Moving cast shadow causes serious problem while segmenting and extracting foreground from image sequences, due to the misclassification of moving shadow as foreground. This paper proposes a Boosting discriminative mod...
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Moving cast shadow causes serious problem while segmenting and extracting foreground from image sequences, due to the misclassification of moving shadow as foreground. This paper proposes a Boosting discriminative model to eliminate cast shadow on Discriminative Random Fields (DRFs). The method combines different features for Boosting to discriminate cast shadow from moving objects, then temporal and spatial coherence of shadow and foreground are incorporated on Discriminative Random Fields and the problem can be solved by graph cut. Firstly, moving objects are obtained by background subtraction;secondly, shadow candidates can be derived through pre-processing moving objects, in terms of the shadow physical property;thirdly, color information and texture information is derived by comparing shadow and foreground points in current image with corresponding points in background image, which are selected as features for Boosting;finally, temporal and spatial coherence of shadow and foreground is employed on Discriminative Random Fields and discriminate shadow and foreground by graph cut accurately.
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.
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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In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for gait recognition. Binarized silhouette of a motion object is first segmented from color image, and then, spatio-temporal (XYT) volume is constructed by using these binar...
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In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for gait recognition. Binarized silhouette of a motion object is first segmented from color image, and then, spatio-temporal (XYT) volume is constructed by using these binarized silhouettes, and cut at knee and hip height. Next, energy images are extracted by projecting these three individual XYT volumes onto X-T plane, respectively. Fourier Transform is employed as a processing step to achieve translation invariant for the silhouette sequences which are captured from the subjects walk in different speed. Then three frequency-domain feature vectors are fused. AdaBoost is used to select a small set of critical features from all of the features. Nearest Neighbor and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier are finally executed to produce final decision, respectively. The experiments are carried on one of the largest public gait database: the CASIA database. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is efficient for human gait recognition, and achieves competitive performance.
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.
Motivated by the requirements of archaeologists we are developing an automated system for acquisition, documentation and management of daily finds of excavations. These daily finds can be separated into large objects ...
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Motivated by the requirements of archaeologists we are developing an automated system for acquisition, documentation and management of daily finds of excavations. These daily finds can be separated into large objects like remainders of architecture and small objects of ancient daily life - like ceramics and coins. Ceramics especially are found in numbers of tens of thousands on virtually every excavation, because ceramics have been in use for thousands of years. Until the present day these finds are documented by manual drawings. There is a similar situation in the case of coins, where manual drawings are often used to abstract them from photographs. Therefore we propose an automated acquisition and documentation system based on digital cameras and structured light for small findings. For ceramics we provide further processing to estimate horizontal cross-sections (profile-lines) for printed documentation, as it is done by manual drawing. For this a proper orientation of the acquired 3D-model is required and automatically estimated based on the assumption that ceramics were made on rotational plates (wheels). We are aware that ceramics might not always have been manufactured on rotational plates, because the wheel was not invented everywhere as for the example in the Americas. Even though ceramics from such areas appear to be rotational symmetric, we developed a method based on shape and symmetry analysis to determine the manufacturing techniques of ceramics. This helps to answer another archaeological question regarding the technological advance of an ancient culture. Results for accuracy and performance are shown on real data from recent interdisciplinary projects together with archaeologists from Austria, Germany, Israel and Peru. Furthermore we present preliminary results of the integration of coin classification in our documentation system. Additionally we are currently adapting the London Charter to ensure the intellectual integrity, reliability, transparency,
Aiming at the characters of weak and small targets in infrared images, an algorithm based on Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LS-SVM) is presented to fuse long-wave and mid-wave infrared images and detect target...
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(纸本)9780819469601
Aiming at the characters of weak and small targets in infrared images, an algorithm based on Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LS-SVM) is presented to fuse long-wave and mid-wave infrared images and detect targets. image intensity surfaces for the neighborhood of every pixel of the original long-wave infrared image and mid-wave infrared are well-fitted by mapped LS-SVM respectively. And long-wave and mid-wave infrared image gradient images are obtained by LS-SVM based on radial basis kernels function. Fusion rule is set up according to the features of gradient images. At last, segment fused image and targets can be detected with contrast threshold. Compared with wavelet fusion detection algorithm and morphological fusion detection algorithm, when a target is affected by baits, the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach in the paper based on LS-SVM to fuse and detect weak and small target is reliable and efficient.
We describe an incremental learning algorithm designed to learn in challenging non-stationary environments, where the underlying data distribution that governs the classification problem changes at an unknown *** algo...
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We describe an incremental learning algorithm designed to learn in challenging non-stationary environments, where the underlying data distribution that governs the classification problem changes at an unknown *** algorithm is based on a multiple classifier system that generates a new classifier every time a new dataset becomes available from the changing *** consider the particularly challenging form of this problem, where we assume that the previously generated data points are no longer available, even if some of those points may still be relevant in the new *** algorithm employs a strategic weighting mechanism to determine the error of each classifier on the current data distribution, and then combines the classifiers using a dynamically weighted majority *** describe the implementation details of algorithm, and track its performance as a function of the environment's rate of *** show that the algorithm is able to track the changing environment, even when the environment changes drastically over a short period of time.
Wide baseline stereo correspondence has become a challenging and attractive problem in computer vision and its related applications. Getting high correct ratio initial matches is a very important step of general wide ...
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(纸本)9780819469526
Wide baseline stereo correspondence has become a challenging and attractive problem in computer vision and its related applications. Getting high correct ratio initial matches is a very important step of general wide baseline stereo correspondence algorithm. Ferrari et al. suggested a voting scheme called topological filter in [3] to discard mismatches from initial matches, but they didn't give theoretical analysis of their method. Furthermore, the parameter of their scheme was uncertain. In this paper, we improved Ferraris' method based on our theoretical analysis, and presented a novel scheme called topologically clustering to discard mismatches. The proposed method has been tested using many famous wide baseline image pairs and the experimental results showed that the developed method can efficiently extract high correct ratio matches from low correct ratio initial matches for wide baseline image pairs.
Illegal trade and theft of coins appears to be a major part of the illegal antiques market. image based recognition of coins could substantially contribute to fight against it. Central component in the permanent ident...
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