Photometry of individual sources requires an initial phase of detection. The detection process can be separated into two phases: (1) preprocessing of the image, and (2) actual detection, yielding a list of discrete sources. Given a distribution of background intensities, the probabilityof intensitydeviations for light sources as a result of the background can be calculated. Setting a maximum ac...

A robust fingerprint recognition algorithm should tolerate the rotation and translation of the fingerprint image. One popular solution is to consistently detect a unique reference point and compute a unique reference orientation for translational and rotational alignment. This paper develops an effective algorithm to locate a reference point and compute the corresponding reference orientation c...

In the present paper, we develop a new efficient approach to detection of abrupt changes in a sequence of recognized digital images, which can be applied to a wide variety of practical problems of digital image processing. The principal idea of this approach consists in transforming an original sample of the observed data to a set of onedimensional statistics and measuring a distance from homog...

A technique that automatically locates specific facial points on an unknown face image is presented. This technique uses log Gabor wavelets to represent each facial point by embedding local surrounding features. Using a sample log Gabor response of a facial point, locations on the unknown face image that appear similar to the sample facial point are detected. We identify facial points by employ...

We tackle the change-point problem with data belonging to a general set. We propose a penalty for choosing the number of change-points in the kernel algorithm of Harchaoui and Cappé (2007). This penalty generalizes the one proposed for one dimensional signals by Lebarbier (2005). We prove it satisfies a non-asymptotic oracle inequality by showing new concentration results in Hilbert spaces. Exp...

No matter whether it is acoustic waves, quantum matter waves or optical waves of a laser—all kinds of waves can be in different states of oscillation, corresponding to different frequencies. Calculating these frequencies is part of the tools of the trade in theoretical physics. Recently, however, a special class of systems has caught the attention of the scientific community, forcing physicists...

Abstract: We propose new tests to detect a change in the mean of a time series. Like many existing tests, the new ones are based on the CUSUM process. Existing CUSUM tests require an estimator of a scale parameter to make them asymptotically distribution free under the no change null hypothesis. Even if the observations are independent, the estimation of the scale parameter is not simple since ...

In the past few years, many efficient rendering and surface reconstruction algorithms for point clouds have been developed. However, collision detection of point clouds has not been considered until now, although this is a prerequisite to use them for interactive or animated 3D graphics. We present a novel approach for time-critical collision detection of point clouds. Based solely on the point...

Commencing with a review of methods for vanishing point (VP) detection, a new approach is suggested. The proposed approach estimates the location of candidate vanishing points and provides probability measures which reflect the likelihood of those points being the VPs. This new approach allows VPs to be identified in less structured environments compared with its conventional counterparts.