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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Discrete Representation of Urban Areas through Simplification of Digital Elevation Data

Chittineni, Ruparani 10 May 2003 (has links)
In recent years there has been large increase in the amount of digital mapping data of landscapes and urban environments available through satellite imaging. This digital information can be used to develop wind flow simulators over large cities or regions for various purposes such as pollutant transport control, weather forecasts, cartography and other topographical analysis. It can also be used by architects for city planning or by game programmers for virtual reality and similar applications. But this data is massive and contains a lot of redundant information such as trees, cars, bushes, etc. For many applications, it is beneficial to reduce these huge amounts of data through elimination of unwanted information and provide a good approximate model of the original dataset. The resultant dataset can then be utilized to generate surface grids suitable for CFD purposes or can be used directly for real-time rendering or other graphics applications. Digital Elevation Model, DEM, is the most basic data type in which this digital data is available. It consists of a sampled array of elevations for ground positions that are regularly spaced in a Cartesian coordinate system. The purpose of this research is to construct and test a simple and economical prototype which caters to image procesing and data reduction of DEM images through noise elimination and compact representations of complex objects in the dataset. The model is aimed at providing a synergy between resultant image quality and its size through the generation of various levels of detail. An alternate approach using the concepts of standard deviation helps in achieving the desired goal and the results obtained by testing the model on Salt Lake City dataset verify the claims. Thus, this thesis is aimed at DEM image processing to provide a simple and compact representation of complex objects encountered in large scale urban environment datasets and reduce the size of the dataset to accommodate efficient storage, computation, fast transmission across networks and interactive visualization.
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Outils pour l'analyse des courbes discrètes bruitées / Tools for the analysis of noisy discrete curves

Nasser, Hayat 30 October 2018 (has links)
Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons à l’étude des courbes discrètes bruitées qui correspondent aux contours d’objets dans des images. Nous avons proposé plusieurs outils permettant de les analyser. Les points dominants (points dont l’estimation de la courbure est localement maximale) jouent un rôle très important dans la reconnaissance de formes et, nous avons développé une méthode non heuristique, rapide et fiable pour les détecter dans une courbe discrète. Cette méthode est une amélioration d’une méthode existante introduite par Nguyen et al. La nouvelle méthode consiste à calculer une mesure d’angle. Nous avons proposé aussi deux approches pour la simplification polygonale : une méthode automatique minimisant, et une autre fixant le nombre de sommets du polygone résultant. Ensuite, nous avons introduit un nouvel outil géométrique, nommé couverture tangentielle adaptative (ATC), reposant sur la détection des épaisseurs significatives introduites par Kerautret et al. Ces épaisseurs calculées en chaque point du contour à analyser, permettent d’estimer localement le niveau de bruit. Dans ce contexte notre algorithme de construction de la couverture tangentielle adaptative prend en considération les différents niveaux de bruits présents dans la courbe à étudier et ne nécessite pas de paramètre. Deux applications de l’ATC sont proposées en analyse d’images : d’une part la décomposition des contours d’une forme dans une image en arcs et en segments de droite et d’autre part, dans le cadre d’un projet avec une université d’Inde, autour du langage des signes et la reconnaissance des gestes de la main. Premièrement, la méthode de décomposition des courbes discrètes en arcs et en segments de droite est basée sur deux outils : la détection de points dominants en utilisant la couverture tangentielle adaptative et la représentation dans l’espace des tangentes du polygone, issue des points dominants détectés. Les expériences montrent la robustesse de la méthode w.r.t. le bruit. Deuxièmement, à partir des contours des mains extraits d’images prises par une Kinect, nous proposons différents descripteurs reposant sur des points dominants sélectionnés du contour des formes dans les images. Les descripteurs proposés, qui sont une combinaison entre descripteurs statistiques et descripteurs géométriques, sont efficaces et conviennent à la reconnaissance de gestes / In this thesis, we are interested in the study of noisy discrete curves that correspond to the contours of objects in images. We have proposed several tools to analyze them. The dominant points (points whose curvature estimation is locally maximal) play a very important role in pattern recognition and we have developed a non-heuristic, fast and reliable method to detect them in a discrete curve. This method is an improvement of an existing method introduced by Nguyen et al. The new method consists in calculating a measure of angle. We have also proposed two approaches for polygonal simplification: an automatic method minimizing, and another fixing the vertex number of the resulting polygon. Then we proposed a new geometric tool, called adaptive tangential cover ATC, based on the detection of meaningful thickness introduced by Kerautret et al. These thicknesses are calculated at each point of the contours allow to locally estimate the noise level. In this context our construction algorithm of adaptive tangential cover takes into account the different levels of noise present in the curve to be studied and does not require a parameter. Two applications of ATC in image analysis are proposed: on the one hand the decomposition of the contours of a shape in an image into arcs and right segments and on the other hand, within the framework of a project with an Indian university about the sign language and recognition of hand gestures. Firstly, the method to decompose discrete curves into arcs and straight segments is based on two tools: dominant point detection using adaptive tangential cover and tangent space representation of the polygon issued from detected dominant points. The experiments demonstrate the robustness of the method w.r.t. noise. Secondly, from the outlines of the hands extracted from images taken by a Kinect, we propose several descriptors from the selected dominant points computed from the adaptive tangential cover. The proposed descriptors, which are a combination of statistical descriptors and geometrical descriptors, are effective and suitable for gesture recognition

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