If a somewhat fast moving object exists in a complicated tracking environment, snake's nodes may fall into the inaccurate local minima. We propose a mean shift snake algorithm to solve this problem. However, if th...If a somewhat fast moving object exists in a complicated tracking environment, snake's nodes may fall into the inaccurate local minima. We propose a mean shift snake algorithm to solve this problem. However, if the object goes beyond the limits of mean shift snake module operation in suc- cessive sequences, mean shift snake's nodes may also fall into the local minima in their moving to the new object position. This paper presents a motion compensation strategy by using particle filter; therefore a new Particle Filter Mean Shift Snake (PFMSS) algorithm is proposed which combines particle filter with mean shift snake to fulfill the estimation of the fast moving object contour. Firstly, the fast moving object is tracked by particle filter to create a coarse position which is used to initialize the mean shift algorithm. Secondly, the whole relevant motion information is used to compensate the snake's node positions. Finally, snake algorithm is used to extract the exact object contour and the useful information of the object is fed back. Some real world sequences are tested and the results show that the novel tracking method have a good performance with high accuracy in solving the fast moving problems in cluttered background.展开更多
A novel contour tracking method using weighted structure tensor based variational level set is proposed in this paper.The image is first converted to weighted structure tensor field by extracting apositive definite sy...A novel contour tracking method using weighted structure tensor based variational level set is proposed in this paper.The image is first converted to weighted structure tensor field by extracting apositive definite symmetric covariance matrix for each pixel.Then,a level set method is employed to represent object contour implicitly which separates the image domain into two areas each modeled by tensor field based Gaussian mixture model separately.By solving agradient flow equation of energy functional with respect to the level set,the object contour will converge to its real profile in the newly arrived frame.Experimental results on several video sequences demonstrate the better performance of our method than the other two contour tracking algorithms.展开更多
Traditional cartoons have been widely used in entertainment,education,and advertisement.Thus,a large amount of cartoon data is available.In this paper,we propose a new technique for capturing the motion of a character...Traditional cartoons have been widely used in entertainment,education,and advertisement.Thus,a large amount of cartoon data is available.In this paper,we propose a new technique for capturing the motion of a character in an existing cartoon sequence.This technique tracks the contours of the cartoon character in the sequence,and key frames are used to guide the tracking.We model contour tracking as a space-time optimization problem in which an energy function including both temporal and spatial constraints is defined.First,the user labels the contours of the character on the key frames.Then,the contours on the intermediate frames are tracked by minimizing the energy function.The user may need to interactively adjust the tracking result and restart the optimization process to refine the result.Finally,an edge snapping algorithm is applied to make the tracking result more precise.Experiments show that our technique works effectively.展开更多
The welding deviation detection is the basis of robotic tracking welding, but the on-line real-time measurement of welding deviation is still not well solved by the existing methods. There is plenty of information in ...The welding deviation detection is the basis of robotic tracking welding, but the on-line real-time measurement of welding deviation is still not well solved by the existing methods. There is plenty of information in the gas metal arc welding（GMAW） molten pool images that is very important for the control of welding seam tracking. The physical meaning for the curvature extremum of molten pool contour is revealed by researching the molten pool images, that is, the deviation information points of welding wire center and the molten tip center are the maxima and the local maxima of the contour curvature, and the horizontal welding deviation is the position difference of these two extremum points. A new method of weld deviation detection is presented, including the process of preprocessing molten pool images, extracting and segmenting the contours, obtaining the contour extremum points, and calculating the welding deviation, etc. Extracting the contours is the premise, segmenting the contour lines is the foundation, and obtaining the contour extremum points is the key. The contour images can be extracted with the method of discrete dyadic wavelet transform, which is divided into two sub contours including welding wire and molten tip separately. The curvature value of each point of the two sub contour lines is calculated based on the approximate curvature formula of multi-points for plane curve, and the two points of the curvature extremum are the characteristics needed for the welding deviation calculation. The results of the tests and analyses show that the maximum error of the obtained on-line welding deviation is 2 pixels（0.16 ram）, and the algorithm is stable enough to meet the requirements of the pipeline in real-time control at a speed of less than 500 mm/min. The method can be applied to the on-line automatic welding deviation detection.展开更多
Contour dynamics (CD) method for the motions of typhoon is presented in this paper. The effect of asymmetric inner structure on the typhoon'sanomalous track has been discussed in different environmental steering. ...Contour dynamics (CD) method for the motions of typhoon is presented in this paper. The effect of asymmetric inner structure on the typhoon'sanomalous track has been discussed in different environmental steering. Todemonstrate the feasibility of the method, the track of Typhoon Yancy(9012) isconcerned with. The numerical results show that the method can describe the tendency of looping qualitatively.展开更多
Moving objects tracking is one of the most used categories in the realm of machine vision that has attracted attention of so many researchers in recent decades. Video tracking has various applications in military indu...Moving objects tracking is one of the most used categories in the realm of machine vision that has attracted attention of so many researchers in recent decades. Video tracking has various applications in military industries, protective systems and machine vision. Target tracking algorithms vary according to their usages. In this paper, it has been attempted to discuss and analyze mobile target tracking techniques and algorithms in Marine.展开更多
In this research, we have concentrated on trajectory extraction based on image segmentation and data association in order to provide an economic and complete solution for rapid microfluidic cell migration experiments....In this research, we have concentrated on trajectory extraction based on image segmentation and data association in order to provide an economic and complete solution for rapid microfluidic cell migration experiments. We applied region scalable active contour model to segment the individual cells and then employed the ellipse fitting technique to process touching cells. Subsequently, we have also introduced a topology based technique to associate the cells between consecutive frames. This scheme achieves satisfactory segmentation and tracking results on the datasets acquired by our microfluidic platform.展开更多
The contour error was analyzed based on CNC multi-axis motion control, the contour error model was obtained focused on beeline and different radius of curvature and common contour of curve, for a CNC biaxial motion co...The contour error was analyzed based on CNC multi-axis motion control, the contour error model was obtained focused on beeline and different radius of curvature and common contour of curve, for a CNC biaxial motion control system and the mechanism of producing contour error and the relationship between tracking error and contour error were presented. The theoretical and practical significance of modeling error and controlling error in motion control systems was carried out.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60672094)
文摘If a somewhat fast moving object exists in a complicated tracking environment, snake's nodes may fall into the inaccurate local minima. We propose a mean shift snake algorithm to solve this problem. However, if the object goes beyond the limits of mean shift snake module operation in suc- cessive sequences, mean shift snake's nodes may also fall into the local minima in their moving to the new object position. This paper presents a motion compensation strategy by using particle filter; therefore a new Particle Filter Mean Shift Snake (PFMSS) algorithm is proposed which combines particle filter with mean shift snake to fulfill the estimation of the fast moving object contour. Firstly, the fast moving object is tracked by particle filter to create a coarse position which is used to initialize the mean shift algorithm. Secondly, the whole relevant motion information is used to compensate the snake's node positions. Finally, snake algorithm is used to extract the exact object contour and the useful information of the object is fed back. Some real world sequences are tested and the results show that the novel tracking method have a good performance with high accuracy in solving the fast moving problems in cluttered background.
基金Supported by the National High-Tech Research & Development Program of China(2009AA01Z323)
文摘A novel contour tracking method using weighted structure tensor based variational level set is proposed in this paper.The image is first converted to weighted structure tensor field by extracting apositive definite symmetric covariance matrix for each pixel.Then,a level set method is employed to represent object contour implicitly which separates the image domain into two areas each modeled by tensor field based Gaussian mixture model separately.By solving agradient flow equation of energy functional with respect to the level set,the object contour will converge to its real profile in the newly arrived frame.Experimental results on several video sequences demonstrate the better performance of our method than the other two contour tracking algorithms.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60903134)the National Key Technology R & D Program of China (No.2007BAH11B00)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (No.2009QNA5021)
文摘Traditional cartoons have been widely used in entertainment,education,and advertisement.Thus,a large amount of cartoon data is available.In this paper,we propose a new technique for capturing the motion of a character in an existing cartoon sequence.This technique tracks the contours of the cartoon character in the sequence,and key frames are used to guide the tracking.We model contour tracking as a space-time optimization problem in which an energy function including both temporal and spatial constraints is defined.First,the user labels the contours of the character on the key frames.Then,the contours on the intermediate frames are tracked by minimizing the energy function.The user may need to interactively adjust the tracking result and restart the optimization process to refine the result.Finally,an edge snapping algorithm is applied to make the tracking result more precise.Experiments show that our technique works effectively.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51275051,51505035)National Hi-tech Research and Development Program of China(863 Program,Grant No.2009AA04Z208)Beijing Education Commission Innovation Ability Upgrade Program of China(Grant No.TJSHG201510017023)
文摘The welding deviation detection is the basis of robotic tracking welding, but the on-line real-time measurement of welding deviation is still not well solved by the existing methods. There is plenty of information in the gas metal arc welding（GMAW） molten pool images that is very important for the control of welding seam tracking. The physical meaning for the curvature extremum of molten pool contour is revealed by researching the molten pool images, that is, the deviation information points of welding wire center and the molten tip center are the maxima and the local maxima of the contour curvature, and the horizontal welding deviation is the position difference of these two extremum points. A new method of weld deviation detection is presented, including the process of preprocessing molten pool images, extracting and segmenting the contours, obtaining the contour extremum points, and calculating the welding deviation, etc. Extracting the contours is the premise, segmenting the contour lines is the foundation, and obtaining the contour extremum points is the key. The contour images can be extracted with the method of discrete dyadic wavelet transform, which is divided into two sub contours including welding wire and molten tip separately. The curvature value of each point of the two sub contour lines is calculated based on the approximate curvature formula of multi-points for plane curve, and the two points of the curvature extremum are the characteristics needed for the welding deviation calculation. The results of the tests and analyses show that the maximum error of the obtained on-line welding deviation is 2 pixels（0.16 ram）, and the algorithm is stable enough to meet the requirements of the pipeline in real-time control at a speed of less than 500 mm/min. The method can be applied to the on-line automatic welding deviation detection.
文摘Contour dynamics (CD) method for the motions of typhoon is presented in this paper. The effect of asymmetric inner structure on the typhoon'sanomalous track has been discussed in different environmental steering. Todemonstrate the feasibility of the method, the track of Typhoon Yancy(9012) isconcerned with. The numerical results show that the method can describe the tendency of looping qualitatively.
文摘Moving objects tracking is one of the most used categories in the realm of machine vision that has attracted attention of so many researchers in recent decades. Video tracking has various applications in military industries, protective systems and machine vision. Target tracking algorithms vary according to their usages. In this paper, it has been attempted to discuss and analyze mobile target tracking techniques and algorithms in Marine.
文摘In this research, we have concentrated on trajectory extraction based on image segmentation and data association in order to provide an economic and complete solution for rapid microfluidic cell migration experiments. We applied region scalable active contour model to segment the individual cells and then employed the ellipse fitting technique to process touching cells. Subsequently, we have also introduced a topology based technique to associate the cells between consecutive frames. This scheme achieves satisfactory segmentation and tracking results on the datasets acquired by our microfluidic platform.
基金supported by the Science Foundation of the Education Office of Gansu Province of Chinaunder Grant No.0914-01
文摘The contour error was analyzed based on CNC multi-axis motion control, the contour error model was obtained focused on beeline and different radius of curvature and common contour of curve, for a CNC biaxial motion control system and the mechanism of producing contour error and the relationship between tracking error and contour error were presented. The theoretical and practical significance of modeling error and controlling error in motion control systems was carried out.
