Surface dependent representations for illumination insensitive image comparison

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 98-111

  Osadchy, Margarita ^a   Jacobs, David W ^b   Lindenbaum, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gaussian random surface; Illumination; Image comparison; Whitening

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LIGHTING; OPTICAL FILTERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

GABOR JETS; IMAGE COMPARISON; IMAGE GRADIENT; WHITENING FILTERS;

IMAGE MATCHING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIGHTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33947214329     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.250602     Document Type: Article

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