Received Nov 3, 2016 Revised Jan 7, 2017 Accepted Feb 16, 2017 Retrieval of similar images from large dataset of brain images across patients would help the experts in the decision diagnosis process of diseases. Generally used feature extraction methods are color, texture and shape. In medical images texture and shape features are most efficient. Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and Local ...

In the last two years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved an impressive suite of results on standard recognition datasets and tasks. CNN-based features seem poised to quickly replace engineered representations, such as SIFT and HOG. However, compared to SIFT and HOG, we understand much less about the nature of the features learned by large CNNs. In this paper, we experimentally ...

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) and age related macular degeneration (ARMD) are among the major causes of visual impairment all over the world. DR is mainly characterized by small red spots, namely microaneurysms and bright lesions, specifically exudates. However, ARMD is mainly identified by tiny yellow or white deposits called drusen. Since exudates might be the only visible signs of the early diab...

Pedestrians are important participants in urban traffic environments, and thus act as an interesting category of objects for autonomous cars. Automatic pedestrian detection is an essential task for protecting pedestrians from collision. In this thesis, we investigate and develop novel approaches by interpreting spatial and temporal characteristics of pedestrians, in three different aspects: sha...

Data processing and management is common now a days. In this paper, automatic processing of forms written in Kannada language is considered. A suitable pre-processing technique is presented for extracting handwritten characters. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Histogram of oriented Gradients (HoG) are used for feature extraction. These features are fed to multilayer feed forward back pro...

Remote sensing is a field that has wide use, leading to the fact that it has a great importance. Therefore performance of selected features plays a great role. In order to gain some perspective on useful textural features, we have brought together state-of-art textural features in recent literature, yet to be applied in remote sensing field, as well as presenting a comparison with traditional o...

Most multi-camera systems assume a well structured environment to detect and match objects across cameras. Cameras need to be fixed and calibrated. In this work, a novel system is presented to detect and match any objects in a network of uncalibrated fixed and mobile cameras. A master-slave system is presented. Objects are detected with the mobile cameras (the slaves) given only their observati...