We study the challenges of image-based retrieval when the database consists of videos. This variation of visual search is important for a broad range of applications that require indexing video databases based on thei...
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Longitudinal epidemiological studies like the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP) analyze a group of thousands of subjects (a cohort) by imposing a multitude of socio-demographic and biological factors. Epidemiologica...
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The ability to detect the horizon on a real-time basis in full-motion video is an important capability to aid and facilitate real-time processing of full-motion videos for the purposes such as object detection, recogn...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781628410136
The ability to detect the horizon on a real-time basis in full-motion video is an important capability to aid and facilitate real-time processing of full-motion videos for the purposes such as object detection, recognition and other video/image segmentation applications. In this paper, we propose a method for real-time horizon detection that is designed to be used as a front-end processing unit for a real-time marine object detection system that carries out object detection and tracking on full-motion videos captured by ship/harbor-mounted cameras, Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAvs) or any other method of surveillance for Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA). Unlike existing horizon detection work, we cannot assume a priori the angle or nature (for e.g. straight line) of the horizon, due to the nature of the application domain and the data. Therefore, the proposed real-time algorithm is designed to identify the horizon at any angle and irrespective of objects appearing close to and/or occluding the horizon line (for e.g. trees, vehicles at a distance) by accounting for its non-linear nature. We use a simple two-stage hierarchical methodology, leveraging color-based features, to quickly isolate the region of the image containing the horizon and then perform a more fine-grained horizon detection operation. In this paper, we present our real-time horizon detection results using our algorithm on real-world full-motion video data from a variety of surveillance sensors like UAvs and ship mounted cameras confirming the real-time applicability of this method and its ability to detect horizon with no a priori assumptions.
Coordinated Multipoint systems (CoMP) have spurred considerable research activity in recent years as they enable both capacity and coverage improvement over conventional cellular systems with open issues in the design...
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valença, J.ICIST
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra Rua Pedro Nunes Quinta da Nora Coimbra3030-199 Portugal
Technological innovations based on close-range imaging have arisen. The developments are related with both the advances in mathematical algorithms and acquisition equipment. This evolution allows to acquire data with ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781629935201
Technological innovations based on close-range imaging have arisen. The developments are related with both the advances in mathematical algorithms and acquisition equipment. This evolution allows to acquire data with large and powerful sensors and the fast and efficient processing of data. In general, the preservation of built heritage have applied these technological innovations very successfully in their different areas of intervention, namely, photogrammetry, digital imageprocessing and multispectral image analysis. Furthermore, commercial packages of software and hardware have emerged. Thus, guidelines to best-practice procedures and to validate the results usually obtained should be established. Therefore, simple and easy to understand concepts, even for nonexperts in the field, should relate the characteristics of: (i) objects under study;(ii) acquisition conditions;(iii) methods applied;and (iv) equipment applied. In this scope, the limits of validity of the methods and a comprehensive protocol to achieve the required precision and accuracy for structural analysis is a mandatory task. Application of close-range photogrammetry to build 3D geometric models and for evaluation of displacements are herein presented. Parameters such as distance-to-object, sensor size and focal length, are correlated to the precision and accuracy achieved for displacement in both experimental and on site environment. This paper shows an early stage study. The aim consist in defining simple expressions to estimate the characteristics of the equipment and/or the conditions for image acquisition, depending on the required precision and accuracy. The results will be used to define tentative guidelines considered the all procedure, from image acquisition to final results of coordinates and displacements.
In endoscopic images, significant barrel-type distortions are introduced in case of deploying wide-angle lenses. In this work, the effect of lens distortion correction on the human experts’ classification performance...
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We spend more than 80% of our lives indoors. Future indoor robot navigation is based on intelligent systems that provide accurate and smart information. In this paper we introduce a novel Aesthetic Marker decoding sys...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479940325
We spend more than 80% of our lives indoors. Future indoor robot navigation is based on intelligent systems that provide accurate and smart information. In this paper we introduce a novel Aesthetic Marker decoding system, which finds and decodes machine readable visual markers inside buildings. Focused on seamless integration of visual code into our everyday human environment, our application has custom developed algorithms and functions that handle aesthetic marker data. As a result, imageprocessing time was reduced and extracted information was maximized to calculate accurate robot position. A new Aesthetic Marker decoding method was created connecting the digital and physical world.
Multichannel imaging systems have several potential applications such as multimedia, surveillance, medical imaging and machine vision, and have therefore been a hot research topic in recent years. Such imaging systems...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781628410860
Multichannel imaging systems have several potential applications such as multimedia, surveillance, medical imaging and machine vision, and have therefore been a hot research topic in recent years. Such imaging systems, inspired by natural compound eyes, have many channels, each covering only a portion of the total field-of-view of the system. As a result, these systems provide a wide field-of-view (FOv) while having a small volume and a low weight. Different approaches have been employed to realize a multichannel imaging system. We demonstrated that the different channels of the imaging system can be designed in such a way that they can have each different imaging properties (angular resolution, FOv, focal length). Using optical ray-tracing software (CODE v), we have designed a miniaturized multiresolution imaging system that contains three channels each consisting of four aspherical lens surfaces fabricated from PMMA material through ultra-precision diamond tooling. The first channel possesses the largest angular resolution (0.0096 degrees) and narrowest FOv (7 degrees), whereas the third channel has the widest FOv (80 degrees) and the smallest angular resolution (0.078 degrees). The second channel has intermediate properties. Such a multiresolution capability allows different imageprocessingalgorithms to be implemented on the different segments of an image sensor. This paper presents the experimental proof-of-concept demonstration of the imaging system using a commercial CMOS sensor and gives an in-depth analysis of the obtained results. Experimental images captured with the three channels are compared with the corresponding simulated images. The experimental MTF of the channels have also been calculated from the captured images of a slanted edge target test. This multichannel multiresolution approach opens the opportunity for low-cost compact imaging systems that can be equipped with smart imaging capabilities.
The main current directions of research in nanoscale images processing of a high degree of detail are shown in the paper. A system of algorithms for solving a wide range of tasks for the structural analysis of the ima...
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The main current directions of research in nanoscale images processing of a high degree of detail are shown in the paper. A system of algorithms for solving a wide range of tasks for the structural analysis of the images of industrial materials has been developed. The experimental results of the developed algorithms have been presented in the article. The results of the imageprocessing of industrial materials have been shown.
image encryption is a hotspot of multimedia security. Many researchers adopted chaotic systems as pseudo-random number generators in image encryptions considering the properties of high sensitivity, large periodicity,...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479958368
image encryption is a hotspot of multimedia security. Many researchers adopted chaotic systems as pseudo-random number generators in image encryptions considering the properties of high sensitivity, large periodicity, low computation cost, Unpredictable, and etc. However, there is no deterministic approach to prove whether the way of using chaotic systems in an image encryption algorithm is secure or not. In this paper, a cryptanalysis is made to decipher a recent proposed chaotic JPEG image encryption algorithm by reforming the scrambled orders via correlation analysis, due to the improper use of chaotic sequence. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of this method.
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