For the segmentation of images with intensity inhomogeneity, a region-adaptive intensity fitting model combining global information was proposed. Firstly, the local and global terms were constructed based on local and global image information respectively. Secondly, an adaptive weight function was defined to indicate the deviation degree of the gray scale of a pixel neighborhood by utilizing the extreme difference level in the pixel neighborhood. Finally, the defined weighting function was used to assign weights to local and global terms adaptively to obtain the energy functional of the proposed model and the iterative equation of the model's level set function was deduced by the variational method. The experimental results show that the proposed model can segment various inhomogeneous images stably and accurately in comparison with Region-Scalable Fitting (RSF) model and Local and Global Intensity Fitting (LGIF) model, which is more robust in the position, size and shape of initial contour of evolution curve.
Images of transmission tower acquired by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) have high resolution and complex background, the traditional stitching algorithm using feature points can detect a large number of feature points from background which costs much time and affects the matching accuracy. For solving this problem, a new image mosaic algorithm with quick speed and strong robustness was proposed. To reduce the influence of the background, each image was first segmented into foreground and background based on a new implementation method of salient region detection. To improve the feature point extraction and reduce the computation complexity, transformation matrix was calculated and image registration was completed by ORB (Oriented Features from Accelerated Segment Test (FAST) and Rotated Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features (BRIEF)) feature. Finally, the image mosaic was realized with image fusion method based on multi-scale analysis. The experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm can complete image mosaic precisely and quickly with satisfactory mosaic effect.
Many existing image classification algorithms cannot be used for big image data. A new approach was proposed to accelerate big image classification based on MapReduce. The whole image classification process was reconstructed to fit the MapReduce programming model. First, the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) feature was extracted by MapReduce, then it was converted to sparse vector using sparse coding to get the sparse feature of the image. The MapReduce was also used to distributed training of random forest, and on the basis of it, the big image classification was achieved parallel. The MapReduce based algorithm was evaluated on a Hadoop cluster. The experimental results show that the proposed approach can classify images simultaneously on Hadoop cluster with a good speedup rate.