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While recent advances in deep learning pushed the state-of-the-art in object detection and semantic segmentation, it often comes at the cost of a considerable annotation effort. Thus, weakly supervised learning became of increasing interest. In this paper a novel approach to the challenging task of weakly supervised segmentation and object localization will be presented. The problem is tackled from...
In this study, we propose a two-stage method for material segmentation in hyperspectral images. The first stage employs a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to predict the material label at individual pixels. The second stage further refines the segmentation by a fully-connected Conditional Random Field (CRF) framework. For the first stage, we experimented with two different network architectures...
Convolutional neural networks have shown great success on feature extraction from raw input data such as images. Although convolutional neural networks are invariant to translations on the inputs, they are not invariant to other transformations, including rotation and flip. Recent attempts have been made to incorporate more invariance in image recognition applications, but they are not applicable...
Brain tumors, especially high-grade gliomas, are one of the most lethal cancers for humankind today. Early and accurate diagnosis of tumor grading is the key for subsequent therapy and treatment. In the past, conventional computer-aided diagnosis relies on handcrafted features from magnetic resonance images (MRI), which are usually inaccurate and laborious. Recently, deep neural networks have been...
Since road markings are one of the main landmarks used for traffic guidance, perceiving them may be a crucial task for autonomous vehicles. In visual approaches, road marking detection consists in detecting pixels of an image that corresponds to a road marking. Recently, most approaches have aimed on detecting lane markings only, and few of them proposed methods to detect other types of road markings...
The quality of life of people is increasing together with the developing technologies. One of the most important factors affecting daily life is smart cities. The quality of life of people is positively affected by emerging this concept in recent years. Autonomous vehicles confront with the term of the smart city and have become even more popular in recent years. In this study, a system of traffic...
Brain tumour diagnosis is usually a vital use of medical image processing, where clustering technique commonly used with medical application especially regarding brain tumour diagnosis with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this MRI has been considered because it provides accurate visualization of anatomical structure of tissues. The conventional mean shift technique utilizes radially symmetric...
With the advent of new technologies in the field of medicine, there is rising awareness of biomechanisms, and we are better able to treat ailments than we could earlier. Deep learning has helped a lot in this endeavor. This paper deals with the application of deep learning in brain tumor segmentation. Brain tumors are difficult to segment automatically given the high variability in the shapes and...
Video deblurring is a challenging problem as the blur is complex and usually caused by the combination of camera shakes, object motions, and depth variations. Optical flow can be used for kernel estimation since it predicts motion trajectories. However, the estimates are often inaccurate in complex scenes at object boundaries, which are crucial in kernel estimation. In this paper, we exploit semantic...
Ultrasound medical diagnostics is a real-time modality based on a doctor's interpretation of images. So far, automated Computer-Aided Diagnostic tools were not widely applied to ultrasound imaging. The emerging methods in Artificial Intelligence, namely deep learning, gave rise to new applications in medical imaging modalities. The work's objective was to show the feasibility of implementing deep...
A malt is one of intermediate ingredients for a brewing industry. The quality of barley used for malting have essential impact on the final product flavor. An automatic system for a barley grains inspection, utilizing computer vision methods, can provide an objective quality assessment. We present image preprocessing steps of grain inspection system. Main preprocessing steps are: segmentation of grain...
Accuracy in segmenting of brain vessels from medical angiographic data is crucial for further modelling and assessment of the human vasculature. It was demonstrated that the level set (LS) approach enhanced by the implementation of the vesselness function (VF) provides a robust segmentation framework enabling the high-quality vessel network extracted from CT and MR images. This work investigates the...
In the paper, a rough spatial kernelized fuzzy c-means clustering (RSKFCM) based medical image segmentation algorithm is proposed. This technique is a combination of rough set and spatial kernelized fuzzy c-means clustering (SKFCM). SKFCM is failed to remove the indistinct knowledge that is associated with each data set during the process of its assignment to a particular cluster. The rough set is...
The present work proposes to recognize the static hand gestures taken under invariations features as scale, rotation, translation, illumination, noise and background. We use the alphabet of sign language of Peru (LSP). For this purpose, digital image processing techniques are used to eliminate or reduce noise, to improve the contrast under a variant illumination, to separate the hand from the background...
We propose a highly structured neural network architecture for semantic segmentation with an extremely small model size, suitable for low-power embedded and mobile platforms. Specifically, our architecture combines i) a Haar wavelet-based tree-like convolutional neural network (CNN), ii) a random layer realizing a radial basis function kernel approximation, and iii) a linear classifier. While stages...
Data clustering methods have been used extensively for image segmentation in the past decade. In our previous work, we had established that combining the traditional clustering algorithms with a meta-heuristic like Firefly Algorithm improves the stability of the output as well as the speed of convergence. In this paper, we have replaced the Euclidean distance formula with kernels. We have combined...
Ultrasound image is one of the modalities that is widely used to examine the abnormality of thyroid gland since it is relatively low-cost and safety. Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is usually used by radiologists to determine the thyroid nodule whether malignant or benign. Commonly, malignancy of thyroid nodule determined based on shape feature. This research proposes a scheme for classifying...
Temporal segmentation of facial expressions in video sequences is an important and relatively unexplored problem in facial image analysis. The difficulties of temporal segmentation include irregular facial behavior, large variability in facial gestures and moderate to large head motion. To solve those problems, we propose a two-step method to segment facial expression temporally, which consists of...
Active contour models (ACM) have been proven to be the most promising model in solving the different problems encountered in image segmentation. This paper proposes a new region-based active contour model for level set formulation in which the energy function is formulated using both local and global intensity fitting terms. The generalized Gaussian distribution has been used as the kernel function...
We propose an approach for semi-automatic annotation of object instances. While most current methods treat object segmentation as a pixel-labeling problem, we here cast it as a polygon prediction task, mimicking how most current datasets have been annotated. In particular, our approach takes as input an image crop and sequentially produces vertices of the polygon outlining the object. This allows...
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