Title
A procedure to locate the eyelid position in noisy videokeratoscopic images.
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new procedure to robustly determine the eyelid position in high-speed videokeratoscopic images. This knowledge is crucial in videokeratoscopy to study the effects of the eyelids on the cornea and on the tear film dynamics. Difficulties arise due to the very low contrast of videokeratoscopic images and because of the occlusions caused by the eyelashes. The proposed procedure uses robust M-estimation to fit a parametric model to a set of eyelid edge candidate pixels. To detect these pixels, firstly, nonlinear image filtering operations are performed to remove the eyelashes. Secondly, we propose an image segmentation approach based on morphological operations and active contours to provide the set of candidate pixels. Subsequently, a verification procedure reduces this set to pixels that are likely to contribute to an accurate fit of the eyelid edge. We propose a complete framework, for which each stage is evaluated using real-world videokeratoscopic images. This methodology allows for automatic localization of the eyelid edges and is applicable to replace the currently used time-consuming manual labeling approach, while maintaining its accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1186/s13634-016-0433-0
EURASIP J. Adv. Sig. Proc.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Videokeratoscopy, Eyelid detection, Nonlinear filtering, Image segmentation, Robust M-estimation
Eyelid,Computer vision,Nonlinear system,Parametric model,Computer science,Nonlinear filtering,Filter (signal processing),Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Verification procedure
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2016
1
1687-6180
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tim Schäck131.77
Michael Muma214419.51
Weaam Alkhaldi301.35
Abdelhak M. Zoubir41036148.03