Body condition score (BCS) is an important parameter to measure cow energy reserve for feeding management. Currently, measuring BCS mainly relies on veterinary experts or skilled scorers by observing and touching anim...
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(数字)9781728158594
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(纸本)9781728158600
Body condition score (BCS) is an important parameter to measure cow energy reserve for feeding management. Currently, measuring BCS mainly relies on veterinary experts or skilled scorers by observing and touching animals, which is time consuming and costly, especially on large-scale farms. In this study, a method of imageprocessing and deep learning is employed to estimate cow BCS. Firstly, the network cameras were used to capture the back view images of the cows, resulting in 5470 images that constituted the sample data set, in which the key body parts (tail, pins and rump) of the cow were labeled manually. Secondly, Faster Region-Convolutional Neural Networks (Faster R-CNN) method was used to position and classify the cow tail images which were correlated to the value of BCS. Compared with other deep learning algorithms like the Single Shot multibox Detector (SSD), Faster R-CNN had a slightly higher accuracy. Specifically, the detection accuracy for cow tails was 84%, and the BCS classification had an average accuracy 70%. The low BCS classification rate was mainly due to the insufficient image data in this study for cows with certain ranges of BCS.
This study designed a smoke detection system that employs an omnidirectional camera to remotely monitor fire disaster sites. images are transmitted through Wi-Fi to the control center, which then provides accurate rea...
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This study designed a smoke detection system that employs an omnidirectional camera to remotely monitor fire disaster sites. images are transmitted through Wi-Fi to the control center, which then provides accurate real-time information to firefighters. This reduces the time required for fire suppression and provides additional time for personnel evacuation.
The present paper proposes image edge detection algorithm utilizing a reaction-diffusion network. The network consists of two-dimensionally coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo type neurons, whose behavior is described by a set of...
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imageprocessing has made many strides in the past few years in terms of accuracy and robustness. However, these advances have often times come at the cost of being understandable by humans and as a result difficult t...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538661338
imageprocessing has made many strides in the past few years in terms of accuracy and robustness. However, these advances have often times come at the cost of being understandable by humans and as a result difficult to validate the outputs. In this work we propose a genetic algorithm designed to optimize imageprocessing while maintaining a human understandable output. The algorithm bases itself on fundamental functions of imageprocessing and works with them to optimize the detection of objects in the frame while minimizing spurious noise. Optimization of results comes in two primary ways, through the varying the arrangement of function calls as well as through tuning the parameters used in the calls themselves. Results and conclusions drawn through the implementation of the algorithm will be discussed along with a comparison of other current state of the art algorithms.
Real-time digital imageprocessing as part of mobile systems requires solving the problems of development high-performance specialized processors for intraframe imageprocessing. The graphs of intraframe processing al...
Real-time digital imageprocessing as part of mobile systems requires solving the problems of development high-performance specialized processors for intraframe imageprocessing. The graphs of intraframe processingalgorithms are analysed and their parameters are evaluated, primarily the degree of parallelism. The architectures of functional-oriented processors based on homogeneous computing environments for ultrafast intraframe processing are described. The results of research and development of microelectronic implementation of such processors are presented.
Multi-, many-core, hybrid processors and parallel programming languages are slowly becoming pervasive in mainstream computing. It is expected that they will affect a large spectrum of systems, from embedded and genera...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538666289
Multi-, many-core, hybrid processors and parallel programming languages are slowly becoming pervasive in mainstream computing. It is expected that they will affect a large spectrum of systems, from embedded and general-purpose, to high-end computing systems. This architectural change has already challenged programmers to efficiently write an application code that can scale over many cores to utilize its computational power. Moreover, many heterogeneous architectures exist today, hence there was an emergent need for a uniform interface to these architectures. Recently, Khronos Group defined the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) for abstracting the underlying hardware, which enables software developers to write a portable code across different shared-memory architectures. In this paper, we introduce a new parallel implementation of one of the fastest image segmentation algorithms known as Simple Linear Iterative Clustering based on OpenCL. We evaluate the effectiveness of this implementation using only multi-core GPCPU. Our implementation is fully compatible with sequential implementation. When the algorithm is executed sequentially it utilizes only 25% of total computational power of a GPCPU for any image resolution, while its modified algorithm is able to utilize close to 100% for high resolution images. The resulting algorithm is up to 5x faster than its sequential counterpart.
Many content-based image search and instance retrieval systems implement bag-of-visual-words strategies for candidate selection. visual processing of an image results in hundreds of visual words that make up a documen...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538650356
Many content-based image search and instance retrieval systems implement bag-of-visual-words strategies for candidate selection. visual processing of an image results in hundreds of visual words that make up a document, and these words are used to build an inverted index. Query processing then consists of an initial candidate selection phase that queries the inverted index, followed by more complex reranking of the candidates using various image features. The initial phase typically uses disjunctive top-k query processingalgorithms originally proposed for searching text collections. Our objective in this paper is to optimize the performance of disjunctive top-k computation for candidate selection in content-based instance retrieval systems. While there has been extensive previous work on optimizing this phase for textual search engines, we are unaware of any published work that studies this problem for instance retrieval, where both index and query data are quite different from the distributions commonly found and exploited in the textual case. Using data from a commercial large-scale instance retrieval system, we address this challenge in three steps. First, we analyze the quantitative properties of index structures and queries in the system, and discuss how they differ from the case of text retrieval. Second, we describe an optimized term-at-a-time retrieval strategy that significantly outperforms baseline term-at-a-time and document-at-a-time strategies, achieving up to 66% speed-up over the most efficient baseline. Finally, we show that due to the different properties of the data, several common safe and unsafe early termination techniques from the literature fail to provide any significant performance benefits.
We propose a 3D object detection and pose estimation method for automated driving using stereo images. In contrast to existing stereo-based approaches, we focus not only on cars, but on all types of road users and can...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538670255
We propose a 3D object detection and pose estimation method for automated driving using stereo images. In contrast to existing stereo-based approaches, we focus not only on cars, but on all types of road users and can ensure real-time capability through GPU implementation of the entire processing chain. These are essential conditions to exploit an algorithm for highly automated driving. Semantic information is provided by a deep convolutional neural network and used together with disparity and geometric constraints to recover accurate 3D bounding boxes. Experiments on the challenging KITTI 3D object detection benchmark show results that are within the range of the best image-based algorithms, while the runtime is only about a fifth. This makes our algorithm the first real-time image-based approach on KITTI.
Learning to rank is an essential component in an information retrieval system. The state-of-the-art ranking systems are often based on an ensemble of classifiers, such as Random Forest or LambdaMART, which aggregates ...
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The Information Bottleneck method allows to construct information-optimum message passing decoders for low-density parity-check codes. In such decoders lookup tables replace the classical node operations of the variab...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538656020
The Information Bottleneck method allows to construct information-optimum message passing decoders for low-density parity-check codes. In such decoders lookup tables replace the classical node operations of the variable and the check nodes. These lookup tables are designed using the Information Bottleneck principle of maximizing the relevant information. Unlike state-of-the-art decoders which use real valued log-likelihood ratios for decoding, the considered decoders do not process any real values, but only quantization indices. Nevertheless, they have performance extremely close to belief propagation decoding. Since hardware representation of unsigned integers is efficient and lookup table implementations have low complexity, it is reasonable to assume that the designed decoders offer advantages over their conventional counterparts in practice. In this paper, we evaluate, quantify and discuss these advantages in a practical experiment. Our focus lies on a software defined radio application, where the channel decoder is implemented on a digital signal processor. We present several implementations of the considered decoders and compare them with state-of-the-art decoders. Our results show considerable gains of the Information Bottleneck decoders in terms of bit error rate performance and net decoding throughput.
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