Distance Between Vector-Valued Representations of Objects in Images with Application in Object Detection and Classification

• We present a novel approach to measuring distances between objects in images, suitable for information-rich object representations which simultaneously capture several properties in each image pixel. Multiple spatial fuzzy sets on the image domain, unified in a vector-valued fuzzy set, are used to model such representations. Distance between such sets is based on a novel point-to-set distance suitable for vector-valued fuzzy representations. The proposed set distance may be applied in, e.g., template matching and object classification, with an advantage that a number of object features are simultaneously considered. The distance measure is of linear time complexity w.r.t. the number of pixels in the image. We evaluate the performance of the proposed measure in template matching in presence of noise, as well as in object detection and classification in low resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy images.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Diskret matematik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Discrete Mathematics (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datorseende och robotik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Vision and Robotics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Membership Function

Object Representation

Template Match

Fuzzy Membership Function

Catchment Basin

Computerized Image Processing

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