Computer Vision Seminar – Symmetry
Course Homepage:
http://cs.haifa.ac.il/hagit/courses/seminars/symmetry/symmetry.html
General Background and Short review of Symmetry in Computer Vision can be found
here pages 9-35
Lecture 1 – Symmetry Definitions and
Perception of Symmetry (16/03/05)
Definitions of Symmetry, Symmetry Groups.
Human perception of symmetry.
Lecture 2 - – Local
Symmetry – 2D (23/03/05)
2D local symmetry : Ribbons, SATs , Smooth Local Symmetries.
- H. Blum and R. N. Nagel.
“Shape description using weighted symmetric axis features”.
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10:167–180, 1978.
- Brooks, R. A. "Symbolic
Reasoning Among 3-D Models and 2-D Images",
Artificial Intelligence Journal, 17, (1-3), 1981, pp. 285–348.
- J.Ponce, "On Characterizing
Ribbons and Finding Skewed Symmetries,"
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, vol. 52, pp. 328-340,
1990.
- M.J. Brady, and H. Asada.
“Smooth Local Symmetries and Their Implementations”.
Int. J. of Robotics Reg. 3(3). 1984.
- Cho, K., Dunn, S.M., “Hierarchical Local Symmetries”,
Pattern Recognition Letters (12), 1991, pp. 343-347
Lecture 3 – Symmetry
Detection via String Matching (30/03/05)
·
P. Eades, "Symmetry finding
algorithms," Computational Morphology
(G. T. Toussaint, Ed.). Amsterdam:
North-Holland, 1988, pp. 41-51.
·
M.Atallah, "On Symmetry
Detection,"
IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. 34, no. 7, 1985
·
J. D. Wolter, T. C. Woo, and R. A. Volz,
"Optimal algorithms for symmetry detection in two and three dimensions,"
Visual Computer, vol. 1, pp. 37-48, 1985.
·
P. T. Highnam: “Optimal
Algorithms for Finding the Symmetries of a Planar Point Set”.
Inf. Process.
Lett. 22(5): 219-222 (1986)
Lecture 4 – 2D Mirror
Symmetry (6/04/05)
Mirror or reflection symmetry of 2D planar polygons and point sets.
·
G. Marola, “On the Detection
of the Axes of Symmetry of Symmetric and Almost Symmetric Planar Images,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, v.11 n.1,
p.104-108, January 1989
·
Y. Hel-Or, S. Peleg, and H.
Zabrodsky, “How to Tell Right from Left ”
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 304-309, Jun. 1988.
http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/toky/Publications/Conference/rightleft.pdf
·
H. Ogawa: “Symmetry analysis of line
drawings using the Hough transform”.
Pattern
Recognition Letters 12(1): 9-12 (1991)
Lecture 5 – Quantifying Symmetry (13/04/05)
Measuring symmetry of point sets.
·
Grunbaum, B. “Measures of
symmetry for convex sets”.
Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., vol. 7. Providence,
USA, pp. 233-270. 1963
·
A.B. Buda,
AB and K.
Mislow, “A Hausdorff
Chirality Measure”.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 6006-6012
·
H.Zabrodsky, S.Peleg and D.Avnir,
“Symmetry as a Continuous Feature”
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis
and Machine Intelligence, vol 17(12), 1995, pp.1154-1165.
http://www.vision.huji.ac.il/papers/continuous-symmetry.pdf
·
E. Yodogawa, "Symmetropy, an
entropy-like measure of visual symmetry,"
Perception Psychophys., vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 230-240, 1982.
Lecture
6 – 2D Central Symmetry (13/04/05)
- J. Bigun “Recognition of Local Symmetries
in Gray Value Images by Harmonic Functions”
The 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Pages 345-347 November, 1988
- J. Bigun, G. H. Granlund ,
“Central Symmetry Modelling”
Proceedings of EUSIPCO-86 Pages
883-886 September, 1986
- D.
Reisfeld, H. Wolfson, Y. Yeshurun:
”Context-free attentional operators: the generalized symmetry
transform”.
Int. J. of Computer Vision 14 (1995), 119-130, Special Issue on
Qualitative Vision
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~hezy/papers/j18.ps.gz
- D.
Reisfeld, H. Wolfson, Y.Yeshurun:
”Detection of interest points using symmetry”. 3rd ICCV, Osaka, 62-65 (1990).
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~hezy/papers/c9.pdf
Lecture 7 – 3D Symmetry
(4/05/05)
· D. Terzopoulos, A. Witkin, M. Kass,
“Symmetry-seeking models and 3D object reconstruction”
International Journal of Computer Vision, 1(3), 1987, 211-221
1st ICCV, pp. 211-221, June 1987
· P. Minovic , S. Ishikawa , K. Kato,
“Symmetry Identification of a 3-D Object Represented by Octree”,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, v.15 n.5,
p.507-514, May 1993
http://csdl.computer.org/dl/trans/tp/1993/05/i0507.pdf
· C. Sun
and J. Sherrah. “3D Symmetry Detection Using Extended Gaussian
Image”.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 19(2):164--168,
February 1997.
http://csdl.computer.org/dl/trans/tp/1997/02/i0164.pdf
Lecture 8 – Skew Symmetry (4/05/05)
·
S. Posch. “Detecting skewed symmetries.”
Technical Report TR-91-058, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley,
1991
·
S. A. Friedberg.
Finding axes of skewed symmetry.
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, 34:138-155, 1986.
·
V.S. Nalwa, “Line-Drawing
Interpretation: Bilateral. Symmetry”
IEEE PAMI,. Volume 11. Number 10,. pages 1117-1120, October, 1989.
·
Gool, L. van, T. Moons, D.
Ungureanu, and A. Oosterlinck,
”The characterization and detection of skewed symmetry”, pp.
138-150.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, volume 61 (1995), number 1
·
D. Shen, H. Ip, and E. Teoh,
"Robust Detection of Skewed Symmetries,"
in Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition.,
Barcelona, Spain., 2000, pp. 1010-1013 vol.3.
·
A.D. Gross and T.E. Boult.
“Analyzing skewed symmetries”.
InternationalJournal of Computer
Vision, 13(1):91-111, 1994.
A.D. Gross and T.B. Syman.
Syman: a symmetry analyzer.
In in Proc. of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Lahaina, Maui,
pages 744-746, 1991.
http://vision.cs.qc.edu/sym_rev.ps.Z
Lecture 9 – 3D from 2D
Using Smmetry (18/05/04)
- H. Zabrodsky and D.
Weinshall,
"Using bilateral symmetry to improve 3D reconstruction from image
sequences,"
Computer Vision and Image Understanding v 67 n 1 Jul 1997, pp 48-57
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~daphna/papers/symmet.ps.gz
- F. Ulupinar and R. Nevatia,
Using Symmetries for Analysis of Shape from Contours,
ICCV88(414-426).
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abs_free.jsp?arNumber=590018
- R. Glachet,
Michel Dhome, Jean-Thierry
Lapresté:
”Finding the perspective projection of an axis of revolution”.
Pattern
Recognition Letters 12(11): 693-700 (1991)
- H. Mitsumoto. et al.
“3-D Reconstruction Using Mirror mages Based on a Plane Symmetry
Recovering Method”.
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 14,
no.9, September 1992, pp. 941-946 http://csdl.computer.org/comp/trans/tp/1992/09/i0941abs.htm
Lecture 10 – Texture symmetry
(25/05/05)
- Y. Liu and W. Lin “Deformable Texture: the
Irregular-Regular-Irregular Cycle”
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Texture Analysis and
Synthesis (Texture 2003),
October, 2003, pp. 65 – 70
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/pubs/pub_4722.html
- Y. Liu, Y. Tsin, and W.
Lin ,”The Promise and Perils of Near-Regular Texture”
International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 62, No. 1-2, April, 2005,
pp. 145 – 159
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/pubs/pub_4406.html
- J. Beck. “Textural segmentation.”
In J. Beck, editor, Organization and Representation in Perception, pages
285-318. Hilldale,NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1982.
- Y. Bonneh, D.
Reisfeld, Y. Yeshurun:
”Quantification of local symmetry: application to texture
discrimination.”
Spatial Vision, Special
Issue on Symmetry 8:4 (1994), 515-530
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~hezy/papers/j17.ps.gz
Lecture 11 - Applications
(1/06/05)
- T.Zielke, M.Brauckmann ,
and W. V.Seelen,
"Intensity and Edge-Based Symmetry Detection with an Application to
Car-Following,"
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing: Image Understanding, vol.
58, no. 2, pp. 177-190, 1993.
- D. Reisfeld,
Y. Yeshurun:
Robust detection of facial features by generalized symmetry. 12th ICPR,
Delft, 117-120 (1992).
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~hezy/papers/c11.pdf
- A. Blake, M.J. Taylor, and A. Cox,
Grasping Visual Symmetry,
ICCV93(724-733).
- Y. Liu, K.
Schmidt, J. Cohn,
and R.L. Weaver
”Human
facial asymmetry for expression-invariant facial identification”
Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE
International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
(FG'02), May, 2002.
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub4/liu_yanxi_2003_2/liu_yanxi_2003_2.pdf
- Y. Liu, R.
Collins, and Y. Tsin
Gait Sequence
Analysis using Frieze Patterns
Proceedings of the 7th European
Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'02), May, 2002.
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub3/liu_yanxi_2001_2/liu_yanxi_2001_2.pdf
Lecture 12 – Beuaty
Attraction Aesthetics and Symmetry (1/06/05)
- Almirantis, Y. 1995.
Left-right asymmetry in vertebrates. BioEssays
- Cancar, D. 1995. Sex and
the symmetrical body. New Scientist
- Enquist, M., A. Arak.
1994. Symmetry, beauty and evolution. Nature
- Etcoff, N. 1999. The Beauty of Science, Survival of the
Prettiest
- Eugene,
A. 1998. I Want To Be Beautiful, interview
- Gould, S. J. 1998. The
allure of equal halves. The Sciences
- Grammer, K., R.
Thornhill. 1994. Human (Homo sapiens) facial attractiveness and sexual
selection: the role of symmetry and averageness. Journal of Comparative
Psychology
- Mealey, L., R. Bridgstock,
G. C. Townsend. 1999. Symmetry and perceived facial attractiveness: a
monozygotic co-twin comparison. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
- Samuels, C. A., G.
Butterworth, T. Roberts, L. Graupner, G. Hole. 1994. Facial aesthetics:
babies prefer attractiveness to symmetry. Perception
- Swaddle, J. P., I.
C. Cuthill. 1995. Asymmetry and human facial attractiveness: symmetry may
not always be beautiful. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London,
Series B: Biological Sciences
Lecture 13 – Fractal Image
Coding (1/06/05)
- SIGGRAPH '92 Course notes
on fractal image compression
http://inls.ucsd.edu/~fisher/Fractals/fractal_paper.ps.gz
- A.E. Jacquin, "Image Coding
Based on a Fractal Theory of Iterated Contractive Image
Transformations"
p.18, January 1992 (Vol 1 Issue 1) of IEEE Trans on Image Processing.
- A.E. Jacquin, 'A novel
fractal block-coding technique for digital images', Proc. ICASSP 1990.
- http://inls.ucsd.edu/~fisher/Fractals/
Lecture 13 – Brain Symmetry
(1/06/05)
· Alexander V. Tuzikov Olivier Colliot
Isabelle Bloch
”Evaluation of the symmetry plane in 3D MR brain images”
Pattern Recognition Letters Volume 24 ,
Issue 14 (October 2003) table of
contents
Pages: 2219 - 2233 2003
· Y. Liu, R.T. Collins, and W.E. Rothfus.
“Robust Midsagittal Plane Extraction from Normal and Pathological 3D
Neuroradiology Images.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 20(3),
march 2001.