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Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the medical area deliver huge amounts of data, which doctors have to handle in a short time. These data can be visualised efficiently with direct volume rendering. Consequently most direct volume rendering applications on the market are specialised on medical tasks or integrated in medical visualisa- tion environments. Highly evolved applications for tasks like diagnosis or surgery simulation are available in this area. In the last years, however, another area is making increasing use of com- puted tomography. Companies like phoenix |x-ray, founded in 1999 pro- duce CT-scanners especially dedicated to industrial applications like non destructive material testing (NDT). Of course an application like NDT has different demands on the visualisation than a typical medical application. For example a typical task for non destructive testing would be to high- light air inclusions (pores) in a casting. These inclusions usually cover a very small area and are very hard to classify only based on their density value as this would also highlight the air around the casting. This thesis presents multiple approaches to improve the rendering of in- dustrial CT data, most of them based on higher dimensional transfer func- tions. Therefore the existing volume renderer application of VRVis was extended with a user interface to create such transfer functions and exist- ing render modes were adapted to profit from the new transfer functions. These approaches are especially suited to improve the visualisation of sur- faces and material boundaries as well as pores. The resulting renderings make it very easy to identify these features while preserving interactive framerates.
We introduce linear expressions for unrestricted dags (directed acyclic graphs) and finite deterministic and nondeterministic automata operating on them. Those dag automata are a conservative extension of the Tu,u-automata of Courcelle on unranked, unordered trees and forests. Several examples of dag languages acceptable and not acceptable by dag automata and some closure properties are given.
Research has shown that people recognize personality, gender, inner states and many other items of information by simply observing human motion. Therefore the expressive human motion seems to be a valuable non-verbal communication channel. On the quest for more believable characters in virtual three dimensional simulations a great amount of visual realism has been achieved during the last decades. However, while interacting with synthetic characters in real-time simulations, often human users still sense an unnatural stiffness. This disturbance in believability is generally caused by a lack of human behavior simulation. Expressive motions, which convey personality and emotional states can be of great help to create more plausible and life-like characters. This thesis explores the feasibility of an automatic generation of emotionally expressive animations from given neutral character motions. Such research is required since common animation methods, such as manual modeling or motion capturing techniques, are too costly to create all possible variations of motions needed for interactive character behavior. To investigate how emotions influence human motion relevant literature from various research fields has been viewed and certain motion rules and features have been extracted. These movement domains were validated in a motion analysis and implemented in a system in an exemplary manner capable of automating the expression of angry, sad and happy states in a virtual character through its body language. Finally, the results were evaluated in user test.
The automatic detection of position and orientation of subsea cables and pipelines in camera images enables underwater vehicles to make autonomous inspections. Plants like algae growing on top and nearby cables and pipelines however complicate their visual detection: the determination of the position via border detection followed by line extraction often fails. Probabilistic approaches are here superior to deterministic approaches. Through modeling probabilities it is possible to make assumptions on the state of the system even if the number of extracted features is small. This work introduces a new tracking system for cable/pipeline following in image sequences which is based on particle filters. Extensive experiments on realistic underwater videos show robustness and performance of this approach and demonstrate advantages over previous works.
Colonoscopy is the gold standard for the detection of colorectal polyps that can progress into cancer. In such an examination, physicians search for polyps in endoscopic images. Thereby polyps can be removed. To support experts with a computer-aided diagnosis system, the University of Koblenz-Landau currently makes some efforts in research different methods for automatic detection. Comparable to traditional pattern recognition systems, features are initially extracted and a classifier is trained on such data. Afterwards, unknown endoscopic images can be classified with the previously trained classifier. This thesis concentrates on the extension of the feature extraction module in the existing system. New detection methods are compared to existing techniques. Several features are implemented, incorporating Graylevel Co-occurrence Matrices, Local Binary Patterns and Discrte Wavelet Transform. Different modifications on those features are applied and evaaluated.
This thesis evaluates automated techniques to remove objects from an image and proposed several modifications for the specific application of removing a colour checker from structure dominated images. The selection of approaches covers the main research field of image inpainting as well as an approach used in medical image processing. Their results are investigated to disclose their applicability to removing objects from structure-intense images. The advantages and disadvantages discovered in the process are then used to propose several modifications for an adapted inpainting approach suitable for removing the colour checker.
This thesis focuses on the utilization of modern graphics hardware (GPU) for visualization and computation purposes, especially of volumetric data from medical imaging. The considerable increase in raw computing power in recent years has turned commodity systems into high-performance workstations. In combination with the direct rendering capabilities of graphics hardware, "visual computing" and "computational steering" approaches on large data sets have become feasible. In this regard several example applications and concepts such as the "ray textures" have been developed and are discussed in detail. As the amount of data to be processed and visualized is steadily increasing, memory and bandwidth limitations require compact representations of the data. While the compression of image data has been investigated extensively in the past, the thesis addresses possibilities of performing computations directly on the compressed data. Therefore, different categories of algorithms are identified and represented in the wavelet domain. By using special variants of the compressed format, efficient implementations of essential image processing algorithms are possible and demonstrate the potential of the approach. From the technical perspective, the GPU-based framework "Cascada" has been developed in the course of this thesis. The introduction of object-oriented concepts to shader programming, as well as a hierarchical representation of computation and/or visualization procedures led to a simplified utilization of graphics hardware while maintaining competitive performance. This is shown with different implementations throughout the contributions, as well as two clinical projects in the field of diagnosis assistance. On the one hand the semi-automatic segmentation of low-resolution MRI data sets of the human liver is evaluated. On the other hand different possibilities in assessing abdominal aortic aneurysms are discussed; both projects make use of graphics hardware. In addition, "Cascada" provides extensions towards recent general-purpose programming architectures and a modular design for future developments.
The goal of this minor thesis is to integrate a robotic arm into an existing robotics software. A robot built on top of this stack should be able to participate successfully RoboCup @Home league. The robot Lisa (Lisa is a service android) needs to manipulate objects, lifting them from shelves or handing them to people. Up to now, the only possibility to do this was a small gripper attached to the robot platform. A "Katana Linux Robot" of Swiss manufacturer Neuronics has been added to the robot for this thesis. This arm needs a driver software and path planner, so that the arm can reach its goal object "intelligently", avoiding obstacles and creating smooth, natural motions.
Texture-based text detection in digital images using wavelet features and support vector machines
(2010)
In this bachelor thesis a new texture-based approach for the detection of text in digital images is presented. The procedure can be essentially divided into two main tasks, in detection of text blocks and detection of individual words, whereby the individual words are extracted from the detected text blocks. Roughly, the developed method acts with multiple support vector machines, which classify possible text regions of an image into real text regions, using wavelet-based features. In the process the possible text regions are defifined by edge projections with diσerent orientations. The results of the approach are X/Y coordinates, width and height of rectangular regions of an image, which contains individual words. This knowledge can be further processed, for example by an optical character recognition software to get the important and useful text information.