A novel architecture for performing hue-saturation-value (HSV) domain enhancement of digital color images with non-uniform lighting conditions is proposed in this paper for video streaming applications. The approach p...
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A novel architecture for performing hue-saturation-value (HSV) domain enhancement of digital color images with non-uniform lighting conditions is proposed in this paper for video streaming applications. The approach promotes log-domain computation to eliminate all multiplications, divisions and exponentiations utilizing the effective logarithmic estimation modules. An optimized quadrant symmetric architecture is incorporated into the design of homomorphic filter for the enhancement of intensity value. Efficient modules are also presented for conversion between RGB and HSV color spaces. The design is able to bring out details hidden in shadow regions of the image. It is capable of producing 187.86 million outputs per second (MOPs) on Xilinx's Virtex II XC2V2000-4ff896 field programmable gate array (FPGA) at a clock frequency of 187.86 MHz. It can process over 179.1 (1024 X 1024) frames per second and consumes approximately 70.7% and 76.8% less hardware resource with 127% and 280% performance boost when compared to the designs with machine learning algorithm [10], and with separated dynamic and contrast enhancements [11], respectively.
Design of an efficient modular architecture for detection of multiple faces in video stream is presented in this paper. Face detection is the first step in many surveillance and security applications such as face reco...
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Design of an efficient modular architecture for detection of multiple faces in video stream is presented in this paper. Face detection is the first step in many surveillance and security applications such as face recognition, face authentication for banking and security access control, monitoring and tracking, etc. The algorithm used for this hardware design is the Viola-Jones algorithm, which has proven to be very effective and fast. The hardware design employs a modular approach in an efficient memory management strategy for this memory-intensive application. The proposed design is targeted for a low-cost FPGA prototype board from Altera (DE2 board) for a cost-effective face detection system. The proposed approach utilizes the on-chip memory module to reduce accesses to external memory chip for improved performance in the application.
In order to help understand how the genes are affected by different disease conditions in a biological system, clustering is typically performed to analyze gene expression data. In this paper, we propose to solve the ...
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In order to help understand how the genes are affected by different disease conditions in a biological system, clustering is typically performed to analyze gene expression data. In this paper, we propose to solve the clustering problem using a graph theoretical approach, and apply a novel graph partitioning model -isoperimetric graph partitioning (IGP), to group biological samples from gene expression data. The IGP algorithm has several advantages compared to the well-established spectral graph partitioning (SGP) model. First, IGP requires a simple solution to a sparse system of linear equations instead of the eigen-problem in the SGP model. Second, IGP avoids degenerate cases produced by spectral approach to achieve a partition with higher accuracy. Moreover, we integrate unsupervised gene selection into the proposed approach through two-way ordering of gene expression data, such that we can eliminate irrelevant or redundant genes in the data and obtain an improved clustering result. We evaluate our approach on several well-known problems involving gene expression profiles of colon cancer and leukemia subtypes. Our experiment results demonstrate that IGP constantly outperforms SGP and produces a better result that is closer to the original labeling of sample sets provided by domain experts. Furthermore, the clustering accuracy is improved significantly when IGP is integrated with the unsupervised gene (feature) selection.
The greatest characteristic of soft-fingered manipulation is its softness and flexibility during manipulating operations. In previous works, this intrinsic property had been quantitatively explained from the viewpoint...
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The greatest characteristic of soft-fingered manipulation is its softness and flexibility during manipulating operations. In previous works, this intrinsic property had been quantitatively explained from the viewpoint of physical and mechanical perspective that the deformation energy induced by large elastic distortion automatically has a minimum equilibrium point. Hence this report first derive equations of motion of two-fingered soft finger robotic hand on the basis of energy- based analysis, and explain that an equilibrium point on a combined energy function exists even in the case of manipulating motions by the hand. In this paper, the equilibrium point is called LMEEwC that is unfolded as local minimum of elastic energy with constraints. Next, we show that the posture control of a rigid object grasped by the minimal degrees-of-freedom hand can easily be achieved by applying a two-phased controller associated with each joint angle of the hand, which is newly proposed in this report. This control scheme is constructed by two parts: a PD controller with respect to the finger angle and an integral controller with respect to the orientation of the grasped object. The characteristics of the control method of the latter part is that the desired joint angle of the hand is produced dynamically by the integral controller with respect to the object orientation. Finally, we clarify the effectiveness of the proposed control method in the case of the soft-fingered manipulation.
Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in the working age population in the industrialized world. computer assisted analysis has the potential to assist in the early detection of diabetes by regular sc...
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This paper verifies the physical mechanisms of stable grasping and robust manipulation by means of soft-fingered robotic hand. First, we extend our previous one-dimensional fingertip model to a two-dimensional one, ad...
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This paper verifies the physical mechanisms of stable grasping and robust manipulation by means of soft-fingered robotic hand. First, we extend our previous one-dimensional fingertip model to a two-dimensional one, adding lateral deformation of the virtual spring placed within the soft fingertip. We mention the physical meaning of LMEE(local minimum of elastic potential energy) and LMEEwC (LMEE with Constraints) on the two-fingered hand. Second, we simulate the behavior of a grasped object by numerically solving static equilibrium relation. Finally, we show that the concept of LMEEwC is critical to the robust manipulation and for reducing the degrees-of-freedom of the robotic hand in the manipulation.
Ring-based network design problems have many important applications, especially in the fields of logistics and telecommunications. This paper focuses on the recently proposed two-connected network with bounded rings p...
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Ring-based network design problems have many important applications, especially in the fields of logistics and telecommunications. This paper focuses on the recently proposed two-connected network with bounded rings problem. We investigate the search difficulty of both the Euclidean edge and unit edge length ring size bounds flavors of this problem by performing an information-theoretic fitness landscape analysis for several instances of the problem. Our results further confirm the hypothesis that the unit edge length version of the problem is indeed more difficult. The investigation also further reveals that smaller sized ring bounds lead to harder problems for Euclidean edge lengths. However, for unit edge lengths we did not establish such a relationship
In night time surveillance, there is a possibility of having extremely bright and dark regions in some image frames of a video sequence. A novel non linear image enhancement algorithm for digital images captured under...
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