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Emulating human visual perception for measuring difference in images using an SPN graph approach.

N G Bourbakis¹

¹Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH.

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Part B, Cybernetics : a Publication of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society

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This study introduces a novel stochastic Petri-net (SPN) graph method for image comparison. It emulates human visual perception to detect and quantify image similarities by analyzing visual differences.

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Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Image Processing
Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Image similarity assessment is crucial in various fields.
Existing methods often struggle with nuanced visual perception.
Human visual perception relies on color, shape, and topological features.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a new methodology for efficient image representation and comparison.
To develop a system that emulates human visual perception for similarity detection.
To quantify image similarity using a novel graph-based approach.

Main Methods:

Utilizing a stochastic Petri-net (SPN) graph approach.
Extracting and recording local and global image features.
Comparing features to define a percentage of similarity based on visual differences.

Main Results:

The methodology effectively represents image content and detects visual differences.
It successfully compares images by analyzing extracted local and global features.
The approach demonstrates robustness under local and global noisy conditions.

Conclusions:

The proposed SPN-based methodology offers an efficient way to compare images.
It partially emulates human visual perception in detecting image similarities.
This method provides a quantitative measure of image similarity, even with image noise.