TY - GEN
T1 - Wave interference for pattern description
AU - Atasoy, Selen
AU - Mateus, Diana
AU - Georgiou, Andreas
AU - Navab, Nassir
AU - Yang, Guang Zhong
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper presents a novel compact description of a pattern based on the interference of circular waves. The proposed approach, called "interference description", leads to a representation of the pattern, where the spatial relations of its constituent parts are intrinsically taken into account. Due to the intrinsic characteristics of the interference phenomenon, this description includes more information than a simple sum of individual parts. Therefore it is suitable for representing the interrelations of different pattern components. We illustrate that the proposed description satisfies some of the key Gestalt properties of human perception such as invariance, emergence and reification, which are also desirable for efficient pattern description. We further present a method for matching the proposed interference descriptions of different patterns. In a series of experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our description for several computer vision tasks such as pattern recognition, shape matching and retrieval.
AB - This paper presents a novel compact description of a pattern based on the interference of circular waves. The proposed approach, called "interference description", leads to a representation of the pattern, where the spatial relations of its constituent parts are intrinsically taken into account. Due to the intrinsic characteristics of the interference phenomenon, this description includes more information than a simple sum of individual parts. Therefore it is suitable for representing the interrelations of different pattern components. We illustrate that the proposed description satisfies some of the key Gestalt properties of human perception such as invariance, emergence and reification, which are also desirable for efficient pattern description. We further present a method for matching the proposed interference descriptions of different patterns. In a series of experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our description for several computer vision tasks such as pattern recognition, shape matching and retrieval.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79952515458&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-19309-5_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-19309-5_4
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952515458
SN - 9783642193088
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 41
EP - 54
BT - Computer Vision, ACCV 2010 - 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2010
Y2 - 8 November 2010 through 12 November 2010
ER -