An efficient framework utilizing both local features and geometrical distribution for detecting facial components is presented. First, candidate facial components are efficiently collected by cascaded boosting of Haar...
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(纸本)0769525210
An efficient framework utilizing both local features and geometrical distribution for detecting facial components is presented. First, candidate facial components are efficiently collected by cascaded boosting of Haar-like features. The candidates may include false positives and multiple detections. Then, geometrical distribution of facial components is imposed on the candidates to select the optimal configuration. For simplicity, we suppose full dependence between the components and model it with multivariate Gaussian. The effectiveness of the framework is evaluated with experiments
The performances of a well-known GHR car-following model was investigated by using numerical simulations in describing the acceleration and deceleration process induced by the motion of a leading car. It is shown that...
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The performances of a well-known GHR car-following model was investigated by using numerical simulations in describing the acceleration and deceleration process induced by the motion of a leading car. It is shown that in GHR model vehicle is allowed to run arbitrarily close together if their speed are identical , and it waves aside even though the separation is larger than its desired distance. Based on these investigations, a modified GHR model which features a new nonlinear term which attempts to adjust the inter-vehicle spacing to a certain desired value was proposed accordingly to overcome these deficiencies. In addition, the analysis of the additive nonlinear term and steady-state flow of the new model were studied to prove its rationality.
The performances of a well-known GHR car-following model was investigated by using numerical simulations in describing the acceleration and deceleration process induced by the motion of a leading car. It is shown that...
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The performances of a well-known GHR car-following model was investigated by using numerical simulations in describing the acceleration and deceleration process induced by the motion of a leading car. It is shown that in GHR model vehicle is allowed to run arbitrarily close together if their speed are identical,and it waves aside even though the separation is larger than its desired distance. Based on these investigations, a modified GHR model which features a new nonlinear term which attempts to adjust the inter-vehicle spacing to a certain desired value was proposed accordingly to overcome these deficiencies. In addition, the analysis of the additive nonlinear term and steady-state flow of the new model were studied to prove its rationality.
By introducing the velocity difference between the preceding car and the car before the preceding one into the optimal velocity model (OVM), we present an extended dynamical model which takes into account the next-nea...
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By introducing the velocity difference between the preceding car and the car before the preceding one into the optimal velocity model (OVM), we present an extended dynamical model which takes into account the next-nearest-neighbor interaction. The stability condition of this model is derived by considering a small perturbation around the uniform flow solution with finding that traffic congestion is suppressed efficiently by incorporating the effect of new consideration. Then we investigate the property of the model using numerical methods. The results indicate that the next-nearest-neighbor interaction has important impacts on the coexisting flow, the relation between flow and density, and the propagation speed of small disturbance (PSSD). In addition, we have a try to further enhance the stability of traffic flow by introducing the relative velocity of an arbitrary number of cars in front, but the analysis of linear stability shows it is poor for our purpose
In this paper descriptive visual features based on integral invariants are proposed to solve the global localization of indoor mobile robots. These descriptive features are locally extracted by applying a set of non-l...
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(纸本)3540302913
In this paper descriptive visual features based on integral invariants are proposed to solve the global localization of indoor mobile robots. These descriptive features are locally extracted by applying a set of non-linear kernel functions around a set ofinterest points in the image. To investigate the approach thoroughly, we use a set of images taken by re-assigning the robot position many times near a set of reference locations. Also, the presence of illumination variations is encountered many times inthe images. Compared to a well-known approach, our approach has better localization rate with moderate computational overhead.
Using real world images, two hierarchical graph-based segmentation methods are evaluated with respect to segmentations produced by humans. Global and local consistency measures do not show big differences between the ...
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Using real world images, two hierarchical graph-based segmentation methods are evaluated with respect to segmentations produced by humans. Global and local consistency measures do not show big differences between the two representative methods although human visual inspection of the results show advantages for one method. To a certain extent this subjective impression is captured by the new criteria of 'region size variation'
In this paper a system is developed for face recognition processes. Preprocessing and face localization is necessary to obtain a high classification rate in face recognition tasks. In this study after preprocessing of...
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In this paper a system is developed for face recognition processes. Preprocessing and face localization is necessary to obtain a high classification rate in face recognition tasks. In this study after preprocessing of face images, for omitting the redundant information such as background and hair, the oval shape of face is approximated by an ellipse using shape information. Then the parameters (orientation and center coordinates) of this ellipse are optimized using genetic algorithm (GA). High order pseudo Zernike moment invariant (PZMI) which has useful properties is utilized to produce feature vectors. Also radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) with HLA learning rule has been used as a classifier. Simulation results on ORL database indicate that the error rate of proposed system which uses genetic algorithm for optimizing the face localization step is lower than an older system which described in (H. Haddadnia et al., 2003)
Efficient reconfigurable VLSI architecture for 1-D 5/3 and 9/7 wavelet transforms adopted in JPEG2000 proposal, based on lifting scheme is proposed. The embedded decimation technique based on fold and time multiplexin...
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Efficient reconfigurable VLSI architecture for 1-D 5/3 and 9/7 wavelet transforms adopted in JPEG2000 proposal, based on lifting scheme is proposed. The embedded decimation technique based on fold and time multiplexing, as well as embedded boundary data extension technique, is adopted to optimize the design of the architecture. These reduce significantly the required numbers of the multipliers, adders and registers, as well as the amount of accessing external memory, and lead to decrease efficiently the hardware cost and power consumption of the design. The architecture is designed to generate an output per clock cycle, and the detailed component and the approximation of the input signal are available alternately. Experimental simulation and comparison results are presented, which demonstrate that the proposed architecture has lower hardware complexity, thus it is adapted for embedded applications. The presented architecture is simple, regular and scalable, and well suited for VLSI implementation.
In this paper, a novel image registration method is proposed. In the proposed method, kernel independent component analysis (KICA) is applied to extract features from the image sets, and these features are input vecto...
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In this paper, a novel image registration method is proposed. In the proposed method, kernel independent component analysis (KICA) is applied to extract features from the image sets, and these features are input vectors of feedforward neural networks (FNN). Neural network outputs are those translation, rotation and scaling parameters with respect to reference and observed image sets. Comparative experiments are performed between KICA based method and other six feature extraction based method: principal component analysis (PCA), independent component analysis (ICA), kernel principal component analysis (KPCA), the discrete cosine transform (DCT), Zernike moment and the complete isometric mapping (Isomap). The results show that the proposed method is much improved not only at accuracy but also remarkably at robust to noise.
Laser hybrid welding process is widely studied today, with many research groups trying to clarify the phenomena during the process. Many of the changes occurring during laser hybrid welding process can be observed wit...
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Laser hybrid welding process is widely studied today, with many research groups trying to clarify the phenomena during the process. Many of the changes occurring during laser hybrid welding process can be observed with the help of high speed imaging. The high speed of the droplet formation and their movement to the melt pool set strict requirements for the imaging frequency in order to provide reliable information about the process. Because of large number of images produced by the high-speed (over 1000 Hz) imaging, it is time-consuming, error-prone, and frustrating to inspect the process manually, using only the human eyes for the observation. These problems could be alleviated by an automated system for the observation. This paper presents an off-line machine vision system created and used to study videos of CO2 laser-MAG hybrid welding experiments in which welding parameters were changed one at a time. The quality of the welds was observed by visual and macrographic examination. In the study, the regularity of pulse frequency of the arc and direction of filler material droplet flight were measured with the help of machine vision. Due to stable nature of keyhole welding part of the process, these characteristics show the stability of the whole welding process. It was found out that the automatic observation can be used if the quality of the images remains good enough. Experimentally, the inspection system provided information that the welding parameters have an effect on direction of droplet movement. This kind of automatic observation of changes in the process could provide a valuable tool for process optimization. The gathered information can be utilized in achieving an optimized process giving the best possible productivity.
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