13 research outputs found
Coercive Region-level Registration for Multi-modal Images
We propose a coercive approach to simultaneously register and segment
multi-modal images which share similar spatial structure. Registration is done
at the region level to facilitate data fusion while avoiding the need for
interpolation. The algorithm performs alternating minimization of an objective
function informed by statistical models for pixel values in different
modalities. Hypothesis tests are developed to determine whether to refine
segmentations by splitting regions. We demonstrate that our approach has
significantly better performance than the state-of-the-art registration and
segmentation methods on microscopy images.Comment: This work has been accepted to International Conference on Image
Processing (ICIP) 201
Multimodal Image Fusion and Its Applications.
Image fusion integrates different modality images to provide comprehensive information of the image content, increasing interpretation capabilities and producing more reliable results. There are several advantages of combining multi-modal images, including improving geometric corrections, complementing data for improved classification, and enhancing features for analysis...etc.
This thesis develops the image fusion idea in the context of two domains: material microscopy and biomedical imaging. The proposed methods include image modeling, image indexing, image segmentation, and image registration. The common theme behind all proposed methods is the use of complementary information from multi-modal images to achieve better registration, feature extraction, and detection performances.
In material microscopy, we propose an anomaly-driven image fusion framework to perform the task of material microscopy image analysis and anomaly detection. This framework is based on a probabilistic model that enables us to index, process and characterize the data with systematic and well-developed statistical tools. In biomedical imaging, we focus on the multi-modal registration problem for functional MRI (fMRI) brain images which improves the performance of brain activation detection.PhDElectrical Engineering: SystemsUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120701/1/yuhuic_1.pd
Trajectory Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture filter for traffic monitoring using a drone
This paper proposes a multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithm for traffic
monitoring using a drone equipped with optical and thermal cameras. Object
detections on the images are obtained using a neural network for each type of
camera. The cameras are modelled as direction-of-arrival (DOA) sensors. Each
DOA detection follows a von-Mises Fisher distribution, whose mean direction is
obtain by projecting a vehicle position on the ground to the camera. We then
use the trajectory Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture filter (TPMBM), which is a
Bayesian MOT algorithm, to optimally estimate the set of vehicle trajectories.
We have also developed a parameter estimation algorithm for the measurement
model. We have tested the accuracy of the resulting TPMBM filter in synthetic
and experimental data sets