Techniques that can introduce low-dimensional feature representation with enhanced discriminatory power is of paramount importance in face recognition applications. It is well known that the distribution of face image...
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Techniques that can introduce low-dimensional feature representation with enhanced discriminatory power is of paramount importance in face recognition applications. It is well known that the distribution of face images, under a perceivable variation in viewpoint, illumination or facial expression, is highly nonlinear and complex. It is therefore, not surprising that linear techniques, such as those based on principle component analysis (PCA) or linear discriminant analysis (LDA) cannot provide reliable and robust solutions to those complex face recognition problems. We propose a kernel machine based discriminant analysis method, which deals with the nonlinearity of the face patterns' distribution. The proposed method also effectively solves the "small sample size" (SSS) problem which exists in most face recognition tasks. The new algorithm has been tested, in terms of error rate performance, on the multi-view UMIST Face Database. Results indicate that the proposed methodology outperform other commonly used approaches, such as the kernel-PCA (KPCA) and the generalized discriminant analysis (GDA).
An approach for cytologic diagnosis of thyroid cancer with the help of automatic morphometry is proposed. This approach is based on a developed computer analyser of images that is aimed at: automated processing.and bi...
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Lung cancer is one of the deadly and most common diseases in the world. Radiologists fail to diagnose small pulmonary nodules in as many as 30% of positive cases. Many methods have been proposed in the literature such...
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Lung cancer is one of the deadly and most common diseases in the world. Radiologists fail to diagnose small pulmonary nodules in as many as 30% of positive cases. Many methods have been proposed in the literature such as neural network algorithms. Recently, support vector machines (SVMs) had received increasing attention for patternrecognition. The advantage of SVM lies in better modeling the recognition process. The objective of this paper is to apply support vector machines SVMs for classification of lung nodules. The SVM classifier is trained with features extracted from 30 nodule images and 20 non-nodule images, and is tested with features out of 16 nodule/non-nodule images. The sensitivity of SVM classifier is found to be 87.5%. We intend to automate the pre-processing.detection process to further enhance the overall classification.
The problem of tree pattern matching for object recognition in images is computationally intensive in nature. In two-dimensional images, the objects can be represented through multiscale decomposition as tree structur...
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The problem of tree pattern matching for object recognition in images is computationally intensive in nature. In two-dimensional images, the objects can be represented through multiscale decomposition as tree structures. The pattern tree representing an object can be matched with a subject tree representing an image in order to detect the objects within the image. In this paper, we describe a new systolic algorithm and its realization as a VLSI chip for tree pattern matching. The hardware algorithm is based on a linear array of processing.elements (PEs) where the pattern matching is done in a pipelined fashion relying on nearest-neighbor communication between the PEs and the subject and pattern trees of arbitrary length can be processed using a fixed size PE array. The algorithm has an improved execution time of O(/spl lceil/m/a/spl rceil/n) required to perform the matching where in, a and n are the sizes of the pattern tree, processor array, subject tree respectively. A prototype CMOS VLSI chip implementing the proposed algorithm has been designed and verified It is shown that the hardware algorithm proposed in this work represent a significant improvement in terms of computational complexity, data flow, and architecture over the ones previously proposed for this problem.
An algorithm for the automatic construction of a 3d model of archaeological vessels using two different 3d algorithms is presented. In archeology the determination of the exact volume of arbitrary vessels is of import...
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This paper addresses long term tracking of multiple objects with occlusions. Bayesian networks are used to model the interaction among the detected tracks and for conflict management, allowing the tracker to update th...
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This paper addresses long term tracking of multiple objects with occlusions. Bayesian networks are used to model the interaction among the detected tracks and for conflict management, allowing the tracker to update the labelling decisions as soon as new information is available. If several objects overlap in the image domain and then become separated in the next frames, the proposed algorithm is able to accumulate the evidence extracted from the images and to disambiguate the competing labels. The system also provides a confidence degree for each labelling decision. Experimental results are provided to illustrate the performance of the proposed method for long term tracking of multiple pedestrians.
The location of the optic disc is of critical importance in retinal image analysis. In this work we improve on an approach introduced in [3] which localises an optic disc region through greylevel morphology followed b...
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This paper presents a novel method to retrieve segmented video shots based on their color content. The Temporal Color Correlogram captures the spatio-temporal relationship of colors in a video shot using co-occurrence...
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An emotion recognition system based on processing.of multiple physiological signals is presented. Our algorithm is developed and verified based on multiple subjects by presenting multimodal stimuli that were elaborate...
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An emotion recognition system based on processing.of multiple physiological signals is presented. Our algorithm is developed and verified based on multiple subjects by presenting multimodal stimuli that were elaborated to effectively induce emotions, and thus not dependent on single specific user. The system utilizes physiological signals that can be acquired without discomfort from body surface. Support vector machine was introduced as pattern classifier to overcome the difficulty of large overlap among clusters and large variance within cluster. Correct classification ratio was 77.8 and 61.2%, for emotion recognition problem of three and four categories, respectively. Another advantage of our system is that it requires shorter signal monitoring time than previous ones, and thus better suited for practical use.
Both parametric and implicit representations can be used to model 2D curves and 3D surfaces. Each has certain advantages compared to the other. Implicit polynomial (IP) methods are not as popular as parametric procedu...
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Both parametric and implicit representations can be used to model 2D curves and 3D surfaces. Each has certain advantages compared to the other. Implicit polynomial (IP) methods are not as popular as parametric procedures because the lack of general procedures for obtaining IP models of higher degree has prevented their general use in many practical applications. In most cases today, parametric equations are used to model curves and surfaces. One such parametric representation, elliptic Fourier descriptors (EFD) has been widely used to represent 2D and 3D curves, as well as 3D surfaces. Although EFDs can represent nearly all curves, it is often convenient to have an implicit algebraic description, F(x,y)=0, especially for determining whether given points lie on the curve. Algebraic curves and surfaces have proven very useful also in many model-based applications. Various algebraic and geometric invariants obtained from these implicit models have been studied rather extensively. We present a new non-symbolic implicitization technique called the matrix annihilation method, for converting parametric Fourier representations to implicit polynomial form.
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