In this paper, we present ConGrap, a novel contour detector that uses the Gradient Map and results in closed contours with semantic connections. In contrast to common edge and contour detections, ConGrap not only produces an edge image, but also provides additional information (e.g. the borderline pixel coordinates, the bounding box, etc.) about every contour. Additionally, the resulting contou...

The spatial relationships of contours play important roles in many areas such as extracting topographic features from contour maps, automatically identifying elevations of scanned contours, et al.. In those areas, one key issue is making computers identify the relationships of contours. The spatial relationships of contours are usually represented by contour tree. Contour tree is essentially a ...

Many physical phenomena have complex structure in both space and time. To systematically understand these phenomena from images we need representations that unify the treatment of space and time. We create such a representation, the space-time map, for characterizing contour evolutions. Many types of information are computed and stored as facets of the map, registered to a space-time manifold g...

This paper presents a non-parametric MAP framework for tracking non-rigid video objects. We formulate the region tracking problem as a maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) problem and define the probabilistic models in terms of the distances between the intensity distribution of the object and that of its spatialand temporal-neighborhood. Furthermore, in order to better model the complex inte...

This paper proposes a method of implementation of automatic contour line extraction from scanned digital topographic maps. First, color image segmentation is executed to recognize the features on digital topographic maps, second, morphological and filtering operations are presented to eliminate all unwanted information from digital topographic map except from contour lines. Then, resolving the ...

In this paper we describe a procedure for generating building models from large scale vector maps and laser altimeter data. First the vector map is analyzed to group the outlines of buildings and to obtain a hierarchical description of buildings or building complexes. The base area is used to mask the elevation data of single buildings and to derive a coarse 3D-description by prismatic models. ...

Automatic image segmentation is a fundamental and challenging work in image analysis. We present a stochastic contour approach that draws the contour by multiple agents stochastically, each driven by a simple policy. A contour confidence map is formed, and the image is partitioned hierarchically according to the probability of being surrounded by an average contour. The segmentation is formed b...

Residual stresses are created usually undesirably during manufacturing processes, including casting, welding, metal forming, etc. Residual stresses alone or in combination with other factors can cause the destruction and fracture of components or significant decline in their service life. Therefore, it is crucial to measure the residual stresses. Contour method is a destructive testing method c...