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SIMPLIcity: Semantics-Sensitive Integrated Matching for Picture LIbraries

by James Z. Wang, Jia Li, Gio Wiederhold - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , 2001
"... The need for efficient content-based image retrieval has increased tremendously in many application areas such as biomedicine, military, commerce, education, and Web image classification and searching. We present here SIMPLIcity (Semanticssensitive Integrated Matching for Picture LIbraries), an imag ..."
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, which are characterized by color, texture, shape, and location. The system classifies images into semantic categories, such as textured-nontextured, graphphotograph. Potentially, the categorization enhances retrieval by permitting semantically-adaptive searching methods and narrowing down the searching

Rendering of Surfaces from Volume Data

by Marc Levoy - IEEE COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND APPLICATIONS , 1988
"... The application of volume rendering techniques to the display of surfaces from sampled scalar functions of three spatial dimensions is explored. Fitting of geometric primitives to the sampled data is not required. Images are formed by directly shading each sample and projecting it onto the picture ..."
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viewing rays to form an image. The technique is simple and fast, yet displays surfaces exhibiting smooth silhouettes and few other aliasing artifacts. The use of selective blurring and super-sampling to further improve image quality is also described. Examples from two applications are given: molecular

A Multiphase Level Set Framework for Image Segmentation Using the Mumford and Shah Model

by Luminita A. Vese, Tony F. Chan - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION , 2002
"... We propose a new multiphase level set framework for image segmentation using the Mumford and Shah model, for piecewise constant and piecewise smooth optimal approximations. The proposed method is also a generalization of an active contour model without edges based 2-phase segmentation, developed by ..."
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on The Four-Color Theorem. Finally, we validate the proposed models by numerical results for signal and image denoising and segmentation, implemented using the Osher and Sethian level set method.

The JPEG still picture compression standard

by Gregory K. Wallace - Communications of the ACM , 1991
"... This paper is a revised version of an article by the same title and author which appeared in the April 1991 issue of Communications of the ACM. For the past few years, a joint ISO/CCITT committee known as JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) has been working to establish the first international c ..."
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compression standard for continuous-tone still images, both grayscale and color. JPEG’s proposed standard aims to be generic, to support a wide variety of applications for continuous-tone images. To meet the differing needs of many applications, the JPEG standard includes two basic compression methods, each

Segmentation of brain MR images through a hidden Markov random field model and the expectation-maximization algorithm

by Yongyue Zhang, Michael Brady, Stephen Smith - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL. IMAGING , 2001
"... The finite mixture (FM) model is the most commonly used model for statistical segmentation of brain magnetic resonance (MR) images because of its simple mathematical form and the piecewise constant nature of ideal brain MR images. However, being a histogram-based model, the FM has an intrinsic limi ..."
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The finite mixture (FM) model is the most commonly used model for statistical segmentation of brain magnetic resonance (MR) images because of its simple mathematical form and the piecewise constant nature of ideal brain MR images. However, being a histogram-based model, the FM has an intrinsic

Robust real-time face detection

by Paul Viola, Michael Jones - International Journal of Computer Vision , 2004
"... We have constructed a frontal face detection system which achieves detection and false positive rates which are equivalent to the best published results [7, 5, 6, 4, 1]. This face detection system is most clearly distinguished from previous approaches in its ability to detect faces extremely rapidly ..."
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rapidly. Operating on 384 by 288 pixel images, faces are detected at 15 frames per second on a conventional 700 MHz Intel Pentium III. In other face detection systems, auxiliary information, such as image differences in video sequences, or pixel color in color images, have been used to achieve high frame

Nonlinear total variation based noise removal algorithms

by Leonid I. Rudin, Stanley Osher, Emad Fatemi , 1992
"... A constrained optimization type of numerical algorithm for removing noise from images is presented. The total variation of the image is minimized subject to constraints involving the statistics of the noise. The constraints are imposed using Lagrange multipliers. The solution is obtained using the g ..."
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the gradient-projection method. This amounts to solving a time dependent partial differential equation on a manifold determined by the constraints. As t--- ~ 0o the solution converges to a steady state which is the denoised image. The numerical algorithm is simple and relatively fast. The results appear

Unsupervised texture segmentation using Gabor filters

by Ani K. Jain, Farshid Farrokhnia - Pattern Recognition
"... We presenf a texture segmentation algorithm inspired by the multi-channel filtering theory for visual information processing in the early stages of human visual system. The channels are characterized by a bank of Gabor filters that nearly uniformly covers the spatial-frequency domain. We propose a s ..."
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-emr clustering algorithm is then used to integrate the feature images and produce a segmentation. A simple procedure to incorporate spatial adjacency information in the clustering process is also proposed. We report experiments on images with natural textures as well as artificial textures with identical 2nd

Edge Detection

by Ellen C. Hildreth , 1985
"... For both biological systems and machines, vision begins with a large and unwieldy array of measurements of the amount of light reflected from surfaces in the environment. The goal of vision is to recover physical properties of objects in the scene, such as the location of object boundaries and the s ..."
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and the structure, color and texture of object surfaces, from the two-dimensional image that is projected onto the eye or camera. This goal is not achieved in a single step; vision proceeds in stages, with each stage producing increasingly more useful descriptions of the image and then the scene. The first clue

Lightness and Retinex Theory

by Edwin H. Land, John J. McCann - JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA , 1971
"... Sensations of color show a strong correlation with reflectance, even though the amount of visible light reaching the eye depends on the product of reflectance and illumination. The visual system must achieve this remarkable result by a scheme that does not measure flux. Such a scheme is described as ..."
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that shows a strong correlation with reflectance within its particular band of wavelengths. These images are not mixed, but rather are compared to generate color sensations. The problem then becomes how the lightness of areas in these separate images can be independen t of flux. This article describes
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