Based on quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO), a novel path planner for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is employed to generate a safe and flyable path. The standard particle swarm optimization (PSO) and q...
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Content-based image retrieval plays a key role in the management of a large image database. However, the results of existing approaches are not as satisfactory for the gap between visual features and semantic concepts...
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(纸本)9781617388767
Content-based image retrieval plays a key role in the management of a large image database. However, the results of existing approaches are not as satisfactory for the gap between visual features and semantic concepts. Therefore, a novel scheme is here proposed. First, to tackle the problem of large computational cost involved in a large image database, a pre-filtering processing is utilized to filter out the most irrelevant images while keeping the most relevant ones. Second, the relevance between the query image and the remaining images is measured and the obtained relevance scores are stored for a later refinement processing. Finally, a semi-supervised learning algorithm is utilized to refine candidate ranking by taking into account both thepairwise information of unlabeled images and the relevance scores between the input query image and unlabeled images. Experiments conducted on a typical Corel dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
A new path planning method for UAV in static workspace is presented. The method can find a nearly optimal path in short time which satisfies the UAV kinematic constraints. The method makes use of the skeletons to cons...
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The study of the second order motion in biological vision is a new source of inspiration for algorithms and research directions in computer vision. In this paper, the second order motion can be divided into three typi...
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The study of the second order motion in biological vision is a new source of inspiration for algorithms and research directions in computer vision. In this paper, the second order motion can be divided into three typical group according to the modulation types: spatial modulate motion, temporal modulate motion and spatio-temporal modulate motion. Experiments are conducted on the first order motion perception based on correlation model and the second order motion perception by correlation model preceded with a nonlinear process called texture grabber. The computational results are consistent with the previous suggestion that the second order motions are processed by nonlinear system.
For multitarget tracking problems, occlusions between targets are quite tough tasks. We present a novel algorithm to solve such problems. For the two targets in occlusions, Fukunaga-Koontz transform is exploited to ac...
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For multitarget tracking problems, occlusions between targets are quite tough tasks. We present a novel algorithm to solve such problems. For the two targets in occlusions, Fukunaga-Koontz transform is exploited to achieve the projection matrix, with which the two targets are projected into a low dimensional space where they are quite distinguishing. To solve the problem of the change of target appearance, the eigenspace model is used as the probabilistic observation model, with which the algorithm can learn the changes of the target appearance online. These two procedures are evaluated in the particle filter based tracking framework. Experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of our algorithm.
We report on a new approach to tracking small infrared targets. The method improves on existing target trackers by combining mean-shift tracker with Kalman filtering and by updating the tracking parameters through the...
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We report on a new approach to tracking small infrared targets. The method improves on existing target trackers by combining mean-shift tracker with Kalman filtering and by updating the tracking parameters through the measurement of the complexity of the target region. We have further developed a nonlinear algorithm to improve the robustness of the traditional mean-shift tracker for small infrared targets. Experimental results demonstrate a superior performance of our method compared to existing target trackers, particularly in the environment of strong measurement noise and large variation of illumination.
Drivers over the age of 65 are increasing rapidly in numbers and they are inclined to be involved in accidents frequently. In this paper, a multi-source information fusion model to improve the driving safety for older...
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(纸本)9781424435036
Drivers over the age of 65 are increasing rapidly in numbers and they are inclined to be involved in accidents frequently. In this paper, a multi-source information fusion model to improve the driving safety for older drivers is proposed. First, the influences of surrounding features, such as traffic and weather, on the driving safety are analyzed and the surrounding driving safety degree (SDSD) is proposed to represent it. Second, we analyze the effect of driving behavior characters on the driving safety and name it as the driving behavior safety degree (DBSD). Then we propose a fuzzy information fusion method to evaluate the driver safety degree (DSD) based on the evaluation results of SDSD and DBSD. The fuzzy reasoning rules can be adjusted to satisfy different drivers through analyzing the driving behavior and history traffic accident logs collected. We test our methods based on the data sets collected from the American National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the experimental results show that the proposed method is more efficient in improving the older driver's safety.
In this paper, we present a novel method for automatically computing phase congruency at appropriate scales and orientations. Compared with Kovcsi's phase congruency method, there are two distinct improvements in ...
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In this paper, we present a novel method for automatically computing phase congruency at appropriate scales and orientations. Compared with Kovcsi's phase congruency method, there are two distinct improvements in our method. First, our local phase information can be evaluated in a rotation invariant manner. Therefore, no orientation sampling is required. Second, the phase congruency is computed in a localized way, so there is no need to take all scales into consideration. Thus the computation load is reduced greatly and in the meanwhile this method can gain sub-pixel accuracy. We apply our algorithm to the endotracheal tube detection on X-ray image. Comparative experimental results show the efficiency of our method.
This paper presents an improved biomechanical model for the prediction of the soft tissues in the plastic surgical simulator. The new model is built on nonlinear finite mixed-element method (NFM-EM) in which the inter...
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This paper presents an improved biomechanical model for the prediction of the soft tissues in the plastic surgical simulator. The new model is built on nonlinear finite mixed-element method (NFM-EM) in which the internal soft tissues (muscles and fat) are discretized into tetrahedral solid elements and the skin tissues into triangular shell elements, which distinguishes between the internal soft tissues and the skin in their geometrical structures, and addresses the non-homogenous problem of the facial soft tissues in their biomechanical characteristics. Moreover, after the investigation of the three different nonlinear strain-potential models, the biomechanical characteristics of the skin and the internal soft tissues are modeled with the most suitable one. The quantitative validation and the comparative results with other models illustrated the effectiveness of the approach on the simulation of complex cranio-facial surgery.
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.
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