IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing

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 re... View full abstract»

The paper presents a new technique for segmenting images only on the basis of colour information. It is shown how segmentation can benefit from splitting colour signals into chromatic and achromatic channels and separately smoothing them through anisotropic diffusion. Operatively, this is accomplished through two independent diffusion processes: one involves only the chromatic information, conveni... View full abstract»

The paper deals with first the uniqueness of the self-calibration of a rotating and zooming camera, mathematically, given two views. It is assumed that the principal point and the aspect ratio are fixed but the focal length changes as the camera rotates. In this case, theoretically at least one inter-image homography is enough to compute the internal calibration parameters as well as the rotation,... View full abstract»

The problem of detecting airborne targets in a sequence of images recorded by a long range infra-red sensor is investigated. The generalised likelihood ratio test detector is derived. The detector structure and its actual implementation are discussed. Approximated expressions of the false alarm and detection probabilities are obtained and validated by means of simulations. Example results obtained... View full abstract»

The design of signal-adapted multirate filter banks has been an area of research interest. The authors present the design of a 2-D finite impulse response (FIR) compaction filter followed by a 2-D FIR filter bank that packs the maximum energy of the input process into a few subbands. The energy compaction property of the 2-D compaction filter is extremely good for higher filter orders and converge... View full abstract»

A new, error-tolerant, still image compression algorithm is described. An error-resilient adaptation of an existing zerotree wavelet coder is used to compress the image. Then, a variable-rate, concatenated error correction code is applied to protect the data further. Variable-rate protection exploits the progressive coding ability of the compressor, encouraging uncorrected errors to appear in the ... View full abstract»

In vector bit-plane encoding schemes, codebooks must be uniformly distributed on a hyper-sphere. Shells of regular lattices are often used, but they provide only a limited choice of number of vectors K and dimension N. The authors propose a method to generate codebooks in dimension N with arbitrary number K of vectors, almost uniformly distributed on a hyper-sphere. The uniform distribution of an ... View full abstract»

In most current block-based image/video coding systems the compression stage and the deblocking stage operate separately and hence they cannot make use of each other to optimise the overall coding performance. It is suggested that the basic structure of the encoding systems should be modified such that the deblocking to be performed can be taken into account in the compression and the two processe... View full abstract»

A saturation-based adaptive gradient interpolation algorithm is developed for Bayer pattern images obtained in single-sensor digital cameras. The proposed algorithm uses the concept of pseudo-saturation for 2×2 blocks of the image. The algorithm adapts the scheme of interpolation based on the classification of the pseudo-saturation of Bayer pattern images. Compared with other algorithms, the... View full abstract»