This paper introduces an original investigation that takes advantages of an economical depth-map camera and state of the art algorithms for 3D face recognition. For this research, we have prototyped a face recognition...
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Plants are considered as one of the greatest assets in the field of Indian Science of Medicine called Ayurveda. Some plants have its medicinal values apart from serving as the source of food. The innovation in the all...
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(纸本)9781509006120
Plants are considered as one of the greatest assets in the field of Indian Science of Medicine called Ayurveda. Some plants have its medicinal values apart from serving as the source of food. The innovation in the allopathic medicines has degraded the significance of these therapeutic plants. People failed to have their medications at their door step instead went behind the fastest cure unaware of its side effects. One among the reasons is the lack of knowledge about identifying medicinal plants among the normal ones. So, a vision based approach is being employed to create an automated system which identifies the plants and provides its medicinal values thus helping even a common man to be aware of the medicinal plants around them. This paper discusses about the formation of the feature set which is the important step in recognizing any plant species.
Pitching is one of the most important elements of baseball. Therefore, both professional and amateur players are interested in measuring their pitching performance, particularly their pitch speed. Conventional equipme...
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Pitching is one of the most important elements of baseball. Therefore, both professional and amateur players are interested in measuring their pitching performance, particularly their pitch speed. Conventional equipment such as radar speed guns can be used to measure pitch speed;however this approach is unpopular among amateur players because of its cost. Therefore, we proposed a vision-based speed-measuring method for baseball pitches and developed a smartphone application called iPhoneSG, which can measure the speed of pitched baseballs on a real baseball diamond in near-real-time using a standalone image-processing technique on the smartphone. Relative to conventional radar speed guns, which must be placed on the extended line of the ball trajectory, iPhoneSG widens the possible area of data acquisition. Considering the popularity of smartphones, iPhoneSG provides players with a convenient means of measuring pitch speeds. We confirmed the basic viability of the proposed method as implemented in our iPhoneSG application. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://***/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of KES international
Exudates are one of the abnormalities present on the retina which are used for identification of diseases like Diabetic Retinopathy and Macular Edema. There arises a need for automated and correct segmentation of exud...
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(纸本)9781509032518
Exudates are one of the abnormalities present on the retina which are used for identification of diseases like Diabetic Retinopathy and Macular Edema. There arises a need for automated and correct segmentation of exudates from digital fundus images. This paper proposes an automated computervision technique for efficient exudates segmentation from fundus images. The proposed method segments the exudates using an adaptive intensity based threshold which is selected by strategically combining first order statistical parameters and local thresholding based method. The proposed technique correctly detects exudates from the fundus images with an average computation time of 9 seconds. The proposed method is computationally fast and can be used in imageprocessing based applications for diagnosis of ocular diseases.
Automated blood cell counting instruments are very important tools, daily used by haematologists and medical analysts to perform a complete blood count (CBC). The results of the CBC may be complex to interpret but cou...
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Automated blood cell counting instruments are very important tools, daily used by haematologists and medical analysts to perform a complete blood count (CBC). The results of the CBC may be complex to interpret but could lead to important decisions regarding the patient medical treatment. The main focus of this research is oriented to a CBC technique, named white blood cell count (WBCC). Generally, the WBCC is performed by skilled medical operators on peripheral blood smears in order to make a correct count and to obtain useful information such as cell abnormalities or the physical status. The manual WBCC is associated with several challenges, in fact it is a time-consuming, labour intensive and expensive process. This paper introduces a reliable automated WBCC system based on imageprocessing techniques. The main aims are to speed up and to improve the accuracy of the WBCC process. The proposed automated system introduces a new approach to segment white blood cells taking into account the knowledge acquired from a training set formed of the three main classes elements, the white blood cells, the red blood cells and the plasma present in a blood smear image. The segmented regions containing only the white blood cells are subjected to a further step in which the count is performed using the circular Hough transform exploiting the grey-level information. The method has been tested on three different public datasets, in order to highlight the accuracy of the segmentation approach with different colour images and illumination conditions. The experimental results obtained on these datasets demonstrate that the proposed method is very accurate and robust achieving an accuracy of at least 99.2% in white blood cells counting.
Exudates are one of the abnormalities present in the eye which can lead to vision loss. Fundus images may consist of artifacts which occur during image acquisition and hamper the accuracy of detection of exudates. The...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509032518
Exudates are one of the abnormalities present in the eye which can lead to vision loss. Fundus images may consist of artifacts which occur during image acquisition and hamper the accuracy of detection of exudates. There is a need to develop an imageprocessing based techniques for automated and correct segmentation of exudates from fundus images. This paper demonstrates an automatic computervision algorithm for efficient identification of the exudates from fundus images by strategic fusion of techniques i.e. contrast normalization, top-hat transformation and average filtering. The proposed technique correctly detects exudates from the fundus images and rejects the artifacts and reflections. The average computation time for exudates segmentation from fundus images is 11 seconds. The proposed method is computationally efficient and robust and can be used for real time applications.
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Almazmome, SafaZhang, LiNewcastle Univ
Sch Comp Sci Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU Tyne & Wear England Northumbria Univ
Dept Comp Sci & Digital Technol Fac Engn & Environm Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8ST Tyne & Wear England
This research proposes an object recognition system using imageprocessing and neural network based classification. The system is capable of recognizing 7 objects from an uncluttered background by extracting color, te...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509040933
This research proposes an object recognition system using imageprocessing and neural network based classification. The system is capable of recognizing 7 objects from an uncluttered background by extracting color, texture and shape features. The proposed system consists of image segmentation, feature extraction and classification. Diverse neural network topology settings have been employed for evaluation. Experimental results indicate that the proposed system achieves high accuracy 98% accurate for real-time object recognition tasks.
In this paper, we propose a computervision system that detects the external defects of orange citrus fruits using multi-spectral imaging sensor. First, the proposed algorithm segments the orange fruit from the captur...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509009169
In this paper, we propose a computervision system that detects the external defects of orange citrus fruits using multi-spectral imaging sensor. First, the proposed algorithm segments the orange fruit from the captured Near-Infra Red (NIR) and RGB images using only the NIR component. Second, some adaptive pre-processing techniques are applied on the segmented RGB and NIR orange fruit images. Hence, a thresholding technique is utilized in order to detect the defects in seven different color components of the orange fruit. Finally, a voting process is applied on the seven thresholded color components images to determine if the citrus fruit image is defected or defect free. The overall accuracy of the algorithm is more than 95%, and the proposed algorithm can process three images of resolution (640x480 pixels) per second.
This work aims to develop a system for the automation of the actuation protocols against possible environmental impacts generated by civil works. This system involves from the detection, control and physic tracking of...
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In recent years, several datasets have been released that include images and text, giving impulse to new methods that combine natural language processing and computervision. However, there is a need for datasets of i...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9782951740891
In recent years, several datasets have been released that include images and text, giving impulse to new methods that combine natural language processing and computervision. However, there is a need for datasets of images in their natural textual context. The ION corpus contains 300K news articles published between August 2014 - 2015 in five online newspapers from two countries. The 1-year coverage over multiple publishers ensures a broad scope in terms of topics, image quality and editorial viewpoints. The corpus consists of JSON-LD files with the following data about each article: the original URL of the article on the news publisher's website, the date of publication, the headline of the article, the URL of the image displayed with the article (if any), and the caption of that image. Neither the article text nor the images themselves are included in the corpus. Instead, the images are distributed as high-dimensional feature vectors extracted from a Convolutional Neural Network, anticipating their use in computervision tasks. The article text is represented as a list of automatically generated entity and topic annotations in the form of Wikipedia/DBpedia pages. This facilitates the selection of subsets of the corpus for separate analysis or evaluation.
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