Abstract:
Изобретение относится к области обработки цифровых изображений и может быть использовано в системах видеонаблюдения для повышения качества изображений путем повышения их резкости. Способ повышения резкости цифрового изображения состоит в том, что для пикселей цифрового изображения вычисляют значения градиента интенсивности, определяют знаки второй производной интенсивности, определяют векторы смещения, длина которых равна размеру пикселя изображения, а направление задано направлением градиента и знаком второй производной интенсивности для данного пикселя, повышение резкости изображения производят путем изменения значения интенсивности пикселя таким образом, что при отрицательном знаке второй производной к интенсивности данного пикселя добавляют, а при положительном знаке второй производной из интенсивности данного пикселя вычитают абсолютное значение градиента интенсивности, вычисленное на конце вектора смещения для данного пикселя.
Abstract:
An electronic method of detecting a visual object in an image of a scene comprises sampling the image at sampling points with a sampling template defining a fixed set of image detection offsets relative to any sampling point at which the image is sampled, each of the set of image detection offsets being related to another one of the image detection offsets, obtaining at least one colour value for each image detection offset relative to any sampling point, forming a set of data values by, for each image detection offset, comparing each at least one colour value with a corresponding colour value of the related image detection offset to obtain a data value, and upon a set of data values obtained for a sample point satisfying a detection condition for the visual object, determining that the visual object has been located.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for operating on images are described, in particular methods and apparatus for interest point detection and/or description working under different scales and with different rotations, e.g. for scale- invariant and rotation-invariant interest point detection and/or description. The present invention can provide improved or alternative apparatus and methods for matching interest points either in the same image or in a different image. The present invention can provide alternative or improved software for implementing any of the methods of the invention. The present invention can provide alternative or improved data structures created by multiple filtering operations to generate a plurality of filtered images as well as data structures for storing the filtered images themselves, e.g. as stored in memory or transmitted through a network. The present invention can provide alternative or improved data structures including descriptors of interest points in images, e.g. as stored in memory or transmitted through a network as well as datastructures associating such descriptors with an original copy of the image or an image derived therefrom, e.g. a thumbnail image.
Abstract:
An edge detection system (100) and method (500) implement a recursive polar algorithm process to generate an edge image from an input image. The edge detection system may include a polar filter (106) to recursively perform low-pass filtering along edge contours of a gradient pixel grid and generate a gradient image output. An edge thinner (108) may be included to find gradient field peaks along a direction of gradient vectors of the gradient image output and generate thinned gradient pixels. An edge path segmenter (110) may group the thinned gradient pixels into edge segments, and a segment classifier (112) may determine whether the edge segments are edge paths or clutter. The edge detection system and method may improve automated image processing in medical diagnostics, reconnaissance, missile guidance, security systems, access control systems (e.g., face recognition), navigation, geographic mapping, manufacturing quality inspection, robot vision, and search and rescue.
Abstract:
A method and system for detecting suspicious portions of digital mammograms (302) by using independently calculated mass (306) and spiculation (304) information is disclosed. The method is for use in a computer aided diagnosis system that is designed to bring suspicious or possibly cancerous lesions in fibrous breast tissue to the attention of a radiologist or other medical professional. In a preferred embodiment, spiculation information (304) and mass information (306) are independently calculated, with the computed spiculation information not being dependent on results of the mass information computation, thus leading to greater reliability. Systems according to a preferred embodiment also compute spiculation information either prior to, or concurrently with, the computation of mass information, thus allowing increased overall system speed.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for the fast detection of spiculated lesions (1608) in a digital mammogram, the method for use in a computer aided diagnosis system for assisting a radiologist in identifying and recognizing the spiculations among a multiplicity of lines corresponding to standard fibrous breast tissue. A line and direction image is created from a digital mammogram, and a region of potential intersection for substantially every pixel in the digital mammogram image is determined. The region of potential intersection for each pixel is a predetermined pattern, such as a high aspect ratio rectangle or trapezoid, positioned around the pixel and rotated in a direction corresponding to direction information for that pixel. The regions of potential intersection are accumulated among the pixels to produce a cumulative array (1606), and information in the cumulative array is processed for identifying spiculations in the digital mammogram.
Abstract:
In a system for determining liveness of an image presented for authentication, a reference signal is rendered on a display, and a reflection of the rendered signal from a target is analyzed to determine liveness thereof. The analysis includes spatially and/or temporally band pass filtering the reflected signal, and determining RGB values for each frame in the reflected signal and/or each pixel in one or more frames of the reflected signal. Frame level and/or pixel-by-pixel correlations between the determined RGB values and the rendered signal are computed, and a determination of whether an image presented is live or fake is made using either or both correlations.