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A fast orientation estimation approach of natural images
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posted on 2016-11-01, 00:00 authored by Z Cao, X Liu, Nong Gu, Saeid Nahavandi, D Xu, C Zhou, M TanThis correspondence paper proposes a fast orientation estimation approach of natural images without the help of semantic information. Different from traditional low-level features, our low-level features are extracted inspired by the biological simple cells of the visual cortex. Two approximated receptive fields to mimic the biological cells are presented, and a local rotation operator is introduced to determine the optimal output and local orientation corresponding to an image position, which serve as the low-level feature employed in this paper. To generate the low-level features, a bisection method is applied to the first derivative of the model of receptive fields. Moreover, the feature screener is introduced to eliminate too much useless low-level features, which will speed up the processing time. After all the valuable low-level features are combined, the overall image orientation is estimated. The proposed approach possesses several features suitable for real-time applications. First, it avoids the tedious training procedure of some conventional methods. Second, no specific reference such as the horizon is assumed and no a priori knowledge of image is required. The proposed approach achieves a real-time orientation estimation of natural images using only low-level features with a satisfactory resolution. The effectiveness of our proposed approach is verified on real images with complex scenes and strong noises.
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IEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics: systemsVolume
46Issue
11Pagination
1589 - 1597Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersLocation
Piscataway, N.J.Publisher DOI
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2168-2216Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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