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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION
Volume 54, Issue 1-2, Pages 83-103Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023705401078
Keywords
natural image statistics; non-linear sparse coding; pixel-based image models; microimages; clutter; higher-order statistics; geometrically based statistics; high-dimensional probability density estimation
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Recently, there has been a great deal of interest in modeling the non-Gaussian structures of natural images. However, despite the many advances in the direction of sparse coding and multi-resolution analysis, the full probability distribution of pixels values in a neighborhood has not yet been described. In this study, we explore the space of data points representing the values of 3 x 3 high-contrast patches from optical and 3D range images. We find that the distribution of data is extremely sparse with the majority of the data points concentrated in clusters and non-linear low-dimensional manifolds. Furthermore, a detailed study of probability densities allows us to systematically distinguish between images of different modalities (optical versus range), which otherwise display similar marginal distributions. Our work indicates the importance of studying the full probability distribution of natural images, not just marginals, and the need to understand the intrinsic dimensionality and nature of the data. We believe that object-like structures in the world and the sensor properties of the probing device generate observations that are concentrated along predictable shapes in state space. Our study of natural image statistics accounts for local geometries (such as edges) in natural scenes, but does not impose such strong assumptions on the data as independent components or sparse coding by linear change of bases.
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