Title Automatic feature point correspondences and shape analysis with missing data and outliers using MDL
Authors Karl Åström, Johan Karlsson, Olof Enqvist, Anders Ericsson, Fredrik Kahl
Alternative Location http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/9..., Restricted Access
Publication Proceedings 15th Scandinavian Image Analysis Conference
Year 2007
Volume 4522
Pages 21 - 30
Document type Conference paper
Conference name 15th Scandinavian Image Analysis Conference
Conference Date 10-14 June 2007
Conference Location Aalborg, Denmark
Status Published
Quality controlled Yes
Language eng
Publisher Springer
Abstract English Automatic construction of shape models from examples has recently been the focus of intense research. These methods have proved to be useful for shape segmentation, tracking, recognition and shape understanding. In this paper we discuss automatic landmark selection and correspondence determination from a discrete set of landmarks, typically obtained by feature extraction. The set of landmarks may include both outliers and missing data. Our framework has a solid theoretical basis using principles of minimal description length (MDL). In order to exploit these ideas, new non-heuristic methods for (i) principal component analysis and (ii) procrustes mean are derived - as a consequence of the modelling principle. The resulting MDL criterion is optimised over both discrete and continuous decision variables. The algorithms have been implemented and tested on the problem of automatic shape extraction from feature points in image sequences.
Keywords minimal description length, automatic construction, image segmentation, image recognition, tracking, feature extraction, image sequence, shape analysis, principal component analysis,
ISBN/ISSN/Other ISBN: ISBN 978-3-540-73039-2

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