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In the fiber image analysis system, correctly segmenting fiber from fiber micrograph is critical for fiber feature extraction and further identification. In this paper, the GVF snake model with the initial contour obtained by contour tracking method based on K-means clustering segmentation is proposed for fiber segmentation. Firstly, the K-means clustering method is used to obtain the initial coarse...
Remote sensing imagery is an attractive source of land cover information. High resolution sensing imagery provides more land cover detail than low resolution sensing imagery. Due to more complex and noisier spectral signatures for the former, new algorithms are needed to deal with high resolution imagery. Based on an integration of spectral and spatial information, a novel classification method is...
High-resolution image collections pose unique challenges to analysts tasked with managing the associated data assets and deriving new information from them. While significant progress has been made towards rapid automated filtering, alignment, segmentation, characterization, and feature identification from image collections, the extraction of new insights still strongly depends on human intervention...
The fire and smoke monitoring systems are useful in different industry such as military, social security and economical. The recent methods for fire and smoke detection are used only motion and color characteristics thus many wrong alarms are happening and this is decrease the performance of the systems. This research presents a new method for fire and smoke detection through image processing. In...
Grabcut is an Interactive segmentation algorithm, which is employed to extract the foreground of an image, but it works wrong frequently when the pixels around the foreground are similar to the pixels of the background. We advance a new cost function to correct the mistake after we analyze the reason why it works wrong. Experimental results show that the new cost function outperforms the original...
The image information disguising technology is a new technology in information security domain in recent years. Using the S- rough sets theory and element migration's dynamic and randomness, in view of the image information disguising technology, proposed the image increase disguising and decrease disguising concept, has given image information disguising characteristic theorem based on the S- rough...
This work describes a method for accurately tracking persons in indoor surveillance video stream obtained from a static camera with difficult scene properties including illumination changes and solves the major occlusion problem. First, moving objects are precisely extracted by determining its motion, for further processing. The scene illumination changes are averaged to obtain the accurate moving...
Recent mobile device and vision technology advances have enabled mobile Augmented Reality (AR) to be serviced in real-time using natural features. However, in viewing augmented reality while moving about, the user is always encountering new and diverse target objects in different locations. Whether the AR system is scalable or not to the number of target objects is an important issue for future mobile...
We present a novel technique implementing barehanded interaction with virtual 3D content by employing a time-of-flight camera. The system improves on existing 3D multi-touch systems by working regardless of lighting conditions and supplying a working volume large enough for multiple users. Previous systems were limited either by environmental requirements, working volume, or computational resources...
In real world classification tasks, the original instances are represented by raw features. Usually domain related algorithms are needed to extract discriminative features. But the algorithms selection and additional parameters tuning are difficult for people with little domain knowledge and experience. In this paper, a new machine learning framework called "decompose learning" is proposed...
Recently, there are many autonomous navigation applications done in outdoor environment. However, safe navigation is still a daunting challenge in terrain containing vegetation. Thus, a study on vegetation detection for outdoor automobile navigation is investigated in this work. At the early state of our research, we focused on the segmentation of LADAR data into two classes by using local three-dimensional...
This paper is focus on the analysis of the ability of iris segmentation method to process images with heterogeneous characteristics, simulating the dynamics of a non-cooperative environment. Aimed to improve the performance of iris segmentation method in non-cooperative environment, the authors introduce a new method. According to the different characteristics of the inner border and outer border...
Plant skeleton is a key geometrical of itself, it can reserve topology and shape information of the object, so it is easy to reconstruct the source form. In this paper, leaf vein skeleton extracting method based on watershed was proposed using images of leaves. Through it the main vein and lateral vein of the leaf are extracted. Then use the morphology method like dilation and erosion to do the final...
We introduce a non-kinematic based approach to autonomous target tracking using a new set of Independent and Indirectly Generated Attributes (IIGA) from hyperspectral imagery. The IIGA method addresses the detection of rare signal appearance (i.e., targets represented by a few pixels), which is often the case in remote sensing target tracking. The proposed method demonstrates that object distinctness...
Pin-point landing is required to enable missions to land close, typically within 10 meters, to scientifically important targets in generally hazardous terrain. In Pin Point Landing both high accuracy and high speed estimation of position and orientation is needed to provide input to the control system to safely choose and navigate to a safe landing site. A proposed algorithm called VISion aided Inertial...
The capability to visually discern possible obstacles from the sky would be a valuable asset to a UAV for avoiding both other flying vehicles and static obstacles in its environment. The main contribution of this article is the presentation of a feasible approach to obstacle avoidance based on the segmentation of camera images into sky and non-sky regions. The approach is named the Sky Segmentation...
In this paper, we study the effects of discriminative cues (gender and age) in an image based face recognition system across age. We propose a pipeline framework to prune the search space based on gender and age of the test image to aid the process of recognition. A feature based approach which uses the Gabor phase and magnitude images of the face image is used in face image representation. The Gabor...
In this paper, based on SIFT feature algorithm, the SIFT feature descriptor is improved, the area of feature points used to construct a new circular region feature descriptor, thus improving the characteristics of the problem of high dimension, but also enhanced features descriptor of their own anti-rotation, and then two images by calculating the feature vector Euclidean distance, the findings were...
Image morphing has received much attention in recent years. It mainly involves feature specification, geometric transformation and color blending. Here, a novel calculation method of image morphing is proposed. First, a novel coordinate system called triangle coordinate system is defined, which has a great advantage in geometric transformation. Second, corresponding feature points on images are marked...
Handwriting recognition has been one of the active and challenging research areas in the field of image processing and pattern recognition. It has numerous applications which include, reading aid for blind, bank cheques and conversion of any hand written document into structural text form. In this paper an attempt is made to recognize handwritten characters for English alphabets without feature extraction...
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