In the shape analysis community,decomposing a 3D shape intomeaningful parts has become a topic of interest.3D model segmentation is largely used in tasks such as shape deformation,shape partial matching,skeleton extra...In the shape analysis community,decomposing a 3D shape intomeaningful parts has become a topic of interest.3D model segmentation is largely used in tasks such as shape deformation,shape partial matching,skeleton extraction,shape correspondence,shape annotation and texture mapping.Numerous approaches have attempted to provide better segmentation solutions;however,the majority of the previous techniques used handcrafted features,which are usually focused on a particular attribute of 3Dobjects and so are difficult to generalize.In this paper,we propose a three-stage approach for using Multi-view recurrent neural network to automatically segment a 3D shape into visually meaningful sub-meshes.The first stage involves normalizing and scaling a 3D model to fit within the unit sphere and rendering the object into different views.Contrasting viewpoints,on the other hand,might not have been associated,and a 3D region could correlate into totally distinct outcomes depending on the viewpoint.To address this,we ran each view through(shared weights)CNN and Bolster block in order to create a probability boundary map.The Bolster block simulates the area relationships between different views,which helps to improve and refine the data.In stage two,the feature maps generated in the previous step are correlated using a Recurrent Neural network to obtain compatible fine detail responses for each view.Finally,a layer that is fully connected is used to return coherent edges,which are then back project to 3D objects to produce the final segmentation.Experiments on the Princeton Segmentation Benchmark dataset show that our proposed method is effective for mesh segmentation tasks.展开更多
As 3D acquisition technology develops and 3D sensors become increasingly affordable,large quantities of 3D point cloud data are emerging.How to effectively learn and extract the geometric features from these point clo...As 3D acquisition technology develops and 3D sensors become increasingly affordable,large quantities of 3D point cloud data are emerging.How to effectively learn and extract the geometric features from these point clouds has become an urgent problem to be solved.The point cloud geometric information is hidden in disordered,unstructured points,making point cloud analysis a very challenging problem.To address this problem,we propose a novel network framework,called Tree Graph Network(TGNet),which can sample,group,and aggregate local geometric features.Specifically,we construct a Tree Graph by explicit rules,which consists of curves extending in all directions in point cloud feature space,and then aggregate the features of the graph through a cross-attention mechanism.In this way,we incorporate more point cloud geometric structure information into the representation of local geometric features,which makes our network perform better.Our model performs well on several basic point clouds processing tasks such as classification,segmentation,and normal estimation,demonstrating the effectiveness and superiority of our network.Furthermore,we provide ablation experiments and visualizations to better understand our network.展开更多
Liver cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide.Early tumor detection may help identify suitable treatment and increase the survival rate.Medical imaging is a non-invasive tool that can help uncover...Liver cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide.Early tumor detection may help identify suitable treatment and increase the survival rate.Medical imaging is a non-invasive tool that can help uncover abnormalities in human organs.Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI),in particular,uses magnetic fields and radio waves to differentiate internal human organs tissue.However,the interpretation of medical images requires the subjective expertise of a radiologist and oncologist.Thus,building an automated diagnosis computer-based system can help specialists reduce incorrect diagnoses.This paper proposes a hybrid automated system to compare the performance of 3D features and 2D features in classifying magnetic resonance liver tumor images.This paper proposed two models;the first one employed the 3D features while the second exploited the 2D features.The first system uses 3D texture attributes,3D shape features,and 3D graphical deep descriptors beside an ensemble classifier to differentiate between four 3D tumor categories.On top of that,the proposed method is applied to 2D slices for comparison purposes.The proposed approach attained 100%accuracy in discriminating between all types of tumors,100%Area Under the Curve(AUC),100%sensitivity,and 100%specificity and precision as well in 3D liver tumors.On the other hand,the performance is lower in 2D classification.The maximum accuracy reached 96.4%for two classes and 92.1%for four classes.The top-class performance of the proposed system can be attributed to the exploitation of various types of feature selection methods besides utilizing the ReliefF features selection technique to choose the most relevant features associated with different classes.The novelty of this work appeared in building a highly accurate system under specific circumstances without any processing for the images and human input,besides comparing the performance between 2D and 3D classification.In the future,the presented work can be extended to be used in the huge dataset.Then,it can be a reliable,efficient Computer Aided Diagnosis(CAD)system employed in hospitals in rural areas.展开更多
目的:比较使用口内扫描法和传统硅橡胶法制取种植磨牙单冠的临床修复效果评价。方法:选择62例患者(共86颗后牙),随机分为试验组和对照组,每组43颗牙(其中前磨牙13颗,磨牙30颗)。临床分别采用硅橡胶法和口内扫描法制取印模,制作氧化锆全...目的:比较使用口内扫描法和传统硅橡胶法制取种植磨牙单冠的临床修复效果评价。方法:选择62例患者(共86颗后牙),随机分为试验组和对照组,每组43颗牙(其中前磨牙13颗,磨牙30颗)。临床分别采用硅橡胶法和口内扫描法制取印模,制作氧化锆全瓷修复体,于治疗后2周复诊,采用VAS评分量表及改良的美国公共卫生总署(United states public health service,USPHS)评价系统对修复效果及舒适度进行评价。结果:口内扫描法组的患者满意度更高,舒适度更好,两组USPHS评分中除口内扫描组修复体的边缘适合性A级比例比对照组高外,其余指标的A级比例差异无统计学意义(P>0.05)。结论:口内扫描技术应用在种植磨牙单冠的印模制作中,修复效果良好、精度高外,患者满意度高,值得临床推广应用。展开更多
Hand gesture recognition is a popular topic in computer vision and makes human-computer interaction more flexible and convenient.The representation of hand gestures is critical for recognition.In this paper,we propose...Hand gesture recognition is a popular topic in computer vision and makes human-computer interaction more flexible and convenient.The representation of hand gestures is critical for recognition.In this paper,we propose a new method to measure the similarity between hand gestures and exploit it for hand gesture recognition.The depth maps of hand gestures captured via the Kinect sensors are used in our method,where the 3D hand shapes can be segmented from the cluttered backgrounds.To extract the pattern of salient 3D shape features,we propose a new descriptor-3D Shape Context,for 3D hand gesture representation.The 3D Shape Context information of each 3D point is obtained in multiple scales because both local shape context and global shape distribution are necessary for recognition.The description of all the 3D points constructs the hand gesture representation,and hand gesture recognition is explored via dynamic time warping algorithm.Extensive experiments are conducted on multiple benchmark datasets.The experimental results verify that the proposed method is robust to noise,articulated variations,and rigid transformations.Our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in the comparisons of accuracy and efficiency.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61671397).
文摘In the shape analysis community,decomposing a 3D shape intomeaningful parts has become a topic of interest.3D model segmentation is largely used in tasks such as shape deformation,shape partial matching,skeleton extraction,shape correspondence,shape annotation and texture mapping.Numerous approaches have attempted to provide better segmentation solutions;however,the majority of the previous techniques used handcrafted features,which are usually focused on a particular attribute of 3Dobjects and so are difficult to generalize.In this paper,we propose a three-stage approach for using Multi-view recurrent neural network to automatically segment a 3D shape into visually meaningful sub-meshes.The first stage involves normalizing and scaling a 3D model to fit within the unit sphere and rendering the object into different views.Contrasting viewpoints,on the other hand,might not have been associated,and a 3D region could correlate into totally distinct outcomes depending on the viewpoint.To address this,we ran each view through(shared weights)CNN and Bolster block in order to create a probability boundary map.The Bolster block simulates the area relationships between different views,which helps to improve and refine the data.In stage two,the feature maps generated in the previous step are correlated using a Recurrent Neural network to obtain compatible fine detail responses for each view.Finally,a layer that is fully connected is used to return coherent edges,which are then back project to 3D objects to produce the final segmentation.Experiments on the Princeton Segmentation Benchmark dataset show that our proposed method is effective for mesh segmentation tasks.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.91948203,52075532).
文摘As 3D acquisition technology develops and 3D sensors become increasingly affordable,large quantities of 3D point cloud data are emerging.How to effectively learn and extract the geometric features from these point clouds has become an urgent problem to be solved.The point cloud geometric information is hidden in disordered,unstructured points,making point cloud analysis a very challenging problem.To address this problem,we propose a novel network framework,called Tree Graph Network(TGNet),which can sample,group,and aggregate local geometric features.Specifically,we construct a Tree Graph by explicit rules,which consists of curves extending in all directions in point cloud feature space,and then aggregate the features of the graph through a cross-attention mechanism.In this way,we incorporate more point cloud geometric structure information into the representation of local geometric features,which makes our network perform better.Our model performs well on several basic point clouds processing tasks such as classification,segmentation,and normal estimation,demonstrating the effectiveness and superiority of our network.Furthermore,we provide ablation experiments and visualizations to better understand our network.
文摘Liver cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide.Early tumor detection may help identify suitable treatment and increase the survival rate.Medical imaging is a non-invasive tool that can help uncover abnormalities in human organs.Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI),in particular,uses magnetic fields and radio waves to differentiate internal human organs tissue.However,the interpretation of medical images requires the subjective expertise of a radiologist and oncologist.Thus,building an automated diagnosis computer-based system can help specialists reduce incorrect diagnoses.This paper proposes a hybrid automated system to compare the performance of 3D features and 2D features in classifying magnetic resonance liver tumor images.This paper proposed two models;the first one employed the 3D features while the second exploited the 2D features.The first system uses 3D texture attributes,3D shape features,and 3D graphical deep descriptors beside an ensemble classifier to differentiate between four 3D tumor categories.On top of that,the proposed method is applied to 2D slices for comparison purposes.The proposed approach attained 100%accuracy in discriminating between all types of tumors,100%Area Under the Curve(AUC),100%sensitivity,and 100%specificity and precision as well in 3D liver tumors.On the other hand,the performance is lower in 2D classification.The maximum accuracy reached 96.4%for two classes and 92.1%for four classes.The top-class performance of the proposed system can be attributed to the exploitation of various types of feature selection methods besides utilizing the ReliefF features selection technique to choose the most relevant features associated with different classes.The novelty of this work appeared in building a highly accurate system under specific circumstances without any processing for the images and human input,besides comparing the performance between 2D and 3D classification.In the future,the presented work can be extended to be used in the huge dataset.Then,it can be a reliable,efficient Computer Aided Diagnosis(CAD)system employed in hospitals in rural areas.
文摘目的:比较使用口内扫描法和传统硅橡胶法制取种植磨牙单冠的临床修复效果评价。方法:选择62例患者(共86颗后牙),随机分为试验组和对照组,每组43颗牙(其中前磨牙13颗,磨牙30颗)。临床分别采用硅橡胶法和口内扫描法制取印模,制作氧化锆全瓷修复体,于治疗后2周复诊,采用VAS评分量表及改良的美国公共卫生总署(United states public health service,USPHS)评价系统对修复效果及舒适度进行评价。结果:口内扫描法组的患者满意度更高,舒适度更好,两组USPHS评分中除口内扫描组修复体的边缘适合性A级比例比对照组高外,其余指标的A级比例差异无统计学意义(P>0.05)。结论:口内扫描技术应用在种植磨牙单冠的印模制作中,修复效果良好、精度高外,患者满意度高,值得临床推广应用。
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61773272,61976191)the Six Talent Peaks Project of Jiangsu Province,China(XYDXX-053)Suzhou Research Project of Technical Innovation,Jiangsu,China(SYG201711)。
文摘Hand gesture recognition is a popular topic in computer vision and makes human-computer interaction more flexible and convenient.The representation of hand gestures is critical for recognition.In this paper,we propose a new method to measure the similarity between hand gestures and exploit it for hand gesture recognition.The depth maps of hand gestures captured via the Kinect sensors are used in our method,where the 3D hand shapes can be segmented from the cluttered backgrounds.To extract the pattern of salient 3D shape features,we propose a new descriptor-3D Shape Context,for 3D hand gesture representation.The 3D Shape Context information of each 3D point is obtained in multiple scales because both local shape context and global shape distribution are necessary for recognition.The description of all the 3D points constructs the hand gesture representation,and hand gesture recognition is explored via dynamic time warping algorithm.Extensive experiments are conducted on multiple benchmark datasets.The experimental results verify that the proposed method is robust to noise,articulated variations,and rigid transformations.Our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in the comparisons of accuracy and efficiency.
