Segmenting iris texture from an input image is an important step for recognising iris pattern. It is still a difficult task to localise available texture regions from non-ideal iris images captured in non-cooperative ...
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Segmenting iris texture from an input image is an important step for recognising iris pattern. It is still a difficult task to localise available texture regions from non-ideal iris images captured in non-cooperative situations such as lighting variations, on-the-move and off-angle view. To address this problem, this study presents a novel algorithm for accurate and fast iris segmentation. An adaptive mean shift procedure is built to find the rough position of the iris centre. According to the localisation result, a circle is set as the initial iris contour. After combining the statistical texture prior modelled as Markov random field, a merged active contour model is established in terms of level set theory. Under the MAC model, the initial contour is iteratively driven to real iris boundaries. During the curve evolving process, eyelids, eyelashes, reflections and shadows can be simultaneously detected and labelled in iris regions. The novelty of the proposed method mainly includes developing a new modified mean shift procedure for fast and robust iris localisation, and successfully incorporating the local probabilistic prior, boundary and region information into the designed active contour model for accurate texture segmentation. Extensive experimental results on various challenging iris images show that our method can effectively and accurately perform iris segmentation with low computational complexity and has very promising applications in non-cooperative recognition systems.
Face recognition is one of the most important tasks in computervision and Biometrics. Texture is an important spatial feature useful for identifying objects or regions of interest in an image. Texture based face reco...
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In document image analysis and especially in handwritten document image recognition, standard datasets play vital roles for evaluating performances of algorithms and comparing results obtained by different groups of r...
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Numerous military bases have a requirement, based on the Sikes Act, to maintain the base's natural environment while still meeting military mission objectives. One method used to accomplish this is by working towa...
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Nursing documentation is all the information that nurses register regarding the clinical assessment and care of a patient. Currently, these records are manually written in a narrative style;consequently, their quality...
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(纸本)9783642250842
Nursing documentation is all the information that nurses register regarding the clinical assessment and care of a patient. Currently, these records are manually written in a narrative style;consequently, their quality and completeness largely depends on the nurse's expertise. This paper presents an algorithm based on standardized nursing language that searches and sorts nursing diagnoses by its relevance through a ranking. Diagnoses identification is performed by searching and matching patterns among a set of patient needs or symptoms and the international standard of nursing diagnoses NANDA. Three sorting methods were evaluated using 6 utility cases. The results suggest that TF-IDF (83.43% accuracy) and assignment of weights by hit (80.73% accuracy) are the two best alternatives to implement the ranking of diagnoses.
Human age estimation has recently become an active research topic in computervision and patternrecognition, because of many potential applications in reality. In this paper we propose to use the kernel partial least...
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The three-volume set LNCS 6891, 6892 and 6893 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2011, held in Toronto, Cana...
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(数字)9783642236266
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(纸本)9783642236259
The three-volume set LNCS 6891, 6892 and 6893 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2011, held in Toronto, Canada, in September 2011. Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 251 revised papers from 819 submissions for presentation in three volumes. The third volume includes 82 papers organized in topical sections on computer-aided diagnosis and machine learning, and segmentation.
This paper presents a multi-agent solution for cooperative visual mapping using planar regions. Each agent is assumed to be equipped with a conventional camera and has limited communication capabilities. Our approach ...
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This paper presents a multi-agent solution for cooperative visual mapping using planar regions. Each agent is assumed to be equipped with a conventional camera and has limited communication capabilities. Our approach starts building topological maps from independent image sequences where natural landmarks extracted from conventional images are grouped to create a graph of planes. With this approach the features observed in several images belonging to the same planar region are stored only once, reducing the size of the individual maps. In a distributed scenario this is very important because smaller maps can be transmitted faster, which makes our approach better suited for cooperative mapping. The later fusion of the individual maps is obtained via distributed consensus without any initial information about the relations between the different maps. Experiments with real images in complex scenarios show the good performance of our proposal. (c) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Identification of pharmaceutical tablets plays a key role in preventing mix-ups among various types of tablets. Since identification of tablets is most frequently done by imprints, good imprint quality, a property tha...
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(纸本)9781601321916
Identification of pharmaceutical tablets plays a key role in preventing mix-ups among various types of tablets. Since identification of tablets is most frequently done by imprints, good imprint quality, a property that makes the imprint readable, is of utmost importance. In this paper, we propose a novel method for automated visual inspection of tablets for defect detection and imprint quality inspection. Performance of the method was evaluated on a real tablet image database of imprinted tablets. A "gold standard" was established by manually classifying the tablets into good and defective class. The ROC (receiver operating characteristics) analysis indicated that the proposed method yields better sensitivity and specificity than the previous defect detection method.
The support vector machine (SVM) has become a popular classifier in patternrecognition, computervision, and other fields. Traditional SVM may result in a nonrobust solution for classifying complex data because its s...
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The support vector machine (SVM) has become a popular classifier in patternrecognition, computervision, and other fields. Traditional SVM may result in a nonrobust solution for classifying complex data because its separating hyperplane only reflects the marginal distance information of isolated support vectors, while discarding some useful class structural information. In this paper a new support vector classifier with neighborhood preserving constraint is proposed to enhance the support vectors by preserving the local geometric structure on the manifold of within-class samples. This structure can be represented as a weighted graph matrix and regulated by adding a preprocessing transform in standard SVM. Experimental results validate its effectiveness with comparison to related methods on several synthetic and real-world data sets and show its competence, especially for classifying high dimensional data in a small sample size case. (C) 2011 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). [DOI: 10.1117/1.3610982]
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