This paper presents a new method for reconstructing rectilinear buildings from single images under the assumption of flat terrain. An intuition of the method is that, given an image composed of rectilinear buildings, ...
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This paper presents a new method for reconstructing rectilinear buildings from single images under the assumption of flat terrain. An intuition of the method is that, given an image composed of rectilinear buildings, the 3D buildings can be geometrically reconstructed by using the image only. The recovery algorithm is formulated in terms of two objective functions which are based on the equivalence between the vector normal to the interpretation plane in the image space and the vector normal to the rotated interpretation plane in the object space. These objective functions are minimized with respect to the camera pose, the building dimensions, locations and orientations to obtain estimates for the structure of the scene. The method potentially provides a solution for large-scale urban modelling using aerial images, and can be easily extended to deal with piecewise planar objects in a more general situation.
Computer vision based spectroscopy is feasible due to the advent of faster cameras and computers. Here, spectroscopy means detecting elements based on the intensity patterns of laser induced breakdown spectra seen by ...
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Computer vision based spectroscopy is feasible due to the advent of faster cameras and computers. Here, spectroscopy means detecting elements based on the intensity patterns of laser induced breakdown spectra seen by a camera. This is conventionally done by using specific instruments-spectroscopes-which too may use CCD devices as the sensors. Using a commercial camera reduces the cost of the product, while enabling the testing of new detection algorithms. A simulation setup is helpful in this context. The computer vision based spectroscopy simulation, which we propose here, involves displaying patterns on a computer screen corresponding to a reduced standard database of spectra, observing the screen using a camera, and detecting the elements, preferably on a different computer. We show that, using markers and computing homographies, correct alignment of the scene and image planes can be achieved to detect the element. This set up can be used to test detection algorithms, and we apply a simple correlation based algorithm for pattern detection.
A new approach to locate different components of ICP signal for each cardiac induced ICP beat is presented. In this method an initial timing map is used to define the appropriate part of the ICP wave which should be s...
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A new approach to locate different components of ICP signal for each cardiac induced ICP beat is presented. In this method an initial timing map is used to define the appropriate part of the ICP wave which should be searched for the specific component. In parallel a recently proposed method was used to decompose the ICP wave to its different frequency harmonics. This algorithm, which is based on tracking the amplitude of the harmonic components using Kalman filtering, brings both heart rate variability and cardiorespiratory interaction into account and provides good time and frequency resolution. Comparing the results of two methods for seventeen ICP records, each one hour long, it has been observed that the fundamental cardiac component has the most significant contribution in the construction of the tidal peak in ICP and therefore tracking of this harmonic could be informative of the tidal peak evolution over the time.
This paper presents a real-time keypoint matching algorithm using a local descriptor derived by Zernike moments. From an input image, we find a set of key-points by using an existing corner detection algorithm. At eac...
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This paper presents a real-time keypoint matching algorithm using a local descriptor derived by Zernike moments. From an input image, we find a set of key-points by using an existing corner detection algorithm. At each keypoint we extract a fixed size image patch and compute a local descriptor derived by Zernike moments. The proposed local descriptor is invariant to rotation and illumination changes. In order to speed up the computation of Zernike moments, we compute the Zernike basis functions in advance and store them in a set of lookup tables. The matching is performed with an Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) method and refined by a RANSAC algorithm. In the experiments we confirmed that videos of frame size 320x240 with the scale, rotation, illumination and even 3D viewpoint changes are processed at 25~30Hz using the proposed method. Unlike existing keypoint matching algorithms, our approach also works in real-time for registering a reference image.
An ear biometric system that extends the ideas from elastic graph matching and principal component analysis (PCA) is introduced. For ear representation, an ldquoear graphrdquo whose vertices are labeled by the Gabor j...
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An ear biometric system that extends the ideas from elastic graph matching and principal component analysis (PCA) is introduced. For ear representation, an ldquoear graphrdquo whose vertices are labeled by the Gabor jets of body of the antihelix, superior antihelix crus, and inferior antihelix crus is introduced. A new ear detection algorithm is developed, introducing the notion of ldquojet space similarity,rdquo which denotes the similarity between Gabor jets and reconstructed jets obtained by PCA. Using the Extended Multi Modal Verification for Teleservices and Security applications (XM2VTS) database, the performance of the introduced system is found to be comparable to that of existing systems, and the detection performance is found to be higher compared with existing object detection algorithms using the distance from face space and average jets.
Joint channel-symbol estimation has been recently applied to a differential unitary space-time coded Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system in order to reduce the SNR penalty of differential encoding relative to...
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Joint channel-symbol estimation has been recently applied to a differential unitary space-time coded Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system in order to reduce the SNR penalty of differential encoding relative to coherent communications. Using unitary codes restricts the data rate to one symbol per channel use. A block differential MIMO technique was presented in which allows the use of non-orthogonal full-rate full-diversity codes. In this paper joint channel-symbol estimation is used to reduce the SNR penalty of the block differential MIMO system. A computationally efficient suboptimal detection algorithm is presented.
Segmenting transparent phase objects, such as biological cells from brightfield microscope images, is a difficult problem due to the lack of observable intensity contrast and noise. Previous image analysis solutions h...
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Segmenting transparent phase objects, such as biological cells from brightfield microscope images, is a difficult problem due to the lack of observable intensity contrast and noise. Previous image analysis solutions have used excessive de- focusing or physical models to obtain the underlying phase properties. Here, an improved cell boundary detection algorithm is proposed to accurately segment multiple cells within the level set framework. This uses a novel speed term based on local phase and local orientation derived from the monogenic signal, which renders the algorithm invariant to intensity, making it ideal for these images. The new method can robustly handle noise and local minima, and distinguish touching cells. Validation is shown against manual expert segmentations.
Deep analysis of Polish phonology and phonetic can help in efficient automatic speech recognition of fluent *** goal of this paper is to present some techniques used in words boundary detection algorithm in stream of ...
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Deep analysis of Polish phonology and phonetic can help in efficient automatic speech recognition of fluent *** goal of this paper is to present some techniques used in words boundary detection algorithm in stream of phonemes. This new idea of ASR of fluent speech will be presented. The results of the experiment on the word with two-phoneme occurrences will be presented in this paper.
This study shows the variation in Blainville's beaked whale buzz click characteristics. Due to the lack of statistical consistency, single-click classification appears infeasible. Nonetheless, the spectrum is very...
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This study shows the variation in Blainville's beaked whale buzz click characteristics. Due to the lack of statistical consistency, single-click classification appears infeasible. Nonetheless, the spectrum is very similar from one click to the next. Thanks to this slow variation it is possible to associate clicks using automatic tracking techniques [1]. Subsequently, tracks can be classified as buzzes based on the inter-click intervals.
This work introduces a modified torpedo detection algorithm (MTDA) that improves upon the range estimates of an earlier torpedo detection algorithm (TDA). The original TDA detects the presence of a direct path and a s...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424426195
This work introduces a modified torpedo detection algorithm (MTDA) that improves upon the range estimates of an earlier torpedo detection algorithm (TDA). The original TDA detects the presence of a direct path and a surface reflected path for a torpedo acoustic tonal using the fast orthogonal search (FOS) algorithm. In the original TDA the candidate functions used by FOS were sinusoidal functions at a constant frequency. Using the frequencies of the direct and reflected path signal, the TDA estimated the torpedo range. It is known that the frequency of the direct path and reflect path signal will vary in time. It is also well known that correlating a received signal with the expected signal results in the lowest probability of error in detection (matched filter). Thus in this work the candidate functions used by FOS are functions whose frequencies vary in time (chirp signals) as theoretically expected for the direct and reflected path signals. Also, the FOS algorithm is modified to fit the direct and reflected paths in pairs. The pair of frequencies that fit the highest energy is determined to be the direct and reflected path signal and the range used to generate that candidate pair is used as the range estimate. The MTDA algorithm is simulated for a torpedo approaching an receiver at several angles and the range estimations are shown. These results are compared with the earlier TDA and shown to be significantly improved.
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