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"River" detection in text
Over on the TeX stackexchange, we have been discussing how to detect "rivers" in paragraphs in this question.
In this context, rivers are bands of white space that result from accidental alignment ...
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What does frequency domain denote in case of images?
I was just learning about the frequency domain in images.
I can understand the frequency spectrum in case of waves. It denotes what frequencies are present in a wave. If we draw the frequency ...
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Why do we use the HSV colour space so often in vision and image processing?
I see the HSV colour space used all over the place: for tracking, human detection, etc... I'm wondering, why? What is it about this colour space that makes it better than using RGB?
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What are some free alternatives to SIFT/ SURF that can be used in commercial applications?
As far as I understand, both SURF and SIFT are patent protected.
Are there any alternative methods that can be used in a commercial application freely?
For more info on the patent check out:
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Is deep learning killing image processing/computer vision?
I'm looking forward to enroll in an MSc in Signal and Image processing, or maybe Computer Vision (I have not decided yet), and this question emerged.
My concern is, since deep learning doesn't need ...
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Analogous Library to OpenCV for Audio Processing / Analysis
I understand OpenCV is the de facto library for programming image processing in C/C++; I'm wondering if there is a C or C++ library like that for audio processing. I basically want to filter raw waves ...
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What are some good signal and image processing blogs worth following?
Are there some good sites or blogs where I can keep myself updated on the latest news and papers about image and signal processing research, or I should just check out "classical" providers like IEEE ...
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Best way of segmenting veins in leaves?
I have done a lot of research and found out methods like adaptive thresholding , watershed etc that can be used of detecting veins in leaves . However thresholding isn't good as it introduces a lot of ...
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What algorithm does Google use for its "Search By Image" site?
What is your best guess how Google Image Search works? I can upload a photo and can search for similar images. What algorithm does it use to identify similar images?
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Point Pattern Recognition
Having two different size of sets of points (2D for simplicity) dispersed within two different size squares the question are that:
1- how to find any occurrence of the the small one through the ...
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How to flatten the image of a label on a food jar?
I'd like to take pictures of labels on a jar of food, and be able to transform them so the label is flat, with the right and left side resized to be even with the center of the image.
Ideally, I'd ...
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What properties make certain wavelets "better" than others in image compression?
I am trying to teach myself more about image compression using the wavelet transform method. What is it about certain wavelets that make them preferable when compressing images? Are they easier to ...
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What's the difference between the Hough and Radon transforms?
I'm familiar with the Radon transform from learning about CT scans, but not the Hough transform. Wikipedia says
The (r,θ) plane is sometimes referred to as Hough space for the set of straight ...
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What are the most common algorithms for adaptive thresholding?
Adaptive thresholding has been discussed in a few questions earlier:
Adaptive Thresholding for liver segmentation using Matlab
What are the best algorithms for document image thresholding in this ...
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Why are Gaussian filters used as low pass filters in image processing?
In 1d signal processing, many types of low pass filters are used. Gaussian filters are almost never used, though.
Why are they so popular in image processing applications? Are these filters a result ...
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What factors should I consider in choosing an edge detection algorithm?
I've learned about a number of edge detection algorithms, including algorithms like Sobel, Laplacian, and Canny methods. It seems to me the most popular edge detector is a Canny edge detector, but is ...
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Finding squares in Image
I need to find the squares in an image using OpenCV (no problem in matlab or any other, generally what i expect are some ideas).
Consider the test image below :
I need to find those coloured squares ...
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What Are the Best Algorithms for Document Image Thresholding (Example Inside)?
I'm trying to implement various binarization algorithms to the image shown:
Here's the code:
clc;
clear;
x=imread('n2.jpg'); %load original image
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Detecting Trail in Forest Images
Is anyone aware of any research/papers/software for identifying a trail (as a line or point-to-point curve) in an image of a forest scene (from the perspective of the camera standing somewhere along ...
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Gaussian Blur - Standard Deviation, Radius and Kernel Size
I've implemented a gaussian blur fragment shader in GLSL. I understand the main concepts behind all of it: convolution, separation of x and y using linearity, multiple passes to increase radius...
I ...
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Good Language for Implementing Computer Vision System / Algorithm / Application?
I am trying to implement a content based image retrieval system but before I do so I would like to get an overview of some programming languages suitable for this task (having good libs and such).
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Mathematics of Harris corner point detection
This is the mathematical expression for Harris corner detection:
But I have the following doubts:
What is the physical significance of $u$ and $v$? Many references say it is the magnitude by which ...
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Find the stomata in a plant microscopy image
Here is a question for image processing experts.
I am working on a difficult computer vision problem. The task is to count the stomata (marked below) in DIC microscopy images. These images are ...
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What are the practically relevant differences between various image resampling methods?
Mathematica's ImageResize function supports many resampling methods.
Not being familiar with this area, beyond nearest neighbour, bilinear, biquadratic and bicubic ...
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Fastest Algorithm for Distance Transform
I am looking for the fastest available algorithm for distance transform.
According to Image Processing Learning Resources - HIPR 2 (HYPERMEDIA IMAGE PROCESSING REFERENCE) - Morphology - Distance ...
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How do I remove motion blur?
Is there a generically accepted method of removing motion blur from an image. For a simple case, we can assume that motion happens in a straight line. I assume that it's a two part process composed of ...
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How do I get the most accurate camera calibration?
First off, I hope this is the correct Stack Exchange board. My apologies if it is not.
I am working on something that requires me to calibrate the camera. I have successfully implemented the code to ...
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What Is the Difference between Difference of Gaussian, Laplace of Gaussian, and Mexican Hat Wavelet?
There are three techniques used in CV that seem very similar to each other, but with subtle differences:
Laplacian of Gaussian: $\nabla^2\left[g(x,y,t)\ast f(x,y)\right]$
Difference of Gaussians: $ \...
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What Is the Walsh Hadamard Transform? How Could One Use It in Image Processing?
I am trying to teach myself about the WHT but there dont seem to be many good explanations of it online anywhere. I think I have figured out how to calculate the WHT, but I am really trying to ...
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How can I reconstruct a 3D structure from a set of images?
I have a set of contours (set of line segments) grouped in the following way:
$S_i = \{I^0, I^\frac{\pi}{4}, I^\frac{2\pi}{4}, \ldots, I^\frac{7\pi}{4} \}$
where
$S_i$ denote sequence of photos of ...
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DSP or signal/image/data processing jokes
Some other StackExchange/StackOverflow sites are entertained with a certain level of humor or fun. What is your favorite “data analysis” cartoon? is particularly worth mentioning (IMHO) this xkcd ...
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Difference Between Correlation and Convolution in the Context of Image Processing
Could you please clearly explain what is the difference between correlation and convolution that is done by a filter on an image?
I mean in terms of signal processing definition I know that ...
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What are the audio equivalents of images like "Lena", "Mandrill", and "Cameraman"?
I don't know what to call these images, but they're very often used in the image processing world as standard examples to show the output of a particular operation. Here's a link to the page ...
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Why do we use keypoint descriptors?
I just studied about SURF and I'm going for its implementation, but I still didn't understand why we use descriptors.
I understand what keypoints are and their purpose, but when we extract the ...
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How to Extract High Frequency and Low Frequency Component Using Bilateral Filter?
What does High frequency and low frequency component signify in an image.
How to separate out the high frequency as well as low frequency component of an image using Bilateral filter.
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How to Remove a Glare / Clipped Brightness from an Image?
I have an image
Is there any way of removing the bright white spots ? Please help thanks
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After operating with gaussian and then displaying using imagesc get the following output which ...
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Discrete Fourier Transform: What is the DC Term really?
I am currently toying around with the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) in Matlab to extract features from images. I like to fully understand the concepts that I use. I have read several explanations, ...
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How do I detect distinct objects when their edges touch each other?
I need to find all the contours in an image retrieved from the camera. So I first use the canny edge detector to find the edges and then find the contours. Pretty simple.
However, my contours get "...
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OpenCV/C++ connect nearby contours based on distance between them
I have to connect nearby contours in an image based on the distance between them which specifies if the contours are to be connected.
Now there's a question already on the same problem here https://...
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What is the difference between linear and non-linear filters?
How a mean filter is called as linear filter and a median filter is called as non linear filter? I understand how a mean and median filter operates, but I was not able to relate with the term linear ...
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What's wrong with this code for tomographic reconstruction by the Fourier method?
I've been playing around with tomographic reconstruction algorithms recently. I already have nice working implementations of FBP, ART, a SIRT/SART-like iterative scheme and even using straight linear ...
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How can I compare two pictures from the camera and tell if there are enough differences to detect movement?
I want to use my phone as a CCTV system to control a room in my house, and display an alert when something is moving.
For now, what I have succeeded in doing is to grab a picture every minute and ...
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Difference between SNR and PSNR
I understood that SNR is the ratio of signal power to the noise power. In terms of images, how the original image is affected by the added noise. In PSNR, we take the square of the peak value in the ...
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What Are the Limitations of a Canny Edge Detector?
Broadly a majority of the literature on edge detection algorithms and applications that uses edge detection, references Canny's edge detector. So much so that it looks like almost "the solution" to ...
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Applicability of compressed sensing / compressive sensing
From what I have heard, compressed sensing can only be utilized for a sparse signal. Is this correct?
If that is the case, how can a sparse signal be distinguished from any bandlimited signal? Every ...
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Who is Barbara?
In recent years, I have started doing work in image analysis and have used the Barbara and Lena images. Early on, I became aware of the interesting history surrounding the Lena image and that got me ...
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what is smoothing in very basic terms
What is smoothing and how can I do it?
I have an array in Matlab which is the magnitude spectrum of a speech signal (the magnitude of 128 points of FFT). How do I smooth this using a moving average? ...
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A (Clear) Line Between Computer Vision and Image Processing
I have been working in and learning about both Computer vision and Image processing for a few years now, and I believe that I am not a complete beginner any more.
Still, after all these years, it is ...
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Downsampling an image by an integer factor
When downsampling an image by an integer factor $n$, the obvious method is to set the pixels of the output image to the average of the corresponding $n \times n$ blocks in the input image.
I remember ...
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How to Detect Gradients and Edges in Images?
I want to be able to find points in images that are the centre of a radial gradient like the one shown in the left picture below. Any ideas on how I could use a Hough transform or some other computer ...
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