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Statistical methods for 2D image segmentation and 3D pose estimation
Statistical methods for 2D image segmentation and 3D pose estimation
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Sandhu, Romeil Singh
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Tannenbaum, Allen R.
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The field of computer vision focuses on the goal of developing techniques to exploit and extract information from underlying data that may represent images or other multidimensional data. In particular, two well-studied problems in computer vision are the fundamental tasks of 2D image segmentation and 3D pose estimation from a 2D scene.
In this thesis, we first introduce two novel methodologies that attempt to independently solve 2D image segmentation and 3D pose estimation separately. Then, by leveraging the advantages of certain techniques from each problem, we couple both tasks in a variational and non-rigid manner through a single energy functional. Thus, the three theoretical components and contributions of this thesis are as follows:
Firstly, a new distribution metric for 2D image segmentation is introduced. This is employed within the geometric active contour (GAC) framework.
Secondly, a novel particle filtering approach is proposed for the problem of estimating the pose of two point sets that differ by a rigid body transformation.
Thirdly, the two techniques of image segmentation and pose estimation are coupled in a single energy functional for a class of 3D rigid objects.
After laying the groundwork and presenting these contributions, we then turn to their applicability to real world problems such as visual tracking. In particular, we present an example where we develop a novel tracking scheme for 3-D Laser RADAR imagery. However, we should mention that the proposed contributions are solutions for general imaging problems and therefore can be applied to medical imaging problems such as extracting the prostate from MRI imagery
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2010-10-26
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