P. Tchimev, Naoya Moritani, G. Georgiev, I. Valova
{"title":"A neural network approach to geographic image analysis","authors":"P. Tchimev, Naoya Moritani, G. Georgiev, I. Valova","doi":"10.1109/IAI.2000.839571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAI.2000.839571","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed a method based on the precise pixel-to-pixel matching between two images. This is done by automatic generation of displacement vectors, carrying the information of differences between the two images. For generating a layer of vectors defining the information of displacement we use a neural network with self-learning architecture. The proposed algorithm perform successful mapping, which can be quantitatively measured as 90% correct recognition as demonstrated by the results.","PeriodicalId":224112,"journal":{"name":"4th IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132779690","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}
Hae-Yeoun Lee, Heung-Kyu Lee, Tak-gon Kim, W. Park
{"title":"Towards knowledge-based extraction of roads from 1 m-resolution satellite images","authors":"Hae-Yeoun Lee, Heung-Kyu Lee, Tak-gon Kim, W. Park","doi":"10.1109/IAI.2000.839594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAI.2000.839594","url":null,"abstract":"As the IKONOS satellite with 1 m-resolution camera was launched in 1999, mapping using spaceborne images will be an important issue in the computer vision area as well as photogrammetry, mainly because most major man-made objects of interest can be identifiable. One of the automatically identifiable objects of importance may be roads. Detecting roads using edge detection approaches may be very difficult because a number of edge elements from such as buildings, etc., can be generated from edge detector. In this paper, we propose a method for the extraction of approximated road regions based on region segmentation that utilizes region information. Our method consists of the following three steps. First, an image is segmented using the modified hierarchical multi-scale gradient watershed transformation. Then, the road candidates are identified using information about road gray level, elongatedness and connectedness. The identified road candidates are expanded by connecting the close-by roads knowing that roads are connected objects. Our method was tested on the simulated spaceborne images and the result shows that the automation of road extraction is quite promising.","PeriodicalId":224112,"journal":{"name":"4th IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132908009","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 simple and efficient method for image segmentation with deformable templates","authors":"M. Skouson, M. Kowalski","doi":"10.1109/IAI.2000.839566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAI.2000.839566","url":null,"abstract":"A method for the automated segmentation of images containing structures of interest is presented in this work. The method employs a template image for which a segmentation is available. Segmentation of the target image is achieved by deforming the template so as to maximize a similarity measure of the target and template images. The deformations are chosen in accordance with a viscous fluid model. A simplification of the fluid model proposed elsewhere is shown to retain desirable properties of the deformation while allowing extremely efficient numerical implementation. The technique is validated on both binary and anatomical images.","PeriodicalId":224112,"journal":{"name":"4th IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124468833","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":"Accurate object outlining by combining space-variant smoothing and interactive editing with the thinning process","authors":"O. Ikeda, Byeong-Yong Kim, Qinglian Guo","doi":"10.1109/IAI.2000.839582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAI.2000.839582","url":null,"abstract":"Outlining of objects for two-dimensional images is of great importance in computer graphics, multimedia design, and medical applications. It is however, difficult to get a clear boundary with the existing automatic outlining methods, when a two-dimensional image contains inaccurate information. Here, we present a new algorithm to solve the problem by combining space-variant smoothing and interactive editing with a thinning process. By performing space-variant smoothing, we are able to extract boundary outlines based on local gradient variation and global gray-scale information. By using interactive editing, we are able to pick up a competing path with the one initially produced. This edition is accomplished by manipulating the gradient field. The new algorithm provides an effective way to correct the potential mistakes caused by inaccurate information in original images, and to input desired boundary lines for some local areas where the original image does not contain enough information for the outlining process. As a result, our algorithm makes it possible to extract more accurate outlines of objects with simple and intuitive manipulations.","PeriodicalId":224112,"journal":{"name":"4th IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124502888","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":"Road sign interpretation using matching pursuit method","authors":"Chung-Lin Huang, S. Hsu","doi":"10.1109/IAI.2000.839600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAI.2000.839600","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a new automatic road sign interpretation method using matching pursuit (MP) filters. There are two processes. The detection process finds the relative position of the road sign in the original distant image and then extracts the internal content of the road sign from the closer-view image. The recognition process consists of two stages: training and testing. In the first stage, it finds a set of best MP filter bases for each road sign. In the second stage, it projects the input unknown road sign to a different set of the MP filter bases to find the best match.","PeriodicalId":224112,"journal":{"name":"4th IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122163626","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":"Illumination-invariant change detection","authors":"D. Toth, T. Aach, V. Metzler","doi":"10.1109/IAI.2000.839561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAI.2000.839561","url":null,"abstract":"Moving objects in image sequences acquired by a static camera can be detected by analyzing the grey-level difference between successive frames. Direct motion detection, however, will also detect fast variations of scene illumination. This paper describes a method for motion detection that is considerably less sensitive to time-varying illumination. It is based on combining a motion detection algorithm with an homomorphic filter which effectively suppresses variable scene illumination. To this end, the acquired image sequence is modelled as being generated by an illumination and a reflectance component that are approximately separated by the filter. Detection of changes in the reflectance component is directly related to scene changes, i.e., object motion. Real video data are used to illustrate the system's performance.","PeriodicalId":224112,"journal":{"name":"4th IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128029841","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":"Variable block-size double predictor DPCM image data compression","authors":"Jia-Chyi Wu, Hong-Bin Chen, Ren-Jean Liu","doi":"10.1109/IAI.2000.839586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAI.2000.839586","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the design and performance of a double predictor differential pulse code modulation (DP-DPCM) algorithm for image data compression. A modified DP-DPCM image coding system operates on an image that has been preprocessed into segments of variable size, square blocks. The differential values between the nearby pixels within an image block are reduced. Therefore, we can decrease the distribution range of prediction error as well as reduce the bit rate and quantization levels. Each block is separately encoded by a DP-DPCM system to reduce the effect from the fed-back quantization error. The system performance of this variable block-size DP-DPCM image data compression scheme is about 5 dB (or greater) coding gain in SNR than that of a conventional DPCM system for low-rate (R/spl les/3) image compression.","PeriodicalId":224112,"journal":{"name":"4th IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124454748","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":"Natural image retrieval based on features of homogeneous color regions","authors":"Fan Liu, Xuejian Xiong, K. Chan","doi":"10.1109/IAI.2000.839574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAI.2000.839574","url":null,"abstract":"Natural image retrieval using low-level visual features is a challenging problem for content-based image retrieval. In this paper, a region-based image retrieval (RBIR) approach is proposed. Each image is represented by several feature vectors extracted from homogeneous color regions within an image, and similar images are retrieved based on these region features. In the experimental image database all images are grouped into 16 categories using a moment feature to speed up the retrieval performance. Color mean, color histogram and moment of regions are used as features. From the experiments, it is found that region-based retrieval returns more relevant images than using features based on the entire image.","PeriodicalId":224112,"journal":{"name":"4th IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121647992","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":"Segmentation by color space transformation prior to lifting and integer wavelet transformation for efficient lossless coding and transmission","authors":"G. Zamora, Shuyu Yang, Mark P. Wilson, S. Mitra","doi":"10.1109/IAI.2000.839587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAI.2000.839587","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient lossless coding and transmission of large color images through bandlimited channels are of growing interest in many applications. Classically lossless coding is performed in the spatial domain by entropy coding of the decorrelated pixels. However, such coding yields only a maximum of 3:1 compression. Recent developments in integer to integer wavelet transform allow multiresolution representation and progressive transmission of images through bandlimited channels starting from the entropy coded lowest resolution image. However, such schemes are able to reduce the bit rate to a limited extent. We present here an efficient automated technique using a simple color space transformation from RGB to HSI that segments and retrieves the color object contour in a fast manner. When such a segmented image is subjected to the integer to integer wavelet transform followed by an adaptive arithmetic coding model, lossless compression up to 20:1 has been achieved for some color images. Due to the substantial decrease in size of the input image to be processed, the execution time of the entire algorithm is reduced drastically. Although the color transformation from RGB to L/sup */a/sup */b/sup */ results in better visual appearance as well as more compressibility, this nonlinear transformation is more computationally intensive. Therefore for progressive transmission a simple color transformation scheme is preferable.","PeriodicalId":224112,"journal":{"name":"4th IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115185473","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}