Shadow detection in high spatial resolution remote sensing image is very critical for locating geographical targets. In this paper, we proposed a new shadow detection method using Affinity Propagation (AP) algorithm i...
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Shadow detection in high spatial resolution remote sensing image is very critical for locating geographical targets. In this paper, we proposed a new shadow detection method using Affinity Propagation (AP) algorithm in the Hue-Saturation-Intensity (HSI) color space. Because the pixel matrix is a large-scale matrix, if we apply AP algorithm directly on the raw pixel space, it will be computation intensive to calculate the similarity matrix. To solve this problem, we propose to divide the matrix into several blocks and then applying AP to detect shadows in H, S and I components respectively. Then, three detected images are fused to obtain a final shadow detection result. Comparative experiments are performed for K-means and threshold segmentation methods. The experimental results show that higher detection accuracy of the proposed approach is obtained, and it can solve the problems of false dismissals of K-means and threshold segmentation method.
In order to investigate the performance of visual feature extraction method for automatic image annotation, three visual feature extraction methods, namely discrete cosine transform, Gabor transform and discrete wavel...
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In order to investigate the performance of visual feature extraction method for automatic image annotation, three visual feature extraction methods, namely discrete cosine transform, Gabor transform and discrete wavelet transform, are studied in this paper. These three methods are used to extract low-level visual feature vectors from images in a given database separately, then these feature vectors are mapped to high-level semantic words to annotate images with labels in a given semantic label set. As it is more efficient to depict the visual features of an image by the feature distribution than to resort to image segmentation technology for semantic image blocks, this paper is going to find out which of the three feature extraction methods performs better in image annotation based on the distribution of feature vectors from the image. The performance of three different kinds of feature extraction method is fully analyzed, and it is found that discrete cosine transform method is more suitable for Gaussian mixture model in automatic image annotation.
In this paper, we proposed a visual position calibration method using colored rectangle signboards for a mobile robot which is designed to work in a room environment. The rectangle signboards are placed in several kno...
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In this paper, we proposed a visual position calibration method using colored rectangle signboards for a mobile robot which is designed to work in a room environment. The rectangle signboards are placed in several known positions. Using Canny algorithm to detect the edge of color area to calculate the vanishing points in the image of the signboard, it is possible to obtain the relative direction and distance between the signboard and the robot by a single image. Experiments of position calibration were conducted. The results showed this method is effective and the errors between the set up positions and the experimental results were about 1.5 degrees and 3 cm in an array position.
This paper is about a vision-based system that automatically monitors intermodal freight trains for the quality of how the loads (containers) are placed along the train. An accurate and robust algorithm to segment the...
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This paper is about a vision-based system that automatically monitors intermodal freight trains for the quality of how the loads (containers) are placed along the train. An accurate and robust algorithm to segment the foreground of containers in videos of the moving train is indispensable for this purpose. Given a video of a moving train consisting of containers of different types, this paper presents a method exploiting the information in both frequency and spatial domains to segment these containers. This method can accurately segment all types of containers under a variety of background conditions, e.g illumination variations and moving clouds, in the train videos shot by a fixed camera. The accuracy and robustness of the proposed method are substantiated through a large number of experiments on real data of train videos.
Human matching between different fields of view is a difficult problem in intelligent video surveillance; whereas fusing multiple features has become a strong tool to solve it. In order to guide the fusion scheme, it ...
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Human matching between different fields of view is a difficult problem in intelligent video surveillance; whereas fusing multiple features has become a strong tool to solve it. In order to guide the fusion scheme, it is necessary to evaluate the matching performance of these features. In this paper, four typical features are chosen for the evaluation. They are the color histogram, UV chromaticity, major color spectrum histogram, and scale-invariant features (SIFT). Quantities of video data are collected to test their general accuracy, robustness, and real-time applicability. The robustness is measured under the conditions of illumination changes, Gaussian and salt noises,foreground errors, resolution changes, and camera angle differences. The experimental results show that the four features bear distinctive performances under the different conditions, which will provide important references for the feature fusion methods.
X-ray scatter leads to erroneous calculations of dual-energy digital mammography (DEDM). The existing methods for scatter correction in DEDM are using anti-scatter grids or the pinhole-array interpolation method which...
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A digital watermark algorithm based on Kalman filter and image fusion is proposed. Digital watermarking is considered as a process of image fusion. Watermark image and original image are unified in a new state equatio...
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When applying formal majority voter in TMR (triple modular redundancy) fault tolerance system with two error injections, there is a problem that formal majority voter has a low rate of output. To solve this problem, w...
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When applying formal majority voter in TMR (triple modular redundancy) fault tolerance system with two error injections, there is a problem that formal majority voter has a low rate of output. To solve this problem, we propose a modified majority voting model with special rules. In the situation of error injection, test result shows that compared with formal majority voter, modified majority voter has a higher rate of correct decision and a lower ratio of benign signals.
The measure J in J value segmentation (JSEG) fails to represent the discontinuity of color, which degrades the robustness and discrimination of JSEG. An improved approach for JSEG algorithm was proposed for unsupervis...
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The measure J in J value segmentation (JSEG) fails to represent the discontinuity of color, which degrades the robustness and discrimination of JSEG. An improved approach for JSEG algorithm was proposed for unsupervised color-texture image segmentation. The texture and photometric invariant edge information were combined, which results in a discriminative measure for color-texture homogeneity. Based on the image whose pixel values are values of the new measure, region growing-merging algorithm used in JSEG was then employed to segment the image. Finally, experiments on a variety of real color images demonstrate performance improvement due to the proposed method.
In this article, we present an approach for the automated extraction of quantitative information about trichome patterning on leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana. Time series of growing rosette leaves (4D confocal datasets...
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In this article, we present an approach for the automated extraction of quantitative information about trichome patterning on leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana. Time series of growing rosette leaves (4D confocal datasets, 3D + time) are used for this work. At first, significant anatomical structures, i.e. leaf surface and midplane are extracted robustly. Using the extracted anatomical structures, a biological reference coordinate system is registered to the leaves. The performed registration allows to determine intra- as well as inter-series spatiotemporal correspondences. Trichomes are localized by first detecting candidates using Hough transform. Then, local 3D invariants are extracted and the candidates are validated using a Support Vector Machine (SVM).
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