NDLI: Scale-space vector fields for feature analysis

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Author	Cross, A.D.J. Hancock, E.R.
Copyright Year	1997
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., York Univ., UK (Cross, A.D.J.)
Abstract	This paper describes a vectorial representation that can be used to assess the symmetry of objects in 2D images. The method exploits a magneto-static analogy. Commencing from the gradient-field extracted from filtered grey-scale images we construct a vector-potential. Our magneto-static analogy is that tangential gradient vectors represent the elements of a current distribution on the image plane. By embedding the image plane in an augmented 3-dimensional space, we compute the vector potential by performing volume integration over the current distribution. The associated magnetic field is computed by taking the curl of the vector-potential. The auxiliary spatial dimension provides a natural scale-space sampling of the generating current distribution; as the height above the image plane is increased, so the volume over which averaging is effected also increases. We extract edge and symmetry lines through a topographic analysis of the vector-field at various heights above the image plane. Symmetry axes are lines where the curl of the vector-potential vanishes; at edges the divergence of the vector-potential vanishes.
Starting Page	738
Ending Page	743
File Size	760599
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818678224
ISSN	10636919
DOI	10.1109/CVPR.1997.609408
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1997-06-17
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Shape Magnetic separation Magnetic analysis Current distribution Distributed computing Magnetic fields Computer science Embedded computing Image sampling Image analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software

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