Texture is one of the most important visual attributes for image analysis. It has been widely used in image analysis and pattern recognition. A partially self-avoiding deterministic walk has recently been proposed as an approach for texture analysis with promising results. This approach uses walkers (called tourists) to exploit the gray scale image contexts in several levels. Here, we present a...

In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based image restoration scheme for compressed images by suppressing compression artifacts and recovering high frequency (HF) components based upon the priors learnt from a training set of natural images. The JPEG compression process is simulated by a degradation model, represented by the signal attenuation and the Gaussian noise addition process. Based...

This study presents a novel kernel discriminant transformation (KDT) algorithm for face recognition based on image sets. As each image set is represented by a kernel subspace, we formulate a KDT matrix that maximizes the similarities of within-kernel subspaces, and simultaneously minimizes those of between-kernel subspaces. Although the KDT matrix cannot be computed explicitly in a high-dimensi...

Production and prediction of land-use/land cover changes (LULCC) map are among the significant issues regarding input of many environmental and hydrological models. Among various introduced methods, similarity-weighted instance-based machine learning algorithm (SimWeight) and Markov-chain with lower complexity and proper performnce are frequently used. The main aim of this study is utilizing Si...

Truncated Singular Value Decomposition (TSVD) regularization method have been used by Zhao et al. [ " Kronecker product approximations for image restoration with new mean boundary conditions " (2011), Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol. 36, pp. 225-237]. In this report, I propose an alternative regularization the Tikhonov method. The new regularization method gives better relative error when a...

This article describes IPL’s participation to the image CLEF ad-hoc textual and visual medical retrieval for 2011. We report on our approaches and methods from a systematic experimental investigation on fusion from visual and textual sources of images. We also explore ways to enrich our searches using external sources like Wikipedia.

This paper systematically analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of existing image warping algorithms on the tasks of face recognition. Image warping is used to cope with local and global image variability and in general is an NP-complete problem. Although many approximations have recently been proposed, neither thorough comparison, nor systematic analysis of methods in a common scheme has been ...

In this paper, an effective method is developed to extract coronary vessels from X-ray digital subtraction angiography (DSA). Unlike the traditional image subtraction technique, we used the independent component analysis (ICA) to separate the coronary vessels and backgrounds. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method can achieve better performance than the traditional & 2011 Elsevi...

The local linear learned (L3) algorithm is presented that simultaneously performs the demosaicking, denoising, and color transform calculations of an image processing pipeline for a digital camera with any color filter array. © 2011 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 040.1490, 100.2000.

A model-based graph matching approach is proposed for interactive image segmentation. It starts from an over-segmentation of the input image, exploiting color and spatial information among regions to propagate the labels from the regions marked by the user-provided seeds to the entire image. The region merging procedure is performed by matching two graphs: the input graph, representing the enti...