Lane detection and tracking is essential concern in vision based autonomous vehicle navigation. this paper proposes a novel method based on probabilistic Hough transform and motion vector based analysis for detecting ...
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(纸本)9781538673539;9781538673522
Lane detection and tracking is essential concern in vision based autonomous vehicle navigation. this paper proposes a novel method based on probabilistic Hough transform and motion vector based analysis for detecting and tracking lane and lane departures. It addresses drawbacks of current systems under hazy situations with learning method based on previous tracking records of the system. In this method relevant lane mark features are extracted based on color variations. therefore used HSL color model which gives higher color contrast of road surface and the markings. In order to reduce computation, processingalgorithms are applied only to the region of interest (ROI). Edges of the selected regions are extracted with Canny Edge Detection. Since lane markings are made with set of straight lines, straight lines are extracted with Probabilistic Hough Transform. Extracted lines are analyzed to detect lane. To monitor lane departures vehicle's motion is detected and tracked based on motion vector analysis with Lucas Kanade Optical Flow algorithm. Previous detection records are used to track the lane continuously in hazy situations and provide prediction on approximate lane for the roads without lane markings. Experiments were performed on set of videos taken from vehicles' front camera mounted on dashboard. According to the experiments the proposed algorithm has 81.9% of sensitivity in lane detection and 63.5% in approximate lane predictions for the roads without lane markings. Lane detection algorithm has 83% precision, 68% recall and 0.75 F1 score withthreshold brightness value 140. Algorithm can further improved to guide the autonomous vehicles to take accurate decisions on selecting safety lane to drive ahead in different situations.
Arithmetic operations are intrinsic to any embedded devices, and they usually have a significant impact on the circuit speed, area, and power consumption. Applications like video processing, digital signal processing,...
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(数字)9781728170442
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728170459
Arithmetic operations are intrinsic to any embedded devices, and they usually have a significant impact on the circuit speed, area, and power consumption. Applications like video processing, digital signal processing, machine learning, among others, rely heavily on multipliers to execute their algorithms. Radix-2 m multipliers have been reported as one of the most power-efficient circuits. However, their architecture has not been explored nor optimized to improve the circuit quality. this work proposed two sign extension optimization techniques for these multipliers, aiming for better power efficiency and a smaller area. the baseline radix-4 (m=2) multiplier and its optimized versions were synthesized in a commercial 65nm technology to evaluate their performance. Results show that the optimized versions achieve power efficiency gains from 16.4% up to 78.6%, with circuit area reduction up to 49.2%.
this work presents three integrated pulse generators that can collectively provide a synthetic ultra-wide imaging bandwidth of 100 GHz in the millimeter-wave regime. Such a development is the first step towards the re...
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(数字)9781728170442
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728170459
this work presents three integrated pulse generators that can collectively provide a synthetic ultra-wide imaging bandwidth of 100 GHz in the millimeter-wave regime. Such a development is the first step towards the realization of a fully-integrated ultra-high-resolution imaging chip for biomedical applications. the pulse generators are designed in a Global Foundry 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS process technology and produce pulses with frequency ranges of 10-40-GHz, 40-75-GHz, and 75-110-GHz respectively. the three sub-band pulse generators possess a similar differential pulsed VCO configuration withthe highest average power consumption of 40 mW.
Technology is developing at a dizzying pace to make our lives easier. Among other innovations, quantum computing, which is based on quantum mechanics, is evolving withthe aim of solving all the problems that traditio...
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Today, edge detection is a cornerstone technique as edges are essential in many applications, such as imageprocessing and biometric imaging. One popular algorithm for edge detection is the Sobel. Many researchers hav...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728166872
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728166889
Today, edge detection is a cornerstone technique as edges are essential in many applications, such as imageprocessing and biometric imaging. One popular algorithm for edge detection is the Sobel. Many researchers have focused on accelerating the Sobel filtering, but to the best of our knowledge we are the first to propose a 5×5 convolution kernel implementation using OpenCL. In this work, we implement the Sobel filter, one of the most effective and popular edge detection algorithms in imageprocessing, in the OpenCL programming language. From the implementation of the Sobel algorithm we compare the performance of the CPU and GPU through OpenCL, in typical images ranging from 64×64 to 4096×4096 pixels. the Sobel operator uses a pair of 3×3 horizontal and vertical convolution kernels for edge detection functions. We apply 3×3 and 5×5 convolution kernels using OpenCL and compare them. the results have shown that for all image sizes, the GPU speed up ranges from 11,18 to 15,46 times with 3×3 convolution kernels, while speed up is from 10,05 to 13,46 times for the 5×5 convolution kernels. Finally, the results of our implementation are compared to other existing implementations and found to achieve better performance.
the food industry is in constant demand of performing and easy to implement Non-Destructive Evaluation NDE techniques. In this paper, we tackle the problem of the automatic inspection of fruits and more specifically, ...
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(纸本)9781665447232
the food industry is in constant demand of performing and easy to implement Non-Destructive Evaluation NDE techniques. In this paper, we tackle the problem of the automatic inspection of fruits and more specifically, the sorting of healthy and damaged fruits, taking apples and peaches as examples. In a recent work, we have explained how to proceed by combining mm-Wave measurements processed with a 2D-FFT and Machine Learning algorithm. the accuracy reaches at least 80%. Although the 2D-FFT is a real-time processing and thus interesting for an industrial implementation, it requires complex measurements, i.e amplitude and phase, which makes the acquisition system more complex. Here we aim to overcome this difficulty by processing amplitude-only measurements. We make use of an imageprocessing based on the direct conversion of the measured amplitude into images. the images form the dataset for the classifier that we choose as a non-linear SVM with a RBF kernel. the advantage of the SVM is that the computational burden is moved to the training phase where we compute the optimal hyper-parameters C* and ϒ*, while the test is very fast. First, we describe the complete workflow and use a set of apples measured in W-band in Autumn 2019 for validation purpose. We then extend the validation to measurements of peaches conducted over a long time period (summer 2019 and 2020). Finally, we investigate the robustness of the method over frequency while moving to the D-band. For all tests the accuracy is of 100%
Motivation: the medical imaging and imageprocessing techniques, ranging from microscopic to macroscopic, has become one of the main components of diagnostic procedures to assist dermatologists in their medical decisi...
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Motivation: the medical imaging and imageprocessing techniques, ranging from microscopic to macroscopic, has become one of the main components of diagnostic procedures to assist dermatologists in their medical decision-making processes. Computer-aided segmentation and border detection on dermoscopic images is one of the core components of diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions for skin cancer. Automated assessment tools for dermoscopic images have become an important research field mainly because of inter- and intra-observer variations in human interpretations. In this study, a novel approach-graph spanner-for automatic border detection in dermoscopic images is proposed. In this approach, a proximity graph representation of dermoscopic images in order to detect regions and borders in skin lesion is presented. Results: Graph spanner approach is examined on a set of 100 dermoscopic images whose manually drawn borders by a dermatologist are used as the ground truth. Error rates, false positives and false negatives along with true positives and true negatives are quantified by digitally comparing results with manually determined borders from a dermatologist. the results show that the highest precision and recall rates obtained to determine lesion boundaries are 100%. However, accuracy of assessment averages out at 97.72% and borders errors' mean is 2.28% for whole dataset.
Motivation: Proteins exhibit complex subcellular distributions, which may include localizing in more than one organelle and varying in location depending on the cell physiology. Estimating the amount of protein distri...
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Motivation: Proteins exhibit complex subcellular distributions, which may include localizing in more than one organelle and varying in location depending on the cell physiology. Estimating the amount of protein distributed in each subcellular location is essential for quantitative understanding and modeling of protein dynamics and how they affect cell behaviors. We have previously described automated methods using fluorescent microscope images to determine the fractions of protein fluorescence in various subcellular locations when the basic locations in which a protein can be present are known. As this set of basic locations may be unknown (especially for studies on a proteome-wide scale), we here describe unsupervised methods to identify the fundamental patterns from images of mixed patterns and estimate the fractional composition of them. Methods: We developed two approaches to the problem, both based on identifying types of objects present in images and representing patterns by frequencies of those object types. One is a basis pursuit method (which is based on a linear mixture model), and the other is based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). For testing both approaches, we used images previously acquired for testing supervised unmixing methods. these images were of cells labeled with various combinations of two organelle-specific probes that had the same fluorescent properties to simulate mixed patterns of subcellular location. Results: We achieved 0.80 and 0.91 correlation between estimated and underlying fractions of the two probes (fundamental patterns) with basis pursuit and LDA approaches, respectively, indicating that our methods can unmix the complex subcellular distribution with reasonably high accuracy.
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