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...
详细信息
ISBN:
(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.
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...
详细信息
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.
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 ...
详细信息
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.
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...
详细信息
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).
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...
详细信息
ISBN:
(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.
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...
详细信息
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...
详细信息
In this article, we explain why and how to identify the projected sphere center, i.e. the projection of the sphere center, in passive-mode based optical tracking systems using infrared reflective spheres as markers. W...
详细信息
In this article, we explain why and how to identify the projected sphere center, i.e. the projection of the sphere center, in passive-mode based optical tracking systems using infrared reflective spheres as markers. We first present the algebraic representation of the 'deviation', defined by their Euclidian distance in the image coordinate system, between the projected sphere center and the center of the elliptical contour of the sphere's image, and show that the common approximation to substitute the later for the former is not always appropriate in terms of accuracy. Then, we give the projective equation of a sphere in matrix form, thus paving the way for the linear estimation of the projected sphere center. Sufficient experiments indicate that this proposed method enlarges the manipulating volume of the optical tracking system and improves the precision of locating surgical instruments.
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is one of the most used feature extraction techniques for face recognition. However, it often suffers from the small sample size problem with high dimension setting. Random Subspace ...
详细信息
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is one of the most used feature extraction techniques for face recognition. However, it often suffers from the small sample size problem with high dimension setting. Random Subspace Method (RSM) is a popular combining technique to improve weak classifier. Nevertheless, it remains a problem how to construct an optimal random subspace for discriminant analysis. In this paper, we propose an improved random sampling LDA for face recognition. Firstly, AdaBoost is adopted to select Gabor feature and remove redundant information. Secondly, in the selected Gabor feature space, we combine principal component analysis and RSM approaches to construct optimal random subspaces for LDA. After that, direct LDA (D-LDA) and R-LDA is applied in each subspace, respectively. Final results are obtained by combining all the LDA classifiers using a fusion rule. Experiments with both the ORL and FERET face databases demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method, and it shows promising results compared with previous approaches.
Medical imaging techniques like computed/digital radiography (CR/DR) have introduced a formidably powerful tool in medicine. image enhancement takes an important roll in the CR/DR computerized analysis process. Much e...
Medical imaging techniques like computed/digital radiography (CR/DR) have introduced a formidably powerful tool in medicine. image enhancement takes an important roll in the CR/DR computerized analysis process. Much effort has been put into the area of image enhancement. However, conventional multi-scale methods have the drawback of the introduction of severe visible artifacts while large structures are enhanced strongly. This paper presents a nonlinear multi-scale medical image contrast enhancement method for the improvement of medical image quality. More specifically, a novel nonlinear enhancement function is proposed incorporated with human visual local perceptual contrast. The proposed work provides the advantages of enhancing or preserving image contrast while suppressing visible artifacts. To quantitatively compare the performance of the proposed method, the average local variances are used as comparison criteria. Results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method. Our results show that the proposed method has the potential to become useful for improvement of image quality of medical images.
暂无评论