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SIFT flow adopts SIFT descriptor to find correspondence between two images. However, SIFT flow is not robust to scale and rotation for dense corresponding matching. In this paper, we propose moment-based dense correspondence matching which is robust to image variation. First, we apply Zernike moments to SIFT descriptor, i.e. Moments of Gradients (MoG). Then, we combine SIFT flow with MoG for dense...
Perceptual quantization (PQ) for HDR video coding has good perceptual uniformity in the luminance range with the modest bit-depth. However, the dynamic range of HDR videos is not well-used in PQ according to contents, especially for chroma channels. Thus, there exist the wasted dynamic ranges in PQ which cause detail loss and color distortions. In this paper, we propose adaptive quantization-based...
The attention function has been classified into (i) sustained attention, (ii) selective attention, (iii) controlled attention, (iv) distributed attention, and (v) capacity for attention. Ordinarily, in order to evaluate the function of attention, the digital cancellation test (D-CAT) or trail making test (TMT) are employed. However, these evaluations are in the form of paper tests, and cannot effectively...
With the extensive use of sophisticated image editing software, it has become easy to manipulate digital images without any visually visible clue. Copy-move is a special type of image forgery performed by copying a part of the image and pasting anywhere else in the same image. We proposed a passive image authentication technique to determine the copy-move forgery. First, the method divides the image...
Key frame extraction is a crucial step in content-based video retrieval. To accurately describe character of frames, various features like color, texture, shape can be integrated and used for key frame extraction. In this paper, we proposed an improved two-phase approach of key frame extraction based on entropy and perceptual hash. It weakens the threshold's direct influence on final results, and...
Spectral signature based post classification change detection approach is applied to identify the changes in Brahmaputra river along with sandbars around Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India. Landsat 5 images from 2006 to 2011 are used and the results are compared with the annual rainfall of the region to identify areas that are erosion prone. From the results it is observed that the amount of...
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...
Saliency detection aims to find the useful and attractive regions from an image. In many situations, there may be multiple objects in the image, and these objects may have equal attractiveness. Moreover, the appearance of pixels in one object may demonstrate large difference, which could lead to lose the object integrality when detecting saliency. To this end, this paper proposes a multi-saliency...
Kernel descriptors have been proven to outperform existing histogram based local descriptors as such descriptors are extracted from the match kernels which measure similarities between image patches using different pixel attributes (gradient, colour or LBP pattern). The extraction of kernel descriptors does not require coarse quantization of pixel attributes. Instead, each pixel equally participates...
Tamura features are based on human visual perception and have huge potential in image representation. Conventional Tamura features only work on homogeneous texture images and perform poor on generic images. Therefore, many researchers attempt to improve Tamura features and most of the improvements are based on histogram based representation. Kernel descriptors have been shown to outperform existing...
Salient object detection using RGB-D data is an emerging field in computer vision. Salient regions are often characterized by an unusual surface orientation profile with respect to the surroundings. To capture such profile, we introduce the histogram of surface orientation (HOSO) feature to measure surface orientation distribution contrast for RGB-D saliency. We propose a new unified model that integrates...
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...
Object deformation and occlusion are ubiquitous problems for visual tracking. Though many efforts have been made to handle object deformation and occlusion, most existing tracking algorithms fail in case of large deformation and severe occlusion. In this paper, we propose a graph learning-based tracking framework to handle both challenges. For each consecutive frame pair, we construct a weighted graph,...
Image smoothing is a fundamental technology which aims to preserve image structure and remove insignificant texture. Balancing the trade-off between preserving structure and suppressing texture, however, is not a trivial task. This is because existing methods rely on only one guidance to infer structure or texture and assume the other is dependent. However, in many cases, textures are composed of...
Region-based image retrieval has been proven to be effective in finding relevant images. In this paper, we propose a cuboid im-age segmentation method which results in rectangle image partitions. Rectangle partitions are more suitable for image compression, retrieval and other image operations. We apply partitions in image retrieval in this paper. Our experimental results have shown that (1) the proposed...
Using color histograms in automatic emotion recognition systems faces different issues. One of the important challenges is to determine the appropriate number of bins in the color histogram to achieve the highest recognition performance possible with minimal computations. This research focuses on emotion recognition induced by visual contents of images, or REVC for short, using ARTphoto dataset. Twenty-two...
Color mapping for 3D models with captured images is a classical problem in computer vision. Typically, registration between 3D model and images is assumed to be provided, otherwise corresponding points need to be labeled. For many applications, 3D model and images are acquired from different devices, since registration cannot be directly obtained, manual labeling has to be adopted. In this paper,...
In this work we discuss an efficient strategy for reducing the negative impact of non-uniform illumination to panoramic image quality by proposing an adaptive correction algorithm based on the improved Bilateral Gamma function. Firstly the illumination component is extracted by a fast image guided filter. Then an improved bilateral Gamma function fed by the distribution characteristics of illumination...
Being one of the most effective video technologies, wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) offers the physicians to diagnose the gastrointestinal (GI) diseases like ulcer non-invasively. Physicians, while analyzing the WCE videos, find it tedious to detect ulcer because of the huge amount of image frames present in WCE videos. This tedious reviewing process at times leads to inaccuracy in diagnosing ulcer...
This paper presents a new method of segmenting and classifying protein crystallization trial images that were collected using trace fluorescent labeling. Trace fluorescent labeling typically involves fluorescence dye that can re-emit the illumination light at other wavelengths around the principal wavelength. The captured image has a primary color channel with respect to illumination light and fluorescence...
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