Since three-dimensional surface texture can display texture information of an object better than its two-dimensional counterpart and can vary with scene illumination and the view angles, it is widely used in virtual reality, computer games and animation applications. Photometric Stereo, as one of the most effective technologies for capturing three-dimensional surface information, has attracted wide attention both from academic researchers and industrial fields. Uniform illumination is the essential condition for capturing and reconstructing surface heightmaps. In practice, non-uniform illumination leads to distorted surface heightmaps, such as distortion and aberration during the capture and reconstruction processes. This paper proposes and assesses a fast and self-adaptive method based on inverse-square law to correct non-uniform illumination for reconstruction of 3D surface heightmaps, and to eliminate the distortions. In order to objectively assess the performance of the illumination correction algorithm, average absolute gradient (AAG) is proposed to compare the surface heightmaps reconstructed using corrected illumination with those reconstructed without illumination correction. Experimental results show that the method is efficient and can produce convincing results. 相似文献
Multimedia Tools and Applications - Fine-grained recognition is a challenging task due to small intra-category variances. Most of the top-performing fine-grained recognition methods leverage parts... 相似文献
Image segmentation is the basis of image analysis, object tracking, and other fields. However, image segmentation is still a bottleneck due to the complexity of images. In recent years, fuzzy clustering is one of the most important selections for image segmentation, which can retain information as much as possible. However, fuzzy clustering algorithms are sensitive to image artifacts. In this study, an improved image segmentation algorithm based on patch-weighted distance and fuzzy clustering is proposed, which can be divided into two steps. First, the pixel correlation between adjacent pixels is retrieved based on patch-weighted distance, and then the pixel correlation is used to replace the influence of neighboring information in fuzzy algorithms, thereby enhancing the robustness. Experiments on simulated, natural and medical images illustrate that the proposed schema outperforms other fuzzy clustering algorithms.
In this work, we present a new versatile strategy to prepare noble metal (Au, Ag and Cu) nanoclusters on TiO2 nanosheets in large scales with exposed (001) facets with controlled size, crystalline interface, and loading amount. By precise in situ calcination, the metal (M = Au, Ag, and Cu) nanocrystals with controllable size and better crystalline interface with the TiO2 support have been prepared. The potential application of the as-prepared Au, Ag, and Cu nanoclusters on TiO2 nanosheets as potential heterogeneous catalysts for organic synthesis, such as catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol to 4-aminophenol, has been demonstrated. After calcination, Au, Ag, and Cu nanocrystals were found to be proficient cocatalysts for photocatalytic H2 evolution, particularly the Au cocatalyst. Based on precise high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) analyses, the flexible control of their size and loading amount as well as their intimate contact with the TiO2 nanosheet enhanced the photocatalytic H2 evolution activity and the sensitivity of the photocurrent response of the film. Furthermore, this aqueous-directed synthesis of metal nanoclusters on a support will generate further interest in the field of nanocatalysis.
