Mirror Symmetry Histograms for Capturing Geometric Properties in Images

Marcelo Cicconet, Davi Geiger, Kristin C. Gunsalus, Michael Werman; Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014, pp. 2981-2986

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.

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@InProceedings{Cicconet_2014_CVPR,
author = {Cicconet, Marcelo and Geiger, Davi and Gunsalus, Kristin C. and Werman, Michael},
title = {Mirror Symmetry Histograms for Capturing Geometric Properties in Images},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2014}
}