Lots of works have been recently carried out in the field of non-rigid registration to ensure the estimation of one-to-one mappings. However, warping a binary image with such transformations may alter its discrete topological properties if common resampling strategies are considered. This paper proposes an original method for warping a binary image according to some continuous and bijective map...

Local visual homing methods can be used in the context of topological maps to travel between neighboring locations. These methods take two images as input and produce a home vector that points from the vantage point of one image to that of the other. “Warping” (Franz et al., Biol. Cyb. 79:191-202, 1998) is an attractive homing method since it does not require an external compass. Here we descri...

This paper presents a new technique for estimating and correcting the geometric distortion produced by common offthe-shelf lenses. The taks of recovering the three most important parameters modeling the lens distortion of a digital camera is formulated as a problem of image warping where the distorted image of a planar calibration plate taken by the camera has to be registered onto the virtual ...

We propose a segmentation-based method of object tracking using image warping and Kalman filtering. The object region is defined to include a group of patches, which are obtained by a watershed algorithm. In a robust M-estimator framework, we estimate dominant motion of the object region. A linear Kalman filter is employed to predict the estimated affine motion parameters based on a second orde...

Warping can be used to reduce interindividual structural variations of 3D image datasets of brains by generating a standard brain and subsequent matching of individual datasets to this reference system. Point-based warping uses structural information (landmarks) to construct the spatial correspondence between the datasets. For this we compare the performance of three landmark detection algorith...

In this paper, the effectiveness of piecewise linear two-dimensional warping, a dynamic programming-based elastic image matching technique, in handwritten character recognition is investigated. The present technique is capable of providing compensation for most variations in character patterns while its computation remains tractable. The superiority of the present technique over several convent...