This paper presents a multi-stage iris segmentation framework for the localization of pupillary and limbic boundaries of human eyes. Instead of applying time-consuming exhaustive search approaches, like traditional circular Hough Transform or Daugman’s integrodifferential operator, an iterative approach is used. By decoupling coarse center detection and fine boundary localization, faster proces...

The Hough Transform [6] -HTis a standard tool in image analysis that allows recognizing global patterns in an image space. To detect shapes in noisy data, preserving the idea of the conventional HT, but allowing detection of approximate shapes, the Fuzzy Hough Transform -FHTwas introduced [8]. Based on the FHT way of work, we propose an Edge Orientation-based Fuzzy Hough Transform -EOFHTwherein...

The Hough transform is a popular method for detecting complex forms in digital images. However, the technique is not very robust since several parameters that determine the scope of the detection results, such as quantization thresholds and intervals, must "rst be de"ned. In the present paper, we propose to enhance shape detection with the Hough transform through fuzzy analysis. One chief drawb...

In order to solve the problems of Image pretreatment and the extraction of navigation line on agricultural machinery visual navigation, a route navigating system based on improved HOUGH transform is brought forward. First, extract the set of points from the original image based on the threshold segmentation and edge detection. Second, an improved HOUGH transform algorithm is used on detecting t...

The authors look at the benefits of exploiting gradient information to enhance the progressive probabilistic Hough transform (PPHT). It is shown that using the angle information in controlling the voting process and in assigning pixels to a line, the PPHT performance can be significantly improved. The performance gains are assessed in terms of repeatability of results, a measure that has direct...

Currently Hough transform and its variants are the most common methods for detecting analytic curves from a binary edge image. However, these methods do not scale well when applied to complex noisy images where correct data is very small compared to the amount of incorrect data. We propose a Genetic Algorithm in combination with the Randomized Hough Transform, along with a di erent scoring func...

A variation on the Hough transform, the special normal/angle Hough transform , (RsHT) is described detailing its characteristics and advantages and suitablity for a parallel implementation. The transputer is introduced and the application of the RsHT on two popular types of transputer networks, a control-driven array and a demand-driven farm of transputers is described. The methods employed for...

We present an approach for automatic bone age classification from hand x-ray images using the Discriminative Generalized Hough Transform (DGHT). To this end, a region, characteristic for the bone age (e.g. an epiphyseal plate), is localized and subsequently classified to determine the corresponding age. Both steps are realized using the DGHT, whereat the difference of the approaches lies within...

FIHT2 algorithm defined by p = x . cos 0 + y .sin 0 + (a/(21()) . x . s ine at 0 5 6 < a / 2 and at p = x . cose + y . sin 0 + (aJ(2It')) . y . cos 0 at a / 2 5 0 < a is a Hough transform which requires nothing of the trigonometric and functional operations to generate the Hough distributions. It is demonstrated in this paper that the FIHT2 is a complete alternative of the usual Hough transform...

T he Hough transform is a useful technique in the detection of straight lines and curves in an image. Due to the mathematical similarity of the Hough transform and the forward Radon transform, the Hough transform can be computed using the Radon transform which, in turn, can be evaluated using the central slice theorem. This involves a two-dimensional Fourier transform, an x-y to rmapping and a ...