Arabic sign language intelligent translator

ABSTRACT

Arabic sign language (ArSL) is method of communication between deaf communities in Arab countries; therefore, the development of systemsthat can recognize the gestures provides a means for the Deaf to easily integrate into society. In this research we implemented a computational structurefor an intelligent interpreter that automatically recognizes the isolated dynamic gestures. The proposed system recognizes and translates gesturesperformed with one or both hands. It comprises five subsystems, building dataset, video processing, feature extraction, mapping between ArSL and Arabictext, and text generation. To apply the system, 100-signs of ArSL was used, which was applied on 1500 video files. It's were divided into five classes:alphabet, numbers, "prepositions, pronouns and question words", Arabic life expressions, and "nouns and verbs". The evaluation indicated that thesystem automatically recognizes and translates isolated dynamic ArSL gestures by highly accurate manner. The results showed that the system accuracy is 95.8%.     

基于RPCA的SAR图像纹理特征去噪

合成孔径雷达(SAR)图像具有丰富的纹理信息,这些纹理信息能反映地物空间结构关系。当前纹理特征被广泛应用于SAR图像分类和SAR图像分割中。受成像因素影响,直接采用从SAR图像中提取的纹理特征效果不够好。为避免传统先滤波再提取纹理特征的方法对纹理、边缘信息造成损失,提出了一种先提取SAR图像纹理特征,再利用Robust PCA方法对纹理特征去噪的新方法,最后采用Kmeans聚类方法检验RPCA处理后的纹理特征表达效果。实验结果表明该方法能将聚类正确率从82%提高到84%。     

Classification of ground glass opacity lesion characteristic based on texture feature using lung CT image

Lung cancer causes a high mortality rate in the world than any other cancers. That can be minimised if the symptoms and cancer cells have been detected early. One of the techniques used to detect lung cancer is by computed tomography (CT) scan. CT scan images have been used in this study to identify one of the lesion characteristics named ground glass opacity (GGO). It has been used to determine the level of malignancy of the lesion. There were three phases in identifying GGO: image cropping, feature extraction using grey level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM) and classification using Naïve Bayes Classifier. In order to improve the classification results, the most significant feature was sought by feature selection using gain ratio evaluation. Based on the results obtained, the most significant features could be identified by using feature selection method used in this research. The accuracy rate increased from 83.33% to 91.67%, the sensitivity from 82.35% to 94.11% and the specificity from 84.21% to 89.47%.     

Textural pattern classification for oral squamous cell carcinoma

Despite being an area of cancer with highest worldwide incidence, oral cancer yet remains to be widely researched. Studies on computer‐aided analysis of pathological slides of oral cancer contribute a lot to the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Some researches in this direction have been carried out on oral submucous fibrosis. In this work an approach for analysing abnormality based on textural features present in squamous cell carcinoma histological slides have been considered. Histogram and grey‐level co‐occurrence matrix approaches for extraction of textural features from biopsy images with normal and malignant cells are used here. Further, we have used linear support vector machine classifier for automated diagnosis of the oral cancer, which gives 100% accuracy.     

基于杂草算法优化的轴承时频谱图聚类识别研究

针对KFCM算法对初始聚类中心敏感导致聚类效果不好等问题,提出一种基于杂草算法(IWO)优化的模糊核聚类算法(IWO-KFCM),将其运用于轴承时频谱图的状态识别。通过小波变换获取轴承运行状态的时频图像,利用灰度梯度共生矩阵提取图像的纹理特征,提出基于可分性测度构造IWO算法的适应度函数;将IWO算法优化获取的初始聚类中心输入KFCM,实现时频谱图的聚类识别。最后进行多类轴承状态数据的测试,验证所提算法的有效性和优越性。     

Robust skin-roughness estimation based on co-occurrence matrix

As the interest in one’s appearance has recently increased, the demand for diagnosing skin conditions has also increased. However, conventional specialized skin diagnostic devices are generally expensive, and people have to visit a skin-care shop to diagnose their skin condition. This is time consuming and troublesome. In this paper, we propose a skin-roughness estimation method that uses a mobile-phone camera in daily environments. In order to achieve accurate evaluation, the illumination variation is alleviated using texture components of the facial skin image. We also propose a new feature-extraction method based on the gray-level co-occurrence matrix, which effectively measures the skin roughness from the texture components. The performance of the proposed method is compared with the conventional commonly used features, and we verify the superiority of the proposed method.     

结合方向纹理熵的Haar-like特征在线boosting跟踪算法

针对传统基于Haar-like特征的on-line boosting跟踪算法（HBT）需要产生大规模随机特征、占用大量计算资源和存储空间的缺点,提出结合方向纹理熵的Haar-like特征在线boosting跟踪算法（HBTT）。HBTT算法利用灰度共生矩阵的熵获得目标纹理的方向信息,在此基础上有针对性地产生具有方向纹理信息的Haar-like特征,从而可有效避免无效随机特征的产生,减小特征池容量;更进一步,可根据目标纹理的复杂程度自动调整特征数量,使得算法更灵活。在跟踪过程中,在线学习模块可以使错误率较高的特征被结合了目标纹理方向信息的Haar-like特征所替换。与HBT算法比较,HBTT算法的跟踪误差降低了10%以上;在相同特征池容量下,置信度提高了2%以上。实验结果表明,该算法不仅具有较高的鲁棒性,而且在跟踪效率和性能上都有所提高。     

基于多光谱图像的不同品种绿茶的纹理识别

为了提高茶叶加工的智能化水平,提出一种基于多光谱图像纹理分析的快速识别不同品种绿茶的方法.通过3CCD成像仪同时获得绿茶样本的红光、绿光和近红外三个通道的图像,采用灰度共生矩阵和纹理滤波相结合来提取图像纹理特征,分析了不同品种绿茶的各个通道图像的纹理特征.非监督聚类分析表明,基于组合方法提取的纹理特征优于仅依靠灰度共生矩阵得到的纹理特征.优化和筛选后得到10个特征参数作为支持向量机模型的输入,建立模式识别模型.结果表明,对于126个建模样本的识别正确率达到94.4％,对于未知64个预测样本的识别正确率达到93.8％,说明提出的组合纹理特征提取和模式识别方法能够较好地识别不同品种的绿茶.     

结合灰度共生矩阵的多分辨率图像融合策略

多分辨率图像的融合策略是提升融合图像质量的关键。目前常用的融合策略都没有直接考虑融合图像的纹理信息,根据灰度共生矩阵(GLCM)能较好地反映纹理粗糙度和方向的特点,提出了一种结合灰度共生矩阵的多分辨率图像融合策略。首先计算多分辨率图像的低频和高频部分的灰度共生矩阵,然后将低频图像GLCM的能量和高频图像GLCM的对比度对应作为低频和高频系数选取的活性度量进行图像融合。实验表明,所提出的融合策略与目前常见的融合策略相比,在主观感官和客观评价上都能获得较好的融合效果。     

基于分数阶微分的图像增强模板

根据二维数字图像具有自相关性,为了充分利用邻近像素点的信息,推导出基于分数阶Riemann-Liouville定义的模板系数,构造了八个方向的分数阶图像增强模板;同时引进信息论中熵的概念对图像增强后的纹理保留效果进行定量分析。实验表明,提出的分数阶微分图像增强模板与传统方法相比具有更好的增强效果,并有效保留了图像的纹理细节信息,对纹理具有特殊需求的应用具有一定意义。