Underwater Image Enhancement and Mosaicking System Based on A-KAZE Feature Matching

Feature extraction and matching is a key component in image stitching and a critical step in advancing image reconstructions, machine vision and robotic perception algorithms. This paper presents a fast and robust underwater image mosaicking system based on (2D)2PCA and A-KAZE key-points extraction and optimal seam-line methods. The system utilizes image enhancement as a preprocessing step to improve quality and allow for greater keyframe extraction and matching performance, leading to better quality mosaicking. The application focus of this paper is underwater imaging and it demonstrates the suitability of the developed system in advanced underwater reconstructions. The results show that the proposed method can address the problems of noise, mismatching and quality issues which are typically found in underwater image datasets. The results demonstrate the proposed method as scale-invariant and show improvements in terms of processing speed and system robustness over other methods found in the literature.

KTRICT A KAZE Feature Extraction

To improve the retrieval accuracy in CBIR system means reducing this semantic gap. Reducing semantic is a necessity to build a better, trusted system, since CBIR systems are applied to a lot of fields that require utmost accuracy. Time constraint is also a very important factor since a fast CBIR system leads to a fast completion of different tasks. The aim of the paper is to build a CBIR system that provides high accuracy in lower time complexity and work towards bridging the aforementioned semantic gap. CBIR systems retrieve images that are related to query image (QI) from huge datasets. The traditional CBIR systems include two phases: feature extraction and similarity matching. Here, a technique called KTRICT, a KAZE-feature extraction, tree and random-projection indexing-based CBIR technique, is introduced which incorporates indexing after feature extraction. This reduces the retrieval time by a great extent and also saves memory. Indexing divides a search space into subspaces containing similar images together, thereby decreasing the overall retrieval time.

A computer vision approach to identifying the manufacturer and model of anterior cervical spinal hardware

OBJECTIVERecent advances in computer vision have revolutionized many aspects of society but have yet to find significant penetrance in neurosurgery. One proposed use for this technology is to aid in the identification of implanted spinal hardware. In revision operations, knowing the manufacturer and model of previously implanted fusion systems upfront can facilitate a faster and safer procedure, but this information is frequently unavailable or incomplete. The authors present one approach for the automated, high-accuracy classification of anterior cervical hardware fusion systems using computer vision.METHODSPatient records were searched for those who underwent anterior-posterior (AP) cervical radiography following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) at the authors’ institution over a 10-year period (2008–2018). These images were then cropped and windowed to include just the cervical plating system. Images were then labeled with the appropriate manufacturer and system according to the operative record. A computer vision classifier was then constructed using the bag-of-visual-words technique and KAZE feature detection. Accuracy and validity were tested using an 80%/20% training/testing pseudorandom split over 100 iterations.RESULTSA total of 321 total images were isolated containing 9 different ACDF systems from 5 different companies. The correct system was identified as the top choice in 91.5% ± 3.8% of the cases and one of the top 2 or 3 choices in 97.1% ± 2.0% and 98.4 ± 13% of the cases, respectively. Performance persisted despite the inclusion of variable sizes of hardware (i.e., 1-level, 2-level, and 3-level plates). Stratification by the size of hardware did not improve performance.CONCLUSIONSA computer vision algorithm was trained to classify at least 9 different types of anterior cervical fusion systems using relatively sparse data sets and was demonstrated to perform with high accuracy. This represents one of many potential clinical applications of machine learning and computer vision in neurosurgical practice.

Partial Fingerprint Recognition of Feature Extraction and Improving Accelerated KAZE Feature Matching Algorithm

Nowadays for Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) and passwords an efficient and secure alternative has been used which is called e-security. Due to the various computer frauds like identity theft and computer hacking there is a rapid increase in the financial losses of payment. In present day, the banking sector is accepting the payments through credit cards for every on-line as well as offline transaction which actually encourages the cashless payments. It will be the foremost convenient because of do on-line looking out, bills payments etc. Therefore, there is also increase in the fraud risks that area associated with the misuse of the credit cards as a result of technology development. So we go for biometric security to resolve this problem. The aim of our study is to given security through biometric technology of fingerprint recognition. Minutiae extraction and minutiae matching technique of AKAZE to boost the accuracy and high speed computation.