An Evolutionary Computing Approach to Solve Object Identification Problem in Image Processing Applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 439-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katamneni Vinaya Sree ◽  
G. Jeyakumar

In the given image identifying the existence of a required object is the concern of the object detection process. This is quite natural for Human without any effort, however making a machine to detect an object in image is tedious. To make machines to recognize the objects, the feature descriptor algorithms are to be implemented. The general object detection approaches use collection of local and global descriptors to represent an image. Difficulties arise during this process when there is variation in lightening, positioning, rotation, mirroring, occlusion, scaling etc., of the same object in different image scenes. To overcome these difficulties, we need combination of features that detects the object in the image scene. But there exist lot of descriptors that can be used. Hence, finding the required number of feature descriptors for object detection is a crucial task. The question that comes out here is how to select the optimum number of descriptors to achieve optimum accuracy? The answer for the question is an optimization algorithm, which can be employed to select the best combination of the descriptors with maximum detection accuracy. This paper proposing an Evolutionary Computation (EC) based approach with the Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm to find the optimal combination of feature descriptors to achieve optimal object detection accuracy. The proposed approach is implemented and its superiority is verified with four different images and results obtained are presented in this paper.

With the advent in technology, security and authentication has become the main aspect in computer vision approach. Moving object detection is an efficient system with the goal of preserving the perceptible and principal source in a group. Surveillance is one of the most crucial requirements and carried out to monitor various kinds of activities. The detection and tracking of moving objects are the fundamental concept that comes under the surveillance systems. Moving object recognition is challenging approach in the field of digital image processing. Moving object detection relies on few of the applications which are Human Machine Interaction (HMI), Safety and video Surveillance, Augmented Realism, Transportation Monitoring on Roads, Medical Imaging etc. The main goal of this research is the detection and tracking moving object. In proposed approach, based on the pre-processing method in which there is extraction of the frames with reduction of dimension. It applies the morphological methods to clean the foreground image in the moving objects and texture based feature extract using component analysis method. After that, design a novel method which is optimized multilayer perceptron neural network. It used the optimized layers based on the Pbest and Gbest particle position in the objects. It finds the fitness values which is binary values (x_update, y_update) of swarm or object positions. Method and output achieved final frame creation of the moving objects in the video using BLOB ANALYSER In this research , an application is designed using MATLAB VERSION 2016a In activation function to re-filter the given input and final output calculated with the help of pre-defined sigmoid. In proposed methods to find the clear detection and tracking in the given dataset MOT, FOOTBALL, INDOOR and OUTDOOR datasets. To improve the detection accuracy rate, recall rate and reduce the error rates, False Positive and Negative rate and compare with the various classifiers such as KNN, MLPNN and J48 decision Tree.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Di Tian ◽  
Yi Han ◽  
Biyao Wang ◽  
Tian Guan ◽  
Wei Wei

Pedestrian detection is a specific application of object detection. Compared with general object detection, it shows similarities and unique characteristics. In addition, it has important application value in the fields of intelligent driving and security monitoring. In recent years, with the rapid development of deep learning, pedestrian detection technology has also made great progress. However, there still exists a huge gap between it and human perception. Meanwhile, there are still a lot of problems, and there remains a lot of room for research. Regarding the application of pedestrian detection in intelligent driving technology, it is of necessity to ensure its real-time performance. Additionally, it is necessary to lighten the model while ensuring detection accuracy. This paper first briefly describes the development process of pedestrian detection and then concentrates on summarizing the research results of pedestrian detection technology in the deep learning stage. Subsequently, by summarizing the pedestrian detection dataset and evaluation criteria, the core issues of the current development of pedestrian detection are analyzed. Finally, the next possible development direction of pedestrian detection technology is explained at the end of the paper.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Vijayakumar Varadarajan ◽  
Dweepna Garg ◽  
Ketan Kotecha

Deep learning is a relatively new branch of machine learning in which computers are taught to recognize patterns in massive volumes of data. It primarily describes learning at various levels of representation, which aids in understanding data that includes text, voice, and visuals. Convolutional neural networks have been used to solve challenges in computer vision, including object identification, image classification, semantic segmentation and a lot more. Object detection in videos involves confirming the presence of the object in the image or video and then locating it accurately for recognition. In the video, modelling techniques suffer from high computation and memory costs, which may decrease performance measures such as accuracy and efficiency to identify the object accurately in real-time. The current object detection technique based on a deep convolution neural network requires executing multilevel convolution and pooling operations on the entire image to extract deep semantic properties from it. For large objects, detection models can provide superior results; however, those models fail to detect the varying size of the objects that have low resolution and are greatly influenced by noise because the features after the repeated convolution operations of existing models do not fully represent the essential characteristics of the objects in real-time. With the help of a multi-scale anchor box, the proposed approach reported in this paper enhances the detection accuracy by extracting features at multiple convolution levels of the object. The major contribution of this paper is to design a model to understand better the parameters and the hyper-parameters which affect the detection and the recognition of objects of varying sizes and shapes, and to achieve real-time object detection and recognition speeds by improving accuracy. The proposed model has achieved 84.49 mAP on the test set of the Pascal VOC-2007 dataset at 11 FPS, which is comparatively better than other real-time object detection models.


The broad leaves of cotton plant carry various visible disease symptoms. The ability of visual analysis by experts motivated the development of the plant disease recognition model. There are several visual feature descriptors, which can be primarily distinguished on the basis of pattern, texture or color. This system has been developed for the convenience of the farmers, who can avail the benefit by submitting the pictures of infected cotton leaves on the interface and the plant disease recognition system will return type of disease. In this paper, a dynamic feature descriptor is designed with inconsistent cluster analysis (ICA) and disease feature enhancement (DFE), which are combined as hybrid descriptor known as ICADFE for the recognition of the cotton plant disease. The ICADFE is found to improve the detection accuracy (approx. 80%), precision (approx 95%) and f1-measure (approx. 88%) on average in comparison with traditional shape and texture based feature descriptors such as scale invariant feature transform (SIFT), speeded up robust features (SURF) and fast retina keypoints (FREAK) with multicategory SVM (mSVM) for disease recognition


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-87
Author(s):  
Puyda V. ◽  
◽  
Stoian. A.

Detecting objects in a video stream is a typical problem in modern computer vision systems that are used in multiple areas. Object detection can be done on both static images and on frames of a video stream. Essentially, object detection means finding color and intensity non-uniformities which can be treated as physical objects. Beside that, the operations of finding coordinates, size and other characteristics of these non-uniformities that can be used to solve other computer vision related problems like object identification can be executed. In this paper, we study three algorithms which can be used to detect objects of different nature and are based on different approaches: detection of color non-uniformities, frame difference and feature detection. As the input data, we use a video stream which is obtained from a video camera or from an mp4 video file. Simulations and testing of the algoritms were done on a universal computer based on an open-source hardware, built on the Broadcom BCM2711, quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC processor with frequency 1,5GHz. The software was created in Visual Studio 2019 using OpenCV 4 on Windows 10 and on a universal computer operated under Linux (Raspbian Buster OS) for an open-source hardware. In the paper, the methods under consideration are compared. The results of the paper can be used in research and development of modern computer vision systems used for different purposes. Keywords: object detection, feature points, keypoints, ORB detector, computer vision, motion detection, HSV model color


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 4894
Author(s):  
Anna Scius-Bertrand ◽  
Michael Jungo ◽  
Beat Wolf ◽  
Andreas Fischer ◽  
Marc Bui

The current state of the art for automatic transcription of historical manuscripts is typically limited by the requirement of human-annotated learning samples, which are are necessary to train specific machine learning models for specific languages and scripts. Transcription alignment is a simpler task that aims to find a correspondence between text in the scanned image and its existing Unicode counterpart, a correspondence which can then be used as training data. The alignment task can be approached with heuristic methods dedicated to certain types of manuscripts, or with weakly trained systems reducing the required amount of annotations. In this article, we propose a novel learning-based alignment method based on fully convolutional object detection that does not require any human annotation at all. Instead, the object detection system is initially trained on synthetic printed pages using a font and then adapted to the real manuscripts by means of self-training. On a dataset of historical Vietnamese handwriting, we demonstrate the feasibility of annotation-free alignment as well as the positive impact of self-training on the character detection accuracy, reaching a detection accuracy of 96.4% with a YOLOv5m model without using any human annotation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 003685042110113
Author(s):  
Xianghua Ma ◽  
Zhenkun Yang

Real-time object detection on mobile platforms is a crucial but challenging computer vision task. However, it is widely recognized that although the lightweight object detectors have a high detection speed, the detection accuracy is relatively low. In order to improve detecting accuracy, it is beneficial to extract complete multi-scale image features in visual cognitive tasks. Asymmetric convolutions have a useful quality, that is, they have different aspect ratios, which can be used to exact image features of objects, especially objects with multi-scale characteristics. In this paper, we exploit three different asymmetric convolutions in parallel and propose a new multi-scale asymmetric convolution unit, namely MAC block to enhance multi-scale representation ability of CNNs. In addition, MAC block can adaptively merge the features with different scales by allocating learnable weighted parameters to three different asymmetric convolution branches. The proposed MAC blocks can be inserted into the state-of-the-art backbone such as ResNet-50 to form a new multi-scale backbone network of object detectors. To evaluate the performance of MAC block, we conduct experiments on CIFAR-100, PASCAL VOC 2007, PASCAL VOC 2012 and MS COCO 2014 datasets. Experimental results show that the detection precision can be greatly improved while a fast detection speed is guaranteed as well.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3531
Author(s):  
Hesham M. Eraqi ◽  
Karim Soliman ◽  
Dalia Said ◽  
Omar R. Elezaby ◽  
Mohamed N. Moustafa ◽  
...  

Extensive research efforts have been devoted to identify and improve roadway features that impact safety. Maintaining roadway safety features relies on costly manual operations of regular road surveying and data analysis. This paper introduces an automatic roadway safety features detection approach, which harnesses the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) computer vision to make the process more efficient and less costly. Given a front-facing camera and a global positioning system (GPS) sensor, the proposed system automatically evaluates ten roadway safety features. The system is composed of an oriented (or rotated) object detection model, which solves an orientation encoding discontinuity problem to improve detection accuracy, and a rule-based roadway safety evaluation module. To train and validate the proposed model, a fully-annotated dataset for roadway safety features extraction was collected covering 473 km of roads. The proposed method baseline results are found encouraging when compared to the state-of-the-art models. Different oriented object detection strategies are presented and discussed, and the developed model resulted in improving the mean average precision (mAP) by 16.9% when compared with the literature. The roadway safety feature average prediction accuracy is 84.39% and ranges between 91.11% and 63.12%. The introduced model can pervasively enable/disable autonomous driving (AD) based on safety features of the road; and empower connected vehicles (CV) to send and receive estimated safety features, alerting drivers about black spots or relatively less-safe segments or roads.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Wei Zhao ◽  
William Yamada ◽  
Tianxin Li ◽  
Matthew Digman ◽  
Troy Runge

In recent years, precision agriculture has been researched to increase crop production with less inputs, as a promising means to meet the growing demand of agriculture products. Computer vision-based crop detection with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-acquired images is a critical tool for precision agriculture. However, object detection using deep learning algorithms rely on a significant amount of manually prelabeled training datasets as ground truths. Field object detection, such as bales, is especially difficult because of (1) long-period image acquisitions under different illumination conditions and seasons; (2) limited existing prelabeled data; and (3) few pretrained models and research as references. This work increases the bale detection accuracy based on limited data collection and labeling, by building an innovative algorithms pipeline. First, an object detection model is trained using 243 images captured with good illimitation conditions in fall from the crop lands. In addition, domain adaptation (DA), a kind of transfer learning, is applied for synthesizing the training data under diverse environmental conditions with automatic labels. Finally, the object detection model is optimized with the synthesized datasets. The case study shows the proposed method improves the bale detecting performance, including the recall, mean average precision (mAP), and F measure (F1 score), from averages of 0.59, 0.7, and 0.7 (the object detection) to averages of 0.93, 0.94, and 0.89 (the object detection + DA), respectively. This approach could be easily scaled to many other crop field objects and will significantly contribute to precision agriculture.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 6016
Author(s):  
Jinsoo Kim ◽  
Jeongho Cho

For autonomous vehicles, it is critical to be aware of the driving environment to avoid collisions and drive safely. The recent evolution of convolutional neural networks has contributed significantly to accelerating the development of object detection techniques that enable autonomous vehicles to handle rapid changes in various driving environments. However, collisions in an autonomous driving environment can still occur due to undetected obstacles and various perception problems, particularly occlusion. Thus, we propose a robust object detection algorithm for environments in which objects are truncated or occluded by employing RGB image and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) bird’s eye view (BEV) representations. This structure combines independent detection results obtained in parallel through “you only look once” networks using an RGB image and a height map converted from the BEV representations of LiDAR’s point cloud data (PCD). The region proposal of an object is determined via non-maximum suppression, which suppresses the bounding boxes of adjacent regions. A performance evaluation of the proposed scheme was performed using the KITTI vision benchmark suite dataset. The results demonstrate the detection accuracy in the case of integration of PCD BEV representations is superior to when only an RGB camera is used. In addition, robustness is improved by significantly enhancing detection accuracy even when the target objects are partially occluded when viewed from the front, which demonstrates that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional RGB-based model.


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