Appropriate maintenance of tracks is vital for the safe operation of railways. Properly managing track facilities is necessary to prevent buckling of rails. Changes in society are creating a shortage of workers, a dec...
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There is considerable interest in motion capture from an image sequence taken from a video camera. However, since the images only consist of 2D information, the distance of an object from the image plane cannot be det...
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There is considerable interest in motion capture from an image sequence taken from a video camera. However, since the images only consist of 2D information, the distance of an object from the image plane cannot be determined uniquely unless some constraints are imposed. Coplanar motion is a popular constraint adopted for this purpose. If the captured motion is not coplanar, only two possible solutions can be obtained at the best even the actual size of the object is given. Therefore, the motion cannot be captured without resolving the distances of each control point from the image plane. By assuming smooth transition, the problem is formulated as one minimizing the transition between image frames and the application of GA to solve this optimization problem is proposed.
Requirement for a person to face a camera for face identification process may no longer be necessary if the face recognition system is robust against variation of facial pose. In this paper, we proposed a face recogni...
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Requirement for a person to face a camera for face identification process may no longer be necessary if the face recognition system is robust against variation of facial pose. In this paper, we proposed a face recognition method which remains reliable even in very large head pose variations. In this method, feature from local regions of face are extracted after employing both discrete cosine transform and discrete wavelet transform. Learning strategy is then applied to infer the relationship between face in a given pose and its frontal view. Results we obtained are very promising considering that our proposed method solely relies on a single gallery image. We also demonstrated the high performance of our method in a condition whereby the face images are of low-resolution quality.
By introducing an over-segmentation algorithm into the conditional model (CM), we propose a new region-based CM model (R-CM), and investigate its performance on semantic segmentation of images. In order to incorporate...
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In this paper, we propose a new scene-based conditional model and investigate its performance on multiple class segmentation of images. By including the scene of an image, we also propose a new texture-environment pot...
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This paper investigates the use of a single image of a smooth Lambertian surface to calibrate and remove some image nonlinearities due to the imaging device. To the best of our knowledge, this has not been addressed b...
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This paper investigates the use of a single image of a smooth Lambertian surface to calibrate and remove some image nonlinearities due to the imaging device. To the best of our knowledge, this has not been addressed before in the literature. We show that this is possible, both theoretically and practically, taking advantage of some local shading measures that vary nonlinearly as a function of luminance and geometric nonlinearities (e.g., gamma correction and lens distortion). This can work as a basis for developing a simple method to estimate these nonlinearities from a single image. Several experiments are reported to validate the proposed method.
The problem of applying genetic algorithm (GA) to solve an optimization problem over an unbounded solution space is addressed. We propose to first transform the possible range of each parameter in the chromosome to a ...
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The problem of applying genetic algorithm (GA) to solve an optimization problem over an unbounded solution space is addressed. We propose to first transform the possible range of each parameter in the chromosome to a finite range with a nonlinear mapping such that the search on unbounded solution space becomes a search for high precision solution in a finite range. Modifications on the GA have been found necessary after such nonlinear mapping. As a result, a new GA with dynamic mutation range that facilitates coarse-refine search has been developed.
Polarization imaging can give information about surface shape, and roughness. Polarization has been used for shape recovery, but with convex/concave reconstruction ambiguity. In this paper, we present a direct method ...
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Polarization imaging can give information about surface shape, and roughness. Polarization has been used for shape recovery, but with convex/concave reconstruction ambiguity. In this paper, we present a direct method to shape recovery using both polarization and shading that resolves this ambiguity, without the need for nonlinear optimization routines. Several experiments on synthetic and real datasets are reported to evaluate the proposed method. The method consistently outperforms some well-known methods based on polarization information alone.
One of the major goals of computervision and machine intelligence is the development of flexible and efficient methods for shape representation. This paper presents an approach for shape retrieval based on sparse rep...
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One of the major goals of computervision and machine intelligence is the development of flexible and efficient methods for shape representation. This paper presents an approach for shape retrieval based on sparse representation of scale-invariant heat kernel. We use the Laplace-Beltrami eigen functions to detect a small number of critical points on the shape surface. Then a shape descriptor is formed based on the heat kernels at the detected critical points for different scales, combined with the normalized eigen values of the Lap lace-Beltrami operator. Sparse representation is used to reduce the dimensionality of the calculated descriptor. The proposed descriptor is used for classification via the collaborative representation-based classification with regularized least square algorithm. We compare our approach to two well-known approaches on two different data sets: the nonrigid world data set and the SHREC 2011. The results have indeed confirmed the improved performance of the proposed approach, yet reducing the time and space complicity of the shape retrieval problem.
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Seyed Omid ShahdiS.A.R. Abu-BakarComputer Vision
Video and Image Processing (CvviP) Research Laboratory Faculty of Electrical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Skudai Johor Malaysia
Pose variations are known to give real challenges in face recognition system. In this paper we proposed a method to recognize non-frontal faces with high performance by relying only on single full frontal gallery face...
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Pose variations are known to give real challenges in face recognition system. In this paper we proposed a method to recognize non-frontal faces with high performance by relying only on single full frontal gallery faces. By utilizing only small regions of the face or patches, we compute the Fourier coefficients of these patches for each image and transform them into a single vector. Hence, instead of comparing and matching pixels values we use these vectors to form a linear relationship which is then used to estimate the frontal face vector and then compare it with the actual frontal feature vector. The results show an average performance accuracy of 90% across all pose.
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