Despite the benefits introduced by robotic systems in abdominal Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), major complications can still affect the outcome of the procedure, such as intra-operative bleeding. One of the causes ...
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Despite the benefits introduced by robotic systems in abdominal Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), major complications can still affect the outcome of the procedure, such as intra-operative bleeding. One of the causes is attributed to accidental damages to arteries or veins by the surgical tools, and some of the possible risk factors are related to the lack of sub-surface visibilty. Assistive tools guiding the surgical gestures to prevent these kind of injuries would represent a relevant step towards safer clinical procedures. However, it is still challenging to develop computer vision systems able to fulfill the main requirements: (i) long term robustness, (ii) adaptation to environment/object variation and (iii) real time processing. The purpose of this paper is to develop computer vision algorithms to robustly track soft tissue areas (Safety Area, SA), defined intra-operatively by the surgeon based on the real-time endoscopic images, or registered from a pre-operative surgical plan. We propose a framework to combine an optical flow algorithm with a tracking-by-detection approach in order to be robust against failures caused by: (i) partial occlusion, (ii) total occlusion, (iii) SA out of the field of view, (iv) deformation, (v) illumination changes, (vi) abrupt camera motion, (vii), blur and (viii) smoke. A Bayesian inference-based approach is used to detect the failure of the tracker, based on online context information. A Model Update Strategy (MUpS) is also proposed to improve the SA re-detection after failures, taking into account the changes of appearance of the SA model due to contact with instruments or image noise. The performance of the algorithm was assessed on two datasets, representing ex-vivo organs and in-vivo surgical scenarios. Results show that the proposed framework, enhanced with MUpS, is capable of maintain high tracking performance for extended periods of time (similar or equal to 4 min - containing the aforementioned events) with high precisi
Most processing methods used in SSVEP-based BCI systems use fixed time windows for frequency identification. Due to the variable nature of the EEG signal timing, the use of fixed time windows is not appropriate. In th...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728158150
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728158167
Most processing methods used in SSVEP-based BCI systems use fixed time windows for frequency identification. Due to the variable nature of the EEG signal timing, the use of fixed time windows is not appropriate. In this paper, a new algorithm for floating windows is proposed and evaluated with CCA and LASSO frequency detection methods. The results show that the use of the moving window algorithm for LASSO and CCA methods improves the maximum percentage of frequency identification accuracy by 3.76% and 6.25% respectively. Furthermore, this method decreases the frequency identification time to 0.55 seconds and 0.79 seconds compared to the fixed window algorithm. Advantages such as being able to apply to all frequency recognition methods, increasing the frequency identification accuracy at a certain time of processing compared to fixed windows, adding unlabeled state and adaptability based on system requirements make this algorithm one of the best candidates for SSVEP-based BCI systems.
The objective of this mobile hand-held microscopic device is to provide aid to people residing in developing countries with early detection of various blood and gastrointestinal diseases. This device is created using ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538678107
The objective of this mobile hand-held microscopic device is to provide aid to people residing in developing countries with early detection of various blood and gastrointestinal diseases. This device is created using a cell scope attached to the camera lens of the phone. The detection of disease is done using imageprocessingalgorithms which are stored on a cloud based server to generate reports and efficiently send results to the end user. The main goal behind the device is to create a revolution in the world of technology and healthcare by facilitating easier approaches of disease detection and prevention in rural areas.
Secure encryption algorithms with advanced key executive techniques constantly help to achieve privacy, verification, and security of the data and curtail the overheads of the system. Currently, the prominent cryptogr...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728112619
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728112626
Secure encryption algorithms with advanced key executive techniques constantly help to achieve privacy, verification, and security of the data and curtail the overheads of the system. Currently, the prominent cryptographic technique is the Advance Encryption Standard (AES). The 128-bit pipelined cipher AES components adopt the symmetric-block cipher algorithm for encryption of the data. Our application achieves a high-level of encryption of 25.6 Gbps with an effective inter-and-intra-round layout. This module is designed on Xilinx ISE® Design Suite 14.7 and optimized for faster conversion speeds as the module is based on the pipeline architecture to perform the repeated array of operations known as the round. The designed module is suitable for high-security data communication, imageprocessing, and other embedded applications. Pipelined architecture reduces the time associated with each encryption process and decreases the total time it takes for a plaintext block to encrypt.
While classical imageprocessingalgorithms were designed for scalar-valued (binary or grayscale) images, new technologies have made it commonplace to work with vector-valued ones. These technologies can involve new t...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319668246;9783319668239
While classical imageprocessingalgorithms were designed for scalar-valued (binary or grayscale) images, new technologies have made it commonplace to work with vector-valued ones. These technologies can involve new types of sensors, as in remote sensing, but also mathematical models leading to an increased cardinality at each pixel. This work analyzes the role of first-order differentiation in vector-valued images;specifically, we explore a novel operator to produce a 2D vector from a Jacobian matrix, in order to represent the variation in a vector-valued image as a planar feature.
In industrial collaborative robotics, operators and robots perform complex tasks working together without physical barriers. Under this premise, the availability of a flexible, robust and fast interaction system betwe...
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In industrial collaborative robotics, operators and robots perform complex tasks working together without physical barriers. Under this premise, the availability of a flexible, robust and fast interaction system between the robot and the workers is a necessity. Human beings use voice and gestures to achieve a natural interaction. Taking into account the environmental conditions usually present in workshops with noise and poor lighting conditions, combining both communication channels can contribute to make the interaction more robust. This research work presents a solution to define, setup and run a flexible and robust gesture interaction system to integrate in collaborative robotics applications. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the 51st CIRP conference on Manufacturing systems.
In this work, we propose a deep-learning approach for aligning cross-spectral images. Our approach utilizes a learned descriptor invariant to different spectra. Multi-modal images of the same scene capture different c...
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Solar energy is the most readily available and the cheapest form of energy available. In a data-driven world of today, the data analysis tools combined with machine learning algorithms and sensors can be used to analy...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781450363532
Solar energy is the most readily available and the cheapest form of energy available. In a data-driven world of today, the data analysis tools combined with machine learning algorithms and sensors can be used to analyze and crunch data to solve various problems plaguing the solar industry. Designing a system that recognizes the accurate positions for installing the PV modules on a rooftop, predict the power production capacity of the solar power plant and also manage the maintenance cycles, will not only help in minimizing the losses due to installation at improper places but also will increase the efficiency of the plant and reduce the cost of electricity production as a whole. This paper aims at using machine learning algorithms and image analysis tools to find the proper areas wherein the PV modules can be installed so as to maximize the production and at the same time predicting and visualizing the maintenance cycles of the power plant. The paper also aims to provide relevant data points for prediction of weather and power, which will be tabulated in a user-friendly way for further analytics.
In this paper, a smart approach is proposed and developed to enable micro-UAV surveillance with extremely limited onboard computation resources. Recently, a few algorithms have been proposed to detect ground vehicles ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538670576
In this paper, a smart approach is proposed and developed to enable micro-UAV surveillance with extremely limited onboard computation resources. Recently, a few algorithms have been proposed to detect ground vehicles from UAV aerial vision views. But most of them are processed via air-ground communication and abundant ground computing platforms. However, this study concentrates on the onboard processing scheme of detection and classification on ground moving vehicles by one flying micro UAV. A unified scheme of saliency detection and shallow convolution neural network classification makes a compatible surveillance performance with the only onboard processor. Under such circumstances, an experimental study is conducted on the developed micro-UAV onboard surveillance approach. The experimental results show that the proposed approach can definitely detect and classify at less six kinds of ground moving vehicles up to similar to 14 fps with only limited onboard computation. This work demonstrates practical feasibility for online vision processing of micro-UAV swarm surveillance on ground objects.
We present a formulation of deep learning that aims at producing a large margin classifier. The notion of margin, minimum distance to a decision boundary, has served as the foundation of several theoretically profound...
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We present a formulation of deep learning that aims at producing a large margin classifier. The notion of margin, minimum distance to a decision boundary, has served as the foundation of several theoretically profound and empirically successful results for both classification and regression tasks. However, most large margin algorithms are applicable only to shallow models with a preset feature representation;and conventional margin methods for neural networks only enforce margin at the output layer. Such methods are therefore not well suited for deep networks. In this work, we propose a novel loss function to impose a margin on any chosen set of layers of a deep network (including input and hidden layers). Our formulation allows choosing any l(p) norm (p > 1) on the metric measuring the margin. We demonstrate that the decision boundary obtained by our loss has nice properties compared to standard classification loss functions. Specifically, we show improved empirical results on the MNIST, CIFAR-10 and imageNet datasets on multiple tasks: generalization from small training sets, corrupted labels, and robustness against adversarial perturbations. The resulting loss is general and complementary to existing data augmentation (such as random/adversarial input transform) and regularization techniques such as weight decay, dropout, and batch norm.(2 )
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