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Detecting pedestrians is a challenging problem owing to the motion of the subjects, the camera and the background and to variations in pose, appearance, clothing, illumination and background clutter. The Region Covariance Matrix (RCM) descriptors show experimentally significantly out-performs existing feature sets for pedestrian detection. In this paper, we present an efficient features extraction...
The images of lace textile are particularly difficult to be analyzed in digital form using classical image processing techniques. The major reasons of this difficulty emerge from the complex nature of lace which generally has different textures in its constituents like the background and patterns. In this paper, we study the behavior of Image Histogram (HistI) and Local Binary Patterns (LBP) on image...
Currently, in 3D point cloud data field, different methods based on multi-value characteristics, which are utilized to measure the similarity between different point cloud data, are developed. These features are more dependent on low dimensional normal vector and curvature. In this paper, feature histogram of each point of the point cloud is calculated in high dimensional space. Through global feature...
Pedestrian flow estimation is a vital issue in video surveillance. Inspired by fluid mechanics we proposed to model the pedestrian flow as time-dependent fluid, and estimate the pedestrian flow using flux. Firstly, optical flow is used to construct the motion vector field. Then, we compute the inside and outside flux components within fixed areas to estimate the pedestrian flow in different direction...
In recent years, pedestrian detection for Automobile Driver Assistance System (ADAS) is a primordial task in the smart vehicle. Histogram of oriented gradients (HoG) is one of the most effective pedestrian feature extraction approaches to the study. In this paper, an optimization of pedestrian detection based on HOG method is presented and investigated to achieve an accurate human detection system...
In this paper, a low computational load based region covariance descriptor (RCD) approach has been proposed. The proposed method is based on using fewer feature vectors on construction of RCD. Number of feature vectors is reduced by utilizing the random pixel decimation pattern. By making use of the proposed method, fast covariance descriptor based object tracking has been carried out. As can be seen...
Glasses detection is one of attractive tasks in image processing since it increases the performance of face recognition systems. In this study, we aimed to detect the glasses on face images automatically. In order to do this, we trained a classifier with Labelled Faces in the Wild Home(LFW) dataset to decide whether a person wear glasses or not on face images. Before classification process, image...
In this paper, a feature combining method which can be used in gender classification has been proposed. This method is based on examinating the importance of the pixel regions on face images. In this study, after the analysing commonly used three feature extraction methods (Local binary patterns, discrete cosine transform, histogram of oriented gradients) dimension reduction is achieved via eliminating...
The capability of avoid obstacles is the one of the key issues in autonomous search-and-rescue robots research area. In this study, the avoiding obstacles capability has been provided to the virtula robots in USARSim environment. The aim is finding the minimum movement when robot faces an obstacle in path. For obstacle avoidance we used an real time path planning method which is called Vector Field...
Pedestrian detection plays important roles in various applications such as automobile driving assistance and surveillance camera system. The co-occurrence histograms of oriented gradients (CoHOG) feature descriptor showed good performance since thirty co-occurrences at each pixel position represent various spatial characteristics of object shapes. Though extraction of co-occurrence histogram features...
This paper deals with digital archiving of cemetery heritage. A built cemetery is a tangible evidence of historical and cultural periods through the style and the shape of tombs. It gives quantitative information on the local population, about its history (by reading birth and death dates), its culture (by analysing name typology) and its temporal evolution (by using the family names written on the...
When imaging the heart, using a 2D ultrasound probe, different views can manifest depending on the location and angulations of the probe. Some of these views have been labeled as standard views, due to the presentation and ease of assessment of key cardiac structures in them. We present an approach for automatic recognition and classification of these standard views - namely the Parasternal Long Axis...
Image description is not sufficient in traditional facial expression recognition (FER) methods, therefore this paper proposes a FER method based on multi-scale vector triangle. It combines vector triangle pattern with image pyramid to extract facial expression features. Firstly, construct a facial image pyramid to produce images in different scales. Secondly, divide each image into blocks, and extract...
With the development of Internet and computer technology, the digital videos increase explosively, so how to get the interesting video clips from the massive video dataset quickly and efficiently has become an urgent problem in the field of information retrieval (IR). In this paper, a new Instance-based video search (INS) engine is proposed to solve the urgent problem. Firstly, video key-frames are...
A new approach for quantizing feature vectors of interest points is proposed in this study. The method utilizes the histograms which work as a dimensionality reduction algorithm for quantizing the local and global features. The performance of activity recognition is generally depend upon the quantity of significant features but with proper feature quantization one can delivered the same performance...
The Least Significant Bit (LSB) substitution is an old and simple data hiding method that could almost effortlessly be implemented in spatial or transform domain over any digital media. This method can be attacked by several steganalysis methods, because it detectably changes statistical and perceptual characteristics of the cover signal. A typical method for steganalysis of the LSB substitution is...
In this paper, we examine the suitability of correlogram for background subtraction, as a step towards moving object detection. Correlogram captures inter-pixel relationships in a region and is seen to be effective for modelling dynamic backgrounds. We propose herein a novel feature, termed fuzzy correlogram, composed by applying fuzzy c-means algorithm on correlogram. Fuzzy correlogram greatly reduces...
This paper presents a novel scheme for human action recognition. First of all, we employ the curvature estimation to analyze human posture patterns and to yield the discriminative feature sequences. The feature sequences are further represented into sets of strings. Consequently, we can solve human action recognition problem by the string matching technique. In order to boost the performance of string...
In this paper, we propose a novel method to implement fast detection of Common Visual Pattern (CVP). The purpose of CVP detection is to find the correspondences between the common visual regions of two given partial duplicate images. There are two major components of the proposed method which guarantee the good performance. First, we establish the Radiate-Geometric-Model (RGM). The RGM is represented...
Today many people in the world without any (or with little) knowledge about video recording, thanks to the widespread use of mobile devices (PDAs, mobile phones, etc.) take videos. However the unwanted movements of their hands typically blur and introduce disturbing jerkiness in the recorded sequences. A fundamental issue is the overall robustness with respect to different scene contents (indoor,...
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