#image complexity

The analysis of image complexity has been around for over a decade, and numerous examples are available in the present blog. An image is an N x M matrix of pixels and is easy to analyze with, for example, OntoNet, the QCM engine from Ontonix. The first step is to transform an image to greyscale and then to determine the intensity of each pixel on scale ranging, for example, from 0 to 255. There…

In a previous blog we have shown how complexity may be used in conjunction with streaming video. In this short note we illustrate an example of application of this technology to infer traffic density. The case is that of traffic on a motorway and the video in question is shown at the top of this blog. The video has a duration of 22 seconds and is split into 110 frames. A camera is located above…

Quantitative Complexity Management (QCM) technology has been applied to a very wide variety of data types and sources. In this short blog we illustrate the application of QCM to real-time processing of streaming vido. This is how it works: Video is split into frames. The frequency of this depends on the nature of the application (military, surveillance, medical, satellite imagery, traffic,…

QCM Analysis of James Webb Space Telescope Images

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered images of unseen quality. Two images, both of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, at left, and mid-infrared light, at right, are confronted and analyzed using QCM tools. The idea is to measure their complexity, which quantifies the amount of structured information, i.e. information deriving from the fact that images contain local…

Complexity and Measuring Thought

A few days ago I asked four friends to participate in an interesting experiment. I aksed them to use a computer drawing tool to quickly scribble an image that would reflect their current state of mind. Each person had only five seconds to produce their own image. The tool used for the purpose was Paint and the goal of the experiment was to use complexity to “measure” the state of mind of each…

How Complex are Formations of Starlings?

From: https://gizmodo.com/this-starling-murmuration-video-is-the-most-stunning-iv-1679901420

There is a tendency to regard the phrase “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts” as a (sort of) definition of “complex systems” by those who claim to “study complexity”. Curiously enough, the said “complexity scientists” engage in an exercise which, inexplicably, does not contemplate a measure…

Real-time Complexity Analysis of Live Images

OntoView™ is a real-time monitoring system which processes streaming video images. The program analyzes the complexity of the captured live image content and alerts the traffic problems in real time and in a natural way. The revolutionary aspect of OntoView™ is that it doesn’t analyze images based on conventional image-processing techniques. Instead, it emulates the way the brain perceives…

Using Complexity to Measure Images

  Recently revealed analysis of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) data has delivered images of unseen quality. The images of the Moon’s terrain made possible by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument onboard the LRO has been compared to similar images obtained using the Unified Lunar Control Network  based on the best available data at the time, including imagery from the…