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TITB
2002
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Fetal lung maturity analysis using ultrasound image features
This pilot study was carried out to find the feasibility of analyzing the maturity of the fetal lung using ultrasound images. Data were collected from normal pregnant women at inte...
K. N. Bhanu Prakash, A. G. Ramakrishnan, S. Suresh...
TIP
2002
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Image compression with adaptive local cosines: a comparative study
Abstract--The goal of this work is twofold. First, we demonstrate that an advantage can be gained by using local cosine bases over wavelets to encode images that contain periodic t...
François G. Meyer
TIP
2002
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Dequantizing image orientation
Abstract--We address the problem of computing a local orientation map in a digital image. We show that standard image gray level quantization causes a strong bias in the repartitio...
Agnès Desolneux, Saïd Ladjal, Lionel M...
TIP
2002
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Fractal image compression with region-based functionality
Region-based functionality offered by the MPEG-4 video compression standard is also appealing for still images, for example to permit object-based queries of a still-image database...
Kamel Belloulata, Janusz Konrad
TCSV
2002
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Localizing and segmenting text in images and videos
Many images--especially those used for page design on web pages--as well as videos contain visible text. If these text occurrences could be detected, segmented, and recognized auto...
Rainer Lienhart, Axel Wernicke
VLDB
1998
ACM
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Fast Image Retrieval Using Color-Spatial Information
Abstract. In this paper, we present an image retrieval system that employs both the color and spatial information of images to facilitate the retrieval process. The basic unit used...
Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan, Tat-Seng Chua, Wynne ...
TVCG
1998
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Novel View Synthesis by Cascading Trilinear Tensors
—We present a new method for synthesizing novel views of a 3D scene from two or three reference images in full correspondence. The core of this work is the use and manipulation o...
Shai Avidan, Amnon Shashua
TMI
1998
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Segmentation and Interpretation of MR Brain Images: An Improved Active Shape Model
Abstract— This paper reports a novel method for fully automated segmentation that is based on description of shape and its variation using point distribution models (PDM’s). An...
Nicolae Duta, Milan Sonka
TMI
1998
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Image Contrast Enhancement Based on a Histogram Transformation of Local Standard Deviation
Abstract— The adaptive contrast enhancement (ACE) algorithm, which uses contrast gains (CG’s) to adjust the highfrequency components of images, is a well-known technique for me...
Dah-Chung Chang, Wen-Rong Wu
TIP
1998
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A general framework for low level vision
—We introduce a new geometrical framework based on which natural flows for image scale space and enhancement are presented. We consider intensity images as surfaces in the (x; I...
Nir A. Sochen, Ron Kimmel, Ravi Malladi