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Salient object detection using RGB-D data is an emerging field in computer vision. Salient regions are often characterized by an unusual surface orientation profile with respect to the surroundings. To capture such profile, we introduce the histogram of surface orientation (HOSO) feature to measure surface orientation distribution contrast for RGB-D saliency. We propose a new unified model that integrates...
Singular value decomposition (SVD) has been used widely in the literature to recover the missing entries of a matrix. The basic principle in such methods is to assume that the correlated data is distributed with a low-rank structure. The knowledge of the low-rank structure is then used to predict the missing entries. SVD is based on the assumption that the data (user ratings) are distributed on a...
Context: Recent studies have shown that performance of defect prediction models can be affected when data sampling approaches are applied to imbalanced training data for building defect prediction models. However, the magnitude (degree and power) of the effect of these sampling methods on the classification and prioritization performances of defect prediction models is still unknown. Goal: To investigate...
In 3D object recognition, local feature-based recognition is known to be robust against occlusion and clutter. Local feature estimation requires feature correspondences, including feature extraction and matching. Feature extraction is normally a two-stage process that estimates keypoints and keypoint descriptors, and existing studies show repeatability to be a good indicator of keypoint feature detector...
Visual tracking is a very challenging problem in computer vision as the performance of a tracking algorithm may be degraded due to many challenging issues in the scenes, such as illumination change, deformation, and background clutter. So far no algorithms can handle all these challenging issues. Recently, it has been shown that correlation filters can be implemented efficiently and, with suitable...
The article presents an intelligent traffic light system that allows optimal flow in a car crossing composed of two one-way streets. To achieve this purpose, real-time image processing is used to obtain the counting and space occupied by the vehicles. The algorithms of Backgroud Subtraction and KNN (K-Nearest Neighbor) are used, to determine the congestion vehicular in a street; the libraries of OpenCV...
Nowadays, the control systems based on communication networks are used various industries such as manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, power generation and distribution, with many advantages and a couple of disadvantages. The latter can seriously affect the performances and the stability of each control system in the network and of the complex system as a whole. Moreover, it is well known that packet...
The estimation of state-of-charge (SOC) is the fundamental technology to improve battery working status and life. But severe external environment, dynamic nonlinearity of battery model, and measurement errors make SOC estimation challengable. In this paper, a multi-strategy probabilities based fusion method is proposed. It can combine the dynamic tracking capability of Proportional-Integral Observer...
Complex simulations are often explained in terms of their features. However, the disconnect between such high-level analysis features and their ad hoc realization in a simulation program impedes effectively conducting exploratory analysis across the structural and representational space of the problem domain. Motivated by the significant role that exploratory analysis plays in computational discovery...
Probabilistic tracking algorithms typically using linear structure to update the learning model. Such linear structure is not appropriate for long-term robust tracking as the occlusion and other challenging factors may interfere the processing of incoming frames. Recently a spatio-temporal context (STC) algorithm based on Bayesian framework has using the context information between the target and...
Current light field compression techniques lack robustness to handle both rate-distortion optimized motion compensation as well as latency during the encoding and decoding process. This paper focuses on a contribution approach that uses advanced frame prediction with affine and translational motion models and optimized view prediction structures. This method allows a significant compression performance...
In this paper, we propose a robust visual tracking method which exploits the relationships of targets in adjacent frames using patchwise joint sparse representation. Two sets of overlapping patches with different sizes are extracted from target candidates to construct two dictionaries with consideration of joint sparse representation. By applying this representation into structural sparse appearance...
A nonlinear optimal H-infinity control approach is proposed for bioreactors aiming at improved biofuels production. The dynamic model of the bioprocess taking place in the bioreactor undergoes approximate linearization round temporary equilibria which are recomputed at each iteration of the control method. The linearization makes use of Taylor series expansion and of the computation of the system's...
Robust state estimation of a discrete time-varying uncertain system is investigated in this paper when there are not only process and measurement noise, but also parameter uncertainties which affect a state-space model arbitrarily. The expectation minimization based robust state estimation is generalized to uncertain linear systems with a known deterministic input signal. The derived robust estimator...
Human sketches are unique in being able to capture both the spatial topology of a visual object, as well as its subtle appearance details. Fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) importantly leverages on such fine-grained characteristics of sketches to conduct instance-level retrieval of photos. Nevertheless, human sketches are often highly abstract and iconic, resulting in severe misalignments...
It is possible to associate a highly constrained subset of relative 6 DoF poses between two 3D shapes, as long as the local surface orientation, the normal vector, is available at every surface point. Local shape features can be used to find putative point correspondences between the models due to their ability to handle noisy and incomplete data. However, this correspondence set is usually contaminated...
Feature extraction and matching are two crucial components in person Re-Identification (ReID). The large pose deformations and the complex view variations exhibited by the captured person images significantly increase the difficulty of learning and matching of the features from person images. To overcome these difficulties, in this work we propose a Pose-driven Deep Convolutional (PDC) model to learn...
To solve deep metric learning problems and producing feature embeddings, current methodologies will commonly use a triplet model to minimise the relative distance between samples from the same class and maximise the relative distance between samples from different classes. Though successful, the training convergence of this triplet model can be compromised by the fact that the vast majority of the...
Visual question answering (VQA) is challenging because it requires a simultaneous understanding of both the visual content of images and the textual content of questions. The approaches used to represent the images and questions in a fine-grained manner and questions and to fuse these multimodal features play key roles in performance. Bilinear pooling based models have been shown to outperform traditional...
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