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    Catadioptric Hyperspectral Imaging, an Unmixing Approach
    (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2020) Özışık Başkurt, Didem; Baştanlar, Yalın; Yardımcı Çetin, Yasemin
    Hyperspectral imaging systems provide dense spectral information on the scene under investigation by collecting data from a high number of contiguous bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. The low spatial resolutions of these sensors frequently give rise to the mixing problem in remote sensing applications. Several unmixing approaches are developed in order to handle the challenging mixing problem on perspective images. On the other hand, omnidirectional imaging systems provide a 360-degree field of view in a single image at the expense of lower spatial resolution. In this study, we propose a novel imaging system which integrates hyperspectral cameras with mirrors so on to yield catadioptric omnidirectional imaging systems to benefit from the advantages of both modes. Catadioptric images, incorporating a camera with a reflecting device, introduce radial warping depending on the structure of the mirror used in the system. This warping causes a non-uniformity in the spatial resolution which further complicates the unmixing problem. In this context, a novel spatial-contextual unmixing algorithm specifically for the large field of view of the hyperspectral imaging system is developed. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on various real-world and simulated cases. The experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms compared methods.
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    Curve Description by Histograms of Tangent Directions
    (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019) Köksal, Ali; Özuysal, Mustafa
    The authors propose a novel approach for the description of objects based on contours in their images using real-valued feature vectors. The approach is particularly suitable when objects of interest have high contrast and texture-free images or when the texture variations are high so textural cues are nuisance factors for classification. The proposed descriptor is suitable for nearest neighbour classification still popular in embedded vision applications when the power considerations outweigh the performance requirements. They describe object outlines purely based on the histograms of contour tangent directions mimicking many of the design heuristics of texture-based descriptors such as scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT). However, unlike SIFT and its variants, the proposed approach is directly designed to work with contour data and it is robust to variations inside and outside the object outline as well as the sampling of the contour itself. They show that relying on tangent direction estimation as opposed to gradient computation yields a more robust description and higher nearest neighbour classification rates in a variety of classification problems.
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    Training Cnns With Image Patches for Object Localisation
    (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2018) Orhan, Semih; Baştanlar, Yalın
    Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great performance in different problems of computer vision including object detection and localisation. A novel training approach is proposed for CNNs to localise some animal species whose bodies have distinctive patterns such as leopards and zebras. To learn characteristic patterns, small patches which are taken from different body parts of animals are used to train models. To find object location, in a test image, all locations are visited in a sliding window fashion. Crops are fed into trained CNN and their classification scores are combined into a heat map. Later on, heat maps are converted to bounding box estimates for varying confidence scores. The localisation performance of the patch-based training approach is compared with Faster R-CNN – a state-of-the-art CNN-based object detection and localisation method. Experimental results reveal that the patch-based training outperforms Faster R-CNN, especially for classes with distinctive patterns.