Scaling images and image features via the renormalization group

Davi Geiger, Joao E. Kogler

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Abstract

We set the problem to obtain high quality images and image features of different scales. We concentrate on a Markov image model described in a lattice by a Gaussian noise and a local regularization term depending upon the image discontinuities. An approximate self-similar property of the model is derived by a process of averaging over half of the lattice sites, known as the Renormalization Group approach. Two multiscale pyramid structures, one of images and the other of image discontinuities are then obtained. The course images generated by the proposed method are smooth and shows god contrast. The present approach, when applied in the reverse order, is capable of enlarging images while accounting for the original image features. We have demonstrated the quality of the derived pyramid by using it to help solve a segmentation problem.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Editors Anon
PublisherPubl by IEEE
Pages47-53
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)0818638826
StatePublished - 1993
EventProceedings of the 1993 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - New York, NY, USA
Duration: Jun 15 1993Jun 18 1993

Publication series

NameIEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Other

OtherProceedings of the 1993 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
CityNew York, NY, USA
Period6/15/936/18/93

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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