In this paper, we present a novel local feature detector for the object recognition and robot navigation applications. The proposed algorithm extracts highly robust and repeatable features based on the key idea of tracking and grouping multi-scale interest points and selecting a unique representative structure with the strongest response in both spatial and scale domains. Weighted Zernike momen...

We describe an approach for the automatic modality classification in medical image retrieval task of the 2010 CLEF cross-language image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF). This paper is focused on the process of feature extraction from medical images and fuses the different extracted visual features and textual feature for modality classification. To extract visual features from the images, we used...

A kind of multi feature points matching algorithm fusing local geometric constraints is proposed for the purpose of quickly loop closing detection in RGB-D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). The visual feature is encoded with BRAND (binary robust appearance and normals descriptor), which efficiently combines appearance and geometric shape information from RGB-D images. Furthermore, t...

Feature matching in omnidirectional vision systems is a challenging problem, mainly because complicated optical systems make the theoretical modelling of invariance and construction of invariant feature descriptors hard or even impossible. In this paper, we propose learning invariant descriptors using a training set of similar and dissimilar descriptor pairs. We use the similarity-preserving ha...

In this paper, we proposed the distribution of mesh normal vector direction as a feature descriptor of a 3D model. A normal vector shows the entire shape of a model well. The distribution of normal vectors was sampled in proportion to each polygon's area so that the information on the surface with less surface area may be less reflected on composing a feature descriptor in order to enhance retr...

Segmentation of medical images is an important component for diagnosis and treatment of diseases using medical imaging technologies. However, automated accurate medical image segmentation is still a challenge due to the difficulties in finding a robust feature descriptor to describe the object boundaries in medical images. In this paper, a new normal vector feature profile (NVFP) is proposed to...

This paper presents an effective local spatiotemporal descriptor for action recognition from depth video sequences. The unique property of our descriptor is that it takes the shape discrimination and action speed variations into account, intending to solve the problems of distinguishing different pose shapes and identifying the actions with different speeds in one goal. The entire algorithm is ...

Local feature extraction remains an active research area due to the advances in fields such as SLAM, 3D reconstructions, or AR applications. The success these applications relies on performance of detector, descriptor, and its matching process. While trend detector-descriptor interaction most methods is based unifying two into a single network, we propose alternative approach that treats both c...

Background: One of the challenges of PET/MRI combined systems is to derive an attenuation map to correct the PET image. For that, the pseudo-CT image could be used to correct the attenuation. Until now, most existing scientific researches construct this pseudo-CT image using the registration techniques. However, these techniques suffer from the local minima of the non-rigid deformation energy f...