铝合金TIG焊熔池正面图像模式识别

将图像处理与模式识别技术用于铝合金TIG焊接过程信息提取过程，根据铝合金熔池图像随机噪声强的特点，采用加权中值滤波，统计灰度边缘检测、统计期望阈值法和投影方法对铝合金熔池图像进行了预处理。探索了将神经网络用于焊接熔池图像处理的方法，采用BP神经网络对二值化熔池图像进行边缘提取，取得了理想的效果。研究了大电流条件下铝合金熔池图像的对称性，通过单面图像，得到了完全的熔池边缘图像。     

基于电容层析成像和模糊模式识别的油气两相流流型辨识新方法的研究

基于电容层析成像和模糊模式识别技术别提出了一种油气两相流流型辨识的新方法。建立了12电极电容层析成像流型自动识别系统，该系统利用Tikhonov正则化原理并结合SIRT(Simultaneous Reconstruction Techniques)算法进行图像重建。Tikhonov正则化原理用于克服图像重建过程中的不适定问题，SIRT算法用于提高最终重建图像的质量。根据流型的随机和模糊特性，提出了一种根据管截面重建图像进行流型辨识的模糊流型判别方法。研究结果表明，提出的流型辨识新方法是有效的。对于层状流、核心流、环状流、均相流等流型，流型辨识的准确率高于95％，辨识一个流型所用的时间小于0.3秒。对于塞状流，流型辨识的准确率高于90％。     

The haustorium and the chemistry of host recognition in parasitic angiosperms

Two parasitic angiosperms,Agalinis purpurea (Scrophulariaceae) andStriga asiatica (Scrophulariaceae), are compared as to the chemical recognition events involved in host selection.Agalinis is a hemiparasite which can mature to seed-set without a host, whereasStriga is a holoparasite and survives for only a very limited time without a host. Both parasites, however, attach to a host through a specialized organ known as the haustorium and regulate the development of this organ through the recognition of chemical factors from host plants. We now describe the discovery of 2,6-dimethoxy-p-benzoquinone (2,6-DMBQ) as an haustoria-inducing principle fromSorghum root extracts. Our investigation of this compound has led us to suggest that one level of host recognition in these parasitic plants is mediated through their enzymatic digestion of the host root surface. Degradation of surface components liberates quinonoid compounds, such as 2,6-DMBQ, which in turn trigger haustorial development.     

Exploring album structure for face recognition in online social networks

In this paper, we propose an album-oriented face-recognition model that exploits the album structure for face recognition in online social networks. Albums, usually associated with pictures of a small group of people at a certain event or occasion, provide vital information that can be used to effectively reduce the possible list of candidate labels. We show how this intuition can be formalized into a model that expresses a prior on how albums tend to have many pictures of a small number of people. We also show how it can be extended to include other information available in a social network. Using two real-world datasets independently drawn from Facebook, we show that this model is broadly applicable and can significantly improve recognition rates.     

Efficient data selection for speech recognition based on prior confidence estimation using speech and monophone models

This paper proposes an efficient speech data selection technique that can identify those data that will be well recognized. Conventional confidence measure techniques can also identify well-recognized speech data. However, those techniques require a lot of computation time for speech recognition processing to estimate confidence scores. Speech data with low confidence should not go through the time-consuming recognition process since they will yield erroneous spoken documents that will eventually be rejected. The proposed technique can select the speech data that will be acceptable for speech recognition applications. It rapidly selects speech data with high prior confidence based on acoustic likelihood values and using only speech and monophone models. Experiments show that the proposed confidence estimation technique is over 50 times faster than the conventional posterior confidence measure while providing equivalent data selection performance for speech recognition and spoken document retrieval.     

A new approach of audio emotion recognition

A new architecture of intelligent audio emotion recognition is proposed in this paper. It fully utilizes both prosodic and spectral features in its design. It has two main paths in parallel and can recognize 6 emotions. Path 1 is designed based on intensive analysis of different prosodic features. Significant prosodic features are identified to differentiate emotions. Path 2 is designed based on research analysis on spectral features. Extraction of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) feature is then followed by Bi-directional Principle Component Analysis (BDPCA), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural classification. This path has 3 parallel BDPCA + LDA + RBF sub-paths structure and each handles two emotions. Fusion modules are also proposed for weights assignment and decision making. The performance of the proposed architecture is evaluated on eNTERFACE’05 and RML databases. Simulation results and comparison have revealed good performance of the proposed recognizer.     

Face recognition with Symmetric Local Graph Structure (SLGS)

Face recognition demonstrates the significant progress in the research field of biometric and computer vision. The fact is due to the current systems perform well under relatively control environments but tend to suffer when the present of variation in pose, illumination, and facial expression. In this work, a novel approach for face recognition called Symmetric Local Graph Structure (SLGS) is presented based on the Local Graph Structure (LGS). Each pixel is represented with a graph structure of its neighbours’ pixels. The histograms of the SLGS were used for recognition by using the nearest neighbour classifiers that include Euclidean distance, correlation coefficient and chi-square distance measures. AT&T and Yale face databases were used to be experimented with the proposed method. Extensive experiments on the face database clearly showed the superiority of the proposed approach over Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and LGS. The proposed SLGS is robust to variation in term of facial expressions, facial details, and illumination. Due to good performance of SLGS, it is expected that SLGS has a potential for application implementation in computer vision.     

纹理豪斯多夫距离在人脸识别算法中的应用

很多经典的人脸识别方法难以适应姿势变化及人脸错位的情形。为了解决这一问题,提出一种基于纹理豪斯多夫距离(THD)的人脸识别算法。将人脸图像的空间量及纹理特征相结合,使其在深入的头部转动和人脸错位中都有很高的容错度。在FERET及Yale两大人脸数据库的实验表明,与其他经典的方法相比较,所提出的方法取得了更好的识别效果。