Voronoi tessellation quality: applications in digital image analysis
| dc.contributor.author | A-iyeh, Enoch | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Alfa, Attahiru (Electrical and Computer Engineering) McNeill, Dean (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Tachie, Mark (Mechanical Engineering) Hassanien, Aboul E. (Information and Technology Department, Cairo University) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Peters, James F. (Electrical and Computer Engineering) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-19T20:27:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-19T20:27:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Electrical and Computer Engineering | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | A measure of the quality of Voronoi tessellations resulting from various mesh generators founded on feature-driven models is introduced in this work. A planar tessellation covers an image with polygons of various shapes and sizes. Tessellations have potential utility due to their geometry and the opportunity to derive useful information from them for object recognition, image processing and classification. Problem domains including images are generally feature-endowed, non-random domains. Generators modeled otherwise may easily guarantee quality of meshes but certainly bear no reference to features of the meshed problem domain. They are therefore unsuitable in point pattern identification, characterization and subsequently the study of meshed regions. We therefore found generators on features of the problem domain. This provides a basis for element quality studies and improvement based on quality criteria. The resulting polygonal meshes tessellating an n-dimensional digital image into convex regions are of varying element qualities. Given several types of mesh generating sets, a measure of overall solution quality is introduced to determine their effectiveness. Given a tessellation of general and mixed shapes, this presents a challenge in quality improvement. The Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVT) technique is developed for quality improvement and guarantees of mixed, general-shaped elements and to preserve the validity of the tessellations. Mesh quality indicators and entropies introduced are useful for pattern studies, analysis, recognition and assessing information. Computed features of tessellated spaces are explored for image information content assessment and cell processing to expose detail using information theoretic methods. Tessellated spaces also furnish information on pattern structure and organization through their quality distributions. Mathematical and theoretical results obtained from these spaces help in understanding Voronoi diagrams as well as for their successful applications. Voronoi diagrams expose neighbourhood relations between pattern units. Given this realization, the foundation of near sets is developed for further applications. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | February 2017 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | A-iyeh, E., Peters, J.F, Measure of Tessellation Quality of Voronoï Meshes, Vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 158-185, 2015, Theory and Applications of Mathematics and Computer Science | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | A-iyeh, E., Peters, J.F, Gini index-based digital image complementing in the study of medical images, Intelligent Decision Technologies, Vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 209-218, 2015, IOS press | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32055 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | A-iyeh E., Peters, J.F, Proximal Groupoid Patterns in Digital Images, Computing Research Repository: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2016 | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Algorithms, centroids, centroidal Voronoi tessellation, cell processing, classification, corners, cell, convex, digital image, diagrams, dominant generators, edges, entropy, energy, features, generators, generation, geometry, Gini index, groupoid, image processing, information, improvement, index, keypoints, lemma, mesh, motifs, near, neighbourliness, Poisson-Voronoi, proximity, pattern, polygons, quality, recognition, spaces, sites, sets, tessellation, theorem, topology, Voronoi | en_US |
| dc.title | Voronoi tessellation quality: applications in digital image analysis | en_US |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | en_US |