GPS navigation is often found undependable in urban situations where tall structures occlude large parts of the sky. To keep accurate position in these situations, we need an alternative method. We propose a novel vis...
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(纸本)9781467330640
GPS navigation is often found undependable in urban situations where tall structures occlude large parts of the sky. To keep accurate position in these situations, we need an alternative method. We propose a novel visual odometry method that is shown to provide reliable relative motion estimation in typical urban road driving using a single camera. While the short-term accuracy is good, relative motion estimation by itself is susceptible to drift and therefore insufficient to provide good long-term absolute position estimates. To overcome this drift, we propose to warp the visual odometry output to a stored map. This warping must be able to cope with temporary discrepancies between visual odometry and map data. The proposed mapping does not make a hard decision about road position, but instead entertains all plausible hypotheses about the followed trajectory and their associated warping costs. Evaluation on real test sequences proves that the method succesfully eliminates drift, and on average stays within 7 metres of simultaneously recorded GPS data. This proves that the combined visual odometry and mapping are sufficient to provide positioning with comparable accuracy to GPS in those situations when GPS is unavailable.
Dental based human identification is commonly used in forensic. In a case of large scale investigation, manual identification needs a large amount of time. In this paper, we developed an automated human identification...
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In this paper state space and circuit realizations are presented for 2D Reverse-Lattice based filters. The proposed state space realizations are based on the corresponding circuit implementation. For the state space r...
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In this paper state space and circuit realizations are presented for 2D Reverse-Lattice based filters. The proposed state space realizations are based on the corresponding circuit implementation. For the state space realization the 2D Cyclic model, having minimal dimension and delay elements, is used. Two low-order representative examples are presented to illustrate the proposed results using, 2D all-pass and all-pole with a scale factor, realization structures.
This paper investigates the use of a single image of a smooth Lambertian surface to calibrate and remove some image nonlinearities due to the imaging device. To the best of our knowledge, this has not been addressed b...
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This paper investigates the use of a single image of a smooth Lambertian surface to calibrate and remove some image nonlinearities due to the imaging device. To the best of our knowledge, this has not been addressed before in the literature. We show that this is possible, both theoretically and practically, taking advantage of some local shading measures that vary nonlinearly as a function of luminance and geometric nonlinearities (e.g., gamma correction and lens distortion). This can work as a basis for developing a simple method to estimate these nonlinearities from a single image. Several experiments are reported to validate the proposed method.
Polarization imaging can give information about surface shape, and roughness. Polarization has been used for shape recovery, but with convex/concave reconstruction ambiguity. In this paper, we present a direct method ...
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Polarization imaging can give information about surface shape, and roughness. Polarization has been used for shape recovery, but with convex/concave reconstruction ambiguity. In this paper, we present a direct method to shape recovery using both polarization and shading that resolves this ambiguity, without the need for nonlinear optimization routines. Several experiments on synthetic and real datasets are reported to evaluate the proposed method. The method consistently outperforms some well-known methods based on polarization information alone.
One of the major goals of computer vision and machine intelligence is the development of flexible and efficient methods for shape representation. This paper presents an approach for shape retrieval based on sparse rep...
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One of the major goals of computer vision and machine intelligence is the development of flexible and efficient methods for shape representation. This paper presents an approach for shape retrieval based on sparse representation of scale-invariant heat kernel. We use the Laplace-Beltrami eigen functions to detect a small number of critical points on the shape surface. Then a shape descriptor is formed based on the heat kernels at the detected critical points for different scales, combined with the normalized eigen values of the Lap lace-Beltrami operator. Sparse representation is used to reduce the dimensionality of the calculated descriptor. The proposed descriptor is used for classification via the collaborative representation-based classification with regularized least square algorithm. We compare our approach to two well-known approaches on two different data sets: the nonrigid world data set and the SHREC 2011. The results have indeed confirmed the improved performance of the proposed approach, yet reducing the time and space complicity of the shape retrieval problem.
Cellular Simultaneous Recurrent Network (CSRN) is a novel bio-inspired recurrent neural network that mimics reinforcement learning in the brain. CSRN has been proven to be a powerful tool for learning and predicting t...
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(纸本)9781467314886
Cellular Simultaneous Recurrent Network (CSRN) is a novel bio-inspired recurrent neural network that mimics reinforcement learning in the brain. CSRN has been proven to be a powerful tool for learning and predicting temporal information in face image sequences. In this work, we propose a novel implementation of feature-based CSRN for large-scale pose invariant face recognition. We also report systematic evaluation and performance comparison of our feature-based CSRN method with other well-known standard algorithms (PCA, LDA, Bayesian Classifier and EBGM) using face recognition technology standards for large-scale pose invariant face recognition.
In this paper, we present an inexpensive system for diverless video capture and fast image stitching of image frames for rapid reef assessment of shallow coral reefs. Our system has two main components: 1) Teardrop, a...
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Retrieving videos based on its contents is becoming an increasingly popular area of research, because of enormous growth in the availability of multimedia information on public databases like Google and YouTube. Usual...
Retrieving videos based on its contents is becoming an increasingly popular area of research, because of enormous growth in the availability of multimedia information on public databases like Google and YouTube. Usually videos contain large variety of data but majority of online videos contain human as a subject of interest. In this paper, a human action based video retrieval system is presented which can be used to retrieve videos based on the contents of the query. The proposed system can search videos containing particular action on large databases efficiently. Furthermore, it is also shown that by using features weight updating approach as a Relevance feedback (RF), it is possible to involve user concepts interactively so that complex human action queries can be searched quickly to achieve useful results. Three popular Human action datasets namely Weizmann, KTH and UCF (sports) have been utilized in order to validate the performance of the proposed system. Experimental results and simulations show the efficacy of the proposed system. Even with number of visual challenges proposed approach will manage to get better accuracy as compare to other existing methods.
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J. K. ChawM. M. MokjiComputer Vision
Video and Image Processing (CvviP) Laboratory Department of Microelectronic and Computer Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia
Produce recognition system is a system that can categorize types of vegetables and fruits based on features extracted from the images. However, there are numerous features that can be extracted from fruits and vegetab...
Produce recognition system is a system that can categorize types of vegetables and fruits based on features extracted from the images. However, there are numerous features that can be extracted from fruits and vegetables such as colour, texture and shape. As a result, it is effort consuming to identify suitable features ad hoc. Thus, data mining is required to discover the most discriminative features for recognition. This paper aims to extend the usage of data mining algorithm to image domain. Data mining algorithm is preferred to other feature selection algorithms because it discovers nuggets of knowledge that can be understood by human whereas classic feature selection techniques provide outputs that can only be managed by learning algorithms.
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