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This paper presents a two-pass clustering technique for orientation-invariant text line clustering in a language-independent text localization problem based on the connected component analysis (CCA) approach. Instead of doing a single-pass cluster in the conventional way, the proposed technique firstly explores nearby objects around the candidate components. By setting up the global constraints with...
Plasma arc cutting is a complex process with substantial interaction between process parameters. These manifest in deviations in the properties of the cut such as kerf width and kerf angle. Developing relationships between process parameters and aspects of the cut requires a large amount of data. This paper presents a novel method that applies computer vision to assess the kerf width against plasma...
Person re-identification is a challenge in video-based surveillance where the goal is to identify the same person in different camera views. In recent years, many algorithms have been proposed that approach this problem by designing suitable feature representations for images of persons or by training appropriate distance metrics that learn to distinguish between images of different persons. Aggregating...
One popular approach for blind deconvolution is to formulate a maximum a posteriori (MAP) problem with sparsity priors on the gradients of the latent image, and then alternatingly estimate the blur kernel and the latent image. While several successful MAP based methods have been proposed, there has been much controversy and confusion about their convergence, because sparsity priors have been shown...
In free viewpoint television (FTV) application scenario, views that synthesized with depth image-based rendering (DIBR) techniques mainly contain special artifacts like geometric distortions. These artifacts may affect the structure of images/videos by changing the global contour characteristics and thus are annoying for human observers. Context tree based contour coding scheme can be a good tool...
This paper addresses the problem of defocus map estimation from a single image. We present a fast yet effective approach to estimate the spatially varying amounts of defocus blur at edge locations, which is based on the maximum ranks of the corresponding local patches with different orientations in gradient domain. Such an approach is motivated by the theoretical analysis which reveals the connection...
The quality assessment of edges in an image is an important topic as it helps to benchmark the performance of edge detectors, and edge-aware filters that are used in a wide range of image processing tasks. The most popular image quality metrics such as Mean squared error (MSE), Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and Structural similarity (SSIM) metrics for assessing and justifying the quality of edges...
In modern remote sensing procedures, one of the most important issues is to distinguish specific types of land coverage. Discrimination between different land coverages especially in metropolitan surveying is so important that the in front civilization projects are basically dependent to them. In this paper, an innovative image processing strategy is employed for distinguishing green lands from other...
Depth map estimation forms an integral part of many applications such as 2D-to-3D creation. There exists various methods in literature for depth map estimation using different cues and structure. Usually, depth information is decoded from these cues at the edges and matting is applied to spread it over neighboring regions. Defocus is one such cue due to its natural existence and does not require any...
Single-image blind deconvolution is one of the most challenging fields in image processing which restores a sharp image from its blurred version. Nowadays blind deconvolution algorithms have made significant progress. However, the restoration of blurred images with little scale edges and periodic textures is still a hard work. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a new normalized sparse regularization...
Rapid growing of multimedia processing technologies enables many creative and powerful new applications. Due to the availability of multimedia reconstruction and editing tools, multimedia authentication gained a considerable attention. Some authentication is to be performed during the transmission of data via insecure networks. Data encryption is one of the frequently used method for secure data transmission...
In the past decades, massive attention has been paid toward no-reference or blind image sharpness assessment (BISA) and many algorithms have achieved good performance. This paper provides an evaluation of 12 state-of-the-art BISA methods based on Gaussian blurring images collected from four simulation databases (LIVE, CSIQ, TID2008 and TID2013). The prediction performance is estimated with two metrics...
In complex networks, communities often show the presence of homophily between members, since homophily is the tendency of individuals to associate and bound with similar others to form densely interconnected groups. In this paper, we propose a new bidirectional label propagation community detection algorithm, called Dis-Sim, based on the fundamental idea that a node and its most similar neighbors...
This paper presents a variational method for SAR image segmentation that unifies boundary- and region-based information into the geometric active contour model. A new Riemannian metric is introduced to construct region-based energy function derived by maximizing the geodesic distance of a new Riemannian metric in differential-geometric structure for spectral density functions. A heterogeneity indicator...
In this paper, a new image fusion algorithm based on fourth order partial differential equations and principal component analysis is introduced. This is for the first time fourth order partial differential equations brought into the context of image fusion. The proposed algorithm is as follows: First, fourth order partial differential equations are applied on each source image to obtain approximation...
Free view point video (FVV), which offers immersive experience to users with multiple views, is one of the new trends in advanced visual media. These new viewpoints are traditionally synthesized via depth image-based rendering(DIBR) and geometric distortions are therefore observed. Mid-level contours descriptors are capable of evaluating such edges incoherence among the synthesized images which common...
We introduce a method that uses a single camera to localize a vehicle within a pre-constructed map consisting of a voxel occupancy grid and road-line marker positions. Sophisticated mapping hardware is capable of creating high-accuracy 3D maps of road environments, but localizing a vehicle within such maps is one of the challenges at the forefront of automated driving. A solution which is robust to...
Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) has gained swift popularity in remote sensing area mainly due to the increasing availability of very high resolution imagery. Image segmentation is a major step within OBIA process. Image segmentation quality remarkably influences the subsequent image classification accuracy. It is necessary to implement advanced and robust methods to increase image segmentation...
Remote sensing image enhancement methods have to increase the contrast and emphasize the edges, while preserving the color. In this study, an enhancement method based on bilateral filtering is proposed. We propose to extract the details of the image by a multiscale bilateral filter and add these details to the original image using a weighting scheme. Visual results and evaluation metrics show that...
Saliency detection is an important problem in many computer vision applications. As a kind of popular method, graph based manifold ranking (GMR) has been successfully used in saliency detection problem. In traditional GMR saliency detection, it involves two main stages, i.e., ranking with background queries and ranking with foreground queries. However, in GMR method, these two stages are conducted...
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