Ullrich Köthe's Publications

PhD Thesis

U. Köthe: "Generische Programmierung für die Bildverarbeitung"

Dissertation, Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg, 274 pages, Hamburg 2000, ISBN: 3-8311-0239-2. (in German)
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Image Analysis and Segmentation

U. Köthe, P. Stelldinger, H. Meine: "Provably Correct Edgel Linking and Subpixel Boundary Reconstruction",

in: K. Franke, K.-R. Müller, B. Nikolay, R. Schäfer (Eds.): Pattern Recognition, Proc. DAGM 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4174, pp. 81-90, Berlin: Springer, 2006. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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P. Stelldinger, U. Köthe, H. Meine: "Topologically Correct Image Segmentation Using Alpha Shapes",

in: A. Kuba, L. Nyul, K. Palagyi (Eds.): Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, Proc. DGCI 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4245, pp. 542-554, Berlin: Springer, 2006. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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U. Köthe, H. Meine: "Merkmalsextraktion für eine automatische Bildsuche",

in: G. Stanke, A. Bienert, J. Hemsley, V. Cappellini (Eds.): Konferenzband EVA 2006 Berlin, Elektronische Bildverarbeitung und Kunst, Kultur, Historie, pp 47-53, ISBN 3-9809212-7-1, Berlin, 2006 (in German)
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H. Meine, U. Köthe: "A New Sub-pixel Map for Image Analysis",

in: R. Reulke, U. Eckhardt, B. Flach, U. Knauer, K. Polthier (Eds.): Combinatorial Image Analysis, Proc. IWCIA 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4040, pp. 116-130, Berlin: Springer, 2006. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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P.Stelldinger, U. Köthe: "Connectivity preserving digitization of blurred binary images in 2D and 3D",

Computers & Graphics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 70-76 (February 2006) (note: this article is © Elsevier B.V.)
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U. Köthe: "Low-level Feature Detection Using the Boundary Tensor",

in: J. Weickert, H. Hagen (Eds.): Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields, Series on Mathematics and Visualization, pp. 63-79, Berlin: Springer, 2006 (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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G. Kedenburg, C. Cocosco, U. Köthe, W. Niessen, E. Vonken, M. Viergever: "Automatic cardiac MRI myocardium segmentation using graphcut",

in: J. Reinhardt, J. Pluim (Eds.): Proc. Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing, SPIE vol. 6144, pp. 85-96, 2006
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H. Meine, U. Köthe: "Image Segmentation with the Exact Watershed Transform",

in: J.J. Villanueva (Ed.): VIIP 2005, Proc. 5th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, pp. 400-405, ACTA Press, 2005. (note: this article is © ACTA Press)
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U. Köthe, M. Felsberg: "Riesz-Transforms Versus Derivatives: On the Relationship Between the Boundary Tensor and the Energy Tensor",

in: R. Kimmel, N. Sochen, J. Weickert (Eds.): Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, Proc. Scale-Space 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3459, pp. 179-191, Berlin: Springer, 2005. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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M. Felsberg, U. Köthe: "GET: The Connection Between Monogenic Scale-Space and Gaussian Derivatives",

in: R. Kimmel, N. Sochen, J. Weickert (Eds.): Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, Proc. Scale-Space 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3459, pp. 192-203, Berlin: Springer, 2005. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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H. Meine, U. Köthe: "The GeoMap: A Unified Representation for Topology and Geometry",

in: L. Brun, M. Vento (Eds.): Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition, Proc. GbR 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3434, pp. 132-141, Berlin: Springer, 2005. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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P.Stelldinger, U. Köthe: "Shape Preserving Digitization of Binary Images After Blurring",

in: E. Andres, G. Damiand, P. Lienhardt (Eds.): Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, Proc. DGCI 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3429, pp. 383-391, Berlin: Springer, 2005. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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P. Stelldinger, U. Köthe: "Towards a general sampling theory for shape preservation",

Image and Vision Computing, Special Issue on Discrete Geometry for Computer Vision, Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 237-248, 1 February 2005. (note: this article is © Elsevier B.V.)
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U. Köthe: "Boundary Characterization within the Wedge-Channel Representation ",

in: B. Jähne, R. Mester, E. Barth, H. Scharr (Eds.): Complex Motion, Proc. of 1st International Workshop on Complex Motion, Günzburg 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3417, pp. 42-53, Berlin: Springer, 2004. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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U. Köthe: "Accurate and Efficient Approximation of the Continuous Gaussian Scale-Space",

in: C.E. Rasmussen, H. Bülthoff, M. Giese, B. Schölkopf (Eds.): Pattern Recognition, Proc. of 26th DAGM Symposium, Tübingen 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3175, pp. 350-358, Berlin: Springer, 2004. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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H. Meine, U. Köthe, H.S. Stiehl: "Fast and Accurate Interactive Image Segmentation in the GeoMap Framework",

in: T. Tolxdorff, J. Braun, H. Handels, A. Horsch, H.-P. Meinzer (Eds.): Proc. Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2004, pp. 60-64, Berlin: Springer, 2004. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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U. Köthe: "Integrated Edge and Junction Detection with the Boundary Tensor",

in: ICCV 03, Proc. of 9th Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision, Nice 2003, vol. 1, pp. 424-431, Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society, 2003. (note: this article is © IEEE)
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U. Köthe: "Edge and Junction Detection with an Improved Structure Tensor",

in: B. Michaelis, G. Krell (Eds.): Pattern Recognition, Proc. of 25th DAGM Symposium, Magdeburg 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2781, pp. 25-32, Berlin: Springer, 2003. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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Awarded the main prize of the German Pattern Recognition Society (DAGM) 2003

U. Köthe, P. Stelldinger: "Shape Preserving Digitization of Ideal and Blurred Binary Images",

in: I. Nyström, G. Sanniti di Baja, S. Svensson (Eds.): Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, Proc. of 11th DGCI Conference, Naples 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2886, pp. 82-91, Berlin: Springer, 2003. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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P. Stelldinger, U. Köthe: "Shape Preservation During Digitization: Tight Bounds Based on the Morphing Distance",

in: B. Michaelis, G. Krell (Eds.): Pattern Recognition, Proc. of 25th DAGM Symposium, Magdeburg 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2781, pp. 108-115, Berlin: Springer, 2003. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
(this paper builds on the DGCI paper above)
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U. Köthe: "Deriving Topological Representations from Edge Images",

in: T. Asano, R. Klette, C. Ronse (Eds.): Geometry, Morphology, and Computational Imaging, 11th Intl. Workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2616, pp. 320-334, Berlin: Springer, 2003. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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U. Köthe: "XPMaps and Topological Segmentation - a Unified Approach to Finite Topologies in the Plane",

in: A. Braquelaire, J.-O. Lachaud, A. Vialard (Eds.): Proc. of 10th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2301, pp. 22-33, Berlin: Springer, 2002. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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U. Köthe: "XPMaps and Topological Segmentation - a Unified Approach to Finite Topologies in the Plane",

University of Hamburg, Department of Informatics, Technical Report FBI-HH-M-308/01, December 2001 (long version of above DGCI paper with proofs, 14 pages).
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U. Köthe: "Local Appropriate Scale in Morphological Scale-Space",

in: B. Buxton, R. Cipolla (Eds.): Computer Vision, Proc. of 4th European Conference on Computer Vision, vol. 1, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1064, pp. 219-228, Berlin: Springer, 1996. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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U. Köthe: "Local Appropriate Scale in Morphological Scale-Space",

Fraunhofer IGD Technical Report 96i001-FEGD, 1996. (long version of above ECCV paper with proofs, 23 pages)
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U. Köthe: "Morphological Appropriate Scale Measurements for Region Segmentation",

in: P. Johansen (ed.): Proc. of Copenhagen WS on Gaussian Scale-Space Theory, U of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science, Technical Report Nr. 96/19, 1996.
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U. Köthe: "Parameterfreie Merkmalsextraktion durch automatische Skalenselektion",

in: F. K. List (Hrsg.): Vorträge 16. Wissenschaftlich-Technische Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung 1996, Publikationen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung, Band 5, pp. 29-36, 1997. (in German)
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U. Köthe: "Inhaltsbasierte Suche in Bilddatenbanken",

Forschungsbericht 95i004-FEGD, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Rostock, Joachim-Jungius-Str. 9, 18059 Rostock, Germany, 1995. (in German)
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U. Köthe: "Primary Image Segmentation",

in: G. Sagerer, S. Posch, F. Kummert (Hrsg.): Mustererkennung 1995, 17. DAGM-Symposium, pp. 554-561, Berlin: Springer, 1995. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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3-D Reconstruction and Visualization

H. Diener, U. Köthe, B. Ristow, M. Schreyer, U. Stelbe: "ERSO - Acquisition, Reconstruction and Simulation of Real Objects",

in: IECON '98, Proc. of 24th Annual Conf. of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 1998.
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A. Schlempp, U. Köthe: "ViComp - Architektur und Städteplanung mit virtueller Modellierung und Komposition",

in: O. Deussen, P. Lorenz (Hrsg.): Proc. Simulation und Animation '97, Society for Computer Simulation Intl., 1997. (in German)
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U. Köthe, W. Luth, K. Otto: "Bildgestützte 3-D Rekonstruktion: Aspekte der Integration von digitaler Bildverarbeitung und 3-D Modellierung",

Workshop ICA '94 - Integration of CA-Techniques in Theory and Practice, Rostock 1994. (in German)

A. Hildebrand, U. Köthe: "SMART: System for Segmentation, Matching, and Reconstruction",

in: SPIE vol. 1943, Conf. State of the Art Mapping, 1993.
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Software Design for Computer Vision

U. Köthe: "Generic Programming Techniques that Make Planar Cell Complexes Easy to Use",

in: G. Bertrand, A. Imiya, R. Klette (Eds.): Digital and Image Geometry - Advanced Lectures (Proc. of a Dagstuhl Seminar), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2243, pp. 17-37, Berlin: Springer, 2001. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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U. Köthe, K. Weihe: "The STL Model in the Geometric Domain",

in: M. Jazayeri, R. Loos, D. Musser (Eds.): Generic Programming, Proc. of a Dagstuhl Seminar, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1766, pp. 232-248, Berlin: Springer, 2000. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
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U. Köthe: "STL-Style Generic Programming with Images",

C++ Report Magazine 12(1), pp. 24-30, January 2000.
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U. Köthe: "Reusable Software in Computer Vision",

in: B. Jähne, H. Haussecker, P. Geissler (Eds.): Handbook of Computer Vision and Applications, Volume 3: Systems and Applications, pp. 103-132, San Diego: Academic Press, 1999. (note: this contribution is © Academic Press)
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U. Köthe: "Design Patterns for Independent Building Blocks",

in: Jens Coldewey, Paul Dyson (Eds.): EuroPLoP '98, Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming and Computing 1998, pp. 143-165, Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1999.
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U. Köthe: "Reusable Implementations are Necessary to Characterize and Compare Vision Algorithms",

DAGM-Workshop on Performance Characteristics and Quality of Computer Vision Algorithms, Braunschweig 1997.
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U. Köthe: "Requested Interface",

in: Proc. of 2nd European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming, EuroPLoP '97, Siemens Technical Report 120/SW1/FB, 1997.
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