Title of dissertation: THE IMAGE TORQUE OPERATOR FOR MID-LEVEL VISION: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT Morimichi Nishigaki, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Professor Yiannis Aloimonos Department of Computer Science A problem central to visual scene understanding and computer vision is to extract semantically meaningful parts of images. A visual scene consists of objects, and the obje...

A new operator for the restoration of digital images corrupted by impulse noise is presented. The proposed operator is a simple recursive switching median filter guided by a neuro-fuzzy network functioning as an impulse detector. The internal parameters of the neuro-fuzzy impulse detector are adaptively optimized by training. The training is easily accomplished by using simple artificial images...

A unified treatment of the operator approach to categorical abstract algebraic logic (CAAL) was recently presented by the author using as tools the notions of compatibility operator of Czelakowski, of coherent compatibility operator of Albuquerque, Font and Jansana and exploiting an abstract Galois connection established via the use of these operators. The approach encompasses previous work by ...

The local binary pattern operator is an image operator which transforms an image into an array or image of integer labels describing small-scale appearance of the image. These labels or their statistics, most commonly the histogram, are then used for further image analysis. The most widely used versions of the operator are designed for monochrome still images but it has been extended also for c...

A semi-autonomously controlled fluid-powered legged search and rescue robot is proposed as a solution to the everincreasing demand for more versatile rescue robot technology. The success of such a robot is dependent on the existence of a user interface that optimizes the balance between user and machine decisions and provides the operator with the appropriate amount of information to soundly ma...