Multimodal Video Indexing: A Review of the State-of-the-art

Efficient and effective handling of video documents depends on the availability of indexes. Manual indexing is unfeasible for large video collections. In this paper we survey several methods aiming at automating this time and resource consuming process. Good reviews on single modality based video indexing have appeared in literature. Effective indexing, however, requires a multimodal approach in which either the most appropriate modality is selected or the different modalities are used in collaborative fashion. Therefore, instead of separately treating the different information sources involved, and their specific algorithms, we focus on the similarities and differences between the modalities. To that end we put forward a unifying and multimodal framework, which views a video document from the perspective of its author. This framework forms the guiding principle for identifying index types, for which automatic methods are found in literature. It furthermore forms the basis for categorizing these different methods.     

一种快速提取人脸中心点的方法

针对安防环境下监控系统的实时性要求,本文提出了一种基于肤色分割和人体特征相结合的快速人脸检测方法。首先利用肤色信息对彩色图像进行肤色区域的分割,然后根据人体的几何特征进行迭代寻优求取人脸的中心。实验结果证明,所求出的中心可以适用于要求。     

Efficient analysis and experimental verification of substrate‐integrated slab waveguides for wideband microwave applications

This article presents a substrate integrated waveguide, named the substrate‐integrated slab waveguide (SISW), which exhibits a wide operation bandwidth. It consists of an integrated rectangular waveguide filled with a periodically perforated dielectric medium. An efficient procedure has been developed for the calculation of the dispersion diagram of SISWs, based on the Floquet theorem, in conjunction with the segmentation technique and the boundary‐integral–resonant‐mode‐expansion (BI‐RME) method. Numerical and experimental results confirm the performance of these waveguides and the efficiency of the analysis method. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2005.     

A content-based system for human identification based on bitewing dental X-ray images

This paper presents a system for assisting in human identification using dental radiographs. The goal of the system is to archive antemortem (AM) dental images and enable content-based retrieval of AM images that have similar teeth shapes to a given postmortem (PM) dental image. During archiving, the system classifies the dental images to bitewing, periapical, and panoramic views. It then segments the teeth and the bones in the bitewing images, separates each tooth into the crown and the root, and stores the contours of the teeth in the database. During retrieval, the proposed system retrieves from the AM database the images with the most similar teeth to the PM image based on Hausdorff distance measure between the teeth contours. Experiments on a small database show that our method is effective for dental image classification and teeth segmentation, provides good results for separating each tooth into crown and root, and provides a good tool for human identification.     

Motion segmentation of multiple translating objects from line correspondences

This paper presents an analytic approach to motion segmentation of multiple translating objects from line correspondences in three perspective views. The basic idea of our algorithm is to view the estimation of multiple translational motions as the estimation of a single, though more complex, multibody motion model that is then factored into the original models by polynomial differentiation. Experimental results on synthetic and real scenes are presented.     

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Bark小波变换参数的语音寂声/语声段检测

提出了一种基于Bark小波变换参数的语音寂声/语声段检测方法。利用Bark小波的频率分级和能量聚焦能力,提取语音信号在不同子带上的统计参数;引入基于模糊熵的参数有效性分析,获得所有子带参数中分辨能力和稳定性最大的参数作为识别参数。仿真试验证明,该方法在不同噪声条件下稳定有效;比照传统参数,该方法在准确率和鲁棒性上都有较大幅度的提升。     

基于BP神经网络的混凝土超声CT图像分割

由于图像直观的特点，超声波层析成像技术在混凝土结构的无损检测中扮演日益重要的角色。采用BP神经网络模型，研究了超声波CT彩色图像的分割方法。以超声CT检测图像和起导师信号作用的二值图像为训练样本，采用BP算法进行训练，对实测图像分割后得到了目标边缘清晰的较好分割效果：此方法主要优点是设计简单，易于实现；欠缺是BP网络学习时间过长，