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MOBILE FEATURE-CLOUD PANORAMA CONSTRUCTION FOR IMAGE

RECOGNITION APPLICATIONS

Miguel Bordallo, Jari Hannuksela, Olli silvénMachine Vision Group

University of Oulu

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Contents

• Introduction• Image recognition applications

– Comparison of image-based context retrieval methods

• Context retrieval from video analysis• System design

– Application flow– Automatic start– Image registration– Moving-objects detection– Quality assesment

• Performance analysis• Conclusions

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Image-based context retrieval applications

•Point Your Camera to an object (landmark, poster)•Take a Picture•Get context information and display it

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Mobile context retrieval applications

Google googles

Snaptell

Kooaba

Nokia Point & Find

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Image recognition approaches

• Videos contain lots of information– Most of it redundant

• Image registration is easy – Smaller motions between frames– some frames can be discarded without

losing information

• Videos can capture wide angle scenes. – 3D world is better represented

• Transmission of compressed still image• Needs lots of storage in server• Image size implies large amount of data transmitted• Compression artifacts diminish quality

• Features extracted from still images• Amount of features needed not know beforehand• No feedback. Re-takes needed often• Two dimensional representation

• Feature-cloud extracted from video frames

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Still image vs. Video based

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Constructing a feature-cloud

Frame #1 Frame #16 Frame #31 Frame #46 Frame #61

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System design

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Application flow (client side)

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Automatic start of the application

•Recognizing characteristic motion patterns • Holding phone like a camera• Panning back and forth

•Reduces perceived latencies

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Interactive capture

VGA video analysis

Motion estimation system calculates shift, rotation and scale in real time

When frame is suitable for recognition (high quality), the user receives feedback and instructions

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Feature extraction & Image registration

• Feature extraction based on CHoG features• Compressed Histogram of Gradients

• Block Matching

• Best Linear Unbiased Estimator

• Compute registration parameters in real time to send to the server:

•Shift, rotation and change of scale

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Moving-objects detection

Object-detection ON Object-detection OFF

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Moving-objects detection

The features corresponding to a moving object are not sent to the server

Not-valid features are transmitted tothe server

Object-detection ON Object-detection OFF

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Quality assesment

Server receives only the features corresponding to high quality frames

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Performance comparison

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Summary

• Improve results in 3 dimensional environments• Interactivity• Detection of moving objects• Image quality assesment• Bigger field of view

• Reduce the communications need between clients and server

•Bandwidth reduction

• Reduce the workload of the servers