多方向多尺度Gabor特征表示及其匹配算法

Gabor滤波是众所周知的一类特征提取方法,在机器视觉等领域得到了广泛研究和应用.本文提出了一种多方向多尺度Gabor特征表示、提取以及其匹配算法.多方向多尺度Gabor特征通过使用一组不同尺度和不同方向的Gabor滤波器对图像进行滤波,而后将滤波结果在各个滤波方向按尺度大小排序后连接而成.本文进一步提出了循环向量的概念,并将两个多方向多尺度Gabor特征相似度重新定义为一个多方向多尺度Gabor特征和对应的多个循环向量之间最大值.实验结果表明,本文提出的多方向多尺度Gabor特征不仅具有平移不变性、旋转不变性、尺度不变性,也展现出优秀的局部特征表示能力以及显著的鉴别力.     

多尺度Gabor小波变换在图像检索中的应用

在基于内容的图像检索中,纹理特征是一种重要而又难以描述的特征。为提高图像检索中纹理特征的提取效率,通过对Gabor滤波器滤波特点的研究,提出一种基于多尺度Gabor小波纹理的图像检索方法。设计了一组具有多种尺度和多个方向的滤波器组,选择并优化滤波器组的各参数,对图像进行滤波和特征提取。设计并实现了一个基于Gabor纹理...     

基于Gabor小波与Memetic算法的人脸识别方法

提出一种基于Gabor小波与Memetic算法的人脸识别方法MA-Gabor(Memetic Algorithm-Gabor).算法使用一组特定的Gabor小波滤波器对人脸图像重要区域进行针对性的特征提取运算,可在较短处理时间内获得更具区分能力的识别数据.为提升识别性能,MA-Gabor引入Memetic算法用于Gabor小波滤波器组的优化设计.实验结果表明,Memetic算法可获得比传统优化方法更佳的设计效果.通过将优化设计的Gabor小波滤波器组用于人脸图像的特征提取,MA-Gabor算法可取得比现有人脸识别方法更高的识别率.     

远距离复杂背景鲁棒的步态特征提取与表示方法

远距离复杂背景下步态图像通常受到噪声的影响很大。Gabor特征在此类步态识别中显示了良好的特性,然而一些基于Gabor特征的算法使用较多的模板从而导致计算量增大。为解决这个问题,本文提出了一种新的基于改进Gabor特征的步态特征提取与表示方法。首先突出步态能量图中的有效区域,并抑制易受噪声干扰的区域。然后构造一个同时具有两个方向互补特性的基本的滤波器,经过缩放和旋转,生成一系列滤波器。使用这些滤波器对改进的步态能量图以及步态差异图像进行卷积,得到两个特征向量集合以表示此步态对象。使用最近邻分类计算出本文方法在USF步态数据库上的识别率,与相关算法的比较证实了此步态特征提取与表示方法的有效性。对算法的计算量分析表明,本文算法所需的计算量比相关算法有较大降低。      

基于Gabor调制的深度多层子空间人脸识别算法

人脸识别的关键在于特征提取,过去主要从完美的低维特征子空间来刻画高维图像,但是近年来深度学习模型为特征提取提供新方向。本文提出在Gabor特征描述子调制下的深度子空间模型,在深度子空间这一新型深度学习框架基础上,使用Gabor滤波器组处理图像,并构建深度特征提取多层网络,得到Gabor调制下的深层抽象特征。首先将传统的8个方向5个尺度的40个Gabor滤波器在尺度上进行压缩得到8个基本Gabor滤波器组;然后将经过Gabor滤波的描述特征分别送入深度化改造的子空间模型,得到图像的深层特征表示;其次将这些特征进行哈希编码,直方图分块,作为描述特征。本文在FERET、ORL、CMU_PIE等数据库上讨论加入Gabor滤波器调制后的深度多层子空间特征提取模型在人脸识别问题上性能的提升,实验结果表明,该算法可以取得较好的识别率,并对光照、表情、姿态等有很好的鲁棒性,能够弥补浅层网络易受训练图像影响的缺点。      

基于信息熵和Gabor滤波器的图像检索

采用颜色和纹理的多特征提取,将图像按照一定的规则进行分块,对各个分块分别进行各种特征向量的提取.采用HSV颜色空间把颜色特征量化到72个颜色空间得到72柄的一维直方图,计算图像信息熵;纹理特征采用Gabor滤波器.该种分块方法能够很好的利用图像内容的空间信息,综合颜色和纹理特征能够有效地提高查全率和差准率.     

结合Gabor滤波器和ICA技术的纹理分类方法

提取有效的特征用于纹理描述和分类一直是纹理分析的难点.本文提出一种结合Gabor滤波器和ICA技术的纹理特征提取方法,即纹理图像首先经过Gabor滤波器组滤波,然后由滤波图像直接构建高维特征矢量;再将这些高维特征矢量通过主成分分析PCA进行降维,最后采用ICA技术分析和提取降维后的特征矢量中的独立成分用于纹理分类.通过与经典Gabor滤波器和ICA方法的对比实验,验证和评价了本文方法的性能.     

线算子引导Gabor小波的视网膜血管分割

视网膜血管自动分割能辅助诊断某些眼底疾病和系统性血管疾病。为了提高血管自动分割的效率,因此提出了一种线算子引导Gabor小波的视网膜血管分割方法。利用线算子检测血管方向的最优匹配角,将其作为Gabor小波变换的旋转角构建4个不同尺度的Gabor小波,并提取4维Gabor小波特征,加上两个线强度和预处理后的图像灰度,构建7维特征向量,采用SVM进行分类。与其他基于Gabor小波的方法相比,本方法只需计算最优匹配角所对应方向的Gabor小波特征,大大降低了多尺度Gabor小波特征提取的计算量,此外线算子特征与Gabor小波特征的良好互补性,有利于提高血管与背景的辨别度。在DRIVE眼底数据库上进行实验,其平均准确率、灵敏度及特异性分别为0.9361、0.8238及0.9554,获得了不错的分割性能。     

基于Gabor变换的高鲁棒汉字识别新方法

本文提出了针对字符图像的基于Gabor变换的汉字识别新方法.在对Gabor变换深入分析的基础上,本文针对汉字图像的统计信息,提出了一种有效的Gabor滤波器组参数优化方法;同时,对Gabor滤波器组的输出进行非线性变换,使其适应不同亮度和低质量灰度字符图像的识别.本文还改进了分块特征的抽取算法,提高了对字符细节的分辨能力.实验表明,这种特征抽取方法大大加强了识别系统抵御图像噪声、干扰、亮度变化、笔画模糊、笔画断裂以及字符形变的能力,在应用于各种低质量的二值或者灰度的印刷和脱机手写字符图像识别时,能获得较其他算法更良好的识别性能.     

基于Gabor小波特征的磨粒图像识别新方法

文章给出了一种基于Gabor小波纹理特征的磨粒图像识别新方法,主要是利用Gabor小波设计了一种多通道小波滤波器,对磨粒图像直接进行小波变换,用Gabor小波变换系数的模的平均值和其标准方差来表示抽取的图像特征。把获得的小波特征归一化后输入到改进的BP神经网络分类器进行分类识别。最后,对磨粒图像进行了一系列的仿真实验,结果表明,识别正确率在91%以上,并且识别速度很快。     

基于Gabor小波的人脸表情特征提取研究

为了使计算机能更好的识别人脸表情,对基于Gabor小波变换的人脸表情识别方法进行了研究。首先对包含表情区域的静态灰度图像进行预处理,包括对确定的人脸表情区域进行尺寸和灰度归一化,然后利用二维Gabor小波变换提取脸部表情特征,使用快速PCA方法对提取的Gabor小波特征初步降维。再在低维的空间中,利用Fisher准则提取那些有利于分类的特征,最后用SVM分类器进行分类。实验结果表明,上述提出的方法比传统的方法识别速度更快,能达到实时性的要求,并且具有很好的鲁棒性,识别率高。     

Automatic facial expression recognition: feature extraction and selection

In this paper, we investigate feature extraction and feature selection methods as well as classification methods for automatic facial expression recognition (FER) system. The FER system is fully automatic and consists of the following modules: face detection, facial detection, feature extraction, selection of optimal features, and classification. Face detection is based on AdaBoost algorithm and is followed by the extraction of frame with the maximum intensity of emotion using the inter-frame mutual information criterion. The selected frames are then processed to generate characteristic features using different methods including: Gabor filters, log Gabor filter, local binary pattern (LBP) operator, higher-order local autocorrelation (HLAC) and a recent proposed method called HLAC-like features (HLACLF). The most informative features are selected based on both wrapper and filter feature selection methods. Experiments on several facial expression databases show comparisons of different methods.     

大鱼际掌纹图像特征提取方法研究

为了更客观更准确的判断出患者的大鱼际掌纹的级数,可以采用图像处理技术对大鱼际掌纹进行预处理、特征提取和分类,以实现大鱼际掌纹的量化与客观识别.文中提出一种基于改进的二维主成分分析技术（2DPCA）再结合Gabor滤波的特征提取方法.以定位分割并经增强处理的大鱼际掌纹图像为基础,获得图像的特征矩阵,作为下一步量化分级的特征输入量.仿真实验结果表明该方法是适用有效的.     

Performance evaluation of texture measures for ground coveridentification in satellite images by means of a neural networkclassifier

The performance of several feature extraction methods for classifying ground covers in satellite images is compared. Ground covers are viewed as texture of the image. Texture measures considered are: cooccurrence matrices, gray-level differences, texture-tone analysis, features derived from the Fourier spectrum, and Gabor filters. Some Fourier features and some Gabor filters were found to be good choices, in particular when a single frequency band was used for classification. A Thematic Mapper (TM) satellite image showing a variety of vegetations in central Colorado was used for the comparison. A related goal was to investigate the feasibility of extracting the main ground covers from an image. These ground covers may then form an index into a database. This would allow the retrieval of a set of images which are similar in contents. The results obtained in the indexing experiments are encouraging     

Optimal Gabor filters for texture segmentation

Texture segmentation involves subdividing an image into differently textured regions. Many texture segmentation schemes are based on a filter-bank model, where the filters, called Gabor filters, are derived from Gabor elementary functions. The goal is to transform texture differences into detectable filter-output discontinuities at texture boundaries. By locating these discontinuities, one can segment the image into differently textured regions. Distinct discontinuities occur, however, only if the Gabor filter parameters are suitably chosen. Some previous analysis has shown how to design filters for discriminating simple textures. Designing filters for more general natural textures, though, has largely been done ad hoc. We have devised a more rigorously based method for designing Gabor filters. It assumes that an image contains two different textures and that prototype samples of the textures are given a priori. We argue that Gabor filter outputs can be modeled as Rician random variables (often approximated well as Gaussian rv's) and develop a decision-theoretic algorithm for selecting optimal filter parameters. To improve segmentations for difficult texture pairs, we also propose a multiple-filter segmentation scheme, motivated by the Rician model. Experimental results indicate that our method is superior to previous methods in providing useful Gabor filters for a wide range of texture pairs.     

An unsupervised texture segmentation algorithm with feature spacereduction and knowledge feedback

This paper presents an unsupervised texture segmentation algorithm based on feature extraction using multichannel Gabor filtering. It is shown that feature contrast, a criterion derived for Gabor filter parameter selection, is well suited for feature coordinate weighting in order to reduce the feature space dimension. The central idea of the proposed segmentation algorithm is to decompose the actual segmented image into disjunct areas called scrap images and use them after lowpass filtering as additional features for repeated k-means clustering and minimum distance classification. This yields a classification of texture regions with an improved degree of homogeneity while preserving precise texture boundaries.     

Unsupervised texture segmentation of images using tuned matchedGabor filters

Recent studies have confirmed that the multichannel Gabor decomposition represents an excellent tool for image segmentation and boundary detection. Unfortunately, this approach when used for unsupervised image analysis tasks imposes excessive storage requirements due to the nonorthogonality of the basis functions and is computationally highly demanding. In this correspondence, we propose a novel method for efficient image analysis that uses tuned matched Gabor filters. The algorithmic determination of the parameters of the Gabor filters is based on the analysis of spectral feature contrasts obtained from iterative computation of pyramidal Gabor transforms with progressive dyadic decrease of elementary cell sizes. The method requires no a priori knowledge of the analyzed image so that the analysis is unsupervised. Computer simulations applied to different classes of textures illustrate the matching property of the tuned Gabor filters derived using our determination algorithm. Also, their capability to extract significant image information and thus enable an easy and efficient low-level image analysis will be demonstrated.     

Accelerating Multiresolution Gabor Feature Extraction for Real Time Vision Applications

Multiresolution Gabor filter banks are used for feature extraction in a variety of applications as Gabor filters have shown to be exceptional feature extractors with a close correspondence to the simple cells in the primary visual cortex (V1) of the brain. Yet applying the Gabor filter is a computationally intensive task. Most applications that utilize the Gabor feature space require real time results; however, the large quantity of computations involved has hindered systems from achieving real time performance. The natural solution for such compute intensive tasks is parallelization. FPGAs have emerged as attractive platforms for compute intensive signal processing applications due to their massively parallel computation resources as well as low power consumption and affordability. We present a configurable architecture for Gabor feature extraction on FPGA that enhances the resource utilization of the FPGA hardware fabric while maintaining a streaming data flow to yield exceptional performance. The increased resource utilization resulting from configurability, optimizations, and resource sharing allows for higher levels of parallelism to achieve real time feature extraction of high resolution images. Two architectures are introduced. The first is an architecture for multiresolution feature extraction with extensive resource sharing for enhanced resource utilization. The second is an architecture for many-orientation applications using a coarse to fine grain method to enhance resource utilization by reducing the number of filters applied at different orientations. Our results show that our multiresolution implementation achieves real-time performance on 2048?×?1526 images and exhibits 6X speed up over a GPU implementation while exhibiting energy efficiency with 0.4fps/W compared to the GPU that achieves 0.036fps/W.[1] The implementation for many-orientation applications using the coarse to fine grain method exhibits resource saving of at most \( 2\sqrt{O} \) for O number of orientations and higher, compared to a fully parallel architecture and 25× speedup compared to a GPU implementation for 16 orientations.     

基于Gabor滤波的表情动态特征提取方法

针对目前动态特征提取方法在提取序列表情特征时人脸外貌特征也一起被提取的缺陷,提出了一种基于Gabor滤波的表情动态特征提取方法。利用Gabor滤波器在频率和方向上的选择特性,在提取表情特征时较好地抑制了人脸外貌特征的提取,从而减少了表情特征中人脸外貌特征的含量。在Cohn-Kanade和CMU-AMP人脸库上的表情识别实验表明,本文方法获得的表情动态特征对表情识别更有效。