In this paper, a geometrical approach for building neural networks is proposed. With the proposed approach, it is very easy to construct an efficient neural classifier to solve the handwritten Chinese character recogn...
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(纸本)0769507506
In this paper, a geometrical approach for building neural networks is proposed. With the proposed approach, it is very easy to construct an efficient neural classifier to solve the handwritten Chinese character recognition problem, as well as other pattern recognition problems of large scale. Experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed approach and results obtained are promising.
An algorithm for online distance computation based on images taken in a sewer by a robot-inspector is presented. Modern concrete sewers are made of standard cylindrical pipes separated by manhole junction areas. Circu...
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(纸本)0769507506
An algorithm for online distance computation based on images taken in a sewer by a robot-inspector is presented. Modern concrete sewers are made of standard cylindrical pipes separated by manhole junction areas. Circular structures typically originate at the pipe ends and entrances as well as at the joints of the pipe sections. These structures provide regular marks on the sewer images and can be used for their 3D interpretation. After each robot motion, we extract these circular structures from camera images, and recover their distance relative to the robot. The use of a laser-based orientation method to ensure almost parallel viewing direction of the robot head with respect to the pipe axis drastically simplifies the necessary image processing operations. The method is applied to real image sequences taken in a sewer test-net. Our results show that pipe ends and junctions can be reliably detected by the robot. We intend to use the approach to facilitate robot navigation for sewer inspection.
This paper proposes a factorization method that reconstructs camera motion and scene shape based on the matching of multiple images under the condition that the camera captures a perspective view. Starting from the af...
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This paper proposes a factorization method that reconstructs camera motion and scene shape based on the matching of multiple images under the condition that the camera captures a perspective view. Starting from the affine projection camera model, the projection depth is iteratively estimated until the measurement matrix has rank 4. Then, the obtained measurement matrix is factorized to restore the three-dimensional information of the scene in the projection space. This approach eliminates noise sensitive processes, such as the calculation of the fundamental matrix, that are required in the factorization for the conventional perspective projection image, and a stable reconstruction is realized. Furthermore, the metric constraint in the conventional affine model is extended, and the metric constraint in the perspective projection condition is derived. It is shown that the reconstruction in Euclidean space is realized if the internal parameters of the camera are given.
This paper proposes a genetic-based algorithm for surface reconstruction of three-dimension (3-D) objects from a group of contours representing its section plane lines. The algorithm can optimize the triangulation of ...
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This paper proposes a genetic-based algorithm for surface reconstruction of three-dimension (3-D) objects from a group of contours representing its section plane lines. The algorithm can optimize the triangulation of the surface of 3-D objects with a multi-objective optimization function to meet the needs of a wide range of applications. Further, a new crossover operator for triangulation and a new 3-D quadrilateral mutation operator are also introduced.
Generalisation is a non-trivial problem in machine learning and more so with neural networks which have the capabilities of inducing varying degrees of freedom. It is influenced by many factors in network design, such...
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Generalisation is a non-trivial problem in machine learning and more so with neural networks which have the capabilities of inducing varying degrees of freedom. It is influenced by many factors in network design, such...
Generalisation is a non-trivial problem in machine learning and more so with neural networks which have the capabilities of inducing varying degrees of freedom. It is influenced by many factors in network design, such as network size, initial conditions, learning rate, weight decay factor, pruning algorithms, and many more. In spite of continuous research efforts, we could not arrive at a practical solution which can offer a superior generalisation. We present a novel approach for handling complex problems of machine learning. A multiobjective genetic algorithm is used for identifying (near-) optimal subspaces for hierarchical learning. This strategy of explicitly partitioning the data for subsequent mapping onto a hierarchical classifier is found both to reduce the learning complexity and the classification time. The classification performance of various algorithms is compared and it is argued that the neural modules are superior for learning the localised decision surfaces of such partitions and offer better generalisation.
What are the natural features of handwritten characters and how to arrive at them automatically? We apply independent components analysis on handwritten characters. Independent components analysis extracts the underly...
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Presents a technique to accurately estimate the state of a robot helicopter using a combination of gyroscopes, accelerometers, inclinometers and GPS. Simulation results of state estimation of the helicopter are presen...
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Presents a technique to accurately estimate the state of a robot helicopter using a combination of gyroscopes, accelerometers, inclinometers and GPS. Simulation results of state estimation of the helicopter are presented using Kalman filtering based on sensor modeling. The number of estimated states of helicopter is nine : three attitudes(/spl theta/,/spl phi/,/spl psi/) from the gyroscopes, three accelerations(x/spl ***/,y/spl ***/,z/spl ***/) and three positions (x, y, z) from the accelerometers. Two Kalman filters were used, one for the gyroscope data and the other for the accelerometer data. Our approach is unique because it explicitly avoids dynamic modeling of the system and allows for can elegant combination of sensor data available at different frequencies. We also describe the larger context in which this work is embedded, namely the design and implementation of an autonomous robot helicopter.
What are the natural features of handwritten characters and how to arrive at them automatically? We apply independent components analysis on handwritten characters. Independent components analysis extracts the underly...
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What are the natural features of handwritten characters and how to arrive at them automatically? We apply independent components analysis on handwritten characters. Independent components analysis extracts the underlying statistically independent signals from a mixture of them. We expect strokes to be the independent components of handwritten characters. Our findings show that stroke-like features emerge as a result of the analysis confirming the above intuition. This finding is significant since it gives automatic procedures for extracting stroke-like features from multilingual character data sets. We use these features for handwritten digit recognition using a very simple classifier. The classifier is chosen to be simple so that the quality of the input feature set can be evaluated. The recognition results indicate that the features arrived at by independent component analysis are useful.
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