In this paper we present a novel algorithm for moving object detection in thermal images taken by a moving thermal camera. It allows a detection of moving objects in thermal images of low quality without imposing rest...
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In this paper we present a novel algorithm for moving object detection in thermal images taken by a moving thermal camera. It allows a detection of moving objects in thermal images of low quality without imposing restrictions on the temperature and/or shape of the object. The main assumption required for good performance of the algorithm is that the transversal movement of the vehicle will not produce significant change in the optical flow of the static objects in the scene between two consecutive image frames. Our algorithm does not use any temperature thresholds and works well in urban environments detecting moving humans and other moving objects as well. To achieve this we use fusion of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a thermal camera. First we use IMU data to compensate for rotational movements of the thermal camera between two consecutive thermal images. Then we differentiate those images and filter the resulting image based on dense optical flow calculated using Farneback technique. After that moving objects are detected and further filtering is applied using random sampling consensus algorithm based on optical flow model.
Vision-based registration methods for augmented reality systems recently have been the subject of intensive research due to their potential to accurately align virtual objects with the real world. The drawbacks of the...
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Vision-based registration methods for augmented reality systems recently have been the subject of intensive research due to their potential to accurately align virtual objects with the real world. The drawbacks of these vision-based approaches, however, are their high computational cost and lack of robustness. Motion blur and partial occlusion are considered two of the most critical problems that affect robustness of tracking fiducial markers, which is used in many vision-based tracking methods like augmented reality. To overcome these two problems, this paper presents a novel method which merges FAST detection with mean shift tracking algorithms. The original color-based mean shift tracking has a major problem of detecting fiducial markers. Therefore, we used “keypoints” feature to make them more distinguishable. These keypoints are detected by FAST corner detector and tracked by mean shift tracker. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm is able to handle problems of motion blur and partial occlusion efficiently.
Traditionally in Web crawling, the required features are extracted from the whole contents of HTML pages. However, the position which a word is located inside the HTML tags indicates its importance in the web page. Th...
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Traditionally in Web crawling, the required features are extracted from the whole contents of HTML pages. However, the position which a word is located inside the HTML tags indicates its importance in the web page. This research proposes two ideas concerning the Feature Selection stage in HTML web pages. The first idea reduces the features by simply extracting them from the important tags in an HTML page in order to achieve faster classification. The second idea gives weights for each of the important tags. Two algorithms are presented in this paper based on these ideas: i) Important HTML tags only algorithm, ii) Weighted Important HTML tags only algorithm. The selected features are classified using two famous classifiers in the literature: Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Naïve Bayes classifier (NBC). The accuracy of each algorithm is computed. Comparison between the accuracies of traditional feature selection method, which uses the whole contents of HTML page, and the proposed algorithms is performed. Complete evaluation is performed which indicates the effectiveness of using our technique. The experimental results show improved precision and recall with the proposed algorithms with respect to keyword-based search. The algorithms are implemented in JAVA and its extended packages.
In this paper, we propose an algorithm for the generation of guaranteed passive state-space models of one-port immittances from finite frequency response samples. Differently from conventional approaches, which are ba...
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In this paper, we propose an algorithm for the generation of guaranteed passive state-space models of one-port immittances from finite frequency response samples. Differently from conventional approaches, which are based on a two-step process that first fits a rational function to the samples, and only in a second stage checks and enforces passivity via perturbation, our approach provides directly a guaranteed passive model. This is achieved by computing a stable rational approximation of a spectral factor associated to the immittance function under modeling. Several examples demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed technique.
The explosive growth of webpage number on the Web has brought up some problems in the search process. One of these problems is that the general purpose search engines often return too many irrelevant results when user...
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The explosive growth of webpage number on the Web has brought up some problems in the search process. One of these problems is that the general purpose search engines often return too many irrelevant results when users are searching for specific information on a given topic. Another problem is the massive increase in the number of pages to be indexed by Web search systems. In this research, two steps for Web Crawling are used to decrease these difficulties. First step is the feature selection for the datasets used. A proposed algorithm of feature selection, which uses the Document Frequency technique for the term in the category, is presented. Second step is Web page classification. Two famous techniques of Web page classification are used: (i) Support Vector Machine and (ii) Naïve Bayes Classifier. It is concluded that the proposed algorithm, using Document Frequency technique, reduces the redundancy during feature selection and increases accuracy during Web page classification. Complete evaluation is performed, in JAVA, to indicate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is being adopted in different application domains and is recognized as one of the key enablers of the Smart City vision. Despite the standardization efforts and wide adoption of Web standa...
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is being adopted in different application domains and is recognized as one of the key enablers of the Smart City vision. Despite the standardization efforts and wide adoption of Web standards and cloud computing technologies, however, building large-scale Smart City IoT platforms in practice remains challenging. The dynamically changing IoT environment requires these systems to be able to scale and evolve over time adopting new technologies and requirements. In response to the similar challenges in building large-scale distributed applications and platforms on the Web, micro service architecture style has emerged and gained a lot of popularity in the industry in recent years. In this work, we share our early experience of applying the micro service architecture style to design a Smart City IoT platform. Our experience suggests significant benefits provided by this architectural style compared to the more generic Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches, as well as highlights some of the challenges it introduces.
The primary objective is to investigate the applicability of spectral methods for designing feedback controllers for a closed loop system with an input shaper with time delays. The shaper is included in the feedback l...
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The focus in this paper is on active fault diagnosis (AFD) in closed-loop sampleddata systems. Applying the same AFD architecture as for continuous-time systems does not directly result in the same set of closed-loop ...
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Hepatitis C is a major public health problem in the United States and worldwide. Outbreaks of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections associated with unsafe injection practices, drug diversion, and other exposures to blood...
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