In principle, the orange skin surface defect can be successfully detected with the use of a set of relatively simple image processing techniques. To assess the technical possibilities of classifying relatively small surfaces the Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and the Support Vector Machine were used for two sets of about 400 surface patches in each. Color, grey and binarized images were ...

Gradient-based descriptors have proven successful in a wide variety of applications. Their standard implementations usually assume that the input images have been acquired using classic perspective cameras. In practice many real-world systems make use of wide angle cameras which allow to obtain wider Fields of View (FOV) but introduce radial distortion which breaks the rectilinear assumption. T...

The objective of this paper is to propose a combinatorial encoding method based on VLAD to facilitate the promotion of accuracy for large scale image retrieval. Unlike using a single feature in VLAD, the proposed method applies multiple heterogeneous types of features, such as SIFT, SURF, DAISY, and HOG, to form an integrated encoding vector for an image representation. The experimental results...

Surveillance based on Computer Vision has become a major necessity in current era. Most of the surveillance systems operate on visible light imaging, but performance based on visible light imaging is limited due to some factors like variation in light intensity during the daytime. The matter of concern lies in the need for processing images in low light, such as in the need of nighttime surveil...

This manuscript conducts a comparison on modern object detection systems in their ability to detect multiple maritime vessel classes. Three highly scoring algorithms from the Pascal VOC Challenge, Histogram of Oriented Gradients by Dalal and Triggs, Exemplar-SVM by Malisiewicz, and Latent-SVM with Deformable Part Models by Felzenszwalb, were compared to determine performance of recognition with...

Face detection has been one of the most studied topics in computer vision literature; so many algorithms have been developed with different approaches to overcome some detection problems such as occlusion, illumination condition, scale, among others. Histograms of Oriented Gradients are an effective descriptor for object recognition and detection. These descriptors are powerful to detect faces ...