{"title":"3L fitting of higher degree implicit polynomials","authors":"Zhibin Lei, Michael M. Blane, D. Cooper","doi":"10.1109/ACV.1996.572044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACV.1996.572044","url":null,"abstract":"Implicit polynomial 2D curves and 3D surfaces are potentially among the most useful object or data representations for use in computer vision and image analysis. This is because of their interpolation property, Euclidean and affine invariants, and Bayesian recognizers. The paper studies and compares various fitting algorithms in a unified framework of stability analysis. It presents a new robust 3L fitting method that is repeatable, numerically stable and computationally fast and can be used for high degree implicit polynomials to capture complex object structure. With this, the authors lay down a foundation that enables a technology based on implicit polynomial curves and surfaces for applications in indexing into pictorial databases, robot vision, CAD for free-form shapes, etc.","PeriodicalId":222106,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision. WACV'96","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125795880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fingerprint enhancement","authors":"Lin Hong, A. Jian, Sharath Pankanti, R. Bolle","doi":"10.1109/ACV.1996.572056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACV.1996.572056","url":null,"abstract":"Fingerprint images vary in quality. In order to ensure that the performance of an automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS) will be robust with respect to the quality of input fingerprint images, it is essential to incorporate a fingerprint enhancement module in the AFIS system. We introduce a new fingerprint enhancement algorithm which decomposes the input fingerprint image into a set of filtered images. From the filtered images, the orientation field is estimated and a quality mask which distinguishes the recoverable and unrecoverable corrupted regions in the input image is generated. The input fingerprint image is adaptively enhanced in the recoverable regions. The performance of our algorithm has been evaluated on an online fingerprint verification system using the MSU fingerprint database containing over 600 fingerprint images. Experimental results show that our enhancement algorithm improves the performance of the online fingerprint verification system and makes it more robust with respect to the quality of input fingerprint images.","PeriodicalId":222106,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision. WACV'96","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126406761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying nude pictures","authors":"D. Forsyth, Margaret M. Fleck","doi":"10.1109/ACV.1996.572010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACV.1996.572010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates an automatic system for telling whether there are naked people present in an image. The approach combines color and texture properties to obtain a mask for skin regions, which is shown to be effective for a wide range of shades and colors of skin. These skin regions are then fed to a specialized grouper, which attempts to group a human figure using geometric constraints on human structure. This approach introduces a new view of object recognition, where an object model is an organized collection of grouping hints obtained from a combination of constraints on color and texture and constraints on geometric properties such as the structure of individual parts and the relationships between parts. The system demonstrates excellent performance on a test set of 565 uncontrolled images of naked people, mostly obtained from the internet, and 4289 assorted control images, drawn from a wide collection of sources.","PeriodicalId":222106,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision. WACV'96","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116698990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mosaicing of paintings on curved surfaces","authors":"W. Puech, J. Chassery, A. Bors, I. Pitas","doi":"10.1109/ACV.1996.571997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACV.1996.571997","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an approach for reconstructing images painted on curved surfaces. A set of monocular images is taken from different viewpoints in order to mosaic and represent the entire scene. By using a priori knowledge about the support surface of the picture, we derive the surface localization in the camera coordinate system. An automatic mosaicing method is applied on the patterned images in order to obtain the complete scene. The mosaiced scene is visualized on a new synthetic surface by a mapping procedure.","PeriodicalId":222106,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision. WACV'96","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133331321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive quantization of color space for recognition of finished wooden components","authors":"A. L. Abbott, Yuedong Zhao","doi":"10.1109/ACV.1996.572063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACV.1996.572063","url":null,"abstract":"The paper concerns the recognition of textured objects, such as stained wooden parts, using color images. Many existing color classification systems utilize histogram-based similarity measures to compare an observed image with models from a database. Although the performance of these systems depends heavily on proper quantization of the color space, most quantization methods are based on traditional clustering or thresholding operations. The authors describe a novel approach to color space quantization in which the intersection of meaningful representations results in a partition of the color space. The color descriptions are chosen adaptively, using a set of training images. The resulting partition serves as the domain for histograms of models and of observed images and information-theoretic similarity measures are used to perform recognition. The motivation for this system is to achieve high recognition accuracy in an industrial setting. Laboratory tests have demonstrated a high level of accuracy for this technique, even though the objects of interest exhibit large variations of texture and color.","PeriodicalId":222106,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision. WACV'96","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132559316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shinji Yamamoto, Hao Jiang, M. Matsumoto, Y. Tateno, T. Iinuma, Toru Matsumoto
{"title":"Image processing for computer-aided diagnosis of lung cancer by CT(LSCT)","authors":"Shinji Yamamoto, Hao Jiang, M. Matsumoto, Y. Tateno, T. Iinuma, Toru Matsumoto","doi":"10.1109/ACV.1996.572061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACV.1996.572061","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports the image processing technique for computer-aided diagnosis of lung cancer by CT(LSCT). LSCT is the newly developed mobile-type CT scanner for the mass screening of lung cancer by our project team. In this new LSCT system, one essential problem is the increase of image information to about 30 slices per person from 1 X-ray film. To solve this difficult problem, we tried to reduce the image information drastically to be displayed for the doctor, by image processing techniques.","PeriodicalId":222106,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision. WACV'96","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133405214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A real-time vision system for automatic traffic monitoring based on 2D spatio-temporal images","authors":"Zhigang Zhu, Bo Yang, Guangyou Xu, Dingji Shi","doi":"10.1109/ACV.1996.572047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACV.1996.572047","url":null,"abstract":"The authors present a novel approach using 2D spatio-temporal images for automatic traffic monitoring. A TV camera is mounted above the highway to monitor the traffic through two slice windows for each traffic lane. One slice window is along the lane and the other perpendicular to the lane axis. Two types of 2D spatio-temporal (ST) images are used in the system: the panoramic view image (PVI) and the epipolar plane image (EPI). The real-time vision system for automatic traffic monitoring, VISATRAM, an inexpensive system with a PC 486 and an image frame grabber has been tested with real road images. Not only can the system count the vehicles and estimate their speeds, but it can also classify the passing vehicles using 3D measurements (length, width and height). The VISATRAM works robustly under various light conditions including shadows in the day and vehicle lights at night, and automatically copes with the gradual and abrupt changes of the environment.","PeriodicalId":222106,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision. WACV'96","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130712248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cartographic matching with millimetre radar images","authors":"S. Moss, E. Hancock","doi":"10.1109/ACV.1996.572003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACV.1996.572003","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an application of the EM (expectation and maximisation) algorithm to the registration of incomplete millimetric radar images. The data used in this study consists of a series of nonoverlapping radar sweeps. Our registration process aims to recover transformation parameters between the radar-data and a digital map. The tokens used in the matching process are fragmented line-segments extracted from the radar images which predominantly correspond to hedge-rows in the cartographic data. The EM technique models data uncertainty using Gaussian mixtures defined over the positions and orientations of the lines. The resulting weighted least-squares parameter estimation problem is solved using the Levenberg-Marquardt method. A sensitivity analysis reveals that the date-likelihood function is unimodal in the translation and scale parameters. In-fact the algorithm is only sensitive to the choice of initial rotation parameter; this is attributable to local suboptima in the log-likelihood function associated with /spl pi//3 orientation ambiguities in the map. The method is also demonstrated to be relatively insensitive to random measurement errors on the line-segments.","PeriodicalId":222106,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision. WACV'96","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134062493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cartographic indexing into a database of remotely sensed images","authors":"B. Huet, E. Hancock","doi":"10.1109/ACV.1996.571987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACV.1996.571987","url":null,"abstract":"The paper aims to develop simple statistical methods for indexing line patterns. The application vehicle used in this study involves indexing into an aerial image database using a cartographic model. The images contained in the database are of urban and semi urban areas. The cartographic model represents a road network known to appear in a subset of the images contained within the database. There are known to be severe imaging distortions present and the data cannot be recovered by applying a simple Euclidean transform to the model. We effect the cartographic indexing into the database using pairwise histograms of the angle differences and the cross ratios of the lengths of line segments extracted from the raw aerial images. We investigate several alternative ways of performing histogram comparison. Our conclusion is that the Matusita and Bhattachargya distances provide significant performance advantages over the L/sub 2/ norm employed by M. Swain and D. Ballard (1990). Moreover, a sensitivity analysis reveals that the angle difference histogram provides the most discriminating index of line structure; it is robust both to image distortion on to the variable quality of input line segmentation.","PeriodicalId":222106,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision. WACV'96","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116405803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real time tracking of borescope tip pose","authors":"Ken Martin, C. Stewart","doi":"10.1109/ACV.1996.572016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACV.1996.572016","url":null,"abstract":"The authors present a technique for the real-time tracking of borescope tip pose. While borescopes are used on a regular basis to inspect machinery for wear or damage, knowing the exact location of a borescope is difficult due to its flexibility. They present a technique for incremental borescope pose determination consisting of off-line feature extraction and on-line pose determination. The feature extraction precomputes from a CAD model of the object the features visible in a selected set of views. The on-line pose determination starts from a current pose estimate, determines the visible model features, projects them into a two-dimensional image coordinate system, matches each to the current borescope video image (without explicitly extracting features from this image), and uses the differences between the predicted and matched feature positions in a gradient descent technique to iteratively refine the pose estimate. The approach supports the mixed use of both matched feature positions and errors along the gradient within the pose determination. The on-line system is designed to execute at video frame rates, providing a continual indication of borescope tip pose.","PeriodicalId":222106,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision. WACV'96","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117231184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}