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Technische Universitaet Ilmenau

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Jan Herling

Wolfgang Broll

A method and image processing system determine parameters of a camera. According to the method, an image of a surrounding area is captured by the camera, and camera parameters are initially determined. Furthermore, a three-dimensional geometric description of visual features of the surrounding area is provided. A feature detector is used on the captured image in order to extract visual features. The initially determined camera parameters are applied to the three-dimensional geometric description of the visual features of the surrounding area in order to display said visual features on a feature image. A quantity of the visual features extracted from the image is compared with a quantity of the visual features in the feature image to determine a degree of concordance between the two quantities. The camera parameters are changed repeatedly to determine additional feature images for which the degree of concordance is determined until said degree exceeds a threshold.

Method and image processing system for determining parameters of a camera

A method and image processing system for removing a visual object from an image, e.g., a moving image, is described. An image is provided in which a visual object to be removed is selected, for which a mask is determined. Pixels outside the mask that are intended to be used for replacing pixels inside the mask are selected, based on a similarity measure, comprising an appearance similarity measure representing the visual similarity between a previously selected pixel for replacing the pixel to be replaced and the pixel to be selected, and a geometry similarity measure, representing the closeness of the pixel to be selected to the pixel among the pixels outside the mask that was previously used for replacing the pixel adjacent to the pixel to be replaced. The pixels inside the mask are replaced by copying the properties of the selected pixels to the respective pixels to be replaced.

Method and image processing system for removing a visual object from an image

Methods and apparatuses for removing a visual object from a visual data stream. A live visual data stream containing present and subsequent images is received. A visual object is selected by defining a contour. A binary mask based on said contour is determined. Starting at the coarsest layer, regions outside the mask for replacing a region within the mask are selected. The region within the mask is replaced by content of the selected regions. The selecting and the replacing are successively repeated at each of the finer layers of the resolution pyramid finishing at the finest layer. The repeated replacing is also based on the content replaced at the next coarser layer. The step of determining a binary mask, calculating a resolution pyramid, and repeated selecting and repeated replacing are repeated for the received subsequent image. The repeated replacing is also based on the content replaced in the preceding image.

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Jan Herling