In recent years, solar energy has become more and more popular because it is one of the renewable energy resources that are constantly replenished and will never run out. Nowadays, there are many solar panels that hav...
In recent years, solar energy has become more and more popular because it is one of the renewable energy resources that are constantly replenished and will never run out. Nowadays, there are many solar panels that have been installed on the roof of residence in Taiwan. However, it does not have many convenient, secure and affordable methods to detect the effectiveness of those roof-top photovoltaic systems. Therefore, this study not only proposes the algorithms for determining the effectiveness of solar panel by using the thermal sensor, but also constructs a system to analysis the pictures that taken from thermal sensor and report the condition of solar panel automatically. Finally, we will live in a better environment by using the solar energy and the detection system with algorithms this study proposed at same time.
This paper presents a novel local surface descriptor by encoding the neighboring points' position angles of a key point into a histogram. The generation of the feature descriptor is simple and efficient. Firstly, ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538604915
This paper presents a novel local surface descriptor by encoding the neighboring points' position angles of a key point into a histogram. The generation of the feature descriptor is simple and efficient. Firstly, we construct a Local Reference Frame (LRF) by performing eigenvalue decomposition on a scatter covariance matrix. Then, the sphere support of the key point is divided into several sphere shells. In each sphere shell, we calculate the angles between a neighboring point and z-axis, x-axis respectively. Subsequently, the cosine values of these two angles are mapped into two 1D histograms respectively. Finally, all the 1D histograms are put together followed by a normalization to form the descriptor. Our proposed local surface descriptor is called Signature of Position Angles Histograms (SPAH). As for a point cloud with color information, the SPAH can easily be extended to a Color SPAH (CSPAH) descriptor only by adding one more 1D histogram generated by the color information in each sphere shell. The performance of the proposed SPAH was tested on the Bologna Dataset 1 to compare with several state-of-the-art feature descriptors. The experiment results show that our SPAH descriptor is more robust to noise and vary mesh decimations. Moreover, our SPAH and CSPAH descriptors based 3D object recognition algorithms achieved a good performance on the Bologna Dataset 3.
How to suppress and remove the speckle of SAR image has been a hot research issue. Combining the advantages of non-subsample Shearlet transform (NSST) with the generalized non-local means de-noising algorithm, we prop...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783662498316
ISBN:
(纸本)9783662498316;9783662498293
How to suppress and remove the speckle of SAR image has been a hot research issue. Combining the advantages of non-subsample Shearlet transform (NSST) with the generalized non-local means de-noising algorithm, we proposed a new SAR image de-noising algorithm in this paper. This algorithm is appropriate for the characteristics of the speckle noise, so it can improve the quality of de-noised image. Meanwhile, the algorithm holds the characteristics of translational invariance, which can suppress Gibbs phenomenon effectively.
Ocean Color Monitor-2 (OCM-2) on-board Oceansat 2 satellite is a multi-spectral sensor with a spatial resolution of 360x250m. Despite the presence of improved spatial resolution for better ocean color interpretation w...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781510601222
Ocean Color Monitor-2 (OCM-2) on-board Oceansat 2 satellite is a multi-spectral sensor with a spatial resolution of 360x250m. Despite the presence of improved spatial resolution for better ocean color interpretation within coastal zones;differences among the OCM-2 detectors lead to striping artifacts in the along-track direction limiting the ocean color observations. Existing calibration methods do not characterize the striping noise efficiently. Destriping algorithms are generally applied to Level 2 radiance or biogeochemical products (i.e., post-radiometric and atmospheric correction), to remove the striping artifacts in order to ensure quality products. The present study focuses to reveal a robust method which effectively removes the striping effects in the TOA radiance products. Preliminary results obtained from this approach have been highlighted which show significant improvement in image quality for Level 1B (TOA radiance) and Level 2 (Water leaving radiance (L-w) and biogeochemical) products. The proposed method operates on a pixel by pixel basis with an aim to maintain the spatial and spectral resolution of data and ensure image quality in the derived products.
The effects of the aft rotor on the inter-rotor flow field of an open rotor propulsion rig were examined. A Particle image Velocimetry (Piv) dataset that was acquired phase locked to the front rotor position has been ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780791849682
The effects of the aft rotor on the inter-rotor flow field of an open rotor propulsion rig were examined. A Particle image Velocimetry (Piv) dataset that was acquired phase locked to the front rotor position has been phase averaged based on the relative phase angle between the forward and aft rotors. The aft rotor phase was determined by feature tracking in raw Pivimages through an imageprocessing algorithm. The effects of the aft rotor potential field on the inter-rotor flow were analyzed and shown to be in reasonably good agreement with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. The aft rotor position was shown to have a significant upstream effect, with implications for front rotor interaction noise. It was found that the aft rotor had no substantial effect on the position of the forward rotor tip vortex but did have a small effect on the circulation strength of the vortex when the rotors were highly loaded.
Indian languages have very less linguistic resources, though they have a large speaker base. They are very rich in morphology, making it very difficult to do sequential tagging or any type of language analysis. In nat...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9788132225263;9788132225256
Indian languages have very less linguistic resources, though they have a large speaker base. They are very rich in morphology, making it very difficult to do sequential tagging or any type of language analysis. In natural language processing, parts-of-speech (POS) tagging is the basic tool with which it is possible to extract terminology using linguistic patterns. The main aim of this research is to do sequential tagging for Indian languages based on the unsupervised features and distributional information of a word with its neighboring words. The results of the machine learning algorithms depend on the data representation. Not all the data contribute to creation of the model, leading a few in vain and it depends on the descriptive factors of data disparity. Data representations are designed by using domain-specific knowledge but the aim of Artificial Intelligence is to reduce these domain-dependent representations, so that it can be applied to the domains which are new to one. Recently, deep learning algorithms have acquired a substantial interest in reducing the dimension of features or extracting the latent features. Recent development and applications of deep learning algorithms are giving impressive results in several areas mostly in image and text applications.
AprilTags and other passive fiducial markers require specialized algorithms to detect markers among other features in a natural scene. The vision processing steps generally dominate the computation time of a tag detec...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509037629
AprilTags and other passive fiducial markers require specialized algorithms to detect markers among other features in a natural scene. The vision processing steps generally dominate the computation time of a tag detection pipeline, so even small improvements in marker detection can translate to a faster tag detection system. We incorporated lessons learned from implementing and supporting the AprilTag system into this improved system. This work describes AprilTag 2, a completely redesigned tag detector that improves robustness and efficiency compared to the original AprilTag system. The tag coding scheme is unchanged, retaining the same robustness to false positives inherent to the coding system. The new detector improves performance with higher detection rates, fewer false positives, and lower computational time. Improved performance on small images allows the use of decimated input images, resulting in dramatic gains in detection speed.
I consider a number of methods of automatic quadratic features adjustment for digital textural images of biological tissues in order to improve the quality of classification. The proposed approaches are based on optim...
I consider a number of methods of automatic quadratic features adjustment for digital textural images of biological tissues in order to improve the quality of classification. The proposed approaches are based on optimization procedures that use various quality criteria of a feature space as target functions. I investigate the methods based on random search, genetic algorithm, simulation of annealing, as well as the original hybrid algorithm. I presented results of experimental studies of the proposed algorithms on sets of real X-ray images of bone tissue and the lung CT images. We show that the hybrid algorithm provides more stable results regardless of the chosen quality criterion of the feature space, which is expressed in decreasing of the average percentage of incorrectly recognized images in comparison with the use of the specific optimization methods individually.
An improved method for visibility enhancement of foggy based degraded images is presented. Proposed technique consists of two phases: firstly applied the visibility enhancement algorithm and then automatic color enhan...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509021185
An improved method for visibility enhancement of foggy based degraded images is presented. Proposed technique consists of two phases: firstly applied the visibility enhancement algorithm and then automatic color enhancement algorithm. Quantitative metric and qualitative result of proposed technique is evaluated and compared with other existing visibility restoration algorithms. In this paper quantitative results are presented in terms of measure of enhancement and measure of enhancement factor. Simulation results on foggy images from database demonstrates that proposed technique provides better visibility enhancement results as compared to the others existing visibility enhancement algorithms. A result reveals that proposed technique is an efficient method for visibility enhancement of foggy based degraded images.
As a consequence of fluctuations in the index of refraction of the air, atmospheric turbulence causes scintillation, spatial and temporal blurring as well as global and local image motion creating geometric distortion...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781510604094
ISBN:
(纸本)9781510604087;9781510604094
As a consequence of fluctuations in the index of refraction of the air, atmospheric turbulence causes scintillation, spatial and temporal blurring as well as global and local image motion creating geometric distortions. To mitigate these effects many different methods have been proposed. Global as well as local motion compensation in some form or other constitutes an integral part of many software-based approaches. For the estimation of motion vectors between consecutive frames simple methods like block matching are preferable to more complex algorithms like optical flow, at least when challenged with near real-time requirements. However, the processing power of commercially available computers continues to increase rapidly and the more powerful optical flow methods have the potential to outperform standard block matching methods. Therefore, in this paper three standard optical flow algorithms, namely Horn-Schunck (HS), Lucas-Kanade (LK) and Farneback (FB), are tested for their suitability to be employed for local motion compensation as part of a turbulence mitigation system. Their qualitative performance is evaluated and compared with that of three standard block matching methods, namely Exhaustive Search (ES), Adaptive Rood Pattern Search (ARPS) and Correlation based Search (CS).
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