Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has been an active research topic in the last decade. In this paper we proposed an image retrieval method using global and local features. Firstly, for local features extraction, SURF algorithm produces a set of interest points for each image and a set of 64-dimensional descriptors for each interest points and then to use Bag of Visual Words model, a cluster...

Image zooming is one of the current issues of image processing where maintaining the quality and structure of the zoomed image is important. To zoom an image, it is necessary that the extra pixels be placed in the data of the image. Adding the data to the image must be consistent with the texture in the image and not to create artificial blocks. In this study, the required pixels are estimated ...

SIREV (Sector Imaging Radar for Enhanced Vision) is an innovative radar system which can supply high-quality images of a sector in front of an aircraft under almost every weather condition. In contrast to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, no relative motion between sensor and targets is required in SIREV. The high frame repetition frequency in SIREV allows to detect even very rapid change...

Three c ase studies are used to illustrate some issues which arise when digital image analysis methods are applied in microscopy. An algorithm is described for estimating the diameters of cashmere bres from out-of-focus images. The process of image formation in diierential interference c ontrast DIC microscopy is modelled, and used t o c onstruct templates for identifying and measuring algal, b...

Interaction increases flexibility of segmentation but it leads to undesirable behaviour of an algorithm if knowledge being requested is inappropriate. In region growing, this is the case for defining the homogeneity criterion, as its specification depends also on image formation properties that are not known to the user. We developed a region growing algorithm that learns its homogeneity criter...

background : the ifa test is one of the most usual methods for detecting anti- toxoplasma antibod­ies, although it has not any unique standardization. it seems that the microscopic judg­ment of results is an important confounder in ifa test. therefore, we conducted the present study to clarify the role of microscopic observer, and other confounders on the test. methods: eighty sera were collect...

INTRODUCTION Intermittent iron-folic acid supplementation (IFA) is currently recommended for pregnant women in populations where anaemia prevalence among pregnant women is <20% or if daily iron is not acceptable. The effect of providing lower doses of antenatal elemental iron through intermittent regimes on longer-term health outcomes in childhood is unclear. METHODS A prospective cohort stud...

The colors a camera sees depends on the color of the viewing illuminant and, unless corrected, this leads to poor color reproduction. There are two strategies to color correction: constrained and unconstrained. The constrained methods rely on simplifying assumptions about the world (e.g. there is a white reeectance is in every scene). If the assumptions hold then good correction is possible but...

One hundred and five samples of gastric washes were obtained from 52 pediatric patients. Eleven of the 105 samples (10%) gave positive results using immunofluorescence antibody test (IFA) for Pneumocystis jirovecii. Single-step polymerase chain reaction (PCR) produced 13% (14 samples), whereas detection by nested PCR was increased to 65 samples (62%). Moderate agreement (kappa = 0.5) was found ...

This paper proposes a system to estimate the 3D position and velocity of vehicles, from images acquired with a monocular camera. Given image regions where vehicles are detected, Gaussian distributions are estimated detailing the most probable 3D road regions where vehicles lay. This is done by combining an assumed image formation model with the Unscented Transform mechanism. These distributions...