Tensor voting: A perceptual organization approach to computer vision and machine learning

Philippos Mordohai, Gérard Medioni

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Abstract

This lecture presents research on a general framework for perceptual organization that was conducted mainly at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems of the University of Southern California. It is not written as a historical recount of the work, since the sequence of the presentation is not in chronological order. It aims at presenting an approach to a wide range of problems in computer vision and machine learning that is data-driven, local and requires a minimal number of assumptions. The tensor voting framework combines these properties and provides a unified perceptual organization methodology applicable in situations that may seem heterogeneous initially. We show how several problems can be posed as the organization of the inputs into salient perceptual structures, which are inferred via tensor voting. The work presented here extends the original tensor voting framework with the addition of boundary inference capabilities; a novel re-formulation of the framework applicable to high-dimensional spaces and the development of algorithms for computer vision and machine learning problems. We show complete analysis for some problems, while we briefly outline our approach for other applications and provide pointers to relevant sources.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSynthesis Lectures on Image, Video, and Multimedia Processing
Pages1-136
Number of pages136
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2006

Publication series

NameSynthesis Lectures on Image, Video, and Multimedia Processing
Volume8
ISSN (Print)1559-8136
ISSN (Electronic)1559-8144

Keywords

  • Computer vision
  • Dimensionality estimation
  • Figure completion
  • Function approximation
  • Machine learning
  • Manifold learning
  • Perceptual organization
  • Stereo vision
  • Tensor voting

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