基于运动目标分类的双向人流量统计算法

提出了一种在智能视频监控中基于运动目标分类的双向人流量统计算法.本文首先对运动目标进行检测和跟踪,根据检测出的运动目标团块经过预设计数线时的特征信息,把目标划分为非行人、单行人和多行人.对于多行人的情况,利用HOG和SVM对目标团块中的头肩进行检测,判断出多目标团块包含的行人数目.在人流量的统计中,借助于运动目标方向信息和目标团块所包含的行人数目信息,对经过场景预设计数线的行人进行进出双向的统计.本文算在建筑物通道口环境下的人流量统计中取得了较好的效果.     

一种基于鲁棒局部纹理特征的背景差分方法

针对复杂场景下运动目标的精确检测这一问题,提出一种对噪声鲁棒并具备灰度尺度不变性的局部纹理特征描述子LBP_Center,将其与像素的颜色信息结合应用于背景建模中,采用随机抽样的机制更新模型,同时引入背景复杂度以去除多模态动态背景产生的噪点。在标准测试数据集上的实验结果表明,该算法对柔性阴影及光照缓慢变化具备良好的鲁棒性,综合性能更优。     

Participatory ergonomics in design processes: the role of boundary objects

The aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of boundary objects in order to better understand the role of objects in participatory ergonomics (PE) design processes. The research question is: What characterizes boundary objects in PE processes? Based on two case studies, we identify eight characteristics of boundary objects and their use, which make them particularly useful in PE design processes. These characteristics go beyond the object itself and extend into the context of their use. We argue that the selection of boundary objects in PE processes is of great importance, since different objects enable workers’ participation and collaborative design in different ways. The framework developed may serve to provide criteria to guide practitioners and intervention researchers in the selection of objects to facilitate a PE process. The paper concludes with a list of recommendations for ergonomic practitioners that are based on the framework.     

DOLAR: virtualizing heterogeneous information spaces to support their expansion

Users expect applications to successfully cope with the expansion of information as necessitated by the continuous inclusion of novel types of content. Given that such content may originate from ‘not‐seen thus far’ data collections and/or data sources, the challenging issue is to achieve the return of investment on existing services, adapting to new information without changing existing business‐logic implementation. To address this need, we introduce DOLAR (Data Object Language And Runtime), a service‐neutral framework which virtualizes the information space to avoid invasive, time‐consuming, and expensive source‐code extensions that frequently break applications. Specifically, DOLAR automates the introduction of new business‐logic objects in terms of the proposed virtual ‘content objects’. Such user‐specified virtual objects align to storage artifacts and help realize uniform ‘store‐to‐user’ data flows atop heterogeneous sources, while offering the reverse ‘user‐to‐store’ flows with identical effectiveness and ease of use. In addition, the suggested virtual object composition schemes help decouple business logic from any content origin, storage and/or structural details, allowing applications to support novel types of items without modifying their service provisions. We expect that content‐rich applications will benefit from our approach and demonstrate how DOLAR has assisted in the cost‐effective development and gradual expansion of a production‐quality digital library. Experimentation shows that our approach imposes minimal overheads and DOLAR‐based applications scale as well as any underlying datastore(s). Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于Web及分布式对象技术的信息系统建设

论述了Web CORBA/Java的体系结构是采用分布式对象技术来改造传统的B／S模型,在Web中引入分布式对象技术的体系结构来建立信息系统。它具有经济性、可维护性、可伸缩性、强壮性、软件重用及或裁剪性、兼容性、异构性、安全性等优点并较好地克服了传统计算模型的缺陷。     

Modeling and Retrieval of Moving Objects

This paper presents a symbolic formalism for modeling and retrieving video data via the moving objects contained in the video images. The model integrates the representations of individual moving objects in a scene with the time-varying relationships between them by incorporating both the notions of object tracks and temporal sequences of PIRs (projection interval relationships). The model is supported by a set of operations which form the basis of a moving object algebra. This algebra allows one to retrieve scenes and information from scenes by specifying both spatial and temporal properties of the objects involved. It also provides operations to create new scenes from existing ones. A prototype implementation is described which allows queries to be specified either via an animation sketch or using the moving object algebra.     

Building Agile Systems with Mobile Code

Mobile code has been championed as a solution to a plethora of software problems. This paper describes investigative work undertaken in order to evaluate the mobile code abstractions of Mobile Agents and Mobile Objects, and to understand the implications of using these abstractions to build distributed systems.We describe two systems built to support the Sales Order Process of a distributed manufacturing enterprise, using IBM's Aglets Software Development Kit. The Sales Order Process model and the requirements for agility used as the basis for these implementations are derived from data collected in an industrial case study.Both systems are evaluated using the Goal/Question/Metric methodology. Two new metrics for Semantic Alignment and Change Capability are presented and used to evaluate each system with respect to the degree of system agility supported. The systems are evaluated through a set of scenarios generated during the case study in an attempt to see if they support system integration and agility in the manufacturing domain. Further we examine the implications of using a mobile code abstraction when compared with the abstraction offered by traditional distribution technology.The work described provides evidence that both Mobile Agent and Mobile Object systems have inherent properties that can be used to build agile distributed systems. Further, Mobile Agents with their additional autonomy provide marginally greater support.     

一种基于密度的快速聚类算法

聚类是数据挖掘领域中的一个重要研究方向,聚类技术在统计数据分析、模式识别、图像处理等领域有广泛应用,迄今为止人们提出了许多用于大规模数据库的聚类算法。基于密度的聚类算法DBSCAN就是一个典型代表。以DBSCAN为基础,提出了一种基于密度的快速聚类算法。新算法以核心对象领域中所有对象的代表对象为种子对象来扩展类,从而减少区域查询次数,降低I/O开销,实现快速聚类,对二维空间数据测试表明：快速算法能够有效地对大规模数据库进行聚类,速度上数倍于已有DBSCAN算法。     

Identifying Objects in Procedural Programs Using Clustering Neural Networks

This paper presents a general approach for the identification of objects in procedural programs. The approach is based on neural architectures that perform an unsupervised learning of clusters. We describe two such neural architectures, explain how to use them in identifying objects in software systems and briefly describe a prototype tool, which implements the clustering algorithms. With the aid of several examples, we explain how our approach can identify abstract data types as well as groups of routines which reference a common set of data. The clustering results are compared to the results of many other object identification techniques. Finally, several case studies were performed on existing programs to evaluate the object identification approach. Results concerning two representative programs and their generated clusters are discussed.     

A Linear Algorithm for Computing the Homography from Conics in Correspondence

This paper presents a study, based on conic correspondences, on the relationship between two perspective images acquired by an uncalibrated camera. We show that for a pair of corresponding conics, the parameters representing the conics satisfy a linear constraint. To be more specific, the parameters that represent a conic in one image are transformed by a five-dimensional projective transformation to the parameters that represent the corresponding conic in another image. We also show that this transformation is expressed as the symmetric component of the tensor product of the transformation based on point/line correspondences and itself. In addition, we present a linear algorithm for uniquely determining the corresponding point-based transformation from a given conic-based transformation up to a scale factor. Accordingly, conic correspondences enable us to easily handle both points and lines in uncalibrated images of a planar object.