Hierarchical Modeling of Multidimensional Data in Regularly Decomposed Spaces: Applications in Image Analysis
This is an incremental review paper summarizing existing hierarchical modeling applications in image analysis for researchers in computer vision and pattern recognition.
This paper reviews hierarchical modeling techniques for multidimensional data in image analysis applications, covering industrial pattern recognition, satellite imagery archiving, face recognition, and future self-descriptive video coding systems. It includes algorithms for boundary-based industrial vision and region-based satellite image analysis.
This last document is showing the gradual introduction of hierarchical modeling techniques in image analysis. The first chapter is dealing with the first works carried out in the field of industrial applications of pattern recognition. The second chapter is focusing on the usage of these techniques in satellite imagery and on the development of a satellite data archiving system in the aim of using it in digital geography. The third chapter is about face recognition based on planar image analysis and about the recognition of partially hidden patterns. The present publication is ending with the description of a future system of self-descriptive coding of still or moving pictures in relation with the current video coding standards. As in the previous documents, it will be found in annex algorithms targeted on image analysis according two complementary approaches: - boundary-based approach for the industrial applications of artificial vision; - region-based approach for satellite image analysis.