250 research outputs found
Real-time Global Illumination Decomposition of Videos
We propose the first approach for the decomposition of a monocular color
video into direct and indirect illumination components in real time. We
retrieve, in separate layers, the contribution made to the scene appearance by
the scene reflectance, the light sources and the reflections from various
coherent scene regions to one another. Existing techniques that invert global
light transport require image capture under multiplexed controlled lighting, or
only enable the decomposition of a single image at slow off-line frame rates.
In contrast, our approach works for regular videos and produces temporally
coherent decomposition layers at real-time frame rates. At the core of our
approach are several sparsity priors that enable the estimation of the
per-pixel direct and indirect illumination layers based on a small set of
jointly estimated base reflectance colors. The resulting variational
decomposition problem uses a new formulation based on sparse and dense sets of
non-linear equations that we solve efficiently using a novel alternating
data-parallel optimization strategy. We evaluate our approach qualitatively and
quantitatively, and show improvements over the state of the art in this field,
in both quality and runtime. In addition, we demonstrate various real-time
appearance editing applications for videos with consistent illumination
Remote sensing satellite image processing techniques for image classification: a comprehensive survey
This paper is a brief survey of advance technological aspects
of Digital Image Processing which are applied to remote
sensing images obtained from various satellite sensors. In
remote sensing, the image processing techniques can be
categories in to four main processing stages: Image preprocessing, Enhancement, Transformation and Classification.
Image pre-processing is the initial processing which deals
with correcting radiometric distortions, atmospheric distortion
and geometric distortions present in the raw image data.
Enhancement techniques are applied to preprocessed data in
order to effectively display the image for visual interpretation.
It includes techniques to effectively distinguish surface
features for visual interpretation. Transformation aims to
identify particular feature of earth’s surface and classification
is a process of grouping the pixels, that produces effective
thematic map of particular land use and land cover
PaletteNeRF: Palette-based Color Editing for NeRFs
Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a powerful tool to faithfully generate novel
views for scenes with only sparse captured images. Despite its strong
capability for representing 3D scenes and their appearance, its editing ability
is very limited. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective extension of
vanilla NeRF, named PaletteNeRF, to enable efficient color editing on
NeRF-represented scenes. Motivated by recent palette-based image decomposition
works, we approximate each pixel color as a sum of palette colors modulated by
additive weights. Instead of predicting pixel colors as in vanilla NeRFs, our
method predicts additive weights. The underlying NeRF backbone could also be
replaced with more recent NeRF models such as KiloNeRF to achieve real-time
editing. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves efficient,
view-consistent, and artifact-free color editing on a wide range of
NeRF-represented scenes.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figure
Hyperspectral image analysis for questioned historical documents.
This thesis describes the application of spectroscopy and hyperspectral image
processing to examine historical manuscripts and text. Major activities
in palaeographic and manuscript studies include the recovery of illegible or
deleted text, the minute analyses of scribal hands, the identification of inks
and the segmentation and dating of text. This thesis describes how Hyperspectral
Imaging (HSI), applied in a novel manner, can be used to perform
quality text recovery, segmentation and dating of historical documents. The
non-destructive optical imaging process of Spectroscopy is described in detail
and how it can be used to assist historians and document experts in
the exemption of aged manuscripts. This non-destructive optical method
of analysis can distinguish subtle differences in the reflectance properties of
the materials under study. Many historically significant documents from
libraries such as the Royal Irish Academy and the Russell Library at the
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, have been the selected for study
using the hyperspectral imaging technique. Processing techniques have are
described for the applications to the study of manuscripts in a poor state
of conservation. The research provides a comprehensive overview of Hyperspectral
Imaging (HSI) and associated statistical and analytical methods,
and also an in-depth investigation of the practical implementation of such
methods to aid document analysts. Specifically, we provide results from employing
statistical analytical methods including principal component analysis
(PCA), independent component analysis (ICA) and both supervised and automatic
clustering methods to historically significant manuscripts and text
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such as Leabhar na hUidhre, a 12th century Irish text which was subject to
part-erasure and rewriting, a 16th Century pastedown cover, and a multi-ink
example typical of that found in, for example, late medieval administrative
texts such as Gttingen’s kundige bok. The purpose of which is to achieve
an overall greater insight into the historical context of the document, which
includes the recovery or enhancement of faded or illegible text or text lost
through fading, staining, overwriting or other forms of erasure. In addition,
we demonstrate prospect of distinguishing different ink-types, and furnishing
us with details of the manuscript’s composition, all of which are refinements,
which can be used to answer questions about date and provenance. This process
marks a new departure for the study of manuscripts and may provide
answer many long-standing questions posed by palaeographers and by scholars
in a variety of disciplines. Furthermore, through text retrieval, it holds
out the prospect of adding considerably to the existing corpus of texts and
to providing very many new research opportunities for coming generations
of scholars
Text-guided Image-and-Shape Editing and Generation: A Short Survey
Image and shape editing are ubiquitous among digital artworks. Graphics
algorithms facilitate artists and designers to achieve desired editing intents
without going through manually tedious retouching. In the recent advance of
machine learning, artists' editing intents can even be driven by text, using a
variety of well-trained neural networks. They have seen to be receiving an
extensive success on such as generating photorealistic images, artworks and
human poses, stylizing meshes from text, or auto-completion given image and
shape priors. In this short survey, we provide an overview over 50 papers on
state-of-the-art (text-guided) image-and-shape generation techniques. We start
with an overview on recent editing algorithms in the introduction. Then, we
provide a comprehensive review on text-guided editing techniques for 2D and 3D
independently, where each of its sub-section begins with a brief background
introduction. We also contextualize editing algorithms under recent implicit
neural representations. Finally, we conclude the survey with the discussion
over existing methods and potential research ideas.Comment: 10 page
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