scholarly journals An Improved Approach for Object Proposals Generation

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 794
Author(s):  
Yao Deng ◽  
Huawei Liang ◽  
Zhiyan Yi

The objectness measure is a significant and effective method used for generic object detection. However, several object detection methods can achieve accurate results by using more than 1000 candidate object proposals. In addition, the weight of each proposal is weak and also cannot distinguish object proposals. These weak proposals have brought difficulties to the subsequent analysis. To significantly reduce the number of proposals, this paper presents an improved generic object detection approach, which predicts candidate object proposals from more than 10,000 proposals. All candidate proposals can be divided, rather than preclassified, into three categories: entire object, partial object, and nonobject. These partial object proposals also display fragmentary information of the objectness feature, which can be used to reconstruct the object boundary. By using partial objectness to enhance the weight of the entire object proposals, we removed a huge number of useless proposals and reduced the space occupied by the true positive object proposals. We designed a neural network with lightweight computation to cluster the most possible object proposals with rerank and box regression. Through joint training, the lightweight network can share the features with other subsequent tasks. The proposed method was validated using experiments with the PASCAL VOC2007 dataset. The results showed that the proposed approach was significantly improved compared with the existing methods and can accurately detect 92.3% of the objects by using less than 200 proposals.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Xiang Song ◽  
Weiqin Zhan ◽  
Xiaoyu Che ◽  
Huilin Jiang ◽  
Biao Yang

Three-dimensional object detection can provide precise positions of objects, which can be beneficial to many robotics applications, such as self-driving cars, housekeeping robots, and autonomous navigation. In this work, we focus on accurate object detection in 3D point clouds and propose a new detection pipeline called scale-aware attention-based PillarsNet (SAPN). SAPN is a one-stage 3D object detection approach similar to PointPillar. However, SAPN achieves better performance than PointPillar by introducing the following strategies. First, we extract multiresolution pillar-level features from the point clouds to make the detection approach more scale-aware. Second, a spatial-attention mechanism is used to highlight the object activations in the feature maps, which can improve detection performance. Finally, SE-attention is employed to reweight the features fed into the detection head, which performs 3D object detection in a multitask learning manner. Experiments on the KITTI benchmark show that SAPN achieved similar or better performance compared with several state-of-the-art LiDAR-based 3D detection methods. The ablation study reveals the effectiveness of each proposed strategy. Furthermore, strategies used in this work can be embedded easily into other LiDAR-based 3D detection approaches, which improve their detection performance with slight modifications.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Wenjing Lu

This paper proposes a deep learning-based method for mitosis detection in breast histopathology images. A main problem in mitosis detection is that most of the datasets only have weak labels, i.e., only the coordinates indicating the center of the mitosis region. This makes most of the existing powerful object detection methods hardly be used in mitosis detection. Aiming at solving this problem, this paper firstly applies a CNN-based algorithm to pixelwisely segment the mitosis regions, based on which bounding boxes of mitosis are generated as strong labels. Based on the generated bounding boxes, an object detection network is trained to accomplish mitosis detection. Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective in detecting mitosis, and the accuracies outperform state-of-the-art literatures.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong Tang ◽  
Yongshun Ling ◽  
Xing Yang ◽  
Wei Jin ◽  
Chao Zheng

A multi-view object detection approach based on deep learning is proposed in this paper. Classical object detection methods based on regression models are introduced, and the reasons for their weak ability to detect small objects are analyzed. To improve the performance of these methods, a multi-view object detection approach is proposed, and the model structure and working principles of this approach are explained. Additionally, the object retrieval ability and object detection accuracy of both the multi-view methods and the corresponding classical methods are evaluated and compared based on a test on a small object dataset. The experimental results show that in terms of object retrieval capability, Multi-view YOLO (You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection), Multi-view YOLOv2 (based on an updated version of YOLO), and Multi-view SSD (Single Shot Multibox Detector) achieve AF (average F-measure) scores that are higher than those of their classical counterparts by 0.177, 0.06, and 0.169, respectively. Moreover, in terms of the detection accuracy, when difficult objects are not included, the mAP (mean average precision) scores of the multi-view methods are higher than those of the classical methods by 14.3%, 7.4%, and 13.1%, respectively. Thus, the validity of the approach proposed in this paper has been verified. In addition, compared with state-of-the-art methods based on region proposals, multi-view detection methods are faster while achieving mAPs that are approximately the same in small object detection.


Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Jie Shen ◽  
Zhenxin Xu ◽  
Zhe Chen ◽  
Huibin Wang ◽  
Xiaotao Shi

Underwater object detection plays an important role in research and practice, as it provides condensed and informative content that represents underwater objects. However, detecting objects from underwater images is challenging because underwater environments significantly degenerate image quality and distort the contrast between the object and background. To address this problem, this paper proposes an optical prior-based underwater object detection approach that takes advantage of optical principles to identify optical collimation over underwater images, providing valuable guidance for extracting object features. Unlike data-driven knowledge, the prior in our method is independent of training samples. The fundamental novelty of our approach lies in the integration of an image prior and the object detection task. This novelty is fundamental to the satisfying performance of our approach in underwater environments, which is demonstrated through comparisons with state-of-the-art object detection methods.


Author(s):  
M. N. Favorskaya ◽  
L. C. Jain

Introduction:Saliency detection is a fundamental task of computer vision. Its ultimate aim is to localize the objects of interest that grab human visual attention with respect to the rest of the image. A great variety of saliency models based on different approaches was developed since 1990s. In recent years, the saliency detection has become one of actively studied topic in the theory of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Many original decisions using CNNs were proposed for salient object detection and, even, event detection.Purpose:A detailed survey of saliency detection methods in deep learning era allows to understand the current possibilities of CNN approach for visual analysis conducted by the human eyes’ tracking and digital image processing.Results:A survey reflects the recent advances in saliency detection using CNNs. Different models available in literature, such as static and dynamic 2D CNNs for salient object detection and 3D CNNs for salient event detection are discussed in the chronological order. It is worth noting that automatic salient event detection in durable videos became possible using the recently appeared 3D CNN combining with 2D CNN for salient audio detection. Also in this article, we have presented a short description of public image and video datasets with annotated salient objects or events, as well as the often used metrics for the results’ evaluation.Practical relevance:This survey is considered as a contribution in the study of rapidly developed deep learning methods with respect to the saliency detection in the images and videos.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1894
Author(s):  
Chun Guo ◽  
Zihua Song ◽  
Yuan Ping ◽  
Guowei Shen ◽  
Yuhei Cui ◽  
...  

Remote Access Trojan (RAT) is one of the most terrible security threats that organizations face today. At present, two major RAT detection methods are host-based and network-based detection methods. To complement one another’s strengths, this article proposes a phased RATs detection method by combining double-side features (PRATD). In PRATD, both host-side and network-side features are combined to build detection models, which is conducive to distinguishing the RATs from benign programs because that the RATs not only generate traffic on the network but also leave traces on the host at run time. Besides, PRATD trains two different detection models for the two runtime states of RATs for improving the True Positive Rate (TPR). The experiments on the network and host records collected from five kinds of benign programs and 20 famous RATs show that PRATD can effectively detect RATs, it can achieve a TPR as high as 93.609% with a False Positive Rate (FPR) as low as 0.407% for the known RATs, a TPR 81.928% and FPR 0.185% for the unknown RATs, which suggests it is a competitive candidate for RAT detection.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 517
Author(s):  
Seong-heum Kim ◽  
Youngbae Hwang

Owing to recent advancements in deep learning methods and relevant databases, it is becoming increasingly easier to recognize 3D objects using only RGB images from single viewpoints. This study investigates the major breakthroughs and current progress in deep learning-based monocular 3D object detection. For relatively low-cost data acquisition systems without depth sensors or cameras at multiple viewpoints, we first consider existing databases with 2D RGB photos and their relevant attributes. Based on this simple sensor modality for practical applications, deep learning-based monocular 3D object detection methods that overcome significant research challenges are categorized and summarized. We present the key concepts and detailed descriptions of representative single-stage and multiple-stage detection solutions. In addition, we discuss the effectiveness of the detection models on their baseline benchmarks. Finally, we explore several directions for future research on monocular 3D object detection.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3536
Author(s):  
Jakub Górski ◽  
Adam Jabłoński ◽  
Mateusz Heesch ◽  
Michał Dziendzikowski ◽  
Ziemowit Dworakowski

Condition monitoring is an indispensable element related to the operation of rotating machinery. In this article, the monitoring system for the parallel gearbox was proposed. The novelty detection approach is used to develop the condition assessment support system, which requires data collection for a healthy structure. The measured signals were processed to extract quantitative indicators sensitive to the type of damage occurring in this type of structure. The indicator’s values were used for the development of four different novelty detection algorithms. Presented novelty detection models operate on three principles: feature space distance, probability distribution, and input reconstruction. One of the distance-based models is adaptive, adjusting to new data flowing in the form of a stream. The authors test the developed algorithms on experimental and simulation data with a similar distribution, using the training set consisting mainly of samples generated by the simulator. Presented in the article results demonstrate the effectiveness of the trained models on both data sets.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 997
Author(s):  
Jun Zhong ◽  
Xin Gou ◽  
Qin Shu ◽  
Xing Liu ◽  
Qi Zeng

Foreign object debris (FOD) on airport runways can cause serious accidents and huge economic losses. FOD detection systems based on millimeter-wave (MMW) radar sensors have the advantages of higher range resolution and lower power consumption. However, it is difficult for traditional FOD detection methods to detect and distinguish weak signals of targets from strong ground clutter. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a new FOD detection approach based on optimized variational mode decomposition (VMD) and support vector data description (SVDD). This approach utilizes SVDD as a classifier to distinguish FOD signals from clutter signals. More importantly, the VMD optimized by whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is used to improve the accuracy and stability of the classifier. The results from both the simulation and field case show the excellent FOD detection performance of the proposed VMD-SVDD method.


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