Download or read book Etude et optimisation d algorithmes pour le suivi d objets couleur written by Florence Laguzet and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les travaux de cette thèse portent sur l'amélioration et l'optimisation de l'algorithme de suivi d'objet couleur Mean-Shift à la fois d'un point de vue robustesse du suivi et d'un point de vue architectural pour améliorer la vitesse d'exécution. La première partie des travaux a consisté en l'amélioration de la robustesse du suivi. Pour cela, l'impact des espaces de représentation couleur a été étudié, puis une méthode permettant la sélection de l'espace couleur représentant le mieux l'objet à suivre a été proposée. L'environnement de la cible changeant au cours du temps, une stratégie est mise en place pour resélectionner un espace couleur au moment opportun. Afin d'améliorer la robustesse dans le cas de séquences particulièrement difficile, le Mean-Shift avec stratégie de sélection a été couplé avec un autre algorithme plus coûteux en temps d'exécution : le suivi par covariance. L'objectif de ces travaux est d'obtenir un système complet fonctionnant en temps réel sur processeurs multi-cœurs SIMD. Une phase d'étude et d'optimisation a donc été réalisée afin de rendre les algorithmes paramétrables en complexité pour qu'ils puissent s'exécuter en temps réel sur différentes plateformes, pour différentes tailles d'images et d'objets suivi. Dans cette optique de compromis vitesse / performance, il devient ainsi possible de faire du suivi temps-réel sur des processeurs ARM type Cortex A9.
Download or read book Segmentation et suivi d objets couleur dans une s quence vid o l aide de r seaux de neurones auto organis s written by Wafi El-Chaar and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dans cette recherche, on s’intéresse à réaliser une segmentation automatique de couleurs d’une image à l’aide de réseaux de neurones auto-organisés. On utilise ensuite cette segmentation pour alimenter un algorithme de suivi d’objets. L’objectif ultime est de construire une « machine intelligente de vision » capable de voir et comprendre ce qu’elle voit. Une multitude d’applications peuvent bénéficier d’une telle recherche, notamment les domaines du transport intelligent, du suivi de cibles ou de personnes, de la reconnaissance de comportement, etc. On a développé un algorithme de segmentation automatique des couleurs des objets (objets couleurs) qui existent dans une image statique. Il débute par un ensemble uniforme de couleurs représentatives puis procède à le réduire en éliminant ceux qui n’ont pas de contribution dans l’image étudiée. Cela ne garde que les couleurs utiles à la segmentation. Ensuite, on définit et on entraîne un réseau auto-organisé de Kohonen (SOM) pour représenter la distribution de ces couleurs utiles. Une analyse de l’histogramme « des parts du marché » permet ensuite la détection des couleurs les plus dominantes de l’image. A la fin, on applique la règle économique 80/20 de Pareto et une analyse ABC pour filtrer les résultats de segmentation et ne garder que les plus utiles 95% d’objets. Cela réduit considérablement le bruit de segmentation et améliore la qualité des résultats. On a appliqué cette segmentation dans le domaine suive d’objets en supposant que ces couleurs dominantes sont conservées le long d’une séquence vidéo et qu’on est intéressé par le suivi des objets couleurs. On a défini les règles pour la validation des résultats d’un suivi qui se résument par la commutativité de la relation de correspondance entre les objets dans les sens normal et inverse de la séquence vidéo. L’algorithme de suivi qu’on a développé appartient à la classe des algorithmes de suivi par correspondance des caractéristiques visuelles. On en a choisi 5 : la couleur, le centre de gravité, la surface, l’orientation et le rectangle encadrant. On les a utilisé pour définir une fonction de correspondance entre les objets et détecter leurs 3 états : apparition, vie et disparition.
Download or read book Coloration d ar tes l distance et clustering written by Kaouther Drira and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La coloration de graphes est un problème central de l'optimisation combinatoire. C'est un domaine très attractif par ses nombreuses applications. Différentes variantes et généralisations du problème de la coloration de graphes ont été proposées et étudiées. La coloration d'arêtes d'un graphe consiste à attribuer une couleur à chaque arête du graphe de sorte que deux arêtes ayant un sommet commun n'ont jamais la même couleur, le tout en utilisant le moins de couleurs possibles. Dans la première partie de cette thèse, nous étudions le problème de la coloration d'arêtes l-distance, qui est une généralisation de la coloration d'arêtes classique. Nous menons une étude combinatoire et algorithmique du paramètre. L'étude porte sur les classes de graphes suivantes : les chaines, les grilles, les hypercubes, les arbres et des graphes puissances. Le paramètre de la coloration d'arêtes l-distance permet de modéliser des problèmes dans des réseaux assez grands. Cependant, avec la multiplication du nombre de nœuds, les réseaux sont de plus en plus vulnérables aux défaillances (ou pannes). Dans la deuxième partie, nous nous intéressons aux algorithmes tolérants aux pannes et en particulier les algorithmes auto-stabilisants. Nous proposons un algorithme auto-stabilisant pour la coloration propre d'arêtes. Notre solution se base sur le résultat de vizing pour utiliser un minimum de couleurs possibles. Par la suite, nous proposons un algorithme auto-stabilisant de clustering destine a des applications dans le domaine de la sécurité dans les réseaux mobiles Ad hoc. La solution que nous proposons est un partitionnement en clusters base sur les relations de confiance qui existent entre nœuds. Nous proposons aussi un algorithme de gestion de clés de groupe dans les réseaux mobiles ad hoc qui s'appuie sur la topologie de clusters préalablement construite. La sécurité de notre protocole est renforcée par son critère de clustering qui surveille en permanence les relations de confiance et expulse les nœuds malveillants de la session de diffusion.
Download or read book Flight Vehicle System Identification written by Ravindra V. Jategaonkar and published by AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics). This book was released on 2006 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable volume offers a systematic approach to flight vehicle system identification and exhaustively covers the time domain methodology. It addresses in detail the theoretical and practical aspects of various parameter estimation methods, including those in the stochastic framework and focusing on nonlinear models, cost functions, optimization methods, and residual analysis. A pragmatic and balanced account of pros and cons in each case is provided. The book also presents data gathering and model validation, and covers both large-scale systems and high-fidelity modeling. Real world problems dealing with a variety of flight vehicle applications are addressed and solutions are provided. Examples encompass such problems as estimation of aerodynamics, stability, and control derivatives from flight data, flight path reconstruction, nonlinearities in control surface effectiveness, stall hysteresis, unstable aircraft, and other critical considerations.
Download or read book Max Weber and Karl Marx written by Karl Lowith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Lowith's study of Max Weber and Karl Marx is a key text in modem interpretations of the theme of alienation in Marxist theory and rationalisation in Weber's sociology. It remains the best short student introduction to the differences and comparisons between these essential thinkers. This new edition includes a Preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner which demonstrates the relevance of the book for contemporary sociology.
Download or read book Toward Category Level Object Recognition written by Jean Ponce and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a post-event proceedings volume and contains selected papers based on presentations given, and vivid discussions held, during two workshops held in Taormina in 2003 and 2004. The 30 thoroughly revised papers presented are organized in the following topical sections: recognition of specific objects, recognition of object categories, recognition of object categories with geometric relations, and joint recognition and segmentation.
Download or read book Innovate Bristol written by Sven Boermeester and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovate Bristol highlights and celebrates those companies and individuals that are actively working at building a better tomorrow for all. Innovation Ecosystems thrive through the involvement and support of companies and individuals from all industries, which is why the Innovate series not only focuses on the innovators but also those people whom the Innovation Ecosystem, would not be able to thrive without.
Download or read book Combinatorial Physics written by Adrian Tanasa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of the book is to use combinatorial techniques to solve fundamental physics problems, and vice-versa, to use theoretical physics techniques to solve combinatorial problems.
Download or read book Local Approximation Techniques in Signal and Image Processing written by Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich Katkovnik and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 2006 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with a wide class of novel and efficient adaptive signal processing techniques developed to restore signals from noisy and degraded observations. These signals include those acquired from still or video cameras, electron microscopes, radar, X-rays, or ultrasound devices, and are used for various purposes, including entertainment, medical, business, industrial, military, civil, security, and scientific. In many cases useful information and high quality must be extracted from the imaging. However, often raw signals are not directly suitable for this purpose and must be processed in some way. Such processing is called signal reconstruction. This book is devoted to a recent and original approach to signal reconstruction based on combining two independent ideas: local polynomial approximation and the intersection of confidence interval rule.
Download or read book Active Vision written by Andrew Blake and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Active Vision explores important themes emerging from the active vision paradigm, which has only recently become an established area of machine vision. In four parts the contributions look in turn at tracking, control of vision heads, geometric and task planning, and architectures and applications, presenting research that marks a turning point for both the tasks and the processes of computer vision. The eighteen chapters in Active Vision draw on traditional work in computer vision over the last two decades, particularly in the use of concepts of geometrical modeling and optical flow; however, they also concentrate on relatively new areas such as control theory, recursive statistical filtering, and dynamical modeling. Active Vision documents a change in emphasis, one that is based on the premise that an observer (human or computer) may be able to understand a visual environment more effectively and efficiently if the sensor interacts with that environment, moving through and around it, culling information selectively, and analyzing visual sensory data purposefully in order to answer specific queries posed by the observer. This method is in marked contrast to the more conventional, passive approach to computer vision where the camera is supposed to take in the whole scene, attempting to make sense of all that it sees. Andrew Blake is Lecturer in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford Alan Yuille is Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
Download or read book A Review of Point Cloud Registration Algorithms for Mobile Robotics written by Francois Pomerleau and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the topic of geometric registration in robotics. It provides a historical perspective of the registration problem and shows that the various solutions available can be organized and differentiated in a framework according to a few elements. It also reviews a few applications of this framework in mobile robotics.
Download or read book Life Insurance Mathematics written by Hans U. Gerber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HaIley's Comet has been prominently displayed in many newspapers during the last few months. For the first time in 76 years it appeared this winter, clearly visible against the nocturnal sky. This is an appropriate occasion to point out the fact that Sir Edmund Halley also constructed the world's first life table in 1693, thus creating the scientific foundation of life insurance. Halley's life table and its successors were viewed as deterministic laws, i. e. the number of deaths in any given group and year was considered to be a weIl defined number that could be calculated by means of a life table. However, in reality this number is random. Thus any mathematical treatment of life insurance will have to rely more and more on prob ability theory. By sponsoring this monograph the Swiss Association of Actuaries wishes to support the "modern" probabilistic view oflife contingencies. We are fortu nate that Professor Gerber, an internationally renowned expert, has assumed the task of writing the monograph. We thank the Springer-Verlag and hope that this monograph will be the first in a successful series of actuarial texts. Hans Bühlmann Zürich, March 1986 President Swiss Association of Actuaries Preface Two major developments have influenced the environment of actuarial math ematics. One is the arrival of powerful and affordable computers; the once important problem of numerical calculation has become almost trivial in many instances.
Download or read book An Invitation to Statistics in Wasserstein Space written by Victor M. Panaretos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents the key aspects of statistics in Wasserstein spaces, i.e. statistics in the space of probability measures when endowed with the geometry of optimal transportation. Further to reviewing state-of-the-art aspects, it also provides an accessible introduction to the fundamentals of this current topic, as well as an overview that will serve as an invitation and catalyst for further research. Statistics in Wasserstein spaces represents an emerging topic in mathematical statistics, situated at the interface between functional data analysis (where the data are functions, thus lying in infinite dimensional Hilbert space) and non-Euclidean statistics (where the data satisfy nonlinear constraints, thus lying on non-Euclidean manifolds). The Wasserstein space provides the natural mathematical formalism to describe data collections that are best modeled as random measures on Euclidean space (e.g. images and point processes). Such random measures carry the infinite dimensional traits of functional data, but are intrinsically nonlinear due to positivity and integrability restrictions. Indeed, their dominating statistical variation arises through random deformations of an underlying template, a theme that is pursued in depth in this monograph.
Download or read book Culture urban future written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report presents a series of analyses and recommendations for fostering the role of culture for sustainable development. Drawing on a global survey implemented with nine regional partners and insights from scholars, NGOs and urban thinkers, the report offers a global overview of urban heritage safeguarding, conservation and management, as well as the promotion of cultural and creative industries, highlighting their role as resources for sustainable urban development. Report is intended as a policy framework document to support governments in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Urban Development and the New Urban Agenda.
Download or read book The Future of the Mind written by Michio Kaku and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michio Kaku, the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the Future tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain. The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality. This scientific tour de force unveils the astonishing research being done in top laboratories around the world—all based on the latest advancements in neuroscience and physics—including recent experiments in telepathy, mind control, avatars, telekinesis, and recording memories and dreams. The Future of the Mind is an extraordinary, mind-boggling exploration of the frontiers of neuroscience. Dr. Kaku looks toward the day when we may achieve the ability to upload the human brain to a computer, neuron for neuron; project thoughts and emotions around the world on a brain-net; take a “smart pill” to enhance cognition; send our consciousness across the universe; and push the very limits of immortality.
Download or read book Semi Infinite Programming written by Rembert Reemtsen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semi-infinite programming (briefly: SIP) is an exciting part of mathematical programming. SIP problems include finitely many variables and, in contrast to finite optimization problems, infinitely many inequality constraints. Prob lems of this type naturally arise in approximation theory, optimal control, and at numerous engineering applications where the model contains at least one inequality constraint for each value of a parameter and the parameter, repre senting time, space, frequency etc., varies in a given domain. The treatment of such problems requires particular theoretical and numerical techniques. The theory in SIP as well as the number of numerical SIP methods and appli cations have expanded very fast during the last years. Therefore, the main goal of this monograph is to provide a collection of tutorial and survey type articles which represent a substantial part of the contemporary body of knowledge in SIP. We are glad that leading researchers have contributed to this volume and that their articles are covering a wide range of important topics in this subject. It is our hope that both experienced students and scientists will be well advised to consult this volume. We got the idea for this volume when we were organizing the semi-infinite pro gramming workshop which was held in Cottbus, Germany, in September 1996.
Download or read book CIKM 13 written by CIKM 13 Conference Committee and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-27 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CIKM'13: 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Oct 27, 2013-Nov 01, 2013 San Francisco, USA. You can view more information about this proceeding and all of ACM�s other published conference proceedings from the ACM Digital Library: http://www.acm.org/dl.
