Identity Verification Based on Facial Pose Pool and Bag of Words Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wangbin Chu ◽  
◽  
Yepeng Guan
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Information ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Image Features ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Bag Of Words ◽  
Incremental Clustering ◽  
Identity Verification ◽  
Facial Identity ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Novel Approach

There are many challenges for face based identity verification. It is one of fundamental topics in image processing and video analysis, and so on. A novel approach has been developed for facial identity verification based on a facial pose pool, which is constructed in an incremental clustering way to find both facial spatial information and orientation diversity. Bag of words is selected to extract image features from the facial pose pool in affine SIFT descriptor. The visual codebook is generated ink-means and Gaussian mixture model. Posterior pseudo probabilities are used to compute the similarities between each visual word and corresponding local features for image representation. Comparisons with some state-of-the-arts have highlighted the superior performance of the proposed method.

SDResU-Net: Separable and Dilated Residual U-Net for MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 720-728
Author(s):  
Jianxin Zhang ◽  
Xiaogang Lv ◽  
Qiule Sun ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Xiaopeng Wei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Cancer Disease ◽  
Brain Images ◽  
Mri Brain ◽  
The Arts

Background: Glioma is one of the most common and aggressive primary brain tumors that endanger human health. Tumors segmentation is a key step in assisting the diagnosis and treatment of cancer disease. However, it is a relatively challenging task to precisely segment tumors considering characteristics of brain tumors and the device noise. Recently, with the breakthrough development of deep learning, brain tumor segmentation methods based on fully convolutional neural network (FCN) have illuminated brilliant performance and attracted more and more attention. Methods: In this work, we propose a novel FCN based network called SDResU-Net for brain tumor segmentation, which simultaneously embeds dilated convolution and separable convolution into residual U-Net architecture. SDResU-Net introduces dilated block into a residual U-Net architecture, which largely expends the receptive field and gains better local and global feature descriptions capacity. Meanwhile, to fully utilize the channel and region information of MRI brain images, we separate the internal and inter-slice structures of the improved residual U-Net by employing separable convolution operator. The proposed SDResU-Net captures more pixel-level details and spatial information, which provides a considerable alternative for the automatic and accurate segmentation of brain tumors. Results and Conclusion: The proposed SDResU-Net is extensively evaluated on two public MRI brain image datasets, i.e., BraTS 2017 and BraTS 2018. Compared with its counterparts and stateof- the-arts, SDResU-Net gains superior performance on both datasets, showing its effectiveness. In addition, cross-validation results on two datasets illuminate its satisfying generalization ability.

scholarly journals Landmark Selection for Zero-shot Learning

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuchen Guo ◽  
Guiguang Ding ◽  
Jungong Han ◽  
Chenggang Yan ◽  
Jiyong Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Feature Matching ◽  
Image Features ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Landmark Selection ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Treat All ◽  
Heterogeneous Feature ◽  
Compatibility Function

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is an emerging research topic whose goal is to build recognition models for previously unseen classes. The basic idea of ZSL is based on heterogeneous feature matching which learns a compatibility function between image and class features using seen classes. The function is constructed based on one-vs-all training in which each class has only one class feature and many image features. Existing ZSL works mostly treat all image features equivalently. However, in this paper we argue that it is more reasonable to use some representative cross-domain data instead of all. Motivated by this idea, we propose a novel approach, termed as Landmark Selection(LAST) for ZSL. LAST is able to identify representative cross-domain features which further lead to better image-class compatibility function. Experiments on several ZSL datasets including ImageNet demonstrate the superiority of LAST to the state-of-the-arts.

scholarly journals Adaptive Method for Modeling of Temporal Dependencies between Fields of Vision in Multi-Camera Surveillance Systems

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1303
Author(s):  
Karol Lisowski ◽  
Andrzej Czyżewski
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Input Parameter ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Adaptive Method ◽  
Transition Time ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Modified Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Transition Times ◽  
Temporal Dependencies

A method of modeling the time of object transition between given pairs of cameras based on the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is proposed in this article. Temporal dependencies modeling is a part of object re-identification based on the multi-camera experimental framework. The previously utilized Expectation-Maximization (EM) approach, requiring setting the number of mixtures arbitrarily as an input parameter, was extended with the algorithm that automatically adapts the model to statistical data. The probabilistic model was obtained by matching to the histogram of transition times between a particular pair of cameras. The proposed matching procedure uses a modified particle swarm optimization (mPSO). A way of using models of transition time in object re-identification is also presented. Experiments with the proposed method of modeling the transition time were carried out, and a comparison between previous and novel approach results are also presented, revealing that added swarms approximate normalized histograms very effectively. Moreover, the proposed swarm-based algorithm allows for modelling the same statistical data with a lower number of summands in GMM.

scholarly journals Enhancing Wind Turbine Power Forecast via Convolutional Neural Network

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Tianyang Liu ◽  
Zunkai Huang ◽  
Li Tian ◽  
Yongxin Zhu ◽  
Hui Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Wind Power Forecast ◽  
Transformation Methods

The rapid development in wind power comes with new technical challenges. Reliable and accurate wind power forecast is of considerable significance to the electricity system’s daily dispatching and production. Traditional forecast methods usually utilize wind speed and turbine parameters as the model inputs. However, they are not sufficient to account for complex weather variability and the various wind turbine features in the real world. Inspired by the excellent performance of convolutional neural networks (CNN) in computer vision, we propose a novel approach to predicting short-term wind power by converting time series into images and exploit a CNN to analyze them. In our approach, we first propose two transformation methods to map wind speed and precipitation data time series into image matrices. After integrating multi-dimensional information and extracting features, we design a novel CNN framework to forecast 24-h wind turbine power. Our method is implemented on the Keras deep learning platform and tested on 10 sets of 3-year wind turbine data from Hangzhou, China. The superior performance of the proposed method is demonstrated through comparisons using state-of-the-art techniques in wind turbine power forecasting.

VIDEO-SHOT TRANSITION DETECTION: A SPATIO-TEMPORAL SALIENCY APPROACH

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (08) ◽  
pp. 1295-1309 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIAN WU ◽  
JIANHUANG LAI ◽  
PONG C. YUEN
Keyword(s):  
Error Probability ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Saliency Map ◽  
Detection Error ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Video Shot ◽  
Recent Method ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Shot Transitions

This paper proposes a novel approach for video-shot transition detection using spatio-temporal saliency. Both temporal and spatial information are combined to generate a saliency map, and features are available based on the change of saliency. Considering the context of shot changes, a statistical detector is constructed to determine all types of shot transitions by the minimization of the detection-error probability simultaneously under the same framework. The evaluation performed on videos of various content types demonstrates that the proposed approach outperforms a more recent method and two publicly available systems, namely VideoAnnex and VCM.

scholarly journals Multiscale Semantic Feature Optimization and Fusion Network for Building Extraction Using High-Resolution Aerial Images and LiDAR Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 2473
Author(s):  
Qinglie Yuan ◽  
Helmi Zulhaidi Mohd Shafri ◽  
Aidi Hizami Alias ◽  
Shaiful Jahari Hashim
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Aerial Images ◽  
Semantic Gap ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Lidar Data ◽  
Building Extraction ◽  
Hierarchical Features

Automatic building extraction has been applied in many domains. It is also a challenging problem because of the complex scenes and multiscale. Deep learning algorithms, especially fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs), have shown robust feature extraction ability than traditional remote sensing data processing methods. However, hierarchical features from encoders with a fixed receptive field perform weak ability to obtain global semantic information. Local features in multiscale subregions cannot construct contextual interdependence and correlation, especially for large-scale building areas, which probably causes fragmentary extraction results due to intra-class feature variability. In addition, low-level features have accurate and fine-grained spatial information for tiny building structures but lack refinement and selection, and the semantic gap of across-level features is not conducive to feature fusion. To address the above problems, this paper proposes an FCN framework based on the residual network and provides the training pattern for multi-modal data combining the advantage of high-resolution aerial images and LiDAR data for building extraction. Two novel modules have been proposed for the optimization and integration of multiscale and across-level features. In particular, a multiscale context optimization module is designed to adaptively generate the feature representations for different subregions and effectively aggregate global context. A semantic guided spatial attention mechanism is introduced to refine shallow features and alleviate the semantic gap. Finally, hierarchical features are fused via the feature pyramid network. Compared with other state-of-the-art methods, experimental results demonstrate superior performance with 93.19 IoU, 97.56 OA on WHU datasets and 94.72 IoU, 97.84 OA on the Boston dataset, which shows that the proposed network can improve accuracy and achieve better performance for building extraction.

scholarly journals Hybrid Collaborative Representation for Remote-Sensing Image Scene Classification

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bao-Di Liu ◽  
Wen-Yang Xie ◽  
Jie Meng ◽  
Ye Li ◽  
Yanjiang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Test Sample ◽  
Remote Sensing Image ◽  
Image Features ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Collaborative Representation ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Specific Class ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Training Samples

In recent years, the collaborative representation-based classification (CRC) method has achieved great success in visual recognition by directly utilizing training images as dictionary bases. However, it describes a test sample with all training samples to extract shared attributes and does not consider the representation of the test sample with the training samples in a specific class to extract the class-specific attributes. For remote-sensing images, both the shared attributes and class-specific attributes are important for classification. In this paper, we propose a hybrid collaborative representation-based classification approach. The proposed method is capable of improving the performance of classifying remote-sensing images by embedding the class-specific collaborative representation to conventional collaborative representation-based classification. Moreover, we extend the proposed method to arbitrary kernel space to explore the nonlinear characteristics hidden in remote-sensing image features to further enhance classification performance. Extensive experiments on several benchmark remote-sensing image datasets were conducted and clearly demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed algorithm to state-of-the-art approaches.

scholarly journals Statistical Model Based Digital Image Retrieval and Fragile Watermarking

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Image Retrieval ◽  
Gaussian Mixture Model ◽  
Mixture Model ◽  
Statistical Modelling ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Image Features ◽  
Fragile Watermarking ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Wavelet Domain ◽  
Watermarking Scheme

The objective of this thesis is to acquire abstract image features through statistical modelling in the wavelet domain and then based on the extracted image features, develop an effective content-based image retreival (CBIR) system and a fragile watermarking scheme. In this thesis, we first present a statistical modelling of images in the wavelet domain through a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and a generalized Gaussian mixture model (GGMM). An Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm is developed to help estimate the model parameters. A novel similarity measure based on the Kullback-Leibler divergence is also developed to calculate the distance of two distinct model distributions. We then apply the statistical modelling to two application areas: image retrieval and fragile watermarking. In image retrieval, the model parameters are employed as image features to compose the indexing feature space, while the feature distance of two compared images is computed using the novel similarity measure. The new image retrieval method has a better retrieval performance than most conventional methods. In fragile watermarking, the model parameters are utilized for the watermark embedding. The new watermarking scheme achieves a virtually imperceptible embedding of watermarks because it modifies only a few image data and embeds watermarks at image texture edges. A multiscale embedding of fragile watermarks is given to enhance the embeddability rate and on the other hand, to constitute a semi-fragile approach.

scholarly journals Content based Image Retrieval System using Combination of Color and Shape Features, and Siamese Neural Network

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2S) ◽  
pp. 71-77
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Image Features ◽  
Shape Features ◽  
Retrieval Performance ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Learning Technique ◽  
Image Retrieval System ◽  
Similar Images

With an advent of technologya huge collection of digital images is formed as repositories on world wide web (WWW). The task of searching for similar images in the repository is difficult. In this paper, retrieval of similar images from www is demonstrated with the help of combination of image features as color and shape and then using Siamese neural network which is constructed to the requirement as a novel approach. Here, one-shot learning technique is used to test the Siamese Neural Network model for retrieval performance. Various experiments are conducted with both the methods and results obtained are tabulated. The performance of the system is evaluated with precision parameter and which is found to be high.Also, relative study is made with existing works.

scholarly journals Power-law Distribution Aware Trust Prediction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Wang ◽  
Ziwei Zhang ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Peng Cui ◽  
Shiqiang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Power Law ◽  
Low Rank ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Power Law Distribution ◽  
Trust Network ◽  
Trust Prediction ◽  
Trust Networks ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Proof Of Correctness ◽  
Closure Structure

Trust prediction, aiming to predict the trust relations between users in a social network, is a key to helping users discover the reliable information. Many trust prediction methods are proposed based on the low-rank assumption of a trust network. However, one typical property of the trust network is that the trust relations follow the power-law distribution, i.e., few users are trusted by many other users, while most tail users have few trustors. Due to these tail users, the fundamental low-rank assumption made by existing methods is seriously violated and becomes unrealistic. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method to address the problem of the violated low-rank assumption. Instead of discovering the low-rank component of the trust network alone, we learn a sparse component of the trust network to describe the tail users simultaneously. With both of the learned low-rank and sparse components, the trust relations in the whole network can be better captured. Moreover, the transitive closure structure of the trust relations is also integrated into our model. We then derive an effective iterative algorithm to infer the parameters of our model, along with the proof of correctness. Extensive experimental results on real-world trust networks demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed method over the state-of-the-arts.

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