P. Burt. Fast filter transforms for image processing. Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, 21:368--382, 1983.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

.... = n i n n j j dy y i dx x I j y i x I j i W dy dx y x SSD 2 1 2 1 , 2.10) where 1 I and 2 I are an image pair, W is a 2 D window function, and ( dy dx, denotes the suggested displacement vector. Anandan constructs a multi scale method based on the Burt Laplacian pyramid [12]. A coarse to fine strategy is adopted such that larger displacements are first determined from less resolved versions of the images and then improved with more accurate higher resolution versions of the image. This strategy is well suited for cases where the range of pixel motions is large. ....

Burt, P.J., Fast Filter Transforms for Image Processing, Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Vol. 16, pp. 20-51, 1981.

....is obtained at low resolution (see Figure 3.25) and is fine tuned using high resolution images. The solution obtained for the low resolution image is used as an initial guess of the solution for the high resolution image. The low resolution images were obtained by creating gaussian pyramids [21, 20], i.e. convolving the original image with a gaussian. a) b) c) d) e) Figure 3.25: Using multiresolution to find symmetry. The grey level image is treated as a depth map and 3D mirror symmetry is computed. The computed symmetry plane is used to bring the image into a frontal vertical view. ....

P.J. Burt. Fast filter transforms for image processing. Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 16:20--51, 1981.

....size is used, the algorithm will be able to capture the structures of the textures. Nevertheless, in many cases, the necessary neighborhood size is too large, which results in a big computation effort. This problem can be faced using a multi resolution approach. Particularly, image pyramids [1] provide an efficient solution representing large texture structures by a few pixels in a given level of lower resolution. 3.2. Innovations The schema proposed by Wei and Levoy has two main parts. On the one hand, the problem of funding an adequate size of the neighborhood, which is solved ....

....size has a strong relationship with texture quality. If we use a multi resolution representation, the computational cost for processing huge structures can be reduced. Image Pyramids are one of the most efficient multi resolution representations available. Originally developed by Burr [1], image pyramid perform a subband hput rrnage P,jrarrid Input Texture OutputTexture decomposition of a given image. The defining feature of an image pyramid is that the basis projection functions are dilated and translated copies one another (by a factor 2 for a given integerfi [5] Gaussian ....

P. Burt. "Fast Filter Transform for Image Processing". Computer Graphics and Image Processing 16, 1981, pp. 20 - 51.

....there is an advantage to using Gaussian templates in an initial smoothing step instead of computing the derivatives of the Gaussian directly, as is done in other FD methods. Gaussian filtering can be very efficiently implemented by combining Hierarchical Discrete Correlation (HDC) techniques [7] with cascaded convolution [9, 39, 19] Burt s HDC algorithm permits very fast computation for Gaussian smoothing at variable scale, while the cascaded convolution property can be combined with HDC techniques to obtain a broader range of scaling (smoothing) than by solely employing HDC techniques. ....

P. J. Burt. Fast filter transforms for image processing. CGIP, 16:20--51, 1981.

....image is that neighboring pixels are highly correlated. The representation of the image directly in terms of the pixel value is therefore inefficient: most supported information is redundant. A wavelet like technique is then adopted, based on the hierarchical discrete correlation (HDC) technique [3], in order to remove redundant information from image while producing a reduced image with the same content; in the following, we shall refer to this image as the compressed image. Let be the original image, the first step is to apply a low pass filter on to obtain , a reduced version of , ....

P. J. Burt, "Fast filter transforms for image processing," Comput. Graphics Image Processing, vol. 16, pp. 20--51, 1981.

....there is an advantage to using Gaussian templates in an initial smoothing step instead of computing the derivatives of the Gaussian directly, as is done in other methods. Gaussian filtering can be very efficiently implemented by combining Hierarchical Discrete Correlation ( techniques [7] with cascaded convolution [9, 39, 19] Burt s algorithm permits very fast computation for Gaussian smoothing at variable scale, while the cascaded convolution property can be combined with techniques to obtain a broader range of scaling (smoothing) than by solely employing ....

P. J. Burt. Fast filter transforms for image processing. CGIP, 16:20--51, 1981.

....as a large component of additive random noise generated by image translation. Such noise can render most image analysis algorithms unreliable. The problem of segmentation and classification of textures led a number of researchers to look for general purpose multi resolution representations. Burt [2, 3] proposed a multi resolution pyramid algorithm using smoothing with overlapping windows. Weights for the smoothing filters were obtained by postulating a set of four principles. These principles resulted in the use of a mask that serves as a smoothing filter for repeated re sampling. While ....

....they are powers of this filter and thus also have no ripples in the stop band. The filters b 2 (m) and b 4 (m) have variances of and 1, respectively. The filter b 4 (m) is equivalent to b 2 (m) b 2 (m) Thus, a # = 1 kernel filter can be computed by two convolutions with the kernel [1, 2, 1] at a cost of two multiplications and 4 additions per pixel. 4.1.3 Recursive filters Di#erent recursive implementations of Gaussian filters have been proposed by Deriche [5] and by Vliet, Young and Verbeek [13] To maintain shift invariance (or zero phase) the filter is implemented as a cascade ....

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P. J. Burt. Fast filter transforms for image processing. Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 16:20--51, 1981.

....such as the time varying wavelet packet decomposition and time varying modulated lapped transforms proposed by Herley et al. 67, 68] are also sensitive to translations. Shift invariant multiresolution representations exist. However, some methods either entail high oversampling rates (e.g. in [127, 9, 10, 86, 122] no down sampling with the changing scale is allowed) or alternatively, the resulting representations are non unique (as is the case for zero crossing or local maxima methods, e.g. 93, 74, 94, 95, 8] Furthermore, zero crossing and related methods facilitate a signal reconstruction that is ....

....applications, such as detection or parameter estimation of signals with unknown arrival time. This problem of wavelet transforms, namely their sensitivity to translations, has been addressed using di#erent approaches. However, some methods either entail high oversampling rates (e.g. in [9, 10, 86, 122, 127] no down sampling with the changing scale is allowed) or immense computational complexity (e.g. the matching pursuit algorithm 23 [55, 96] In some other methods, the resulting representations are non unique and involve approximate signal reconstructions, as is the case for zero crossing or ....

P. J. Burt, "Fast Filter transforms for image processing", Comput. Graphics and Image Proc., Vol. 16, 1981, pp. 20--51.

....aliasing noise. The paper also discusses the issue of indexing between the neighboring layer, the viewpoint variation and the applications of the physical panoramic pyramid. 1 Introduction There is a large body of research on multi resolution and scale space image processing and computer vision [1] [2] 4] and with the recent advances in wavelets the amount of research has redoubled to the point of multiple conferences on wavelets and applications per year, e.g. SPIE s [6] Multi resolution techniques, pyramid algorithms, have been widely used in vision applications such as segmentation, ....

....for reducing the computational cost of various image operations using coarse tofine strategy. To build the pyramid representation of an image, a smoothing process is applied followed by a subsampling operation. The properties of the smoothing filters have been extensively studied by Burt[1] and Meer[3] This filtering sampling operation mainly has three effects: reducing resolution (or introducing blurring) reducing background random noise and introducing aliasing. If we also consider aliasing and non ideal blurring as noise, there are three types of noise in each layer of pyramid ....

P.J. Burt, "Fast filter transforms for image processing, " Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 16, pp. 20-51, 1981.

....When analysing sensory data such as images, a fundamental constraint arises from the fact that real world objects may appear in di erent ways depending upon the scale of observation. This insight is a major motivation for the development of multi scale representations such as pyramids (Burt 1981; Crowley 1981) and scale space representation (Witkin 1983; Koenderink 1984; Yuille and Poggio 1986; Koenderink and van Doorn 1992; Florack 1993; Lindeberg 1994b) Traditionally, however, most works on multi scale representations have been concerned with image data de ned on spatial domains , ....

P. J. Burt. \Fast Filter Transforms for Image Processing". CVGIP, 16:20{ 51, 1981.

....than higher level concepts such as human faces or ASCII characters) because we want to apply our algorithm to a variety of phenomena. Motivated by [16, 17] we also decided to use multi scale features. In particular, given an image I , we first form its Gaussian pyramid G 0 (I) GN (I) [11]. Afterwards, we also form its Laplacian pyramid L 0 (I) LN (I) 12] the horizontal H 0 (I) HN (I) and vertical V 0 (I) VN (I) first derivatives of the Gaussian pyramid, and the horizontal H 2 0 (I) H 2 N (I) and vertical V 2 0 (I) V 2 N (I) ....

P.J. Burt. Fast filter transforms for image processing. Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 16:20--51, 1980.

....(processed in exactly the same way) to try to find a match. Because of the unstructured environment of the problem, we require the detected points to be very stable to changes in absolute illumination, contrast, and scale, and also to be sparse. After experimenting with many existing approaches [3,4,5], we have chosen the one described in [6] as it only involves first derivatives of the images. Figure 4 shows an example of a field from a tennis match with the feature points detected by the algorithm. This method has proven to be reliable in most situations. It is important to note that the ....

....accumulated parameters are then reported to the Updater. If, however, the motion parameters do not converge after a given number of maximum iterations, then the process is stopped with a report of zero reliability. We have implemented the algorithm at multi resolution levels. A Gaussian pyramid [3] is created from each frame. At the beginning of a sequence, the above algorithm is applied to the lowest resolution level. The results from this level are propagated as initial estimates for the next level up, and so on until the highest level. This allows for recovery of larger motions. Within a ....

P.J. Burt, `Fast Filter Transforms for Image Processing', Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Vol. 16, pp. 20-51, 1981.

....of identifying cell boundaries. However, it is currently limited by the local nature of the convergence algorithm, requiring a close initial approximation. One solution to this limitation would be to smooth the image to successive levels of reduced detail, as in the Gaussian pyramid scheme 25 [17]. The initialized snake could be translated to the lowest, most highly filtered level and run to convergence on the filtered cell nucleus. The resulting snake would then be translated back and used as the initialization at the next more detailed level. In this manner, the snakes might be better ....

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....interpolators can only approximate the properties of the Gaussians. Consequently, the Gaussians play an important role even when designing non Gaussian interpolators, since these interpolators are often desired to be similar to Gaussians. Besides interpolation, the Gaussians are used in scale [8, 32, 25, 26, 12] analysis. This wide adoption as 4 in image analysis tool is, in addition to property 3 which produces compact filters having no ringing effects close to sharp discontinuities, due to that the exponential function is the only continuous function having property 1 and 2: y r v = y = ....

P. Burt. Fast filter transforms for image processing. Computer graphics and image processing, 16:20--51, 1981.

....in equals the number of pixels in the largest CoC present in the image in front of the focus plane plus the number of pixels covered by the largest CoC behind the focus plane. 4. 2 Fast Approximation The fast DOF technique is based on Gaussian pyramids, a technique also used in image coding [2, 1]. Gaussian pyramids offer a very fast way to create low passed filtered, reduced size representations of an original image. A pyramid is constructed is as follows: From an original image I 0 , a reduced or low pass filtered image I 1 is constructed. Each value in I 1 is computed as a weighted ....

....I 1 is computed as a weighted average of values in I 0 within a 5 by 5 window. Image I 2 is constructed out of I 1 in the same manner, etc. Figure 5 illustrates the procedure for a one dimensional case. For a more detailed discussion on Gaussian pyramids and their use in image coding see [2] and [1]. For the DOF algorithm, two Gaussian pyramids are constructed. The initial image of the first pyramid contains all the pixels closer to the viewer than the focus plane with their alpha value set to 1, all other pixels are cleared. For the second pyramid, all pixels further away than the focus ....

P.J. Burt. Fast filter transforms for image processing. Computer Graphics, Image Processing, 6:20--51, 1981.

....the fact that turbulence is a multiscale phenomenon. Turbulence exists and interacts at multiple scales and turbulence has been theoretically described through scaling laws. In computer vision the knowledge of the scale of phenomena has been used as a tool for analysis throughout the field, [26, 54, 28, 11, 12, 60, 30]. A theory called linear Gaussian scale space has emerged, 26, 60, 30] which introduces a formalism for representing and analysing digital images at multiple scales. A well founded way of inferring information about motion from digital images is the so called optic flow methods, in which ....

....code for all implementations described and used in this thesis can be found in Appendix D. 5 Chapter 3 Linear Gaussian Scale Space In the computer vision and digital image processing community an interest for different types of multi scale image representations has been growing for some time, [26, 54, 28, 11, 12, 60, 30]. Multi scale image representations can be used in the solution of various computer vision problems, from signal representation [26, 28, 11, 12, 60, 30, 31, 36] over feature detection [54, 33, 34, 35] and segmentation [48] to estimation of motion and analysis of stereo images [16, 17, 18, 45, 43] ....

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