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
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
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Sep 2014
Event27th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2014 - Columbus, United States
Duration: 23 Jun 201428 Jun 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Conference

Conference27th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityColumbus
Period23/06/1428/06/14

Keywords

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

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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