Category-specific scene categorization

Scene categorization with category-specific visual-word construction and image representation is proposed in this study. The proposed scene categorization has effective discriminative ability and class extendibility. The reasons are listed as follows. First, since the visual-word construction and image representation are category-specific, the corresponding learning model for classification has substantial discriminating power. Second, since the visual-word construction and image representation are category-specific, image features related to the original classes need not be recreated when new classes are added, which minimizes reconstruction overhead. Experimental results confirm that the accuracy of the proposed method is superior to existing methods with single-type features both in single-scale and in multi-scale versions.     

中国人群纯音等响曲线的初步研究

根据2003年颁布的ISO226对原版本作了显著修正的现象,进行了针对中国人群的60phon～80phon等响曲线的初步研究,旨在检验中国人群的等响曲线与新颁布的ISO标准的符合程度。研究结果表明,中国人群的60phon～80phon等响曲线的结果与新版本ISO标准仍然存在一定的差异,而与日本人群的等响曲线相对接近。根据初步研究结果,提出了等响曲线存在地域性人群差异的概念以及需要对各地域人群的等响感知特征进行区别研究的思想。     

Role of color memory in successive color constancy

We investigate color constancy for real 2D paper samples using a successive matching paradigm in which the observer memorizes a reference surface color under neutral illumination and after a temporal interval selects a matching test surface under the same or different illumination. We find significant effects of the illumination, reference surface, and their interaction on the matching error. We characterize the matching error in the absence of illumination change as the "pure color memory shift" and introduce a new index for successive color constancy that compares this shift against the matching error under changing illumination. The index also incorporates the vector direction of the matching errors in chromaticity space, unlike the traditional constancy index. With this index, we find that color constancy is nearly perfect.     

颜色相似性度量在色差检测中的应用

针对彩色图像缺陷检测中存在的色差问题,在RGB与HSI颜色空间模型的基础上,应用颜色相似性度量的方法来量化一些关键指标,以达到色差识别的目的.实验表明,这种方法符合人眼颜色视觉的相似性判定规律,同时计算简单,易于实现.它不仅避免了复杂的颜色转换过程,而且还能满足颜色视觉特性,因而具有重要的实际意义.     

Uncertainty under MRP-planned manufacture: Review and categorization

Extensive research can be found in coping with uncertainty under Material Requirements Planning (MRP)-planned manufacture, but the under-performance of many manufacturing enterprises is still reported. To examine the reasons, a review of the literature on uncertainty under MRP-planned manufacture has been carried out. This paper presents a comprehensive review and categorisation of such research. It aims to provide a structure within which directions can be given for future research and the results of past research work are summarized to give an indication to practitioners of how to cope with uncertainty. An uncertainty categorization structure has been developed using systems theory to categorize uncertainty into input and process , and simultaneously to highlight the uncertainty that occurs in the supply and demand chain of the manufacturing process. Buffering and dampening (BAD) approaches are proposed and the experimental methods used are incorporated in the structure. A range of research gaps is identified: the lack of a detailed structure to enable the significant uncertainty to be diagnosed optimally, as most of the past research studied uncertainty discretely and only some in specific combinations; the sub-optimal approach in coping with uncertainty; and little research has examined the interactions between uncertainties. Several directions for future research are proposed: the development of a cause-and-effect structure for diagnosing uncertainty, a holistic approach to deduce to the underlying causes of uncertainty, generalization of the cause-and-effect structure, examination of the BAD approaches applied in industry and consideration of interactions between uncertainties by first diagnosing the significant uncertainty. It is found that safety stock, the use of appropriate lot-sizing rules and rescheduling are the most robust approaches to cope with uncertainty, while safety capacity is not used at all for buffering process uncertainty. Hedging/over-planning is useful for dampening process uncertainty. It can be concluded that input uncertainty has been maturely researched with external demand uncertainty dominating others, but with a range of suggested BAD approaches available. Scheduling heuristics, simulation modelling and mathematical modelling are the most applicable experimental methods in this research area. This review and categorization have identified that a structured and systematic approach is required to cope with uncertainty holistically within MRP-planned manufacture.     

Simulating coronas in color

Coronas are simulated in color by use of the Mie scattering theory of light by small droplets through clouds of finite optical thickness embedded in a Rayleigh scattering atmosphere. The primary factors that affect color, visibility, and number of rings of coronas are droplet size, width of the size distribution, and cloud optical thickness. The color sequence of coronas and iridescence varies when the droplet radius is smaller than approximately 6-microm. As radius increases to approximately 3.5 microm, new color bands appear at the center of the corona and fade as they move outward. As the radius continues to increase to approximately 6 microm, successively more inner rings become fixed in the manner described by classical diffraction theory, while outer rings continue their outward migration. Wave clouds or rippled cloud segments produce the brightest and most vivid multiple ringed coronas and iridescence because their integrated dropsize distributions along sunbeams are much narrower than in convective or stratiform clouds. The visibility of coronas and the appearance of the background sky vary with cloud optical depth tau. First the corona becomes visible as a white aureole in a blue sky when tau approximately 0.001. Color purity then rapidly increases to an almost flat maximum in the range 0.05 < or = tau < or = 0.5 and then decreases, so coronas are almost completely washed out by a bright gray background when tau > or = 4.     

基于声学特征的母语非汉语者声调研究

从提高满足少数民族普通话高自然度语音合成与高精度语音识别的实际应用需求出发,首次从实验语音学的角度对初级、中级和高级阶段的50名维吾尔族汉语学习者与10名母语为汉语普通话的说话人声调的一阶差分与时长以及相似度进行对比,并对其声调的一阶差分模式、声调时长等韵律参数进行了实验分析,得出维吾尔族学生对汉语声调的偏误情况以及与中国少数民族汉语水平等级考试(Master of Human Kinetics, MHK)成绩的关系。通过实验结果可以发现,三组维吾尔族人学习普通话的声调都有困难。两种语言的音系,语调和重音等特性影响了第二语言中的声调特性。归纳了维吾尔族学习者声调的基本声学特征,总结出了一些重要的规则和结论;为解决给汉语语音处理带来的困难,尤其是少数民族汉语的语音合成和语音识别方面的声调问题,提供了重要的参考依据。     

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。     

基于深度迁移学习的微型细粒度图像分类

现有的细粒度分类模型不仅利用图像的类别标签,还使用大量人工标注的额外信息。为解决该问题,本文提出一种深度迁移学习模型,将大规模有标签细粒度数据集上学习到的图像特征有效地迁移至微型细粒度数据集中。首先,通过衔接域定量计算域间任务的关联度。然后,根据关联度选择适合目标域的迁移特征。最后,使用细粒度数据集视图类标签进行辅助学习,通过联合学习所有属性来获取更多的特征表示。实验表明,本文方法不仅可以获得较高精度,而且能够有效减少模型训练时间,同时也验证了进行域间特征迁移可以加速网络学习与优化这一结论。     

基于背景代表色提取的迷彩伪装颜色选取算法

为了达到好的伪装效果,迷彩颜色应与背景色调相融合,以使人眼及光学仪器难以探测和分辨.因此,背景主色的准确提取是确定迷彩颜色的前提.利用灰度直方图可以确定背景图像中的主要灰度,但无法区分不同色调.而基于颜色直方图的背景主色提取方法的运算量太大.本文提出了一种基于HSI模型和量化颜色直方图的迷彩颜色选取算法.利用HSI颜色模型描述背景颜色特性,通过特殊量化方式对背景的颜色直方图进行量化,接着借助阈值方法选取背景主色作为迷彩颜色.结合迷彩伪装图案设计方法对上述迷彩颜色选取算法进行了实验分析,并通过边缘检测和相关跟踪方法对不同背景下的目标迷彩伪装效果进行了验证.     

Spatial processing in color reproduction

We consider the reproduction of color subject to material and neighborhood constraints. By "material constraints," we mean any constraints that are applied to the amount of ink, lights, voltages, and currents that are used in the generation of color. In the first instance we consider the problem of reproducing a target color constrained by maximum additive color signals, such as in the phosphorescence process in a cathode ray tube. In the second instance we consider the more difficult problem of reproducing color subject to constraints on the maximum primary color variations in a (spatial) neighborhood. We introduce the idea of adjacent color variance (ACV) and then attempt to reproduce colors subject to an upper bound on the ACV. An algorithm that is suitable for this task is the method of vector space projections (VSP). In order to use VSP for constrained color reproduction, we use a novel approach to linearize nonlinear CIE-Lab space constraints. Experimental results are furnished that demonstrate that using the ACV as a bound helps to reduce reproduction artifacts in a color image.     

Text binarization in color documents

This article presents a new method for the binarization of color document images. Initially, the colors of the document image are reduced to a small number using a new color reduction technique. Specifically, this technique estimates the dominant colors and then assigns the original image colors to them in order that the background and text components to become uniform. Each dominant color defines a color plane in which the connected components (CCs) are extracted. Next, in each color plane a CC filtering procedure is applied which is followed by a grouping procedure. At the end of this stage, blocks of CCs are constructed which are next redefined by obtaining the direction of connection (DOC) property for each CC. Using the DOC property, the blocks of CCs are classified as text or nontext. The identified text blocks are binarized properly using suitable binarization techniques, considering the rest of the pixels as background. The final result is a binary image which contains always black characters in white background independently of the original colors of each text block. The proposed document binarization approach can also be used for binarization of noisy color (or gray‐scale) document images. Several experiments that confirm the effectiveness of the proposed technique are presented. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 16, 262–274, 2006     

Improvement of color reproduction in color digital holography by using spectral estimation technique

We propose a color digital holography by using spectral estimation technique to improve the color reproduction of objects. In conventional color digital holography, there is insufficient spectral information in holograms, and the color of the reconstructed images depend on only reflectances at three discrete wavelengths used in the recording of holograms. Therefore the color-composite image of the three reconstructed images is not accurate in color reproduction. However, in our proposed method, the spectral estimation technique was applied, which has been reported in multispectral imaging. According to the spectral estimation technique, the continuous spectrum of object can be estimated and the color reproduction is improved. The effectiveness of the proposed method was confirmed by a numerical simulation and an experiment, and, in the results, the average color differences are decreased from 35.81 to 7.88 and from 43.60 to 25.28, respectively.     

制定彩棉标准促进彩棉生产

据报道，我国天然彩色棉花已具备了在适合区域推广开发的条件。因此，制定彩棉标准，促进彩棉的生产和加工，有着十分重要的意义。彩棉制品贵在天然，它天生色彩艳丽，是一种新兴的天然无公害绿色纺织产品，它不仅避免了因印染产品颜色，而致残留有害人体的化学物，而且可节省大量的加工费用。因此，为防止彩棉掺混或制成品掺杂，保持其天然，彩棉的质量品级：纤维长度、细度、强力、整齐度；加工棉花产生的影响纺织产品的棉花“四害”（死索丝、死棉结、带纤维籽屑和籽屑上的棉纤维），以及彩棉中棉短绒含量等加工质量指标，都需要制定标准…