基于区域GAC模型的二值化水平集图像分割算法

针对测地线主动轮廓(GAC)模型进行了改进,提出了一种基于区域的GAC模型.通过构造基于区域统计信息的符号压力函数取代边界停止函数,有效解决了弱边界目标或离散状边界目标的分割问题.该模型采用二值化水平集方法实现,避免了传统实现方法水平集函数需要重新初始化为符号距离函数,从而导致稳定性差、计算量大、实现复杂等缺点.对不同类型图像的试验结果表明:该算法迭代收敛速度比GAC模型传统实现方法明显加快,且可有效防止边界泄漏,分割效果优于传统GAC模型与C-V模型.     

基于二代bandelets域HMT模型的图像分割

在小波域隐马尔可夫树模型(WHMT)图像分割算法的基础上,根据二代handelets系数的分布统计特性,提出一种新的bandelets域隐马树模型(BHMT)有监督图像分割算法.新算法试图利用二代bandelets能表示图像几何规律性的特点来改进分割效果.为证明算法的有效性,用合成纹理图像和真实的航空和遥感图像做分割实验,并和小波域隐马模型树分割算法作了对比,对合成纹理图像分割,用错分概率作为评价参数.实验结果表明,此方法错分概率低、分割效果理想.     

一种自动提取中国书画作品中印章图像的方法

在分析了中国书画印章图像特点的基础上,针对基于内容的书画作品图像检索领域中存在的"语义鸿沟"问题,提出了一种自动提取中国书画作品中印章图像的方法,并设计实现了该算法.通过对提取效果进行分析,证明该方法有较高提取率,这对书画作品中图像语义和特定图像鉴别的研究有重要意义.     

基于颜色信息和光学增益的阴影消除

运动阴影常被误分为前景对象,会给目标的跟踪和识别带来很大困难,所以阴影消除在许多的监控系统中都是非常重要的。针对阴影检测算法受特定条件约束,不能自动适用于不同场景,为解决上述问题,提出了一种新颖鲁棒且无需复杂的参数调整的运动阴影消除方法。通过自适应高斯混合模型重建背景,采用背景差分法提取出包含阴影的运动区域,综合颜色信息与光学增益,将运动区域分类为运动对象区域和运动阴影区域。实验结果表明:所提方法在多种不同的场景下均能有效可靠的消除运动阴影。     

Turbo spin-echo sequences in magnetic resonance imaging of the brain: Physics and applications

Fast SE imaging provides considerable measure time reduction, high signal-to-noise ratios as well as similar contrast behavior compared to conventional SE sequences. Besides TR and TE_eff, echo train length (ETL), interecho time , and-space trajectory determine image contrast and image quality in fast SE sequences. True proton density contrast (CSF hypointense) and not too strong T2 contrast are essential requirements in routine brain MRI. A Turbo SE sequence with very short echo train length (ETL=3), short TE_eff and short interecho time (17 ms), and TR=2000 ms was selected for proton density contrast; a Turbo SE sequence with ETL=7, TE_eff=90 ms, =22 ms, and TR=3250 ms was selected for T₂-weighted images. Using both single-echo Turbo SE sequences yielded 50% measure time reduction compared to the conventional SE technique. Conventional SE and optimized Turbo SE sequences were compared in 150 patients resulting in very similar signal and contrast behavior. Furthermore, reduced flow artifacts in proton density—and especially in T₂-weighted Turbo SE images—and better contrast of high-intensity lesions in proton density-weighted Turbo SE images were found. Slightly reduced edge sharpness—mainly in T₂-weighted Turbo SE images—did not reduce diagnostic reliability. Differences between conventional and Turbo SE images concerning image contrast and quality are explained regarding special features of fast SE technique.Address for correspondence: Institut für Röntgendiagnostik, Klinikum der Universität Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauß-Allee 11, 93042 Regensburg, Germany. Additional reprints of this chapter may be obtained from the Reprints Department, Chapman & Hall, One Venn Plaza, New York, NY 10119.     

Video analysis based on volumetric event detection

During the past decade, feature extraction and knowledge acquisition based on video analysis have been extensively researched and tested on many applications such as closed-circuit television(CCTV)data analysis, large-scale public event control, and other daily security monitoring and surveillance operations with various degrees of success. However, since the actual video process is a multi-phased one and encompasses extensive theories and techniques ranging from fundamental image processing, computational geometry and graphics, and machine vision, to advanced artificial intelligence, pattern analysis, and even cognitive science, there are still many important problems to resolve before it can be widely applied. Among them, video event identification and detection are two prominent ones. Comparing with the most popular frame-to-frame processing mode of most of today's approaches and systems, this project reorganizes video data as a 3D volume structure that provides the hybrid spatial and temporal information in a unified space. This paper reports an innovative technique to transform original video frames to 3D volume structures denoted by spatial and temporal features. It then highlights the volume array structure in a so-called "pre-suspicion" mechanism for a later process. The focus of this report is the development of an effective and efficient voxel-based segmentation technique suitable to the volumetric nature of video events and ready for deployment in 3D clustering operations. The paper is concluded with a performance evaluation of the devised technique and discussion on the future work for accelerating the pre-processing of the original video data.     

Learning a color distance metric for region-based image segmentation

In this paper we describe an experiment where we studied empirically the application of a learned distance metric to be used as discrimination function for an established color image segmentation algorithm. For this purpose we chose the Mumford–Shah energy functional and the Mahalanobis distance metric. The objective was to test our approach in an objective and quantifiable way on this specific algorithm employing this particular distance model, without making generalization claims. The empirical validation of the results was performed in two experiments: one applying the resulting segmentation method on a subset of the Berkeley Image Database, an exemplar image set possessing ground-truths and validating the results against the ground-truths using two well-known inter-cluster validation methods, namely, the Rand and BGM indexes, and another experiment using images of the same context divided into training and testing set, where the distance metric is learned from the training set and then applied to segment all the images. The obtained results suggest that the use of the specified learned distance metric provides better and more robust segmentations, even if no other modification of the segmentation algorithm is performed.     

基于视频对象的区域分割及其应用

为适应MPEG-4基于对象的应用,提出一种基于视频对象的区域分割算法。在视频对象的指导下,利用均值漂移进行分割,性能比传统均值漂移算法在计算时间、占用内存等方面均有提高,适用于运算速度要求高和处理器资源有限的情况。将分割结果应用于区域指导的图像插值,能保证较快的处理速度和兴趣区域较好的图像质量。实验结果证明了该方法的有效性。     

基于CPSO的二维Otsu图像分割法

二维Otsu方法同时考虑了图像的灰度信息和像素问的空间邻域信息,图像分割效果好但算法计算量较大。针对上述情况,提出一种基于混沌粒子群优化算法（CPSO）的策略,将其用于二维Otsu方法中,并与标准粒子群优化算法（SPSO）进行仿真实验对比。实验结果表明,该方法可以提高分割速度,克服SPSO的缺点,图像分割结果较理想。