A new evaluation method of image quality based on its construction simulation is proposed to solve the limit of evaluation of perceptual distortion by analyzing the current characteristic of image quality evaluation m...
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A new evaluation method of image quality based on its construction simulation is proposed to solve the limit of evaluation of perceptual distortion by analyzing the current characteristic of image quality evaluation method. Whole similarity obtained from luminance, contrast and image construction is the objective evaluation standard of image quality. The method fully considers the characteristic of structure information of image and vision of people, starts from the comprehension function of image context, and sets up the structure simulation computing model to evaluate the subjective perception to image quality. By theory deducing and algorithm validation, the evidences for selecting the image compressed algorithm and evaluating image quality are obtained. Reconstructed image after encoding by compression algorithm SPIHT (Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees) is compared with the traditional evaluation image based on Peak Signal-to-noise Ratio (PSNR), and experiment shows that the method proposed in the paper is a more effective evaluating method for image quality.
This paper presents uncertainty propagation in landmark based position estimation methods. Analysis of two methods has been carried out where robot position is estimated by detecting one or two globally distinct featu...
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(纸本)9784901122078
This paper presents uncertainty propagation in landmark based position estimation methods. Analysis of two methods has been carried out where robot position is estimated by detecting one or two globally distinct features using a pivoted stereo vision system. We make a basic assumption about error in estimating point features in camera images and propagate it into robot position estimate using first order approximation of non-linear functions. Simulation results illustrate the performance of the method.
The increasing use of color terminals for personal computers has raised a demand for video graphic adapter(VGA)-format panel displays. Since only monochrome(ZnS∶Mn) electroluminescence(EL) displays of suitable size a...
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The increasing use of color terminals for personal computers has raised a demand for video graphic adapter(VGA)-format panel displays. Since only monochrome(ZnS∶Mn) electroluminescence(EL) displays of suitable size and speed are available, lack of colors has to be replaced by grayscale in the first place. There are two basic driving methods to achieve grayscale in thin-film EL displays: pulse amplitude modulation(PAM) method and pulse width modulation(PWM) method. But there are serious disadvantages of the two traditional methods. For the former method, the high voltage PAM ICs are too expensive to produce the grayscale EL display in bulks and the driver integrated circuit(IC) is complex. Though the PWM method has good grayscale display quality, the hardware implementation is too complex. A new driving method with which the width and the amplitude of the pulse can be modulated and simultaneously the challenge can be solved efficaciously is presented.
Refinement is a necessary and effective step in some node localization schemes of wireless sensor networks (WSN). Suitable refinement procedure can improve the node localization accuracy and raise the robustness of th...
Refinement is a necessary and effective step in some node localization schemes of wireless sensor networks (WSN). Suitable refinement procedure can improve the node localization accuracy and raise the robustness of the localization algorithm. However, most existing refinement algorithms are costly duo to complex computation and frequent communication, and may induce serious coverage problem duo to nonconvergent iterations. In view of above facts, Steepest descent method is proposed to be used as the refinement algorithm in this paper, and corresponding simulation experiments are done to testify its feasibility and validity. The results show that steepest descent method can optimize the node positions to a fairish accuracy extent, and compared with existing refinement methods, it outperforms in communication cost, computation cost, and coverage rate.
This paper presents the research on stability for biped Walking-Chair robot with human-in-the-loop. The inherent properties of the biped system which is developed for the disable people to replace traditional wheelcha...
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In this paper, we proposed a robot self position identification method by active sound localization. This method can be used for autonomous security robots working in room environments. A system using a AIBO robot equ...
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In this paper, we proposed a robot self position identification method by active sound localization. This method can be used for autonomous security robots working in room environments. A system using a AIBO robot equipped with two microphones and wireless network is constructed and is used for position identification experiments. Arrival time differences to the microphones of robot are used as localization cues. To overcome the ambiguity of front-back confusion, a three-head position measurement method was proposed. The robot position can be identified by the intersection of circles restricted by the azimuth differences to different speaker pairs. By localizing three or four speakers as sound beacons positioned on known locations, the robot can identify its self position with an average error of about 7 cm in a 2.5times3.0 m 2 working space. A robot navigation experiment was conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the position identification system.
image segmentation methods like active shape models, active appearance models or snakes require an initialisation that guarantees a considerable overlap with the object to be segmented. In this paper we present an app...
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(纸本)1901725340
image segmentation methods like active shape models, active appearance models or snakes require an initialisation that guarantees a considerable overlap with the object to be segmented. In this paper we present an approach that localises anatomical structures in a global manner by means of Markov Random Fields (MRF). It does not need initialisation, but finds the most plausible match of the query structure in the image. It provides for precise, reliable and fast detection of the structure and can serve as initialisation for more detailed segmentation steps. Sparse MRF Appearance Models (SAMs) encode a priori information about the geometric configurations of interest points, local features at these points and local features along the edges of adjacent points. This information is used to formulate a Markov Random Field and the mapping of the modeled object (e.g. a sequence of vertebrae) to the query image interest points is performed by the MAX-SUM algorithm. The local image information is captured by novel symmetry-based interest points and local descriptors derived from Gradient Vector Flow. Experimental results are reported for two data-sets showing the applicability to complex medical data.
A satisfied deformable object simulation should be general, accurate, efficient and stable. Explicit, implicit and semi-implicit numerical integration methods have contributed to large performance enhancements in the ...
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This paper addresses the issues of nonlinear edge-preserving image smoothing and segmentation. A ML-based approach is proposed which uses an iterative algorithm to solve the problem. First, assumptions about segments ...
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This paper addresses the issues of nonlinear edge-preserving image smoothing and segmentation. A ML-based approach is proposed which uses an iterative algorithm to solve the problem. First, assumptions about segments are made by describing the joint probability distribution of pixel positions and colours within segments. Based on these assumptions, an optimal smoothing algorithm is derived under the ML condition. By studying the derived algorithm, we show that the solution is related to a two-stage mean shift which is separated in space and range. This novel ML-based approach takes a new kernel function. Experiments have been conducted on a range of images to smooth and segment them. Visual results and evaluations with 2 objective criteria have shown that the proposed method has led to improved results which suffer from less over-segmentation than the standard mean-shift.
Video surveillance has drawn increasing interests in recent years. This paper addresses the issue of moving object tracking from videos. A two-step processing procedure is proposed: an incremental 2DPCA (two-dimension...
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Video surveillance has drawn increasing interests in recent years. This paper addresses the issue of moving object tracking from videos. A two-step processing procedure is proposed: an incremental 2DPCA (two-dimensional principal component analysis)-based method for characterizing objects given the tracked regions, and a ML (maximum likelihood) blob-tracking process given the object characterization and the previous blob sequence. The proposed incremental 2DPCA updates the row- and column-projected covariance matrices recursively, and is computationally more efficient for online learning of dynamic objects. The proposed ML blob-tracking takes into account both the shape information and object characteristics. Tests and evaluations were performed on indoor and outdoor image sequences containing a range of single moving object in dynamic backgrounds, which have shown good tracking results. Comparisons with the method using the conventional PCA were also made.
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