Context matters: The structure of task goals affects accuracy in multiple-target visual search

Career visual searchers such as radiologists and airport security screeners strive to conduct accurate visual searches, but despite extensive training, errors still occur. A key difference between searches in radiology and airport security is the structure of the search task: Radiologists typically scan a certain number of medical images (fixed objective), and airport security screeners typically search X-rays for a specified time period (fixed duration). Might these structural differences affect accuracy? We compared performance on a search task administered either under constraints that approximated radiology or airport security. Some displays contained more than one target because the presence of multiple targets is an established source of errors for career searchers, and accuracy for additional targets tends to be especially sensitive to contextual conditions. Results indicate that participants searching within the fixed objective framework produced more multiple-target search errors; thus, adopting a fixed duration framework could improve accuracy for career searchers.     

颜色和形状特征分离和局部整合的研究

特征绑定是特征分离和整合的过程。为探究视觉系统处理图像颜色和形状特征的动态绑定过程,提出基于任务的独立成分分析(T_ICA)和最短距离聚类相结合的方法,并将其应用于任务态下采集的脑功能(fMRI)数据,实现颜色和形状处理功能的分离和局部整合。结果表明,T_ICA将f MRI数据分离成彼此独立的特征成分,其中包含有目标特征成分和其他成分;聚类方法实现了颜色功能和形状功能的局部整合,形成了两个分别处理颜色和形状的基本感知系统。通过研究人脑视觉特征绑定机制为计算机视觉捆绑的研究与应用提供一定的参考价值。     

基于PLC的船舶机舱监测报警系统的改进方案

针对原机舱监测报警系统的老化以及无法表示监测点的具体数值的问题,利用西门子PLC S7-200作为数据的采集和发送单元,利用西门子触摸屏MP377搭载组态软件WinCC flexible 2010,对数据进行实时的监测与报警,同时PLC将机舱监测报警系统所有测点的实时数据发送到轮机长室,实现对机舱主机及付机的各项参数的实时监测。改进的监测系统已经投入使用,事实证明该系统安全可靠。     

基于VB的高层电梯运行仿真设计与实现

以Visual Basic 6.0为软件开发平台,对高层电梯运行进行仿真设计.系统以动态画面实时反映电梯运行状态,并对运行状态参数信息进行数据显示、存储以及报表打印,实现对电梯系统的实时监控,为电梯在运行过程中故障的发现、分析、排除提供了方便.     

3D soft-tissue tracking using spatial-color joint probability distribution and thin-plate spline model

Visual tracking techniques based on stereo endoscope are developed to measure tissue motion in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. However, accurate 3D tracking of tissue surfaces remains challenging due to complicated deformation, poor imaging conditions, specular reflections and other dynamic effects during surgery. This study employs a robust and efficient 3D tracking scheme with two independent recursive processes, namely kernel-based inter-frame motion estimation and model-based intra-frame 3D matching. In the first process, target region is represented in joint spatial-color space for robust estimation. By defining a probabilistic similarity measure, a mean-shift-based iterative algorithm is derived for location of the target region in a new image. In the second process, the thin-plate spline model is used to fit the 3D shape of tissue surfaces around the target region. An iterative algorithm based on an efficient second-order minimization technique is derived to compute optimal model parameters. The two processes can be computed in parallel. Their outputs are combined to recover 3D information about the target region. The performance of the proposed method is validated using phantom heart videos and in vivo videos acquired by the daVinci^®${\mathrm{daVinci}}^{\circledR }$ surgical robotic platform and a synthesized data set with known ground truth.     

Enhanced user performance in an image gallery application with a mobile autostereoscopic touch display

In this study, we explored how stereoscopic depth affects performance and user experience in a mobile device with an autostereoscopic touch display. Participants conducted a visual search task with an image gallery application on three layouts with different depth ranges. The task completion times were recorded, and the participants were asked to rate their experiences. The results revealed that the image search times were facilitated by a mild depth effect and that too great a depth slowed search times and decreased user-experience ratings.     

Inverse Procedural Modelling of Trees

Procedural tree models have been popular in computer graphics for their ability to generate a variety of output trees from a set of input parameters and to simulate plant interaction with the environment for a realistic placement of trees in virtual scenes. However, defining such models and their parameters is a difficult task. We propose an inverse modelling approach for stochastic trees that takes polygonal tree models as input and estimates the parameters of a procedural model so that it produces trees similar to the input. Our framework is based on a novel parametric model for tree generation and uses Monte Carlo Markov Chains to find the optimal set of parameters. We demonstrate our approach on a variety of input models obtained from different sources, such as interactive modelling systems, reconstructed scans of real trees and developmental models.     

Variational Tree Synthesis

Modelling trees according to desired shapes is important for many applications. Despite numerous methods having been proposed in tree modelling, it is still a non‐trivial task and challenging. In this paper, we present a new variational computing approach for generating realistic trees in specific shapes. Instead of directly modelling trees from symbolic rules, we formulate the tree modelling as an optimization process, in which a variational cost function is iteratively minimized. This cost function measures the difference between the guidance shape and the target tree crown. In addition, to faithfully capture the branch structure of trees, several botanical factors, including the minimum total branches volume and spatial branches patterns, are considered in the optimization to guide the tree modelling process. We demonstrate that our approach is applicable to generate trees with different shapes, from interactive design and complex polygonal meshes.     

视觉传感网中基于二次规划的图像压缩感知

为降低视觉传感网络中图像压缩感知算法的计算复杂度,提出一种基于二次规划的网络图像恢复算法。该算法将压缩感知重构中的欠定线性方程组求解问题,转化为有界约束二次规划问题,在此基础上结合阿米霍步长准则,设计一种压缩感知图像恢复算法,通过求解二次规划问题对网络图像数据进行恢复。理论分析和仿真结果表明,与传统图像压缩感知算法相比,该算法可减少约1/3的图像数据恢复运算时间,且图像重构质量提高3 dB~6 dB,有效提高了视觉传感器网络图像恢复算法的实时性。     

材料在红色旅游景区导视系统中的情感表达

随着人们情感需求的日益膨胀,导视系统也不再仅仅只关注于功能性。更需要关注它与任何环境之间的关系,做情感化设计。尤其红色旅游景区,导视系统更应该凸显其艺术性,注重人们的心理感受。与景区格调一致。完美烘托主题。而材料是事物的基础及艺术的载体。文章通过对常用材料情感特征进行分析研究。结合红色景区的特点,探索适于红色景区导视系统情感表达的材料。