as the information carried in a high spatial resolution image is not represented by single pixels but by meaningful image objects, which include the association of multiple pixels and their mutual relations, the object based method has become one of the most commonly used strategies for the processing of high resolution imagery. this processing comprises two fundamental and critical steps towar...

Image Registration (IR) is an optimization problem computing optimal parameters of a geometric transform used to overlay one or more source images to a given model by maximizing a similarity measure. In this paper the use of bio-inspired optimization algorithms in image registration is analyzed. Results obtained by means of three different algorithms are compared: Bacterial Foraging Optimizatio...

We are presenting here a model for processing space-time image sequences and applying them to 3D echo-cardiography. The non-linear evolutionary equations filter the sequence with keeping space-time coherent structures. They have been developed using ideas of regularized Perona-Malik an-isotropic diffusion and geometrical diffusion of mean curvature flow type (Malladi-Sethian), combined with Gal...

Oral Presentation Preferred JINDAN ZHOU received her B.Sc. degree and M.E. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China in 1999 and 2001 respectively. She is now a Ph.D. student at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Miami. She has published several papers in the areas of image processing and pattern recognition. Her current res...

Acknowledgement I wish to thank my three supervisors for their support and encouragement during the PhD project. Their complementary background has been very useful in the process. My main supervisor , Hans-Hermann Gerdes, has always encouraged me and believed in my skills and also shown deep and honest fascination for the potential of image processing, which has been particularly important for...

Ali Ahmadvand1 and Mohammad Reza Daliri2* 1School of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran 2Biomedical Engineering Department, School of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Iran *Corresponding author: Mohammad Reza Daliri, Biomedical Engineering Department, School of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of S...

Morphological image processing is well known as an efficient methodology for image processing and computer vision. With the wide use of color in many areas, the interest on the color perception and processing has been growing rapidly. Many models have been proposed to extend morphological operators to the field of color images, dealing with some new problems not present previously in the binary...