Mirror symmetry histograms for capturing geometric properties in images

Marcelo Cicconet, Davi Geiger, Kristin C. Gunsalus, Michael Werman

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Abstract

We propose a data structure that captures global geometric properties in images: Histogram of Mirror Symmetry Coefficients. We compute such a coefficient for every pair of pixels, and group them in a 6-dimensional histogram. By marginalizing the HMSC in various ways, we develop algorithms for a range of applications: detection of nearly-circular cells, location of the main axis of reflection symmetry, detection of cell-division in movies of developing embryos, detection of worm-tips and indirect cell-counting via supervised classification. Our approach generalizes a series of histogram-related methods, and the proposed algorithms perform with state-of-the-art accuracy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages2981-2986
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479951178, 9781479951178
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 24 2014
Event27th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2014 - Columbus, United States
Duration: Jun 23 2014Jun 28 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
ISSN (Print)1063-6919

Other

Other27th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityColumbus
Period6/23/146/28/14

Keywords

  • biology
  • cell
  • circle fitting
  • geometric representation
  • histogram
  • hough transform
  • mirror symmetry

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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