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Road pixel segmentation in airborne data is an important and challenging task. Recently, a sophisticated and robust approach based on superpixels and minimum cost paths has been published. In order to find out which of the numerous features are most essential, we propose a forward-search wrapper approach for feature selection which was tested with two different classifiers and with both generic and...
In this study, fuzzy input data has been considered for processing of Poisson medical image matting. Image matting is actually known as an image segmentation approach. But, fine detail information can be extracted from the background of the given image in the image matting. Although global Poisson image matting approach is applied to smoothed images, successful matting results can be obtained from...
For achieving the obstacle-avoidance of citrus picking robot and the prevision of obstacle in working scene, the virtual model of fruit tree branch was reconstructed by the binocular stereo vision system in natural scene. In the reconstruction, branch skeleton was extracted and trimmed to remove fake branches after thinning processing; branch's feature points were extracted through multi-segment approximation...
Web has become increasingly oriented to multimedia content. Most information on the web is conveyed from images. Text localization in web image plays an important role in web image information extraction and retrieval. Current works on text localization in web images assume that text regions are in homogenous color and high contrast. Hence, the approaches may fail when text regions are in multi-color...
The process of learning models from raw data typically requires a substantial amount of user input during the model initialization phase. We present an assistive visualization system which greatly reduces the load on the users and makes the process of model initialization and refinement more efficient, problem-driven, and engaging. Utilizing a sequence segmentation task with a Hidden Markov Model...
Segmenting range data into semantic categories has become a more and more active field of research in robotics. In this paper, we advocate to view this task as a problem of fast, large-scale retrieval. Intuitively, given a dataset of millions of labeled scan points and their neighborhoods, we simply search for similar points in the datasets and use the labels of the retrieved ones to predict the labels...
Contourlet transform is a new multiscale and multidirectional image representation which effectively captures the edges and contours of images. Hidden Markov tree model (HMT) can capture all inter-scale, inter-direction and inter-location dependencies. Also, HMT can capture the statistical properties of the contourlet coefficients. Therefore, it is used to detect the image singularities (edges and...
The success of visual tracking systems is highly dependent upon the effectiveness of the measurement function used to evaluate the likelihood of a hypothesized object state. Generative tracking algorithms attempt to find the global and other local maxima of these measurement functions. As such, designing measurement functions which have a small number of local maxima is highly desirable. Edge based...
To solve the problem of moving object segmentation in video sequence, a new video moving object segmentation algorithm was proposed based on Kirsch edge operator. The detected edge is mainly analyzed for segmentation and motion vector field is taken as assistant information. Firstly, the motion vectors are processed by accumulation and median filer. Secondly, templates of Kirsch operators are decomposed...
In this paper we present a Bayesian framework for segmenting images into their constituent visual patterns. The segmentation algorithm optimizes the posterior probability and outputs a scene representation as a hierarchical graph representation, in a spirit similar to stochastic grammars in natural language. This computational framework integrates two popular inference approaches-generative (top-down)...
Scene is the semantic unit in video. Video scene segmentation is a difficult task in content based video structure analysis. This paper proposes a new approach for scene boundary detection. We first construct shot content coherence signal using normalized cut criterion and then use a heuristic algorithm to detect scene boundary. Because the normalized cut criterion simultaneously emphasizes on the...
The paper considers the GS (Gap statistics) model of the optimum segmentation number of the image by taking the standard gray values of the image and the position information as the data and by endowing them the normalizing weights. It studies, by taking the weights as the variables, the evolvement of the optimum segmentation of the image from the pure gray values to the pure space data of the image...
In this paper the human object present in images are identified. K-means clustering algorithm is used for segmenting the images and Connected Component Analysis is used as post-processing step. Initially, templates are created from human posture in idle and various angles. The adjacency matrix is constructed from objects and it is matched with templates. A similarity measure has been proposed for...
A novel, physical-based force, called as Lorentz force inspired by classical electrodynamics is introduced for the active contour models, and the truncation computing method of Lorentz Force is detailed. Several comparative results indicate that the new force field has similar effects with the gradient vector flow (GVF) field, but it has a remarkable promotion of evaluation speed. The new force is...
In this paper we present a framework for 3D geometric shape segmentation for close-range scenes used in mobile manipulation and grasping, out of sensed point cloud data. Our proposed approach proposes a robust geometric mapping pipeline for large input datasets that extracts relevant objects useful for a personal robotic assistant to perform manipulation tasks. The objects are segmented out from partial...
In the context of image segmentation, Markov random fields (MRF) are extensively used. However solution of MRF-based models is heavily dependent on how successfully the MRF energy minimization is performed. In this framework, two methodologies, complementary to each other, are proposed for random field optimization. We address the special class of models comprising a random field imposed on the probabilities...
Simulating physiological interventions for planning purposes requires an accurate virtual liver model as computation input. To best meet the demands the data acquisition has to be oriented on image processing purposes. We provide a CT imaging protocol which makes it possible to extract much more vessels with the same segmentation algorithms than when using them on data sets from the clinical routine...
This paper presents an Intelligent Surveillance System which can be used in real scenes. Our aim is to establish a reliable background from a complex one via a accurate segmentation method followed by object tracking. The system is able to continue tracking the objects regardless if the objects are overlapping or separate. The system uses the TI TMS320DM6446 Davinci development kit, inputs image sequence...
A Markov random field (MRF) model is proposed for unsupervised image segmentation in this paper. The theoretical framework is based on Bayesian estimation via the graph-cut energy optimization method. A Gaussian is used to model the density associated with each image segment (or class), and parameters are estimated with an expectation maximization (EM) algorithm. Here we use the perceptually uniform...
We present a novel algorithm to segment a 3D surface mesh into visually meaningful regions. Our approach is based on an analysis of the local geometry of vertices. In particular, we begin with a novel characterization of vertices as convex, concave or hyperbolic based upon their discrete local geometry. Hyperbolic and concave vertices are considered potential feature region boundaries. We propose...
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