Improvement of Recovering Shape from Endoscope Images Using RBF Neural Network

Yuji Iwahori, Seiya Tsuda, Robert J. Woodham, M. K. Bhuyan, Kunio Kasugai

2015

Abstract

The VBW (Vogel-Breuß-Weickert) model is proposed as a method to recover 3-D shape under point light source illumination and perspective projection. However, the VBW model recovers relative, not absolute, shape. Here, shape modification is introduced to recover the exact shape. Modification is applied to the output of the VBW model. First, a local brightest point is used to estimate the reflectance parameter from two images obtained with movement of the endoscope camera in depth. After the reflectance parameter is estimated, a sphere image is generated and used for Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBF-NN) learning. The NN implements the shape modification. NN input is the gradient parameters produced by the VBW model for the generated sphere. NN output is the true gradient parameters for the true values of the generated sphere. Depth can then be recovered using the modified gradient parameters. Performance of the proposed approach is confirmed via computer simulation and real experiment.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Iwahori Y., Tsuda S., Woodham R., Bhuyan M. and Kasugai K. (2015). Improvement of Recovering Shape from Endoscope Images Using RBF Neural Network . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-758-077-2, pages 62-70. DOI: 10.5220/0005206800620070

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram15,
author={Yuji Iwahori and Seiya Tsuda and Robert J. Woodham and M. K. Bhuyan and Kunio Kasugai},
title={Improvement of Recovering Shape from Endoscope Images Using RBF Neural Network},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,},
year={2015},
pages={62-70},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005206800620070},
isbn={978-989-758-077-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,
TI - Improvement of Recovering Shape from Endoscope Images Using RBF Neural Network
SN - 978-989-758-077-2
AU - Iwahori Y.
AU - Tsuda S.
AU - Woodham R.
AU - Bhuyan M.
AU - Kasugai K.
PY - 2015
SP - 62
EP - 70
DO - 10.5220/0005206800620070