An adaptive fusion method of multisensor images based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform is proposed in this paper, which can select the fusion weights of the low-frequency coefficients adaptively via golden sectio...
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An adaptive fusion method of multisensor images based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform is proposed in this paper, which can select the fusion weights of the low-frequency coefficients adaptively via golden section algorithm. The nonsubsampled contourlet transform is a flexible multi-scale, multi-direction and shift-invariant image decomposition, which is suitable for representing images bearing abundant detail and directional information. This is employed for fusing the directional high-frequency coefficients. For the directional high-frequency coefficients, the higher adding level of the directional subbands is used to select the better coefficient for fusion. The nonsubsampled contourlet transform can also avoids introducing ringing artifacts to fused images compared to ordinary method. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better fusion efficiency compared to image fusion methods based on Laplacian pyramid transform, wavelet transform, stationary wavelet transform and contourlet transform respectively.
A wide variety of real-life networks share two remarkable generic topological properties: scale-free behavior and modular organization, and it is natural and important to study how these two features affect the dynami...
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A wide variety of real-life networks share two remarkable generic topological properties: scale-free behavior and modular organization, and it is natural and important to study how these two features affect the dynamical processes taking place on such networks. In this paper, we investigate a simple stochastic process—trapping problem, a random walk with a perfect trap fixed at a given location, performed on a family of hierarchical networks that exhibit simultaneously striking scale-free and modular structure. We focus on a particular case with the immobile trap positioned at the hub node having the largest degree. Using a method based on generating functions, we determine explicitly the mean first-passage time (MFPT) for the trapping problem, which is the mean of the node-to-trap first-passage time over the entire network. The exact expression for the MFPT is calculated through the recurrence relations derived from the special construction of the hierarchical networks. The obtained rigorous formula corroborated by extensive direct numerical calculations exhibits that the MFPT grows algebraically with the network order. Concretely, the MFPT increases as a power-law function of the number of nodes with the exponent much less than 1. We demonstrate that the hierarchical networks under consideration have more efficient structure for transport by diffusion in contrast with other analytically soluble media including some previously studied scale-free networks. We argue that the scale-free and modular topologies are responsible for the high efficiency of the trapping process on the hierarchical networks.
Particle swarm optimisation (PSO) is a novel population-based stochastic optimisation algorithm inspired by the Reynolds' boid model. The original biological background of boid obeys three basic simple steering ru...
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Given an image region of pixels, second order statistics can be used to construct a descriptor for object representation. One example is the covariance matrix descriptor, which shows high discriminative power and good...
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Given an image region of pixels, second order statistics can be used to construct a descriptor for object representation. One example is the covariance matrix descriptor, which shows high discriminative power and good robustness in many computer vision applications. However, operations for the covariance matrix on Riemannian manifolds are usually computationally demanding. This paper proposes a novel second order statistics based region descriptor, named “Sigma Set”, in the form of a small set of vectors, which can be uniquely constructed through Cholesky decomposition on the covariance matrix. Sigma Set is of low dimension, powerful and robust. Moreover, compared with the covariance matrix, Sigma Set is not only more efficient in distance evaluation and average calculation, but also easier to be enriched with first order statistics. Experimental results in texture classification and object tracking verify the effectiveness and efficiency of this novel object descriptor.
In this paper we discuss several progress of semi-supervised learning, making emphasis on semi-supervised classification. First, we introduce the history and basic concept and methods of semi-supervised learning, then...
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Sparse coding has high-performance encoding and ability to express images, sparse encoding basis vector plays a crucial role. The computational complexity of the most existing sparse coding basis vectors of is relativ...
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Sparse coding has high-performance encoding and ability to express images, sparse encoding basis vector plays a crucial role. The computational complexity of the most existing sparse coding basis vectors of is relatively large. In order to reduce the computational complexity and save the time to train basis vectors. A new Hebbian rules based method for computation of sparse coding basis vectors is proposed in this paper. A two-layer neural network is constructed to implement the task. The main idea of our work is to learn basis vectors by removing the redundancy of all initial vectors using Hebbian rules. The experiments on natural images prove that the proposed method is effective for sparse coding basis learning. It has the smaller computational complexity compared with the previous work.
Sensing the spectrum in a reliable and efficient manner is crucial to cognitive radio. To combat the channel fading suffered by the single radio, cooperative spectrum sensing is employed, to associate the detection of...
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Sensing the spectrum in a reliable and efficient manner is crucial to cognitive radio. To combat the channel fading suffered by the single radio, cooperative spectrum sensing is employed, to associate the detection of multiple radios. In this article, the optimization problem of detection efficiency under the constraint of detection probability is investigated, and an algorithm to evaluate the required radio number and sensing time for maximal detection efficiency is presented. To show the effect of cooperation on the detection efficiency, the proposed algorithm is applied to cooperative sensing using the spectral correlation detector under the Rayleigh flat fading channel.
This article deals with downlink scheduling for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the base station communicates with multiple users simultaneously through transmit beamforming. Most of t...
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This article deals with downlink scheduling for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the base station communicates with multiple users simultaneously through transmit beamforming. Most of the existing transmission schemes for multiuser MIMO systems focus on optimizing sum rate performance of the system. The individual quality of service (QoS) requirements (such as packet delay and minimum transmission rate for the data traffic) are rarely considered. In this article, a novel scheduling strategy is proposed, where we try to optimize the global system performance under individual QoS constraints. By performing scheduling into two steps, namely successive user selection and power allocation, the scheduler can achieve efficient resource utilization while maintaining the QoS requirements of all users. Extensive simulations and analysis are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheduler.
Overlapped time division multiplexing (OvTDM) is a new type of transmission scheme with high spectrum efficiency and low threshold signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In this article, the structure of OvTDM is introduced...
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Overlapped time division multiplexing (OvTDM) is a new type of transmission scheme with high spectrum efficiency and low threshold signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In this article, the structure of OvTDM is introduced and the sphere-decoding algorithm of complex domain is proposed for OvTDM. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can achieve maximum likelihood (ML) decoding with lower complexity as compared to traditional maximum likelihood sequence demodulation (MLSD) or viterbi algorithm (VA).
Aiming at unloading the high training time burden of the popular cascaded classifier, in this paper, a novel cascade structure called Fea-Accu cascade is proposed. In Fea-Accu cascade training, the times of feature se...
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Aiming at unloading the high training time burden of the popular cascaded classifier, in this paper, a novel cascade structure called Fea-Accu cascade is proposed. In Fea-Accu cascade training, the times of feature selection are largely reduced by enhancing the correlation among different stage classifiers of the cascaded classifier. In detail, for each stage classifier, before selecting new features out, the features selected out by previous stage classifiers are reused through creating new corresponding weak classifiers. To verify the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed method, experiment is designed on frontal face detection problem. The experimental results show that it can largely reduce the training time. A frontal face detector with state-of-the-art classification performance can be learned in less than 10 hours.
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