Global bilateral symmetry detection using multiscale mirror histograms

Mohamed Elawady*, Cécile Barat, Christophe Ducottet, Philippe Colantoni

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Abstract

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in bilateral symmetry detection in images. It consists in detecting the main bilateral symmetry axis inside artificial or natural images. State-of-the-art methods combine feature point detection, pairwise comparison and voting in Hough-like space. In spite of their good performance, they fail to give reliable results over challenging real-world and artistic images. In this paper, we propose a novel symmetry detection method using multi-scale edge features combined with local orientation histograms. An experimental evaluation is conducted on public datasets plus a new aesthetic-oriented dataset. The results show that our approach outperforms all other concurrent methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems - 17th International Conference, ACIVS 2016, Proceedings
EditorsCosimo Distante, Dan Popescu, Paul Scheunders, Wilfried Philips, Jacques Blanc-Talon
PublisherSpringer-Verlag
Pages14-24
Number of pages11
Volume10016
ISBN (Print)9783319486796
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Oct 2016
Event17th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2016 - Lecce, Italy
Duration: 24 Oct 201627 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10016 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2016
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityLecce
Period24/10/1627/10/16

Keywords

  • edge features
  • pairwise similarity
  • reflection symmetry
  • symmetry detection
  • symmetry histogram

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