Pattern and object recognition with COSFIRE

[Hadi Sinaee]

Hi I'm Hadi
This paper sounds interesting. How can I help on this subject?

On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 2:19:17 PM UTC+3:30, Almar Klein wrote:
>
> Hi all, 
>
> Just wanted to mention an algorithm which I was very impressed by and 
> which might be an awesome addition to scikit-image. The algorithm is 
> called COSFIRE (Combination of Shifted Filter Responses). 
>
> I saw a talk by Geore Azzopardi, who presented the use of the algorithm 
> for object and patter recognition. I was very impressed with the quality 
> of segmentation of the shown examples, but also with the wide variety of 
> image data (e.g. retina images, traffic signs, hand-written characters, 
> and more). 
>
> The filter is inspired by how the brain processes visual information, 
> and according to the author the algorithm is actually quite simple. The 
> algorithm was the topic of his PhD and he's going to continue working on 
> it in his new job. 
>
> The code (in Matlab) is available, so it might be worth a shot to try 
> and port it to Python. 
>
> Some links: 
>
> - PhD thesis: http://www.cs.rug.nl/~george/phd-thesis/ 
> - Matlab code: nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/37395 
> - Paper in MIA: 
>
> http://www.medicalimageanalysisjournal.com/article/S1361-8415%2814%2900136-4/abstract 
>
> - Almar 
>
>
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