The quality of the input fingerprint has a big impact on the performance of the Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). So, the fingerprint enhancement is an important and necessary step to refine the qual...
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(纸本)9781538692646
The quality of the input fingerprint has a big impact on the performance of the Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). So, the fingerprint enhancement is an important and necessary step to refine the quality of images. Over the past few years, fingerprint enhancement approaches have been proposed to investigate and test technologies in an attempt to find improvements. One of the most common methods in the literature to achieve that is the convolution with Gabor filters. By using coherent parameters and successive iterations, it is possible to highlight clearly the lines present in the images. This paper analyzes and presents improvements in a renowned algorithm that uses a contextual iterative filtering. Experimental results show that the proposed upgrades developed in this research obtained gains of 21% over the baseline.
In this paper, we propose the use of dynamicimages-based approach for action recognition. Specifically, we exploit the multimodal information recorded by a Kinect sensor (RGB-D and skeleton joint data). We combine sev...
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(纸本)9781538692646
In this paper, we propose the use of dynamicimages-based approach for action recognition. Specifically, we exploit the multimodal information recorded by a Kinect sensor (RGB-D and skeleton joint data). We combine several ideas from rank pooling and skeleton optical spectra to generate dynamic images to summarize an action sequence into single flow images. We group our dynamic images into five groups: a dynamic color group (DC);a dynamic depth group (DD) and three dynamic skeleton groups (DXY, DYZ, DXZ). As action is composed of different postures along time, we generated N different dynamic images with the main postures for each dynamic group. Next, we applied a pre-trained flow-CNN to extract spatiotemporal features with a max-mean aggregation. The proposed method was evaluated on a public benchmark dataset, the UTD-MHAD, and achieved the state-of-the-art result.
The authors attempted to construct a novel sensor networking system that estimates locations of sensor nodes as locations of humans wearing them via imageprocessing. In this application, computationally efficient hum...
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The production of sensory substitution equipment for the visually impaired (VIP) is growing. The aim of this project is to understand the VIP context and predict the risks of collision for the VIP, following an analys...
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(纸本)9781538692646
The production of sensory substitution equipment for the visually impaired (VIP) is growing. The aim of this project is to understand the VIP context and predict the risks of collision for the VIP, following an analysis of the position, distance, size and motion of the objects present in their environment. This understanding is refined by data fusion steps applied to the Situation Awareness model to predict possible impacts in the near future. With this goal, a new architecture was designed, composed of systems that detect free passages, static objects, dynamic objects and the paths of these dynamic objects. The detected data was mapped into a 3D plane verifying positions and sizes. For the fusion, a method was developed that compared four more general classifiers in order to verify which presented greater reliability in the given context. These classifiers allowed inferences to be made when analyzing the risks of collision in different directions. The architecture designed for risk prediction is the main contribution of this project.
The smart transportation system is one of the most essential parts in a smart city roadmap. The smart transportation applications are equipped with CCTV to recognize a region of interest through automated object detec...
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Methods for superpixel segmentation have become very popular in computer vision. Recently, a graph-based framework named ISF (Iterative Spanning Forest) was proposed to obtain connected superpixels (supervoxels in 3D)...
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(纸本)9781538692646
Methods for superpixel segmentation have become very popular in computer vision. Recently, a graph-based framework named ISF (Iterative Spanning Forest) was proposed to obtain connected superpixels (supervoxels in 3D) based on multiple executions of the image Foresting Transform (IFT) algorithm from a given choice of four components: a seed sampling strategy, an adjacency relation, a connectivity function, and a seed recomputation procedure. In this paper, we extend ISF to introduce a unique characteristic among superpixel segmentation methods. Using the new framework, termed as Recursive Iterative Spanning Forest (RISF), one can recursively generate multiple segmentation scales on region adjacency graphs (i.e., a hierarchy of superpixels) without sacrificing the efficiency and effectiveness of ISF. In addition to a hierarchical segmentation, RISF allows a more effective geodesic seed sampling strategy, with no negative impact in the efficiency of the method. For a fixed number of scales using 2D and 3D image datasets, we show that RISF can consistently outperform the most competitive ISF-based methods.
The recent advances in cloud services enable an increasing number of applications to offload their intensive tasks to remote computers. Cloud rendering comprises a set of services capable of rendering a 3D scene on a ...
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(纸本)9781538692646
The recent advances in cloud services enable an increasing number of applications to offload their intensive tasks to remote computers. Cloud rendering comprises a set of services capable of rendering a 3D scene on a remote workstation. Notable progress in this field has been made by cloud gaming services. However, a gap remains between existing cloud rendering systems and other graphics-intensive applications, such as visualization of computer-Aided Design (CAD) models. Existing cloud gaming services are not suitable to efficiently render these particular 3D scenes. CAD models contain many more objects than a regular game scene, requiring specific assumptions and optimizations to deliver an interactive user experience. In this work, we discuss and propose a novel hybrid cloud rendering system for massive 3D CAD models of industrial plants. The obtained results show that our technique can achieve high frame rates with satisfactory image quality even in a constrained environment, such as a high latency network or obsolete computer hardware.
Structured lighting (SL) imageprocessing relies on the generation of known illumination patterns synchronized with the camera frame rate and is commonly implemented using syncing capable cameras. In general, such cam...
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(纸本)9781538692646
Structured lighting (SL) imageprocessing relies on the generation of known illumination patterns synchronized with the camera frame rate and is commonly implemented using syncing capable cameras. In general, such cameras employ global shutters, that exposes the whole frame at once. However, most modern digital cameras use rolling shutters, which expose each line at different intervals, impairing most structured lighting applications. In this paper we introduce an asynchronous SL technique that can be used by any rolling shutter digital camera. While the use of stroboscopic illumination partially solves for the line exposure shift, the phase difference between the camera and lighting clocks results in stripe artifacts that move vertically in the video stream. These stripes are detected and tracked using a Kalman filter. Two asynchronous stroboscopic SL methods are proposed. The first method, image differencing, minimizes the stripe artifacts. The second method, image compositing, completely removes the artifacts. We demonstrate the use of the asynchronous differential lighting technique in a pupil detector using a low-cost high-speed camera with no synchronization means, with the lighting running independently at a higher, unknown frequency to the application.
Data clustering is one of the main challenges when solving Data Science problems. Despite its progress over almost one century of research, clustering algorithms still fail in identifying groups naturally related to t...
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(纸本)9781538692646
Data clustering is one of the main challenges when solving Data Science problems. Despite its progress over almost one century of research, clustering algorithms still fail in identifying groups naturally related to the semantics of the problem. Moreover, the technological advances add crucial challenges with a considerable data increase, which are not handled by most techniques. We address these issues by proposing a divide-and-conquer approach to a clustering technique, which is unique in finding one group per dome of the probability density function of the data - the Optimum-Path Forest (OPF) clustering algorithm. Our approach can use all samples, or at least many samples, in the unsupervised learning process without affecting the grouping performance and, therefore, being less likely to lose relevant grouping information. We show that it can obtain satisfactory results when segmenting natural images into superpixels.
Fingerprints are the most widely deployed biometric characteristics. However, the recognition of a fingerprint may be influenced by a lot of factors (e.g., skin conditions, sensor conditions) and a matching algorithm ...
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(纸本)9781538692646
Fingerprints are the most widely deployed biometric characteristics. However, the recognition of a fingerprint may be influenced by a lot of factors (e.g., skin conditions, sensor conditions) and a matching algorithm is highly affected by the quality of the images involved. This work proposes a novel method for Fingerprint Quality Assessment (FQA) based on the analysis of the Gabor filters response on a fingerprint image. The correlation between the worst quality templates and the matching score has also been analyzed. The method is validated on FVC2000DB3, FVC2004DB2, FVC2004DB3, and FVC2006DB3 databases. This work was compared to other FQAs in order to evaluate performance and with different matching algorithms for fair comparison. The results found pointed that the proposed method is able to identify the images which most affect the error rates of an AFIS, better than the other methods presented in the literature.
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