Occlusion invariant face recognition using mean based weight matrix and support vector machine

In this paper, a novel occlusion invariant face recognition algorithm based on Mean based weight matrix (MBWM) technique is proposed. The proposed algorithm is composed of two phases—the occlusion detection phase and the MBWM based face recognition phase. A feature based approach is used to effectively detect partial occlusions for a given input face image. The input face image is first divided into a finite number of disjointed local patches, and features are extracted for each patch, and the occlusion present is detected. Features obtained from the corresponding occlusion-free patches of training images are used for face image recognition. The SVM classifier is used for occlusion detection for each patch. In the recognition phase, the MBWM bases of occlusion-free image patches are used for face recognition. Euclidean nearest neighbour rule is applied for the matching. GTAV face database that includes many occluded face images by sunglasses and hand are used for the experiment. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed local patch-based occlusion detection technique works well and the MBWM based method shows superior performance to other conventional approaches.     

Modelling of spatial causality among distinctive properties of an image using conditional random field for image classification

In this paper, we proposed an ordered patch-based method using conditional random field (CRF) in order to encode local properties and their spatial relationship in the images to address texture classification, face recognition and scene classification problems. Typical image classification approaches classify images without considering spatial causality among distinctive properties of an image to represent it in the feature space. In this method first, each image is encoded as a sequence of ordered patches including local properties. Second, the sequence of these ordered patches is modelled as a probabilistic feature vector using CRF to model spatial relationship of these local properties; and finally, image classification is performed on such probabilistic image representation. Experimental results on several standard image datasets indicate that the proposed method outperforms some of existing image classification methods.     

基于局部特征融合的人脸识别

提出了基于局部特征融合的人脸识别算法.首先把人脸图像分割为多个子图像,利用传统主成分分析的方法,对不同位置的子图像集分别建立不同的子空间并且抽取相应的局部特征.针对各局部特征,分别求出待识别图像对训练样本的隶属度.最后,基于模糊综合的原理对各局部特征进行数据融合,给出最终识别结果.实验结果表明,该算法能很好地融合人脸的局部信息,有效提高识别率.     

基于ScSPM-Reranking的高分辨率遥感影像的检索

为了从高分辨率遥感影像中获取详细的地表地物信息,为城市规划、环境监测以及灾情分析提供可靠的数据,进行了高分辨率遥感影像的检索研究,包括对图像的特征提取和图像之间相似度的描述。为了提高图像检索精度,运用了采用稀疏编码(Sc)的空间塔式匹配(Sc SPM)技术和重排序(Reranking)技术,提出了基于Sc SPM结合Reranking(ScSPM-Reranking)的遥感高分辨率影像的检索方法。该方法首先使用Sc SPM提取空间场景的特征,然后结合这些特征使用cityblock距离进行初步检索,最后对初步检索的结果进行Reranking排序,获得高精度的检索结果。同其他检索方法进行了对比实验,实验结果证明,该方法具有较高的检索精度。     

Near-infrared and visible light image fusion algorithm for face recognition

In order to improve face recognition accuracy, we present a simple near-infrared (NIR) and visible light (VL) image fusion algorithm based on two-dimensional linear discriminant analysis (2DLDA). We first use two such schemes to extract two classes of face discriminant features of each of NIR and VL images separately. Then the two classes of features of each kind of images are fused using the matching score fusion method. At last, a simple NIR and VL image fusion approach is exploited to combine the scores of NIR and VL images and to obtain the classification result. The experimental results show that the proposed NIR and VL image fusion approach can effectively improve the accuracy of face recognition.     

基于SVD-TRIM特征和LSSVM人脸识别方法

人脸特征的选择对识别结果起关键作用。传统上只提取较大奇异值特征作为识别特征的人脸识别方法,识别率不高,对表情和姿态变化敏感。SVD-TRIM算法选择的奇异值识别特征融合了人脸整体和局部细节特征,并采用基于＂一对一＂的LSSVM多类分类器分类识别。实验结果表明SVD-TRIM算法选择的识别特征对提高识别率具有较大贡献,且对光照、姿态和表情具有鲁棒性。     

基于塔形分解的局部熵差图像配准

以图像局部熵差为匹配准则,确定关键点的匹配位置。逐点计算图像局部熵,将图像局部熵序列进行塔式分解。采用金字塔式的数据结构,通过从低分辨率图像开始模板匹配,找出粗匹配点,逐步找到原始图像(即高分辨率图像)的精确匹配点,大大减少了计算量。该算法具有良好的抗噪声能力和抗几何失真能力。实验结果表明,当实时图相对于参考图旋转不超过5°时,正确匹配达到76%以上;当椒盐噪声强度不超过5%时,正确匹配达到78%以上;当零均值高斯白噪声方差不超过0.02时,正确匹配达到70%以上。     

Research on the Pedestrian Re-Identification Method Based on Local Features and Gait Energy Images

The appearance of pedestrians can vary greatly from image to image, and different pedestrians may look similar in a given image. Such similarities and variabilities in the appearance and clothing of individuals make the task of pedestrian re-identification very challenging. Here, a pedestrian re-identification method based on the fusion of local features and gait energy image (GEI) features is proposed. In this method, the human body is divided into four regions according to joint points. The color and texture of each region of the human body are extracted as local features, and GEI features of the pedestrian gait are also obtained. These features are then fused with the local and GEI features of the person. Independent distance measure learning using the cross-view quadratic discriminant analysis (XQDA) method is used to obtain the similarity of the metric function of the image pairs, and the final similarity is acquired by weight matching. Evaluation of experimental results by cumulative matching characteristic (CMC) curves reveals that, after fusion of local and GEI features, the pedestrian reidentification effect is improved compared with existing methods and is notably better than the recognition rate of pedestrian re-identification with a single feature.     

基于SVM的多生物特征融合识别算法

针对单生物特征识别的局限性,提出融合手背静脉和虹膜两种生物特征实现身份识别.基于尺度不变特征变换(SIFT)提取手背静脉的局部SIFT特征并对特征点进行匹配,利用特征匹配率作为手背静脉图像的相似度测度.通过Haar小波变换实现虹膜特征编码,利用加权汉明距对虹膜进行相似度测试.最后基于支持向量机(SVM)实现两种生物特征在匹配层的融合识别.利用CASIA虹膜数据库和TJU手背静脉数据库对算法性能进行测试,其等错率为0.02%,实验结果表明,该融合算法具有很高的识别性能,为生物特征识别研究提供了新思路.     

Probabilistic approach to face recognition

Faces are highly deformable objects which may easily change their appearance over time. Not all face areas are subject to the same variability. Therefore, decoupling of the information from independent areas of the face is of paramount importance to improve the robustness of any face recognition technique. The aim of this article is to present a robust face recognition technique based on the extraction and matching of probabilistic graphs drawn on scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) features related to independent face areas. The face matching strategy is based on matching individual salient facial graphs characterized by SIFT features as connected to facial landmarks such as the eyes and the mouth. In order to reduce the face matching errors, the Dempster–Shafer decision theory is applied to fuse the individual matching scores obtained from each pair of salient facial features. The proposed algorithm is evaluated with the Olivetti Research Lab (ORL) and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) face databases. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of the proposed face recognition technique, even in the case of partially occluded faces.     

Face recognition using Krawtchouk moment

Feature extraction is one of the important tasks in face recognition. Moments are widely used feature extractor due to their superior discriminatory power and geometrical invariance. Moments generally capture the global features of the image. This paper proposes Krawtchouk moment for feature extraction in face recognition system, which has the ability to extract local features from any region of interest. Krawtchouk moment is used to extract both local features and global features of the face. The extracted features are fused using summed normalized distance strategy. Nearest neighbour classifier is employed to classify the faces. The proposed method is tested using ORL and Yale databases. Experimental results show that the proposed method is able to recognize images correctly, even if the images are corrupted with noise and possess change in facial expression and tilt.     

Illumination normalization using independent component analysis and filtering

In this work, we separate the illumination and reflectance components of a single input image which is non-uniformly illuminated. Considering the input image and its blurred version as two different combinations of illumination and reflectance components, we use the conventional independent component analysis (ICA) to separate these two components. The separated reflectance component, which is an illumination normalized version of the input image, can then be used as an effective pre-processed (illumination normalized) image for different computer vision tasks e.g. face recognition. To this end, we present simulation results to show that our proposed pre-processing method called illumination normalization using ICA increases the accuracy rate of several baseline face recognition systems (FRSs). The proposed method showed improved performance of baseline FRSs when using the Extended Yale-B databases.     

一种新颖的基于Gabor-LDA的人脸识别方法

为了克服光照、表情变化等因素对人脸识别的影响,提出了一种基于Gabor小波和最佳鉴别分析LDA的人脸识别方法。该方法充分利用了LDA得到的鉴别向量,用鉴别向量组成线性变换矩阵,直接从原始的强度图像上提取LDA特征。然后,用鉴别向量选择一些鉴别像素,仅在鉴别像素的位置上提取Gabor特征并对Gabor特征作LDA变换得到另一种LDA特征。它们分别可视为全局特征和局部特征。最后的分类器融合这两类特征。在FERET人脸库上的试验表明了该方法的有效性。     

多级FFD配准视频人脸超分辨率重建

超分辨率重建是解决视频人脸识别中人脸分辨率低的有效方法,但由于人脸畸变、表情变化等非刚性变化导致无法精确配准和重建.针对此问题,提出基于B样条的多级模型自由形式形变(FFD)弹性配准算法.先用低分辨率FFD网格全局配准,再对全局配准后的图像分块并计算对应子图块的相关性系数,对相关性系数小的子图块用高分辨率FFD网格局部细配准.在配准的寻优过程中采用基于混沌因子的自适应步长最速下降法提高寻优效率.配准后,采用POCS算法对多帧图像重建高分辨率图像来识别.在标准视频库和自建视频库上实验仿真,结果表明在人脸畸变和表情变化很大的情况下,也能够精确的配准和很好的重建,得到较高识别率.     

Kernel Granulometric Texture Analysis and Light RES-ASPP-UNET Classification for Covid-19 Detection

This research article proposes an automatic frame work for detecting COVID -19 at the early stage using chest X-ray image. It is an undeniable fact that coronovirus is a serious disease but the early detection of the virus present in human bodies can save lives. In recent times, there are so many research solutions that have been presented for early detection, but there is still a lack in need of right and even rich technology for its early detection. The proposed deep learning model analysis the pixels of every image and adjudges the presence of virus. The classifier is designed in such a way so that, it automatically detects the virus present in lungs using chest image. This approach uses an image texture analysis technique called granulometric mathematical model. Selected features are heuristically processed for optimization using novel multi scaling deep learning called light weight residual–atrous spatial pyramid pooling (LightRES-ASPP-Unet) Unet model. The proposed deep LightRES-ASPP-Unet technique has a higher level of contracting solution by extracting major level of image features. Moreover, the corona virus has been detected using high resolution output. In the framework, atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) method is employed at its bottom level for incorporating the deep multi scale features in to the discriminative mode. The architectural working starts from the selecting the features from the image using granulometric mathematical model and the selected features are optimized using LightRES-ASPP-Unet. ASPP in the analysis of images has performed better than the existing Unet model. The proposed algorithm has achieved 99.6% of accuracy in detecting the virus at its early stage.     

基于图像匹配的透明车灯部件检测

针对车灯总成的完整性检测,提出了基于图像金字塔和归一化互相关函数结合的分层匹配算法。利用直方图均衡化和锐化滤波增强图像对比度以及边缘细节信息,再运用归一化互相关相似度函数实现车灯透明部件的匹配,同时采用金字塔分层来提高图像匹配的速度。通过实验确定了合适的匹配窗口大小、金字塔层数、相似度阈值等,实现了车灯透明部件的安装检测。实验结果表明:该方法对车灯透明部件的成功检测率可达到约95%,检测时间约50 ms,具有较高的准确率和实时性。     

Efficient object detection and tracking in video sequences

One of the most important problems in computer vision is the computation of the two-dimensional projective transformation (homography) that maps features of planar objects in different images and videos. This computation is required by many applications such as image mosaicking, image registration, and augmented reality. The real-time performance imposes constraints on the methods used. In this paper, we address the real-time detection and tracking of planar objects in a video sequence where the object of interest is given by a reference image template. Most existing approaches for homography estimation are based on two steps: feature extraction (first step) followed by a combinatorial optimization method (second step) to match features between the reference template and the scene frame. This paper has two main contributions. First, we detect both planar and nonplanar objects via efficient object feature classification in the input images, which is applied prior to performing the matching step. Second, for the tracking part (planar objects), we propose a fast method for the computation of the homography that is based on the transferred object features and their associated local raw brightness. The advantage of the proposed schemes is a fast matching as well as fast and robust object registration that is given by either a homography or three-dimensional pose.     

运用肤色信息和模板匹配的彩色人脸检测

人脸是一个复杂的模式,在图像中自动地对其进行定位和分割是进行人脸识别的第一步。本文提出一种运用肤色信息和模板匹配的人脸检测方法。该方法先进行肤色分割,然后对每一个人脸候选区域进行形状比例的分析,最后进行模板匹配。实验结果表明,该方法对任意背景下,任意姿态及任意数目的人脸检测非常有效。