We investigated the perception of local surface orientation on a simple smooth object, under several different illumination conditions. The perceived local orientation was determined for several points on the surface and quantified as slant and tilt of the local tangent plane. We found an underestimation of the perceived slant and a larger variance for the perceived tilt than for the perceived ...

Absolute orientation is an important method in the field of photogrammetry. The technique is used to transform points between a local coordinate reference system and a global (geodetic) reference system. The classical transformation method uses a single set of similarity transformation parameters. However, the root mean square error (RMSE) of the classical method is large, especially for large-...

The orientation of the local interstellar magnetic field introduces asymmetries in the heliosphere that affect the location of heliospheric radio emissions and the streaming direction of ions from the termination shock of the solar wind. We combined observations of radio emissions and energetic particle streaming with extensive three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic computer simulations of magne...

Many image processing algorithms rely on local descriptors extracted around selected points of interest. Motivated by privacy issues, several authors have recently studied the possibility of image reconstruction from these descriptors, and proposed reconstruction methods performing local inference using a database of images. In this paper we tackle the problem of image reconstruction from local...

Analysis and Approaches To Image Local Orientation Estimation

In a visual search task, subjects had to decide which of 2 possible target letters was presented among 12 distractor letters. The 13 characters were arranged to form a global Navon-type letter. The global letter and the local letters (target and distractors) were independently presented in four different viewer-related orientations. When the global letter and the target were frequently congruen...

This paper describes the fingerprint verification based on wavelet transform and the local dominant orientation. Daubechies wavelet is use to decompose the fingerprint image. The local dominant orientation is computed using the coherence. The trainee and test fingerprint images are aligned around core point, in this paper the core point is detected as a maximum curvature point. We received 85 p...

We present a new method for infering the local 3D orientation of keypoints from their appearance. The method is based on the idea that the relation between keypoint appearance and pose can be learnt efficiently with an adequate regressor. Using one reference view of a keypoint, it is possible to train a keypoint-specific regressor that takes the point appearance as input and delivers the local ...