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Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis

IbPRIA 2019: Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis pp 189–200Cite as

Pencil Drawing of Microscopic Images Through Edge Preserving Filtering

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Abstract

Automatic diatom identification approaches have revealed remarkable abilities to tackle the challenges of water quality assessment and other environmental issues. Scientists often analyze the taxonomic characters of the target taxa for automatic identification. In this process the digital photographs, sketches or drawings are recorded to analyze the shape and size of the frustule, the arrangement of striae, the raphe endings, and the striae density. In this paper, we describe two new methods for producing drawings of different diatom species at any stage of their life cycle development that can also be useful for future reference and comparisons. We attempt to produce drawings of diatom species using Edge-preserving Multi-scale Decomposition (EMD). The edge preserving smoothing property of Weighted Least Squares (WLS) optimization framework is used to extract high-frequency details. The details extracted from two-scale decomposition are transformed to drawings which help in identifying possible striae patterns from diatom images. To analyze the salient local features preserved in the drawings, the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) model is adopted for feature extraction. The generated drawings help to identify certain unique taxonomic and morphological features that are necessary for the identification of the diatoms. The new methods have been compared with two alternative pencil drawing techniques showing better performance for details preservation.

Keywords

  • Edge-preserving filters
  • Diatom identification
  • Taxonomic
  • Drawings
  • Feature analysis

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The authors acknowledge financial support of the Spanish Government under the Aqualitas-retos project (Ref. CTM2014-51907-C2-R-MINECO). The authors thank Saúl Blanco for providing subjective evaluation of the results.

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  1. Chandigarh Engineering College, Landran, Mohali, India

    Harbinder Singh

  2. Instituto de Óptica (CSIC), Serrano 121, 28006, Madrid, Spain

    Carlos Sánchez & Gabriel Cristóbal

  3. VISILAB, Univ. Castilla la Mancha, Cuidad Real, Spain

    Gloria Bueno

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  1. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Julian Fierrez

  3. Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain

    José Salvador Sánchez

  4. University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Prof. Dr. Bernardete Ribeiro

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Singh, H., Sánchez, C., Cristóbal, G., Bueno, G. (2019). Pencil Drawing of Microscopic Images Through Edge Preserving Filtering. In: Morales, A., Fierrez, J., Sánchez, J., Ribeiro, B. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11868. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31321-0_17

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