Hierarchical vibrations for part-based recognition of complex objects

  • Authors:
  • Karin Engel;Klaus D. Toennies

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany;Department of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We propose a technique for the recognition and segmentation of complex shapes in 2D images using a hierarchy of finite element vibration modes in an evolutionary shape search. The different levels of the shape hierarchy can influence each other, which can be exploited in top-down part-based image analysis. Our method overcomes drawbacks of existing structural approaches, which cannot uniformly encode shape variation and co-variation, or rely on training. We present results demonstrating that by utilizing a quality-of-fit function the model explicitly recognizes missing parts of a complex shape, thus allowing for categorization between shape classes.