The concealed weapon, like blade, detection and identification is one of the most puzzling task faces by security agency. Researchers have demonstrated MMW imaging systems to detect concealed targets like gun, knife a...
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(纸本)9781509033324
The concealed weapon, like blade, detection and identification is one of the most puzzling task faces by security agency. Researchers have demonstrated MMW imaging systems to detect concealed targets like gun, knife and scissors but detection of small size target like blade with different orientation is still challenging due to resolution limitation of MMW imaging system. The success of small size concealed target detection depends upon scanning step size of imaging system and dielectric property of covering cloths and hidden object. Therefore, resolution enhancement techniques may play a very important role for small size concealed target detection. To perceive such challenges, active V-band MMW radar conjunction with imageprocessing techniques has been demonstrated for detection and identification of concealed blade and obtained two dimensional good quality of images of concealed blade under different cloths at various angle. For this purpose, a critical analysis of various signal and imageprocessing has been carried out and integrated following algorithms like singular value decomposition (SVD) for clutter reduction, discrete wavelet transform (DWT) for resolution enhancement, thresholding for target detection and in last artificial neural network (ANN) based algorithm for rotation invariant target identification. An imageprocessing based methodology has been proposed by which the concealed target like blade can be successfully detected.
This paper addresses the problem of using live and pre-recorded video sources in 3D reconstruction systems. Typical photogrammetry packages use images generated from digital photography cameras such as DSLRs. 3D recon...
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(纸本)9781509020508
This paper addresses the problem of using live and pre-recorded video sources in 3D reconstruction systems. Typical photogrammetry packages use images generated from digital photography cameras such as DSLRs. 3D reconstruction algorithms require the intrinsic information to be stored in the EXIF header of a digital photograph. Live video systems don't store this information and more importantly don't produce a concise sequence of distinct frames. This paper presents an approach to using both live and pre-recorded video sources with 3D Structure from Motion systems through the implementation of a pre-processor. This approach filters the video feed with the aid of the Laplacian operator and feature-based methods to create an optimal sequence for both on-line and off-line 3D reconstruction systems.
Secondary motions of a target, such as rotating blades of a helicopter's main rotor, induce a Doppler modulation around the main Doppler shift. This represents a unique feature of the target itself, known as micro...
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Secondary motions of a target, such as rotating blades of a helicopter's main rotor, induce a Doppler modulation around the main Doppler shift. This represents a unique feature of the target itself, known as micro-Doppler signature, and can be used for classification purposes. In this student research highlight a model-based automatic helicopter classification algorithm is presented. It is a parametric classification approach based on a sparse signal recovery method and it is independent of both the initial position of the blades and the aspect angle. The algorithm is tested on simulated and real data.
This paper is concerned with experimental analysis of visual inverted pendulum servoing system. Firstly, visual inverted pendulum servoing system is introduced, and three typical imageprocessingalgorithms are descri...
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(纸本)9789811026690;9789811026683
This paper is concerned with experimental analysis of visual inverted pendulum servoing system. Firstly, visual inverted pendulum servoing system is introduced, and three typical imageprocessingalgorithms are described. These three algorithms are then employed to process the image of inverted pendulum captured by camera. Comparative experiments are operated, and the detection precision and real time performance are analyzed. This lays a solid foundation for future control research of visual inverted pendulum servoing system.
Many high dimensional data mining applications involve the nearest neighbor search (NNS) on a KD-tree. Randomized KD-tree forest enables fast medium and large scale NNS among high dimensional data points. In this pape...
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(纸本)9781479953417
Many high dimensional data mining applications involve the nearest neighbor search (NNS) on a KD-tree. Randomized KD-tree forest enables fast medium and large scale NNS among high dimensional data points. In this paper, we present massively parallel algorithms for the construction of KD-tree forest, and NNS on a cluster equipped with massively parallel architecture (MPA) devices of graphical processing unit (GPU). This design can accelerate the KD-tree forest construction and NNS significantly for the signature of histograms of orientations (SHOT) 3D local descriptors by factors of up to 5.27 and 20.44, respectively. Our implementations will potentially benefit realtime high dimensional descriptors matching.
Today's computer systems often contains several different processing units aside from the CPU. Among these the GPU is a very common processing unit with an immense compute power that is available in almost all com...
Today's computer systems often contains several different processing units aside from the CPU. Among these the GPU is a very common processing unit with an immense compute power that is available in almost all computer systems. How do we make use of this processing power that lies within our machines? One answer is the OpenCL framework that is designed for just this, to open up the possibilities of using all the different types of processing units in a computer system. This thesis will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using the integrated GPU available in a basic workstation computer for computation of imageprocessing and sorting algorithms. These tasks are computationally intensive and the authors will analyze if an integrated GPU is up to the task of accelerating the processing of these algorithms. The OpenCL framework makes it possible to run one implementation on different processing units, to provide perspective we will benchmark our implementations on both the GPU and the CPU and compare the results. A heterogeneous approach that combines the two above mentioned processing units will also be tested and discussed. The OpenCL framework is analyzed from a development perspective and what advantages and disadvantages it brings to the development process will be presented.
NASA Technical Reports Server (Ntrs) 20130011239: Vectorized Rebinning Algorithm for Fast Data Down-Sampling by NASA Technical Reports Server (Ntrs); NASA Technical Reports Server (Ntrs); published by
NASA Technical Reports Server (Ntrs) 20130011239: Vectorized Rebinning Algorithm for Fast Data Down-Sampling by NASA Technical Reports Server (Ntrs); NASA Technical Reports Server (Ntrs); published by
This paper represents a literature review of research works concerning the reconstruction of forms of buried objects in an homogeneous soil, applied for the reconstruction of forms of underground cavities. First, we w...
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This paper aims at demonstrating the usefulness of integrating virtual 3D models in vehicle localization systems. Usually, vehicle localization algorithms are based on multi-sensor data fusion. Global Navigation Satel...
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This paper aims at demonstrating the usefulness of integrating virtual 3D models in vehicle localization systems. Usually, vehicle localization algorithms are based on multi-sensor data fusion. Global Navigation Satellite systems GNSS, as Global Positioning System GPS, are used to provide measurements of the geographic location. Nevertheless, GNSS solutions suffer from signal attenuation and masking, multipath phenomena and lack of visibility, especially in urban areas. That leads to degradation or even a total loss of the positioning information and then unsatisfactory performances. Dead-reckoning and inertial sensors are then often added to back up GPS in case of inaccurate or unavailable measurements or if high frequency location estimation is required. However, the dead-reckoning localization may drift in the long term due to error accumulation. To back up GPS and compensate the drift of the dead reckoning sensors based localization, two approaches integrating a virtual 3D model are proposed in registered with respect to the scene perceived by an on-board sensor. From the real/virtual scenes matching, the transformation (rotation and translation) between the real sensor and the virtual sensor (whose position and orientation are known) can be computed. These two approaches lead to determine the pose of the real sensor embedded on the vehicle. In the first approach, the considered perception sensor is a camera and in the second approach, it is a laser scanner. The first approach is based on image matching between the virtual image extracted from the 3D city model and the real image acquired by the camera. The two major parts are: 1. Detection and matching of feature points in real and virtual images (three features points are compared: Harris corner detector, SIFT and SURF). 2. Pose computation using POSIT algorithm. The second approach is based on the on board horizontal laser scanner that provides a set of distances between it and the environment. This set of di
Manually collecting, identifying, archiving and retrieving specimen images is an expensive and time-consuming work for entomologists. There is a clear need to introduce fast systems integrated with modern image proces...
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Manually collecting, identifying, archiving and retrieving specimen images is an expensive and time-consuming work for entomologists. There is a clear need to introduce fast systems integrated with modern imageprocessing and analysis algorithms to accelerate the process. In this paper, we describe the development of an automated moth species identification and retrieval system (SPIR) using computer vision and pattern recognition techniques. The core of the system is a probabilistic model that infers Semantically Related Visual (SRV) attributes from low-level visual features of moth images in the training set, where moth wings are segmented into information-rich patches from which the local features are extracted, and the SRV attributes are provided by human experts as ground-truth. For the large amount of unlabeled test images in the database or added into the database later on, an automated identification process is evoked to translate the detected salient regions of low-level visual features on the moth wings into meaningful semantic SRV attributes. We further propose a novel network analysis based approach to explore and utilize the co-occurrence patterns of SRV attributes as contextual cues to improve individual attribute detection accuracy. Working with a small set of labeled training images, the approach constructs a network with nodes representing the SRV attributes and weighted edges denoting the co-occurrence correlation. A fast modularity maximization algorithm is proposed to detect the co-occurrence patterns as communities in the network. A random walk process working on the discovered co-occurrence patterns is applied to refine the individual attribute detection results. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is evaluated in automated moth identification and attribute-based image retrieval. In addition, a novel image descriptor called SRV attribute signature is introduced to record the visual and semantic properties of an image and is used to compar
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