A Generic Pigment Model for Digital Painting

We propose a generic pigment model suitable for digital painting in a wide range of genres including traditional Chinese painting and water-based painting. The model embodies a simulation of the pigment-water solution and its interaction with the brush and the paper at the level of pigment particles; such a level of detail is needed for achieving highly intricate effects by the artist. The simulation covers pigment diffusion and sorption processes at the paper surface, and aspects of pigment particle deposition on the paper. We follow rules and formulations from quantitative studies of adsorption and diffusion processes in surface chemistry and the textile industry. The result is a pigment model that spans a continuum from the very wet to the very dry brush stroke effects. We also propose a new pigment mixing method based on machine learning techniques to emulate pigment mixing in real life as well as to support the creation of new artificial pigments. To experiment with the proposed model, we embedded the model in a sophisticated digital brush system. The combined system exhibits interactive speed on a modest PC platform. http://www.cs.hku.hk/~songhua/pigment provides supplementary materials for this paper.     

The operational semantics of user-defined relationships in object oriented database systems

In semantic data models, abstract relationship (e.g. generalization, aggregation, etc.) semantics are defined, specifying how insertion, deletion and modification operations made at a higher level of abstraction can affect the objects abstracted over and vice versa. These semantics, also known as structural constraints, are expressed through so-called update rules. This perspective has been somewhat lost in most object-oriented systems, where user-defined relationships are supported as simple pointers and their semantics are embedded, distributed and replicated within the operations accessing these pointers. This paper inherits and extends the treatment of relationships found in semantic data models to behavioural object-oriented models by presenting an approach to uniformly capture the update rules for user-defined relationships. The stress is not on supporting relationships as first-class objects, but on describing their update rules (or operational semantics) through a set of constructors namely, reaction, anticipation, delegation and exception. The approach has been borne out by an implementation in an active object-oriented database system.     

Image segmentation towards new image representation methods

Very low bit-rate video coding has recently become one of the most important areas of image communication and a large variety of applications have already been identified. Since conventional approaches are reaching a saturation point, in terms of coding efficiency, a new generation of video coding techniques, aiming at a deeper “understanding” of the image, is being studied. In this context, image analysis, particularly the identification of objects or regions in images (segmentation), is a very important step. This paper describes a segmentation algorithm based on split and merge. Images are first simplified using mathematical morphology operators, which eliminate perceptually less relevant details. The simplified image is then split according to a quad tree structure and the resulting regions are finally merged in three steps: merge, elimination of small regions and control of the number of regions.     

一种基于Google Maps的土地利用信息发布平台

目前常见的Web地图服务仅支持浏览和查询,不支持矢量数据的发布.文章提出一种基于Google Maps的WebGIS构建方法,支持多种浏览器的矢量数据互操作及空间分析.针对郑州市土地利用信息发布需求,采用B/S架构,借助Google Maps API和AJAX技术,实现了土地利用信息系统化,标准化发布平台.该平台响应速度快,面向多种用户,支持数据共享,能更好的为土地利用变化研究及土地整理决策提供服务.     

一种基于数据竞争的高分辨率图像的聚类分割算法

近些年,机器人技术得到了迅猛的发展,应用越来越广泛.随着机器人技术的推广和普及,对机器人使用的要求也越来越高,其中对智能机器人的要求尤显迫切.机器视觉是智能机器人研究领域的一个重要研究方向.在机器人视觉系统中,核心问题是目标提取,对目标实时、准确、快速提取的关键技术是图像分割.由于机器人感知的环境的复杂性及目标的多样性,往往导致机器人感知获得的图像数据量较大且图像本身存在不可预知的复杂性,这就对准确的目标分割和提取处理提出了挑战性问题.本文针对高分辨率图像数据集的分割处理,提出一种新的聚类算法,即根据数据点能量和的大小识别类代表点和类成员点,通过数据点间的竞争识别出最有能力成为簇成员的数据点,并将其与mean shift聚类算法有效地结合应用于彩色图像分割问题中,能够快速高效地实现高分辨率图像的目标分割,并得到较好的图像分割效果.实验结果表明,本文算法在分割效果和分割效率上明显优于传统聚类算法.     

Convex relaxation for a 3D spatiotemporal segmentation model using the primal-dual method

A method based on 3D videos is proposed for multi-target segmentation and tracking with a moving viewing system. A spatiotemporal energy functional is built up to perform motion segmentation and estimation simultaneously. To overcome the limitation of the local minimum problem with the level set method, a convex relaxation method is applied to the 3D spatiotemporal segmentation model. The relaxed convex model is independent of the initial condition. A primal-dual algorithm is used to improve computational efficiency. Several indoor experiments show the validity of the proposed method.     

基于像素拓展的图形分割与合成的方法研究

提出了一种新的图像分割与合成方法。对于图像的分割,提出了新的分割算法,先是手工将一些明显属于物体和明显属于背景的像素分割出来,然后创建一个小矩形区域进行像素拓展迭代,迭代到图像边界为止。对于图像的合成,采用平均法,设计了新的算法,使物体的基本颜色保持不变的同时,降低了合成图像中从源图像分割的物体与新背景的差异,并使得其饱和度、色度、强度更加自然真实。     

基于网络图像的阿奇姆博多拼图

拼图是使用不同形式的素材进行组装的合成艺术.文中介绍了一种崭新的拼图创作方法,通过挑选主题相关的网络图像的前景抠图来表现一幅输入图像,能够生成奇异的具有阿奇姆博多风格的拼图.鉴于网络图像数据的海量规模,总能够找到合适的前景抠图来匹配输入图像的各个分割部分;通过将挑选的前景抠图按照一定的规则进行组装,使其在整体上可以从形状和颜色表现输入图像,而在局部每个前景抠图仍然可以辨识.实验结果和用户体验表明,采用文中方法可以有效地生成具有娱乐性的阿奇姆博多拼图.     

一种基于区域分割的多尺度遥感图像融合方法

光谱保持和高分辨率保留是图像融合的重要问题,提出了一种区域分割和小波变换相结合的多尺度遥感图像融合方法。首先对经过配准的待融合图像进行小波变换,然后对变换后的低频系数进行基于区域标准差的分割,将低频系数分为目标信息和背景信息,接着对目标信息采取基于绝对值的融合,对背景信息采用基于灰度误差的融合。对小波变换后的高频系数采用基于清晰度的融合规则,最后进行小波逆变换得到融合图像。将该方法和几种常用融合方法进行对比分析,结果表明:该方法在有效地保持多光谱影像光谱信息的同时,可以有效地提高融合影像的空间细节信息,有利于后续进行信息提取和图像分类。     

基于遥感案例推理的海岸带养殖信息提取

目前基于目视解释或光谱分类的养殖信息提取效率低,难以克服由于地物混杂带来的“椒盐”噪声现象且难以融合地学知识。针对养殖信息提取中存在的问题,首先在分析现有养殖信息提取方法和案例推理CBR(Case\|Based Reasoning)用于遥感图像处理的基础上,提出基于遥感案例推理的海岸带养殖信息提取的研究思路;其次,结合养殖区域的空间特征和属性特征,构建案例的表达模型以及CBR相似性推理模型;最后,对不属于案例构建区的粤西沙田镇进行养殖信息提取的CBR实验,精度达到84.56%。对比CBR方法和传统监督分类方法可知,CBR方法是实现海岸带养殖信息快速准确提取的一种有效手段。