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A local orientation descriptor (LOD) for nutrition analysis by quantity estimation is proposed. By observing nutrition properties, a texture-based LOD is designed to extract discriminant information, frequency and length among food items. Prior to classification, food detection is a challenging problem due to significant variety of backgrounds and containers. Thus, three food region detectors are...
In this paper, a novel local threshold binarization method using structural symmetry of strokes is proposed. Different from most existing local threshold methods which use the whole region to compute the threshold, we estimate the local threshold by only using the structural symmetric pixels (SSP) of the region so as to suppress the non-text pixels and maintain the text ones as well. The SSP is defined...
Numerous depth extraction schemes cannot extract depth on textureless regions, thus generating sparse depth maps. In this paper, we propose using perception cues to improve the sparse depth map. We consider the local neighborhood as well the global surface properties of objects. We use this information to complement depth extraction schemes. The method is not scene or class specific. With quantitative...
This paper proposes a new method to detect static caption regions using intensity range maps and a statistical model of motion vectors. The method relies on the probability of block-based intensity ranges and magnitudes of motion vectors. Intensity range is used to find candidate locations of static captions and the statistical model of motion vector is used to refine accurate caption regions. The...
This paper presents a novel algorithm for performing an efficient cost aggregation in stereo vision. The cost aggregation is re-formulated under an iterative framework with a perspective of an energy model. The convergence of global energy is exploited to calculate the number of the iterations in cost aggregation. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the quality of the disparity.
In free-viewpoint television, high-quality depth maps are substantial for a virtual view synthesis for free navigation purposes. In this paper, we propose a new method of depth map quality improvement and resolution increase. Our method is intended for low resolution depth maps acquired through estimation using multiview video. The proposed depth map quality improvement is based on segmentation of...
Image upsampling from one input image gathers considerable attention in the field of computer vision. The problem is ill-posed because the number of known low-resolution (LR) pixels is less than that of unknown high-resolution (HR) pixels. Therefore, quality of an upsampled image depends on prior assumptions. Image interpolation methods are one of the image upsampling technologies and are faster than...
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This paper proposes a blur detection algorithm that is capable of detecting and quantifying the level of spatially-varying blur by integrating directional edge spread calculation, Just Noticeable Blur (JNB) and local probability summation. The proposed method generates a blur map indicating the relative amount of perceived local blurriness. We compare the proposed method with six other state-of-the-art...
Image deconvolution is the task to recover the image information that was lost by taking photos with blur motion. Especially blind image deconvolution requires no prior informations other than the blurred image. This problem is seriously ill-posed and an additional operation is required such as extracting image features. In this paper, we present a blind image deconvolution framework using a specified...
Haze removal, which is also referred to as image dehazing, has been extensively used to improve the visibility in images captured under inclement weather. In particular, the dark channel prior (DCP)-based single image dehazing has received the greatest amount of interest due to its superior performance. However, since the DCP is based on the characteristics of natural outdoor images, its reliability...
Edges in infrared image usually cause serious false alarms in single frame infrared small target detection. So a novel edge-preserving background estimation method is proposed for small target detection to attenuate this problem. First we will introduce the patch similarity feature of infrared image. Then, patch similarity of infrared image is utilized to formulate edge-preserving infrared background...
Hoarding is a complex and impairing psychiatric disorder and a public health problem. Traditionally it is assessed through observation and interview, but recently a new method has been proposed where living quarters of an individual are visually compared with a set of template images ranked according to the “Clutter Image Rating” (CIR) scale from 1 to 9. However, such an assessment is time-consuming,...
This paper presents a fast algorithm for deriving the defocus map from a single image. Existing methods of defocus map estimation often include a pixel-level propagation step to spread the measured sparse defocus cues over the whole image. Since the pixel-level propagation step is time-consuming, we develop an effective method to obtain the whole-image defocus blur using oversegmentation and transductive...
This paper presents a novel method of salience and priority estimation for the human visual system during locomotion. This visual information contains dynamic content derived from a moving viewpoint. The priority map, ranking key areas on the image, is created from probabilities of gaze fixations, merged from bottom-up features and top-down control on the locomotion. Two deep convolutional neural...
Traditional quality estimators evaluate an image's resemblance to a reference image. However, quality estimators are not well suited to the similar but somewhat different task of utility estimation, where an image is judged instead by how useful it would be in comparison to a reference in the context of accomplishing some task. Multi-Scale Difference of Gaussian Utility (MS-DGU), a reduced-reference...
Taking good photos in low-light conditions using a smart-phone camera is quite challenging. In this paper, we propose a method to produce a sharp well-exposed image under dim light scenarios using exposure bracketing. These images captured from a hand-held camera can be viewed as a set of blurred (high exposure) and noisy images (low exposure). We first describe an algorithm for estimating the sharp...
Adaptive normalized cross-correlation (ANCC) cost function works well between images under photometric distortions, but its heavy computational burden often limits its applications. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes a robust and efficient computational framework, called ANCC flow, designed for establishing dense correspondences between images under severe photometric variations. We...
Blind image restoration is a non-convex problem which involves restoration of images from an unknown blur kernel. The factors affecting the performance of this restoration are how much prior information about an image and a blur kernel are provided and what algorithm is used to perform the restoration task. Prior information on images is often employed to restore the sharpness of the edges of an image...
Distance estimation for marine vessels is of vital importance to unmanned ship vehicles (USVs) for navigation and collision prevention. This can be achieved by means such as radar or laser sighting. However, due to constraints of the USV, it may be desired to estimate distance using a monocular camera. In this paper, we propose a method that, given a video of a marine vehicle in a maritime environment...
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