Browsing Graduate School - MU Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Palaniappan, K. (Kannappan)"
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3D city scale reconstruction using wide area motion imagery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)3D reconstruction is one of the most challenging but also most necessary part of computer vision. It is generally applied everywhere, from remote sensing to medical imaging and multimedia. Wide Area Motion Imagery is a ... -
Accessibility and attitudinal barriers encountered by travelers with physical disabilities in China
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)In 2003, China Disabled Persons Federation [CDPF] estimated that there were more than 60 million people with disabilities in China. Eleven million were people with physical disabilities. Travel is beneficial for improving ... -
Adaptive bilateral extensor for image interpolation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)A novel algorithm for image interpolation, referred to as adaptive bilateral extensor interpolation, is proposed in this thesis. It combines useful features of an extensor based algorithm, utilizing a non-linear mapping ... -
Algorithm for computation and visualization of weighted constrained Voronoi diagrams
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)A weighted Voronoi diagram (WVD) has been developed in order to regionalize or allocate space around a predetermined set of points or generators for the case that generator points have different weights reflecting their ... -
Analysis of flame images in gas-fired furnaces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)A promising architecture is proposed in this research work for evaluating gasfired furnace flame combustion quality. The quality assessment is based on information on its fuel and oxidizer flow rate level which are the ... -
Appearance modeling for persistent object tracking in wide-area and full motion video
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Object tracking is a core element of computer vision and autonomous systems. As such single and multiple object tracking has been widely investigated especially for full motion video sequences. The acquisition of wide-area ... -
Automatic geospatial content summarization and visibility enhancement by dehazing in aerial imagery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The objective of this work is to develop a methodology to summarize the content of a long sequential geospatial video using a few geospatial coverage ... -
Curvilinear segmentation and classification of blood vessels using random forest and deep learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Curvilinear structures occur in many biomedical imagery, and reliable segmentation and classification is crucial for automatic image analysis. In this dissertation, we consider optimized filter bank (OFB) features with ... -
Elastic map: interactive image segmentation using a few seed-points
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Over the past two decades interactive methods for clinical and biomedical image segmentation have been investigated since the pioneering work of Live-Wire, Live-Lane [17] and Intelligent Scissors [1]. Fully automatic image ... -
Firefly : web-based interactive tool for the visualization and validation of image processing algorithms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Image analysis, in computer science, is defined as the process of extracting useful data from digital images for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Examples of this might include tracking objects in satellite imagery or ... -
Graphical user interface for interactive image measurement applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In today's research world, a lot of image measurement work are still being done in labor intensive and time consuming manual methods. Automate or ... -
Image and video analysis techniques for cellular microscopy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Advances in automated digital microscopy imaging made it possible to produce multi-dimensional image data that can capture dynamic characteristics of ... -
Interactive web-based track editing and management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)Image and video analysis is the process of extracting useful information from an image. With advances in optical and computational technologies, image and video analysis is becoming an increasingly important tool in ... -
KOLAM : human computer interfaces fro visual analytics in big data imagery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)In the present day, we are faced with a deluge of disparate and dynamic information from multiple heterogeneous sources. Among these are the big data imagery datasets that are rapidly being generated via mature acquisition ... -
Local and deep texture features for classification of natural and biomedical images
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Developing efficient feature descriptors is very important in many computer vision applications including biomedical image analysis. In the past two decades and before the popularity of deep learning approaches in image ... -
Mobile image analysis for seed phenotyping
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Shape and size are among the most important seed characteristics measurements. This work presents an Android-based smartphone and tablet application ... -
Out-of-core image techniques with extensions for WAMI
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Out-of-core image techniques provide for interactive visualization, analysis, and processing of extremely large images exceeding primary memory. This ... -
Real-time visualization of massive imagery and volumetric datasets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)The visualization of extremely large multi-dimensional datasets requires highly scalable geometric algorithms. We consider an algorithm to be scalable if its complexity remains constant independent of the size of the ... -
Selected techniques for vehicle tracking and assessment in wide area motion imagery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)Tracking of vehicles in wide area motion imagery (WAMI) is very important for civilian and military surveillance. Tracking in a dataset that is characterized by very large format video with an extremely wide field-of-view ... -
Spatial pyramid context-aware moving object detection and tracking for full motion video and wide aerial motion imagery /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)A robust and fast automatic moving object detection and tracking system is essential to characterize target object and extract spatial and temporal information for different functionalities including video surveillance ...