Activity Detection and Retrieval for Image and Video Data with Limited Training

Abstract

The main objective of this project is to exploit image analysis tools for solving image segmentation and classification applications. Here we propose two techniques for image segmentation. The first involves an automata based multiple threshold selection scheme, where a mixture of Gaussian is fitted to the image intensity histogram, and the parameters for each of the Gaussian distribution are estimated by learning automata. For our second approach to segmentation, we employ a region based segmentation technique that is capable of handling intensity inhomogeneity, and use a sparse representation based dictionary learning technique to learn the basis function from a given set of training data. The image intensities of the test image to be segmented are then represented as a linear combination of these learned bases. We also implement a kernel based dictionary learning scheme for image classification. Here we extract multiple feature types from the images and learn a dictionary based on the combination of their kernel representation, and implement a mutual information based technique for determining the kernel combination weights. The final classification is based on the minimum reconstruction error for these features. We provide detailed description and supporting experimental results for each of these methods.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 10, 2015
Accession Number
AD1001424

Entities

People

  • Rituparna Sarkar
  • Scott T. Acton
  • Zongli Lin

Organizations

  • University of Virginia

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Automata
  • Blood Vessels
  • Detection
  • Dimensionality Reduction
  • Image Classification
  • Image Processing
  • Image Segmentation
  • Kernel Functions
  • Kernels (Operating System)
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Remote Sensing
  • Signal Processing
  • Standards
  • Students

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Medical Imaging.
  • Regression Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML