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Curve Enhancement Using Orientation Fields

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2009)

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We present a new method for enhancing the contrast of curve-like structures in images, with emphasis on Transmission Electron Microscopy tomograms of biological cells. The method is based on the Orientation Field Transform, and we introduce new techniques for generating directions and weights of the orientation field. The new method for generating the orientation field focuses on analyzing local asymmetries in the image. We demonstrate that analyzing geometric attributes such as orientations and symmetries results in a robust method that is relatively insensitive to poor and non-uniform contrast.

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    Kristian Sandberg

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama-shi, 338-8570, Saitama, Japan

    Yoshinori Kuno

  6. Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, P.O. Box, 119613, Singapore

    Junxian Wang

  7. Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Jun-Xuan Wang

  8. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

    Junxian Wang

  9. Department of Informatics, Univ. of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, P.O. Box, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    Renato Pajarola

  10. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 94550, Livermore, CA, USA

    Peter Lindstrom

  11. University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    André Hinkenjann

  12. Humana Inc., 40202, Louisville, KY, USA

    Miguel L. Encarnação

  13. SCI Institute & School of Computing, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Cláudio T. Silva

  14. Desert Research Institute, 89512, Reno, NV, USA

    Daniel Coming

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Sandberg, K. (2009). Curve Enhancement Using Orientation Fields. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5875. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10331-5_53

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