This paper addresses the need for geospatial consumers (either humans or machines) to visualize multicolored elevation contour poly lines with respect their different contour intervals and control the visual portrayal of the data with which they work. The current OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS) specification supports the ability for an information provider to specify very basic styling options by...

In this paper constrained Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) field generation is performed, for fast and accurate unsupervised stereoscopic semantic segmentation. The scheme utilizes the information provided by a depth segments map, produced by stereo analysis methods and incorporation of a segmentation algorithm. Then a Canny edge detector is applied to the depth region and produces an edge map. The e...

In this paper, we introduce a biologically-motivated model to detect image saliency. The model employs an isophote based operator to detect potential structure and global saliency information related to each pixel, which are then combined with integral image to build up final saliency maps. We show that the proposed model outperforms seven state-of-the-art saliency detectors in experimental stu...

An original method is proposed to extract the most significant volumetric structures in an illuminance image. The method proceeds in three levels of organization managed by generic grouping principles: (i) from the illuminance image to a more compact representation of its contents by generic structural information extraction leading to a basic contour primitive map; (ii) grouping of the basic p...

We present a new background-subtraction technique fusing contours from thermal and visible imagery for persistent object detection in urban settings. Statistical background-subtraction in the thermal domain is used to identify the initial regions-of-interest. Color and intensity information are used within these areas to obtain the corresponding regions-of-interest in the visible domain. Within...

It is extremely difficult to locate the contour of the prostate in B-scan ultrasound images automatically by computer because of low resolution and high noise levels. In this paper we present a semi-automatic prostate contour extration scheme, which is based on the wavelet transform and active contour models, or snakes. The ultrasound image is first decomposed into edge maps at different resolu...

To estimate motion, the edges of a moving object can be detected using Active Contours. After detecting the edges throughout the duration of the motion, the contours are registered together in order to obtain the motion model parameters. This idea can be applied to motion artifacts in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) which are caused by patient motion during the acquisition of an MRI. Thus, if t...

The process of converting an analog map into struc tured digitized information requires several di erent operations which are all time consuming when per formed manually Strictly automatic processing is not always a possible solution and an interactive approach can then be an alternative This paper describes a tool for map conversion fo cusing on the functionality for extraction of line struc t...

In rescue missions or law enforcement applications, accurate determination of every team member’s position and providing this information on a map may significantly improve mutual situation awareness and potentially reduce the risk of accidentally harming a team member. Furthermore, it could help keep track of the areas that have been already visited, helping the coordination of the mission at ...