It is one of the major challenges for face recognition to minimize the disadvantage of il- lumination variations of face images in different scenarios. Local Binary Pattern (LBP) has been proved to be successful for f...It is one of the major challenges for face recognition to minimize the disadvantage of il- lumination variations of face images in different scenarios. Local Binary Pattern (LBP) has been proved to be successful for face recognition. However, it is still very rare to take LBP as an illumination preprocessing approach. In this paper, we propose a new LBP-based multi-scale illumination pre- processing method. This method mainly includes three aspects: threshold adjustment, multi-scale addition and symmetry restoration/neighborhood replacement. Our experiment results show that the proposed method performs better than the existing LBP-based methods at the point of illumination preprocessing. Moreover, compared with some face image preprocessing methods, such as histogram equalization, Gamma transformation, Retinex, and simplified LBP operator, our method can effectively improve the robustness for face recognition against illumination variation, and achieve higher recog- nition rate.展开更多
It is easy for teenagers to view pornographic pictures on social networks. Many researchers have studied the detection of real pornographic pictures, but there are few studies on those that are artificial. In this wor...It is easy for teenagers to view pornographic pictures on social networks. Many researchers have studied the detection of real pornographic pictures, but there are few studies on those that are artificial. In this work, we studied how to detect artificial pornographic pictures, especially when they are on social networks. The whole detection process can be divided into two stages: feature selection and picture detection. In the feature selection stage, seven types of features that favour picture detection were selected. In the picture detection stage, three steps were included. 1) In order to alleviate the imbalance in the number of artificial pornographic pictures and normal ones, the training dataset of artificial pornographic pictures was expanded. Therefore, the features which were extracted from the training dataset can also be expanded too. 2) In order to reduce the time of feature extraction, a fast method which extracted features based on the proportionally scaled picture rather than the original one was proposed. 3) Three tree models were compared and a gradient boost decision tree (GBDT) was selected for the final picture detection. Three sets of experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve better recognition precision and drastically reduce the time cost of the method.展开更多
A novel face recognition method, which is a fusion of muhi-modal face parts based on Gabor feature (MMP-GF), is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the bare face image detached from the normalized image was convolved w...A novel face recognition method, which is a fusion of muhi-modal face parts based on Gabor feature (MMP-GF), is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the bare face image detached from the normalized image was convolved with a family of Gabor kernels, and then according to the face structure and the key-points locations, the calculated Gabor images were divided into five parts: Gabor face, Gabor eyebrow, Gabor eye, Gabor nose and Gabor mouth. After that multi-modal Gabor features were spatially partitioned into non-overlapping regions and the averages of regions were concatenated to be a low dimension feature vector, whose dimension was further reduced by principal component analysis (PCA). In the decision level fusion, match results respectively calculated based on the five parts were combined according to linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and a normalized matching algorithm was used to improve the performance. Experiments on FERET database show that the proposed MMP-GF method achieves good robustness to the expression and age variations.展开更多
The successful face recognition based on local binary pattern(LBP)relies on the effective extraction of LBP features and the inferring of similarity between the extracted features.In this paper,we focus on the latter ...The successful face recognition based on local binary pattern(LBP)relies on the effective extraction of LBP features and the inferring of similarity between the extracted features.In this paper,we focus on the latter and propose two novel similarity measures for the local matching methods and the holistic matching methods respectively.One is Earth Mover's Distance with Hamming and Lp ground distance(EMD-HammingLp),which is a cross-bin dissimilarity measure for LBP histograms.The other is IMage Hamming Distance(IMHD),which is a dissimilarity measure for the whole LBP images.Experiments on FERET database show that the proposed two similarity measures outperform the state-of-the-art Chi-square similarity measure for extraction of LBP features.展开更多
Bifunctional RNAs that possess both protein-coding and noncoding functional properties were less explored and poorly understood. Here we systematically explored the characteristics and functions of such human bifuncti...Bifunctional RNAs that possess both protein-coding and noncoding functional properties were less explored and poorly understood. Here we systematically explored the characteristics and functions of such human bifunctional RNAs by integrating tandem mass spectrometry and RNA-seq data. We first constructed a pipeline to identify and annotate bifunctional RNAs,leading to the characterization of 132 high-confidence bifunctional RNAs. Our analyses indicate that bifunctional RNAs may be involved in human embryonic development and can be functional in diverse tissues. Moreover, bifunctional RNAs could interact with multiple miRNAs and RNA-binding proteins to exert their corresponding roles. Bifunctional RNAs may also function as competing endogenous RNAs to regulate the expression of many genes by competing for common targeting miRNAs. Finally,somatic mutations of diverse carcinomas may generate harmful effect on corresponding bifunctional RNAs. Collectively,our study not only provides the pipeline for identifying and annotating bifunctional RNAs but also reveals their important gene-regulatory functions.展开更多
文摘It is one of the major challenges for face recognition to minimize the disadvantage of il- lumination variations of face images in different scenarios. Local Binary Pattern (LBP) has been proved to be successful for face recognition. However, it is still very rare to take LBP as an illumination preprocessing approach. In this paper, we propose a new LBP-based multi-scale illumination pre- processing method. This method mainly includes three aspects: threshold adjustment, multi-scale addition and symmetry restoration/neighborhood replacement. Our experiment results show that the proposed method performs better than the existing LBP-based methods at the point of illumination preprocessing. Moreover, compared with some face image preprocessing methods, such as histogram equalization, Gamma transformation, Retinex, and simplified LBP operator, our method can effectively improve the robustness for face recognition against illumination variation, and achieve higher recog- nition rate.
基金Projects(61573380,61303185) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProjects(2016M592450,2017M612585) supported by the China Postdoctoral Science FoundationProjects(2016JJ4119,2017JJ3416) supported by the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘It is easy for teenagers to view pornographic pictures on social networks. Many researchers have studied the detection of real pornographic pictures, but there are few studies on those that are artificial. In this work, we studied how to detect artificial pornographic pictures, especially when they are on social networks. The whole detection process can be divided into two stages: feature selection and picture detection. In the feature selection stage, seven types of features that favour picture detection were selected. In the picture detection stage, three steps were included. 1) In order to alleviate the imbalance in the number of artificial pornographic pictures and normal ones, the training dataset of artificial pornographic pictures was expanded. Therefore, the features which were extracted from the training dataset can also be expanded too. 2) In order to reduce the time of feature extraction, a fast method which extracted features based on the proportionally scaled picture rather than the original one was proposed. 3) Three tree models were compared and a gradient boost decision tree (GBDT) was selected for the final picture detection. Three sets of experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve better recognition precision and drastically reduce the time cost of the method.
基金Supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program (No. 2006BAK08B07)
文摘A novel face recognition method, which is a fusion of muhi-modal face parts based on Gabor feature (MMP-GF), is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the bare face image detached from the normalized image was convolved with a family of Gabor kernels, and then according to the face structure and the key-points locations, the calculated Gabor images were divided into five parts: Gabor face, Gabor eyebrow, Gabor eye, Gabor nose and Gabor mouth. After that multi-modal Gabor features were spatially partitioned into non-overlapping regions and the averages of regions were concatenated to be a low dimension feature vector, whose dimension was further reduced by principal component analysis (PCA). In the decision level fusion, match results respectively calculated based on the five parts were combined according to linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and a normalized matching algorithm was used to improve the performance. Experiments on FERET database show that the proposed MMP-GF method achieves good robustness to the expression and age variations.
文摘The successful face recognition based on local binary pattern(LBP)relies on the effective extraction of LBP features and the inferring of similarity between the extracted features.In this paper,we focus on the latter and propose two novel similarity measures for the local matching methods and the holistic matching methods respectively.One is Earth Mover's Distance with Hamming and Lp ground distance(EMD-HammingLp),which is a cross-bin dissimilarity measure for LBP histograms.The other is IMage Hamming Distance(IMHD),which is a dissimilarity measure for the whole LBP images.Experiments on FERET database show that the proposed two similarity measures outperform the state-of-the-art Chi-square similarity measure for extraction of LBP features.
基金supported in part by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(2015AA020104,2015AA020108)the China Human Proteomics Project(2014DF30030)the National Science Foundation of China(31471239)
文摘Bifunctional RNAs that possess both protein-coding and noncoding functional properties were less explored and poorly understood. Here we systematically explored the characteristics and functions of such human bifunctional RNAs by integrating tandem mass spectrometry and RNA-seq data. We first constructed a pipeline to identify and annotate bifunctional RNAs,leading to the characterization of 132 high-confidence bifunctional RNAs. Our analyses indicate that bifunctional RNAs may be involved in human embryonic development and can be functional in diverse tissues. Moreover, bifunctional RNAs could interact with multiple miRNAs and RNA-binding proteins to exert their corresponding roles. Bifunctional RNAs may also function as competing endogenous RNAs to regulate the expression of many genes by competing for common targeting miRNAs. Finally,somatic mutations of diverse carcinomas may generate harmful effect on corresponding bifunctional RNAs. Collectively,our study not only provides the pipeline for identifying and annotating bifunctional RNAs but also reveals their important gene-regulatory functions.