Underwater target boundary segmentation is integral to forward-looking sonar image processing. However, small target boundary segmentation is always challenging due to the low resolution, low signal-to-noise ratio, an...
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Underwater target boundary segmentation is integral to forward-looking sonar image processing. However, small target boundary segmentation is always challenging due to the low resolution, low signal-to-noise ratio, and inhomogeneity of intensity of forward-looking sonar images. This paper pro-poses an improved level set segmentation method to accurately obtain the contour of smalltargets in the forward-looking sonar images: morphological reconstruction combined with the level set method (MRLSM). Compared with the classical level set and the level set method combined with the morpholog-ical method, MRLSM improves the accuracy and stability for forward-looking sonar image segmentation. Furthermore, the fuzzy C-means, Markov random field, and MRLSM are applied to the numerical simu-lations and experimental data for comparison. The deep learning methods are also used to compare the performances. The results demonstrated that the proposed method is more accurate, robust, and con-siderable for underwater small target boundary segmentation. (c) 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
It is well known that deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) generalize well over large number of classes when ample training data is available. However, training with smaller datasets does not always achieve robus...
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(纸本)9781665441155
It is well known that deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) generalize well over large number of classes when ample training data is available. However, training with smaller datasets does not always achieve robust performance. In such cases, we show that using analytically derived filters in the lowest layer enables a network to achieve better performance than learning from scratch using a relatively smalldataset. These class-agnostic filters represent the underlying manifold of the data space, and also generalize to new or unknown classes which may occur on the same manifold. This directly enables new classes to be learned with very few images by simply fine-tuning the final few layers of the network. We illustrate the advantages of our method using the publicly available set of infra-red images of vehicular ground targets. We compare a simple CNN trained using our method with transfer learning performed using the VGG-16 network, and show that when the number of training images is limited, the proposed approach not only achieves better results on the trained classes, but also outperforms a standard network for learning a new object class.
The ultrasound imaging method is a highly promising technique used in various fields. The utilization of ultrasound technique's backscattering could also allow humans to observe objects as small as the size of the...
The ultrasound imaging method is a highly promising technique used in various fields. The utilization of ultrasound technique's backscattering could also allow humans to observe objects as small as the size of the incident wavelength. However, the employing backscattering approach requires high computational calculations and poses a significant obstacle to the production of equipment using the ultrasonic method. In this work, we utilized the pseudo-random compression sampling method in the extended DBIM model, which takes tissue density factor. This is necessary because tissue density provides quantitative information about soft tissue and serves as an image contrast source. This method combines pseudo-random measurement and compressed sensing data recovery technique. The simulation results have proved the effectiveness of the proposed CCS-DBIM method. In terms of imaging quality, at compression ratios as low as 0.5, the large difference in imaging quality is evident. After 5 iterations, the normalization error of the DBIM and CCS-DBIM methods was 0.8828 and 0.5281 respectively, i.e. a 40% reduction in normalization errors when the number of measurements was only half of the variables. The disadvantage of the proposed CCS-DBIM method is that the imaging time is significantly greater than that of the DBIM method. However, with today's parallel computing technology, large amounts of data and computational time will no longer be a big problem.
The photoacoustic effect relies on optical transmission, which causes thermal expansion and generates acoustic signals. Coherence-based photoacoustic signalprocessing is often preferred over more traditional signal p...
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The photoacoustic effect relies on optical transmission, which causes thermal expansion and generates acoustic signals. Coherence-based photoacoustic signalprocessing is often preferred over more traditional signalprocessing methods due to improved signal-to-noise ratios, imaging depth, and resolution in applications such as cell tracking, blood flow estimation, and imaging. However, these applications lack a theoretical spatial coherence model to support their implementation. In this article, the photoacoustic spatial coherence theory is derived to generate theoretical spatial coherence functions. These theoretical spatial coherence functions are compared with k-Wave simulated data and experimental data from point and circular targets (0.1-12 mm in diameter) with generally good agreement, particularly in the shorter spatial lag region. The derived theory was used to hypothesize and test previously unexplored principles for optimizing photoacoustic short-lag spatial coherence (SLSC) images, including the influence of the incident light profile on photoacoustic spatial coherence functions and associated SLSC image contrast and resolution. Results also confirm previous trends from experimental observations, including changes in SLSC image resolution and contrast as a function of the first M lags summed to create SLSC images. For example, smalltargets (e.g., <1-4 mm in diameter) can be imaged with larger M values to boost target contrast and resolution, and contrast can be further improved by reducing the illuminating beam to a size that is smaller than the target size. Overall, the presented theory provides a promising foundation to support a variety of coherence-based photoacoustic signalprocessing methods, and the associated theory-based simulation methods are more straightforward than the existing k-Wave simulation methods for SLSC images.
Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is challenging due to complex backgrounds, low signal-to-clutter ratios, and varying target sizes and shapes. Effective detection relies on capturing local contextual information...
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Compressed Sensing (CS) theory is based on the sparsity of signals and involves compressively sampling high-dimensional data to obtain a small number of linear observations that contain the complete information of the...
Compressed Sensing (CS) theory is based on the sparsity of signals and involves compressively sampling high-dimensional data to obtain a small number of linear observations that contain the complete information of the signals. By solving an optimization problem, the original signals can be recovered from these compressed linear observations. This paper combines CS theory with the sparse characteristics of targets in the spatial domain and proposes an adaptive layered sparse spatial angle super-resolution algorithm. This algorithm converts the target spatial angle super-resolution into the problem of using orthogonal basis to reconstruct sparse signals. Then, the target spatial angle super-resolution is carried out by using single snapshot data through optimization solution, and the target spatial angle domain is continuously reduced through layered orthogonal matching pursuit (LOMP) solution to complete the target spatial angle reconstruction. The effectiveness and robustness of the algorithm are verified by using the proposed algorithm to process the measured data.
This work describes a system that uses electromyography (EMG) signals obtained from muscle sensors and an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for signal classification and pattern recognition that is used to control a sma...
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(纸本)9781665406529
This work describes a system that uses electromyography (EMG) signals obtained from muscle sensors and an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for signal classification and pattern recognition that is used to control a small unmanned aerial vehicle using specific arm movements. The main objective of this endeavor is the development an intelligent interface that allows the user to control the flight of a drone beyond direct manual control. The biosensors used in this work were the MyoWare Muscle sensors which contain two EMG electrodes and were used to collect signals from the posterior (extensor) and anterior (flexor) forearm, and the bicep. The collection of the raw signals from each sensor were performed using an Arduino Uno. dataprocessing algorithms were developed with the purpose of classifying the signals generated by the arm's muscles when performing specific movements, namely: flexing, resting, arm-up, and arm motion from right to left. With these arm motions, roll control of the drone was achieved. MATLAB software was utilized to condition the signals and prepare them for the classification stage. To generate the input vector for the ANN and perform the classification, the root mean squared, and the standard deviation were processed for the signals from each electrode. The neuromuscular information was trained using an ANN with a single 10 neurons hidden layer to categorize the four targets. The result of the classification shows that an accuracy of 97.5% was obtained for a single user. Afterwards, classification results were used to generate the appropriate control signals from the computer to the drone through a Wi-Fi network connection. These procedures were successfully tested, where the drone responded successfully in real time to the commanded inputs.
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