose a new 3D framework to identify and segment VBs and TBs in clinical computed tomography (CT) images without any user intervention. The Matched filter is employed to detect the VB region automatically on axial axis. To identify the VB on coronal and sagittal axis, we use a new developed approach based on 4 points automatically placed on cortical shell. To segment the identified VB, the graph cuts method which integrates a linear combination of Gaussians (LCG) and Markov Gibbs Random Field (MGRF) are used. Then, the cortical and trabecular bones are segmented using local volume growing methods. Experiments on the data sets show that the proposed segmentation approach is more accurate than other known alternatives.
Stochastic models of images are commonly represented in terms of three random processes (random fields) defined on the region of support of the image. The observed image process G is considered as a composite of two r...
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Stochastic models of images are commonly represented in terms of three random processes (random fields) defined on the region of support of the image. The observed image process G is considered as a composite of two random process: a high level process X, which represents the regions (or classes) that form the observed image; and a low level process Y, which describes the statistical characteristics of each region (or class). The representation G = (X, Y) has been widely used in the imageprocessing literature in the past two decades. In this paper we show how to use expectation maximization (EM) algorithm to get accurate model for the low level image by using mixture of normal distribution. The main idea of the proposed algorithm is as follow: first, we will use the EM algorithm to get the most dominance mixtures in the given density (empirical density), and then we assume that the absolute error between the empirical density and the estimated density is another density and we use the EM algorithm to estimate the number of mixtures in this error and the parameters for each mixtures. Then the estimated density for the absolute error is added or subtracted from the estimated density according to the sign (error). Convergence to the true distribution is tested using the Levy distance. A popular model for the high level process X has been the Gibbs-Markov random field (GMRF) model. In this paper we will use the same approach, which described in A. El-Baz et al. (July 2003) to estimate the parameters of GMRF. The approach has been applied on real images (spiral CT slices) and provides satisfactory results.
This paper presents a supervised fuzzy c-mean (SFCM) classifier for the classification of high dimensional data. The proposed SFCM classifier can be iterative or non iterative to reduce the computational time. Compari...
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(纸本)0780362977
This paper presents a supervised fuzzy c-mean (SFCM) classifier for the classification of high dimensional data. The proposed SFCM classifier can be iterative or non iterative to reduce the computational time. Comparison with the conventional FCM clustering technique and the Bayesian classification technique is also presented. Performance results of the three algorithms are presented on simulated and real remote sensing multispectral data, which show improvement in the classification accuracy using the SFCM technique.
This paper proposes an automatic pose-invariant face recognition system. In our approach, we consider the texture information around the facial features to compute the similarity measure between the probe and gallery ...
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This paper proposes an automatic pose-invariant face recognition system. In our approach, we consider the texture information around the facial features to compute the similarity measure between the probe and gallery images. The weight of each facial feature is dynamically estimated based on its robustness to the pose of the captured image. An approach to extract the 9 facial features used to initialize the Active shape model is proposed. The approach is not dependent on the texture around the facial feature only but incorporates the information obtained about the facial feature relations. Our face recognition system is tested on common datasets in pose evaluation CMU-PIE and FERET. The results show out-performance of the state of the art automatic face recognition systems.
The structure and properties of several morphological filtering algorithms are discussed. The performance of the algorithms when applied to images corrupted with noise is presented. Several open research problems rela...
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The structure and properties of several morphological filtering algorithms are discussed. The performance of the algorithms when applied to images corrupted with noise is presented. Several open research problems relative to these nonlinear filters are also discussed.< >
This paper presents the neurocalibration approach as a new neural-based solution for the problem of camera calibration. Unlike some existing neural approaches, our calibrating network can match the perspective-project...
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This paper presents the neurocalibration approach as a new neural-based solution for the problem of camera calibration. Unlike some existing neural approaches, our calibrating network can match the perspective-projection-transformation matrix between the world 3D points and the corresponding 2D image pixels. Starting from random initial weights, the net can specify the camera model parameters satisfying the orthogonality constraints on the rotational transformation. In order to improve the accuracy of calibration results, the paper demonstrates the application of the neurocalibration technique to multi-image camera calibration. In such a case, many images are taken by the same camera but from different (rotated and/or translated) positions. Experiments have shown the accuracy and the efficiency of our neurocalibration technique.
This paper describes design and implementation of a vision based platform for automated refueling tasks. The platform is an autonomous docking system in principle, with the specific application - refueling of vehicles...
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This paper describes design and implementation of a vision based platform for automated refueling tasks. The platform is an autonomous docking system in principle, with the specific application - refueling of vehicles. The system is. based on monochromatic, monocular vision, and it utilizes very specialized imageprocessing schemes. imageprocessing consists of very fast filtering and segmenting algorithms, as well as moment's computation. A robotic arm with 6 joints (FANUC M-6i), and a controller unit (R-B), does the physical work. A serial interface, with very high-level commands, connects a supercomputing machine and the robot's controller. A practical setup would probably be scaled down to a special design robot, and a single processor, controller with special VLSI chips for imageprocessing. Results are very promising; the robot can identify the cap position, orientation, and height in real time with acceptable accuracy and reliability.
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