Designing a system that is able to make use of quantitative and qualitative data for real world applications is a challenging problem. Traditional systems produce representational descriptions that are often not very ...
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Designing a system that is able to make use of quantitative and qualitative data for real world applications is a challenging problem. Traditional systems produce representational descriptions that are often not very useful to the human expert. To rectify this problem we propose a structure based on contextual fuzzy cognitive maps (CFCMs) for GIS systems. For a given goal, our system structure is hierarchical by context, multi-layered by variations in data over periods of time, and semi-qualitative in that the CFCMs build causal links and relationships between landmarks and concepts.
Fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) is a powerful framework for representing structured human knowledge and causal inference. This paper presents a new and effective approach to analyzing causal inference mechanism of FCM. We ...
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(纸本)0780354060
Fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) is a powerful framework for representing structured human knowledge and causal inference. This paper presents a new and effective approach to analyzing causal inference mechanism of FCM. We focus on binary concept states proposed originally by Kosko (1986). Given initial conditions, FCM is able to reach only certain states in its state space. The problem of finding whether a state is reachable in the FCM is NP hard. In order to effectively carry out the design of fuzzy cognitive maps we propose to divide an FCM into basic FCM modules. This paper also presents a recursive formula for the calculation of FCM inference patterns in terms of key vertices.
This paper describes an approach for object-based image retrieval based on classes of objects in images. In this approach, contours of objects are extracted from images and are represented under a scheme which satisfi...
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This paper describes an approach for object-based image retrieval based on classes of objects in images. In this approach, contours of objects are extracted from images and are represented under a scheme which satisfies scale, rotation and translation invariance. Classifier learning techniques are used to classify objects in images into different classes. Image similarity calculation is performed based on class information of objects. Experimental results show that the method is effective and efficient.
The article presents a unified approach for object recognition and recognition based control of robotic interactions with objects. The approach is based on morphing the shape of objects. The morph of one object to ano...
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The article presents a unified approach for object recognition and recognition based control of robotic interactions with objects. The approach is based on morphing the shape of objects. The morph of one object to another is treated as a deformation and is defined such that it can be quantified using a physics based model. This quantification serves as a dissimilarity measure and is used for shape recognition. By storing the views that represent the grasp positions for different object, the proposed framework is used to identify the desired end position a robot needs to attain for interacting with the given object. Furthermore, the images synthesized during the morph define a view based trajectory, starting with the view defining the initial robot-object orientation to the view defining the desired robot-object orientation. We propose a technique where these synthetic images are used to control the motion of a PUMA 560 eye-in-hand manipulator to execute alignment and grasping tasks. The proposed approach does not require complete calibration information, obviates manual feature selection and correspondence, can provide smooth trajectories, and needs a single image for each object (in a 4-DOF formulation). Potential applications range from recognition and positioning with respect to partially occluded or deformable objects as well as planning robotic grasping based on human demonstration.
In this paper we article presents a unified approach for object recognition and recognition based control of robotic interactions with objects. The approach is based on morphing the shape of objects. The morph of one ...
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This paper presents algorithms for vision-based monitoring of weaving sections. These algorithms have been developed for the Minnesota department of Transportation in order to acquire data for several weaving sections...
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This paper presents algorithms for vision-based monitoring of weaving sections. These algorithms have been developed for the Minnesota department of Transportation in order to acquire data for several weaving sections in the Twin Cities Area. Unlike commercially available systems, the proposed algorithms can track and count vehicles as they change lanes. Furthermore, they provide the velocity and the direction of each vehicle in the weaving section. Experimental results from various weaving sections with various weather conditions are presented. The proposed methods are based on the establishment of correspondences among blobs and vehicles as the vehicles move through the weaving section. The blob tracking problem is formulated as a bipartite graph optimization problem.
Robotic manipulators in contemporary work-cells are often incapable of solving even simple pick-and-place operations. More specifically, most systems require each object to be supplied in the same and pre-defined way....
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Robotic manipulators in contemporary work-cells are often incapable of solving even simple pick-and-place operations. More specifically, most systems require each object to be supplied in the same and pre-defined way. Introducing regrasping to the production cycle relaxes the constraints imposed on supply mechanisms. Regrasping describes the operation that must be performed whenever an object's pick-up grasp is incompatible with its put-down grasp. The paper presents a novel approach to solve the regrasp problem for robots equipped with parallel-jaw end-effecters. The proposed method first evaluates the object's possible grasps and placements. These are subsequently combined to form grasp-placement-grasp triples. A regrasp sequence leading from the pick-up to the put-down grasp is generated by searching through the resulting space of compatible grasp-placement-grasp triples. The algorithm takes kinematic and geometric constraints of both the manipulator and the objects into account. Computational concerns are addressed by subdividing the calculation into an off-line and a fast online phase.
A new thresholding algorithm based on all-pole model histogram is presented. The parameters of the all-pole model are estimated from the second derivative of log model histogram. The main merits are that the model can...
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(纸本)0818685123
A new thresholding algorithm based on all-pole model histogram is presented. The parameters of the all-pole model are estimated from the second derivative of log model histogram. The main merits are that the model can produce the desired number of peaks in model histogram and the algorithm is efficient in computation. The proposed algorithm can be used for binarisation and multilevel thresholding and good results have been achieved for a wide range of images.
Three techniques of straight line Hough transform are proposed by a generalised mathematical formulation of the Hough transform in terms of aggregation and weight functions. Amongst these techniques, inclusive of the ...
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Three techniques of straight line Hough transform are proposed by a generalised mathematical formulation of the Hough transform in terms of aggregation and weight functions. Amongst these techniques, inclusive of the conventional Hough transform, it is shown by experimental results on a set of 3D nonparametric objects, and in a controlled and inherent noise environment, that the fuzzy Hough transform approach performs the best, as a global shape descriptor.
The paper proposes a genetic-algorithm-based learning strategy that models membership functions of the fuzzy attributes of surfaces in a model based machinevision system. The objective function aims at enhancing reco...
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The paper proposes a genetic-algorithm-based learning strategy that models membership functions of the fuzzy attributes of surfaces in a model based machinevision system. The objective function aims at enhancing recognition performance in terms of maximizing the degree of discrimination among classes. As a result, the accuracy of recognizing known instances of objects and generalisation capability by recognizing unknown instances of known objects are greatly improved. The performance enhancement of a model based object recognition system consisting of a set of synthetic range images is established by incorporating a dynamic off-line learning mechanism using a genetic algorithm in the feedback path of the system.
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