A New Solution for Feature Recognition from 2D Engineering Drawing

The paper presents a promised way of feature recognition from 2D engineering drawing——developing special system and extracting features from machining drawings. In general, researchers inclined to extract features from design drawings and ignored machining drawings. Actually, both of machining and design information shows the same importance in developing new products. Not only can machining drawing provide us with feature model or 3D geometrical model of the part, but also they can be easily recognized. In the paper the processes and methods of feature recognition from three-cone-bit (A Kind of aiguilles used to drill oil well) machining drawings are introduced. Firstly, overall approach is explained. Secondly, two methods of form feature recognition are introduced: symbol-matching method used to analyze annularity or chained graph and method based on feature-hint used to recognize the general features. Thirdly, feature parameters are extracted. Finally, a practical implementation is given.

Automatic Narrow-Deep Feature Recognition for Mould Manufacturing

There usually exist narrow-long-deep areas in mould needed to be machined in special machining. To identify the narrow-deep areas automatically, an automatic narrow-deep feature （NF） recognition method is put forward accordingly. First, the narrow-deep feature is defined innovatively in this field and then feature hint is extracted from the mould by the characteristics of narrow-deep feature. Second, the elementary constituent faces （ECF） of a feature are found on the basis of the feature hint. By means of extending and clipping the ECF, the feature faces are obtained incrementally by geometric reasoning. As a result, basic narrow-deep features （BNF） related are combined heuristically. The proposed NF recognition method provides an intelligent connection between CAD and CAPP for machining narrow-deep areas in mould.

STEP-based Feature Recognition System for B-spline Surface Features

The geometrical and topological information of 3D computer aided design （CAD） models should be represented as a neut- ral format file to exchange the data between different CAD systems. Exchange of 3D CAD model data implies that the companies must exchange complete information about their products, all the way from design, manufacturing to inspection and shipping. This informa- tion should be available to each relevant partner over the entire life cycle of the product. This led to the development of an international standard organization （ISO） neutral format file named as standard for the exchange of product model data （STEP）. It has been ob- served from the literature, the feature recognition systems developed were identified as planar, cylindrical, conical and to some extent spherical and toroidal surfaces. The advanced surface features such as B-spline and its subtypes are not identified. Therefore, in this work, a STEP-based feature recognition system is developed to recognize t--spline surface features and its sub-types from the 3D CAD model represented in AP203 neutral file format. The developed feature recognition system is implemented in Java programming language and the product model data represented in STEP AP203 format is interpreted through Java standard data access interface （JSDAI）. The developed system could recognize B-spline surface features such as B-Spline surface with knots, quasi uniform surface, uniform surface, rational surface and Bezier surface. The application of extracted B-spline surface features information is discussed with reference to the toolpath generation for STEP-NC （STEP AP238）.

Underwater target feature recognition based on distribution of highlights

An algorithm for underwater target feature recognition is proposed using its highlights distribution.For an underwater target with large size and slender body,it is assumed that the heading course and the length of the target are both determined by the distribution of its highlights.By supposing that these highlights obey Gaussian mixture distribution,the feature recognition problem can be transformed into a clustering problem.Therefore,using the collinearly constrained expectation maximization algorithm,the clustering centers of these highlights can be calculated and then the estimation of the heading and length of the target can be obtained with high accuracy.The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated using simulations.

An image-tracking algorithm based on object center distance-weighting and image feature recognition

Areal-time image-tracking algorithm is proposed,which gives small weights to pixels farther from the object center and uses the quantized image gray scales as a template.It identifies the target’s location by the mean-shift iteration method and arrives at the target’s scale by using image feature recognition.It improves the kernel-based algorithm in tracking scale-changing targets.A decimation method is proposed to track large-sized targets and real-time experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Exact Recognition of Compound Features by Feature Adjacency Matrix Elimination Algorithm

Aiming at the axiom of design for manufacture (DFM), this paper describes a recognition method for abstracting compound features from a part model and discloses the basic mechanism of compounding, also builds the corresponding 2D-simulation model. The inner association between feature neighboring and feature compounding is deeply discussed and, based on the essential transforming rule of two neighboring features, the corresponding feature adjacency matrix (FAM) of multi - feature entities are generated. For the manufacturing feature converted from the pure design feature; an innovative concept-homogenous compounding is presented to clarify the architecture of machining domain. Then, the FAM recurrence elimination algorithm is developed to determine all the compound features, and according to machining sequence, outputs a group of machining domains.

REVERSE MODELING FOR CONIC BLENDING FEATURE

A novel method to extract conic blending feature in reverse engineering is presented. Different from the methods to recover constant and variable radius blends from unorganized points, it contains not only novel segmentation and feature recognition techniques, but also bias corrected technique to capture more reliable distribution of feature parameters along the spine curve. The segmentation depending on point classification separates the points in the conic blend region from the input point cloud. The available feature parameters of the cross-sectional curves are extracted with the processes of slicing point clouds with planes, conic curve fitting, and parameters estimation and compensation, The extracted parameters and its distribution laws are refined according to statistic theory such as regression analysis and hypothesis test. The proposed method can accurately capture the original design intentions and conveniently guide the reverse modeling process. Application examples are presented to verify the high precision and stability of the proposed method.

Automatic Satisfaction Analysis in Call Centers Considering Global Features of Emotion and Duration

Analysis of customers＇ satisfaction provides a guarantee to improve the service quality in call centers.In this paper,a novel satisfaction recognition framework is introduced to analyze the customers＇ satisfaction.In natural conversations,the interaction between a customer and its agent take place more than once.One of the difficulties insatisfaction analysis at call centers is that not all conversation turns exhibit customer satisfaction or dissatisfaction. To solve this problem,an intelligent system is proposed that utilizes acoustic features to recognize customers＇ emotion and utilizes the global features of emotion and duration to analyze the satisfaction. Experiments on real-call data show that the proposed system offers a significantly higher accuracy in analyzing the satisfaction than the baseline system. The average F value is improved to 0. 701 from 0. 664.

Cross-task emotion recognition using EEG measures: first step towards practical application

Electroencephalographic(EEG)-based emotion recognition has received increasing attention in the field of human-computer interaction(HCI)recently,there however remains a number of challenges in building a generalized emotion recognition model,one of which includes the difficulty of an EEG-based emotion classifier trained on a specific task to handle other tasks.Lit-tle attention has been paid to this issue.The current study is to determine the feasibility of coping with this challenge using feature selection.12 healthy volunteers were emotionally elicited when conducting picture induced and videoinduced tasks.Firstly,support vector machine(SVM)classifier was examined under within-task conditions(trained and tested on the same task)and cross-task conditions(trained on one task and tested on another task)for pictureinduced and videoinduced tasks.The within-task classification performed fairly well(classification accuracy:51.6%for picture task and 94.4%for video task).Cross-task classification,however,deteriorated to low levels(around 44%).Trained and tested with the most robust feature subset selected by SVM-recursive feature elimination(RFE),the performance of cross-task classifier was significantly improved to above 68%.These results suggest that cross-task emotion recognition is feasible with proper methods and bring EEG-based emotion recognition models closer to being able to discriminate emotion states for any tasks.

A New Effective Method for Ship Target Recognition

In this paper, the problem of reliable automatic target recognition from incoherent radar returns is discussed and a new method for ship target recognition is proposed. Based on this method, an experimental system for ship target recognition is implemented. The results obtained from the theoretical and experimental study indicate that a high reliability of recognition can be achieved by using the designed recognition system. An average success rate of more than 90% is reached for 8 classes of ships.

Detecting Iris Liveness with Batch Normalized Convolutional Neural Network

Aim to countermeasure the presentation attack for iris recognition system,an iris liveness detection scheme based on batch normalized convolutional neural network(BNCNN)is proposed to improve the reliability of the iris authentication system.The BNCNN architecture with eighteen layers is constructed to detect the genuine iris and fake iris,including convolutional layer,batch-normalized(BN)layer,Relu layer,pooling layer and full connected layer.The iris image is first preprocessed by iris segmentation and is normalized to 256×256 pixels,and then the iris features are extracted by BNCNN.With these features,the genuine iris and fake iris are determined by the decision-making layer.Batch normalization technique is used in BNCNN to avoid the problem of over fitting and gradient disappearing during training.Extensive experiments are conducted on three classical databases:the CASIA Iris Lamp database,the CASIA Iris Syn database and Ndcontact database.The results show that the proposed method can effectively extract micro texture features of the iris,and achieve higher detection accuracy compared with some typical iris liveness detection methods.

HISTORICAL PROCEDURES AND G-DSG METHOD BASED MANUFACTURING PLANNING

Oriented to CAD/CAM seamless integration, this paper presents an idea for synthetically considering the qualitative history model, which represents the whole course of modeling, and the quantitative geometry model, which contains the extended Brep model, CSG and feature pedigree. History model building captures in background the dynamic interactive definition of engineering requirement and then explicitly conveys the original intention to successive application layers, which is conductive to the decision support of manufacturing planning in not only automatic geometry re constructing but also machining set up. G DSG theory as an earlier achievement is applied to generate the topology independent generalized mid model as an input to manufacturing planning, which is therefore simplified and its accuracy is simultaneously improved. Manufacturing planning lays emphasis on optimizing the mapping in both geometry and function from part itself to detail machining scheme. Comparatively, process planning pays more attention to the mapping to those items like tool, fixture, etc. Theoretically, such an idea is also beneficial to realizing the parametric NC machining trajectory generation and maintaining its dynamic consistency with the update of the design model.[WT5”HZ]

Application of wavelet transform in feature extraction and pattern recognition of wideband echoes

A novel approach to extract edge features from wideband echo is proposed. The set of extracted features not only represents the echo waveform in a concise way, but also is sufficient and well suited for classification of non-stationary echo data from objects with different property.The feature extraction is derived from the Discrete Dyadic Wavlet Transform (DDWT) of the echo through the undecimated algorithm. The motivation we use the DDWT is that it is time-shift-invariant which is beneficial for localization of edge, and the wavelet coefficients at larger scale represent the main shape feature of echo, i.e. edge, and the noise and modulated high-frequency components are reduced with scale increased. Some experimental results using real data which contain 144 samples from 4 classes of lake bottoms with different sediments are provided. The results show that our approach is a prospective way to represent wideband echo for reliable recognition of nonstationary echo with great variability.

Two ways of propeller recognition feature extraction

The analysis of the radiated noise of vessels given in this paper shows some strong superposed line components in low frequency spectrum below 100Hz occurring at discrete frequencies which correspond with the rotation speed of propeller shaft, or propeller blade frequency, or their harmonic frequencies. Since the line components reflect propeller's working characteristics, the propller's features can be extracted directly from low-frequency line components in addition to demodulated line component. So there are two ways to extract the features, one is direct way, the other is demodulation way. Detection performance of the line component in background-noise is discussed in this paper. The signal level is defined as the difference between the PDF's (Probability Density Function) mean of the peak of the line component and PDF's mean of the background-noise. In direct way the signal level of the line component is proportional to the signal noise ratio (S / N). In demodulation way the signal level of demodulated line component reduces with S / N descent, but the signal level reduces slowly if S / N is high and very fast if S / N is low.

Movie Scene Recognition Using Panoramic Frame and Representative Feature Patches

Recognizing scene information in images or has attracted much attention in computer vision or videos, such as locating the objects and answering ＂Where am research field. Many existing scene recognition methods focus on static images, and cannot achieve satisfactory results on videos which contain more complex scenes features than images. In this paper, we propose a robust movie scene recognition approach based on panoramic frame and representative feature patch. More specifically, the movie is first efficiently segmented into video shots and scenes. Secondly, we introduce a novel key-frame extraction method using panoramic frame and also a local feature extraction process is applied to get the representative feature patches （RFPs） in each video shot. Thirdly, a Latent Dirichlet Allocation （LDA） based recognition model is trained to recognize the scene within each individual video scene clip. The correlations between video clips are considered to enhance the recognition performance. When our proposed approach is implemented to recognize the scene in realistic movies, the experimental results shows that it can achieve satisfactory performance.

Spatiotemporal emotion recognition based on 3D time-frequency domain feature matrix

The research of emotion recognition based on electroencephalogram(EEG)signals often ignores the related information between the brain electrode channels and the contextual emotional information existing in EEG signals,which may contain important characteristics related to emotional states.Aiming at the above defects,a spatiotemporal emotion recognition method based on a 3-dimensional(3 D)time-frequency domain feature matrix was proposed.Specifically,the extracted time-frequency domain EEG features are first expressed as a 3 D matrix format according to the actual position of the cerebral cortex.Then,the input 3 D matrix is processed successively by multivariate convolutional neural network(MVCNN)and long short-term memory(LSTM)to classify the emotional state.Spatiotemporal emotion recognition method is evaluated on the DEAP data set,and achieved accuracy of 87.58%and 88.50%on arousal and valence dimensions respectively in binary classification tasks,as well as obtained accuracy of 84.58%in four class classification tasks.The experimental results show that 3 D matrix representation can represent emotional information more reasonably than two-dimensional(2 D).In addition,MVCNN and LSTM can utilize the spatial information of the electrode channels and the temporal context information of the EEG signal respectively.

A New Algorithm for Feature Matching in Reverse Engineering

Feature recognition and surface reconstruction from point clouds are difficulties in reverse engineering. A new surface reconstruction algorithm for slicing point cloud was presented. The contours of slice were extracted. Then, the intersection of two adjacent curve segments in the contour was obtained and curves feature was extracted. Finally, adjacent section contours were matched directly with Fourier-Mellin curve matching method for feature extraction. An example of 3-D model reconstruction shows the reliability and application of the algorithm.

Design and Implementation of Prototype System for Online Handwritten Uyghur Character Recognition

Based on the analysis of the unique shapes and writing styles of Uyghur characters,we design a framework for prototype character recognition system and carry out a systematic theoretical and experimental research on its modules.In the preprocessing procedure,we use the linear and nonlinear normalization based on dot density method.Both structural and statistical features are extracted due to the fact that there are some very similar characters in Uyghur literature.In clustering analysis,we adopt the dynamic clustering algorithm based on the minimum spanning tree（MST）,and use the k-nearest neighbor matching classification as classifier.The testing results of prototype system show that the recognition rates for characters of the four different types（independent,suffix,intermediate,and initial type） are 74.67%,70.42%,63.33%,and 72.02%,respectively;the recognition rates for the case of five candidates for those characters are 94.34%,94.19%,93.15%,and 95.86%,respectively.The ideas and methods used in this paper have some commonality and usefulness for the recognition of other characters that belong to Altaic languages family.

Grayscale image statistics of COVID-19 patient CT scans characterize lung condition with machine and deep learning

Background:Grayscale image attributes of computed tomography(CT)of pulmonary scans contain valuable information relating to patients with respiratory ailments.These attributes are used to evaluate the severity of lung conditions of patients confirmed to be with and without COVID-19.Method:Five hundred thirteen CT images relating to 57 patients(49 with COVID-19;8 free of COVID-19)were collected at Namazi Medical Centre(Shiraz,Iran)in 2020 and 2021.Five visual scores(VS:0,1,2,3,or 4)are clinically assigned to these images with the score increasing with the severity of COVID-19-related lung conditions.Eleven deep learning and machine learning techniques(DL/ML)are used to distinguish the VS class based on 12 grayscale image attributes.Results:The convolutional neural network achieves 96.49%VS accuracy(18 errors from 513 images)successfully distinguishing VS Classes 0 and 1,outperforming clinicians’visual inspections.An algorithmic score(AS),involving just five grayscale image attributes,is developed independently of clinicians’assessments(99.81%AS accuracy;1 error from 513 images).Conclusion:Grayscale CT image attributes can be successfully used to distinguish the severity of COVID-19 lung damage.The AS technique developed provides a suitable basis for an automated system using ML/DL methods and 12 image attributes.