Recently, gender classification from face images has attracted a great deal of attention. It can be useful in many places. In this paper, a novel hybrid face coding method by fusing appearance features and geometry fe...
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(纸本)9781424421749
Recently, gender classification from face images has attracted a great deal of attention. It can be useful in many places. In this paper, a novel hybrid face coding method by fusing appearance features and geometry features is presented. We choose Haar wavelets to represent the appearance features and use AdaBoost algorithm to select stronger features. Geometry features are regarded as apriori knowledge to help improve the classification performance. In this work, active appearance model (AAM) locates 83 landmarks, Thus we can get 3403 geometry features, from which 10 most significant features are picked, normalized and fused with the appearance features. Experimental results show the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed approach regarding expression, illumination and pose variation in some degree.
A multiple faces tracking system was presented based on Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) and Boosting learning. In this system, a face detector based on Boosting learning is used to detect faces at the first frame, and ...
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A multiple faces tracking system was presented based on Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) and Boosting learning. In this system, a face detector based on Boosting learning is used to detect faces at the first frame, and the face motion model and color model are created. In the tracking process different tracking methods are used according to different states of faces, and the states are changed according to the tracking results. When the full image search condition is satisfied, a full image search is started in order to find new coming faces and former occluded faces. In the full image search and local search, the similarity matrix is introduced to help matching faces efficiently. Experimental results demonstrate the capability and efficiency of the proposed system.
In conventional techniques of robot vision system calibration, camera parameters and robot hand-eye parameters are computed separately, i.e., first performing camera calibration and then carrying out hand-eye calibrat...
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In conventional techniques of robot vision system calibration, camera parameters and robot hand-eye parameters are computed separately, i.e., first performing camera calibration and then carrying out hand-eye calibration based on the calibrated parameters of the cameras. In this paper, we propose a joint algorithm that combines the camera calibration and the hand-eye calibration together. The proposed algorithm gives the solutions of the cameraspsila parameters and the hand-eye parameters simultaneously by using nonlinear optimization. Both simulations and real experiments show the superiority of our algorithm.
It is well known that there are generally two possible sets of pose parameters from one calibrated perspective view of a circle. What is the relation between these two possible sets? Where does this ambiguity arise fr...
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It is well known that there are generally two possible sets of pose parameters from one calibrated perspective view of a circle. What is the relation between these two possible sets? Where does this ambiguity arise from? In which case can this ambiguity be resolved? Considering these questions, we suggest a novel viewpoint toward circle pose estimation from a single view. Different from existing methods on the basis of analytical geometry, we originally develop the projective equation of a circle, based on which a closed form solution is developed and a brand new geometric explanation for the ambiguity of solutions is presented. Experimental results verify the correctness of our proposed method.
Multiple image fragments have been used to represent the target for tracking in a video sequence. It is proved to be able to maintain spatial information of the target. In this paper, following the idea that represent...
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Multiple image fragments have been used to represent the target for tracking in a video sequence. It is proved to be able to maintain spatial information of the target. In this paper, following the idea that represents the target with multiple image fragments, we propose a framework that can efficiently combine multiple spatially distributed fragment histograms for robust tracking. The framework ranks the importance of each fragment adaptively, which can increase the robustness to partial occlusions and pose variation. We derive a mean shift type algorithm for the framework that allows efficient target tracking with very low computational overhead. Extensive experiments on challenging real video sequences clearly demonstrate the benefits of our tracker.
A novel evolutionary algorithm called probability evolutionary algorithm (PEA) is proposed, which is inspired by the quantum computation and quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm (QEA). The individual in PEA is enco...
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A novel evolutionary algorithm called probability evolutionary algorithm (PEA) is proposed, which is inspired by the quantum computation and quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm (QEA). The individual in PEA is encoded by a probabilistic superposed bit which can represent a linear superposition of the states 0 to k (k ges 1). The observing step is used in PEA to obtain the observed individual, and the update method is used to evolve the population. The function optimization and 0-k knapsack problem experiments show that PEA has apparent superior in application area, searching capability and computation time compared with QEA and canonical genetic algorithm (CGA).
This paper describes a novel 3D needle segmentation algorithm for 3DUS data. The algorithm includes the 3D Gray-level Hough Transform (3DGHT), which is based on the representation (ψ, θ, ρ, α) of straight lines in...
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In this paper, we present a novel age estimation method that is able to deal with varying face expressions. We construct two efficient descriptors for face appearance which are robust to expression variations. One is ...
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In this paper, we present a novel age estimation method that is able to deal with varying face expressions. We construct two efficient descriptors for face appearance which are robust to expression variations. One is termed as Proportion Descriptor constructed by proportion indices based on facial geometric features, the other is termed as Local Descriptor based on local facial texture features extracted by Modular Principle Component Analysis (MPCA). We set up experiments for evaluating the performance of the two facial descriptors in the presence of facial expressions.
Human key posture extraction from videos will benefit video storage, video retrieval, human action recognition, human behaviour understanding and so on. This paper presents an approach to select key postures from huma...
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Geographic routing protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have received more attentions in recent years and greedy forwarding algorithm is a main component in geographic routing. In this paper, we investigate t...
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(纸本)9781424438211
Geographic routing protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have received more attentions in recent years and greedy forwarding algorithm is a main component in geographic routing. In this paper, we investigate the forwarding criterions in greedy forwarding algorithms and present a greedy routing algorithm using a new criterion combining the characteristics of both distance-based criterion and direction-based criterion. Simulation is provided to compare the performance of our algorithm with those of the algorithm with distance-based criterion and the algorithm with direction-based criterion. The results show that our proposed algorithm is a preferred option in terms of the trade-off between transformation delay and energy consumption in the routing.
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