Autonomous star trackers are rapidly becoming the most accurate means of attitude determination due to their high accuracy, small size, light weight and simple functionality, making them devices of choice in nearly al...
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this paper describes current research combining computer vision, virtual reality and kinesiology for analyzing the cephalo-ocular behavior of drivers in realistic driving contexts. the different components of the syst...
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(纸本)9783642026102
this paper describes current research combining computer vision, virtual reality and kinesiology for analyzing the cephalo-ocular behavior of drivers in realistic driving contexts. the different components of the system are described and results are provided for each one. the ultimate goal of the system is to achieve automatic analysis of drivers' behavior in order to design training programs tailored to their driving habits.
In this article, we present a new method to extract internal and external borders (intimal-adventitial) of arteries from Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images. the method is based on A-scan segmentation. First, th...
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(纸本)9783642026102
In this article, we present a new method to extract internal and external borders (intimal-adventitial) of arteries from Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images. the method is based on A-scan segmentation. First, the distribution of the grey level values on every A-scan is analyzed separately using a sliding window to approximate a single-lobe distribution. Our hypothesis is that the position of the arterial tissue corresponds to the window which exhibits the largest single-lobe distribution. Once all the tissue is extracted from the image, every segmented A-scan position is corrected using a block of neighbouring segmented A-scans. Experimental results show that the proposed method is accurate and robust to extract arterial tissue.
In this work a new informative feature set is proposed to identify Suspicious Regions Of Interest (ROIs) in the prostate TransRectal UltraSound (TRUS) images. the proposed features are region based to overcome the lim...
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(纸本)9783642026102
In this work a new informative feature set is proposed to identify Suspicious Regions Of Interest (ROIs) in the prostate TransRectal UltraSound (TRUS) images. the proposed features are region based to overcome the limitations present in the pixel based feature extraction methods. First a thresholding algorithm integrated withthe medical information is used to identify different candidate ROIs. Next, image registration is performed to transform the prostate image to a model based from which some of the proposed region based features are extracted. Subsequently, the proposed raw based and model based region features are extracted at the region level. Finally Mutual Information is used to evaluate the extracted features and compare their information content with boththe typical pixel based features and the well known texture and grey level features. It was found that the proposed features provide more information than boththe texture features and the pixel based features.
this paper demonstrates significant improvement in the performance of a computer vision system by incorporating the results of an experiment oil human visual perception. this system was designed to solve a problem exi...
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(纸本)9783642026102
this paper demonstrates significant improvement in the performance of a computer vision system by incorporating the results of an experiment oil human visual perception. this system was designed to solve a problem existing in the cork industry: the automatic classification of cork samples according to their quality. this is a difficult problem because cork is a natural and heterogeneous material. An eye-tracker was used to analyze the gaze patterns of a human expert trained in cork classification, and the results identified visual features of cork samples used by the expert in making decisions. Variations in lightness of the cork surface proved to be a key feature, and this finding was used to select the features included in (lie final system: defects in the sample (thresholding), size of the biggest defect (morphological operations), and four-Laws textural features, all working oil a Neuro-Fuzzy classifier. the results obtained from the final system show lower error rates than previous systems designed for this application.
this work consists on the evaluation of the performances of three neural classifiers. the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), the Self-Organizing Map (SOM), the Learning Vector Quantization (LV Q) are considered by this stu...
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this work consists on the evaluation of the performances of three neural classifiers. the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), the Self-Organizing Map (SOM), the Learning Vector Quantization (LV Q) are considered by this study. the example that will be considered in the evaluation of the technical classifications's performances is the handwritten character recognition.
Autonomous star trackers are rapidly becoming the most accurate means of attitude determination due to their high accuracy, small size, light weight and simple functionality, making them devices of choice in nearly al...
Autonomous star trackers are rapidly becoming the most accurate means of attitude determination due to their high accuracy, small size, light weight and simple functionality, making them devices of choice in nearly all modern space vehicles. In all star trackers star centroiding and patternrecognition are fundamental processes, necessary for attitude determination. In this paper an automatic star patternrecognition scheme is presented for currently available high frame rate imagers especially for Active Pixel Sensors (APS) (because of their random access ability) in tracking mode. this scheme uses the knowledge of boresight direction to pick stars from star catalog and convert them in imager's coordinates to predict the regions of star locations in next image frame. By keeping track of the reference catalog stars and centroiding results of the predicted stars regions from image, the patternrecognition is done automatically. the boresight direction is updated at each sequential frame. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme is computationally more efficient and faster as compared to normal centroiding scheme. In addition, it is shown that it can easily handle the problem created by double stars and it inherently decreases the probability of false stars and noisy spikes.
Manual inspection of the morphological differences in the veins of wings in fruit fly mutants is useful for uncovering the relevant genes associated with fundamental biological functions. However, manual morphological...
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(纸本)9781424456499
Manual inspection of the morphological differences in the veins of wings in fruit fly mutants is useful for uncovering the relevant genes associated with fundamental biological functions. However, manual morphological inspection is not feasible when processing numerous mutants that were systematically created using fruit fly genome information. Another difficulty is how to process mutant wings that violate the typical vein pattern in the wild-type fruit fly. We require an automatic image recognition system to quantify morphological differences robustly and accurately, but this is a difficult task because exact quantification of significant differences from the typical pattern is highly nontrivial. We propose a robust and accurate image recognition technique that can analyze the veins of fruit fly wings robustly and accurately using a hierarchical model matching algorithm. the results of an experiment with 1000 images demonstrated the feasibility of our technique.
this paper proposes the classification of three mean woven textile fabrics. the classifier is based on the texture analysis of woven fabric images for the recognition. In the patternrecognition phase, the co-occurren...
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this paper proposes the classification of three mean woven textile fabrics. the classifier is based on the texture analysis of woven fabric images for the recognition. In the patternrecognition phase, the co-occurrence matrix is applied to calculate the texture characteristics, such as the angular second moment, the correlation, the homogeneity and the contrast. We have varying the offset in distance and orientation, the best offset was retained for the classification. Taking advantage of the difference between the woven fabric textures of these parameters, a support vector machine is adopted as a classifier to categorize the type of woven fabric. Two types of multi-class classifiers were tested: the one against all and the one against one. the experimental results show that some of the studied parameters are more compatible withthe SVM classifier than the others, for example the homogeneity leads to a recognition of 100% which makes it the most compatible parameter of the feature texture for the classification. We note that the one against all classifier gives better results than the other.
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