Relationships between Terrain Features and Forecasting Errors of Surface Wind Speeds in a Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction Model

Numerical weather prediction(NWP)models have always presented large forecasting errors of surface wind speeds over regions with complex terrain.In this study,surface wind forecasts from an operational NWP model,the SMS-WARR(Shanghai Meteorological Service-WRF ADAS Rapid Refresh System),are analyzed to quantitatively reveal the relationships between the forecasted surface wind speed errors and terrain features,with the intent of providing clues to better apply the NWP model to complex terrain regions.The terrain features are described by three parameters:the standard deviation of the model grid-scale orography,terrain height error of the model,and slope angle.The results show that the forecast bias has a unimodal distribution with a change in the standard deviation of orography.The minimum ME(the mean value of bias)is 1.2 m s^(-1) when the standard deviation is between 60 and 70 m.A positive correlation exists between bias and terrain height error,with the ME increasing by 10%−30%for every 200 m increase in terrain height error.The ME decreases by 65.6%when slope angle increases from(0.5°−1.5°)to larger than 3.5°for uphill winds but increases by 35.4%when the absolute value of slope angle increases from(0.5°−1.5°)to(2.5°−3.5°)for downhill winds.Several sensitivity experiments are carried out with a model output statistical(MOS)calibration model for surface wind speeds and ME(RMSE)has been reduced by 90%(30%)by introducing terrain parameters,demonstrating the value of this study.

基于IB-SURF算法的无人机图像拼接技术研究

针对传统SURF算法(speeded up robust features)在拼接高分辨率无人机航拍图像时运行速度慢、特征匹配率低的特点,提出了一种基于IB-SURF(image block-SURF)技术的无人机图像拼接算法。结合无人机定位定姿系统(position and orientation system,POS)求取图像重叠区域;构造掩模在无人机图像重叠区域检测特征点,减少特征提取时间;借助图像分块(image block,IB)的思想对图像划分网格,精简筛选特征点;引入Neighborhood-KNN(neighborhood-K nearest neighbors)进行特征点匹配,提高图像匹配效率。实验结果表明,IB-SURF算法有较快的运行速度和较高的特征匹配率,平均特征匹配率达到84.3%,特征匹配正确率超过95.1%,为图像高质量拼接提供了技术基础。

Study of Dynamic Features of Surface Plasma in High-Power Disk Laser Welding

High-speed photography was used to obtain the dynamic changes in the surface plasma during a high-power disk laser welding process. A color space clustering algorithm to extract the edge information of the surface plasma region was developed in order to improve the accuracy of image processing. With a comparative analysis of the plasma features, i.e., area and height, and the characteristics of the welded seam, the relationship between the surface plasma and the stability of the laser welding process was characterized, which provides a basic understanding for the real-time monitoring of laser welding.

基于SURF的遥感图像配准优化算法

针对遥感图像配准中易出现的信息量巨大和误匹配问题,通过改进SURF算法,提出了一种用于遥感图像配准的优化算法。优化算法引入特征点图像熵,通过去除携带信息量不足的误选取特征点,提高了特征点选取以及后续特征点匹配的准确性。在特征点描述阶段,算法实现了描述子降维,并将降维后的特征点描述子与FLANN算法相结合,降低了算法特征点误匹配率,同时减少了因描述子降维而带来的影响。实验表明,该优化算法相较于传统SURF算法,待配准图像特征点选取率下降10.9%,特征点误匹配率下降17.5%,并得到精确的遥感图像配准效果。

基于改进的SURF算法的机械臂识别定位及抓取研究

针对采用传统SURF算法对机械臂工作区域内的目标进行识别时出现的运行速度较慢、匹配准确度较低等问题,提出一种基于改进的SURF算法的机械臂识别定位及抓取方法。首先,利用传统SURF算法提取目标的尺度不变性特征点;随后,通过rBRIEF描述子与低方差过滤分别对提取特征实施描述及降维,再进行基于Hamming距离的2-NN特征点交叉匹配,并采用RANSAC算法剔除错误匹配对;最后,结合双目立体视觉三维重建获取目标的空间三维坐标,并将机械臂逆运动学求解得到的各个关节驱动角输入控制系统,驱使舵机带动机械臂末端执行器完成对目标的抓取作业。实验结果表明,采用改进的SURF算法,较SIFT、传统SURF算法提高了目标特征点的识别速度与匹配准确度,有效提升了机械臂抓取的实时性及精准性。

基于改进SURF的增强现实图像匹配方法

针对传统增强现实图像匹配算法鲁棒性不强且效率不高的问题,提出一种改进的SURF匹配算法。首先,使用SURF算法进行特征点检测,并通过Haar小波模板确定特征主方向,在得到特征主方向后构建特征描述符;由于传统SURF算法采用高达64维的矩形描述符,导致算法的计算量非常大,并且鲁棒性不强。因此,该文使用DAISY圆形描述符替代原始算法中的矩形描述符,DAISY是三层同心圆结构,每层包含8个采样点,可以得到25个维度的描述符,这种结构使得算法的鲁棒性大大增强并且降低了计算复杂度;接着,使用特征描述符计算欧氏距离进行特征点匹配;最后,对得到的匹配点集使用随机抽样一致(RANSAC)与三角不规则网络(TIN)算法进行优化,剔除误匹配点。实验结果表明,该算法虽然略微增加了时间复杂度,但鲁棒性变得更强,并且算法的效率和匹配精度也大大提高,平均精度达到了95%以上。

基于SURF-OKG特征匹配的三维重建技术

为了解决结构光三维重建中传统立体匹配存在的特征点匹配错误、匹配缺失和匹配重复等问题,本文将SURF算法中高斯滤波改进为自适应中值滤波结合小波变换,并提出了一种基于OKG算法的二次特征匹配方法。该算法首先使用自适应中值滤波结合小波变换算法对图像进行平滑和降噪处理,再进行初步特征点提取和匹配,然后将构建的尺度空间划分成多个网格,在每个网格内使用FAST算法提取尺度空间特征点,使用ORB算子提取左右图像的特征点,用BRIEF描述子对其进行描述,采用K-D树最近邻搜索法限制特征点选取,通过GMS算法剔除误匹配点。最后,将本文SURF-OKG算法与传统特征匹配算法进行对比分析,并对阶梯块进行三维重建来验证本文算法的有效性。实验结果表明:SURF-OKG算法的正确匹配率为92.47%;对阶梯宽度为40 mm,精度为0.02 mm的阶梯块进行三维重建,实验测得阶梯宽度的误差均值为1.312 mm,最大误差值不超过1.72 mm,基本满足结构光三维重建系统的实验要求。

Revealing the Landform Types and Morphologic Features of Lunar Surface

A lunar geologic map at a scale of 1：5000000 was finished in the 1970s by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S U.S. Geological Survey. Department of the Interior, Till now, the landform classification system and lunar morphologic mapping have not been clarified. The work aims to put forward a new landform classification system and to obtain index and map in the Sheet H010. Some key morphologic features of lunar surface were compared with those of the Earth. This research is very important for whole lunar morphologic mapping and unraveling evolutionary progress.

Reconstructing NURBS Surface with Features

The method of reconstructing NURBS surface with features is proposed in this paper. Features including boundary curves and feature points are recognized from the scanned data. An initial surface is constructed with boundary curves. The desired NURBS is determined by modifying the initial surface to pass through feature points. Lagrange multiplier is used to find the solution. The error analysis is then done. Examples are given to verify the algorithm at last. The method can keep some features fixed and be widely used in CAD modeling.

Mineral Features of Surface Sediments and Analysis of Solid-State Mineral Resourcesin Southeastern China Sea

With the development of modern industry and the increase of human demand, it is increasingly important to prospect and exploit marine mineral resources. Based on the oceanic geological investigation references obtained from the regional geological surveying and mapping of China Sea (“Shantoufu, F 50” 1∶1 000 000) and on the data (“Marine Engineering Geological Investigation Project in the Pearl River Mouth basin in the South China Sea” 1∶200 000), the authors elaborate the grain size composition, mineral composition, mineral features and distribution pattern of the surface sediments in the sea at 114°-120°E and 20°-24°N. Moreover, the analysis of the regional solid state mineral resources in the coast of Fujian, Guangdong and the west of Taiwan, shows that the main resources include littoral/neritic placers, littoral/neritic sandy gravel and ferromanganese nodule (crust). In addition, the future focus should be on the placers and sandy gravels in this littoral area.

Epidemiological and clinical features,treatment status,and economic burden of traumatic spinal cord injury in China:a hospital-based retrospective study

Traumatic spinal cord injury is potentially catastrophic and can lead to permanent disability or even death.China has the largest population of patients with traumatic spinal cord injury.Previous studies of traumatic spinal cord injury in China have mostly been regional in scope;national-level studies have been rare.To the best of our knowledge,no national-level study of treatment status and economic burden has been performed.This retrospective study aimed to examine the epidemiological and clinical features,treatment status,and economic burden of traumatic spinal cord injury in China at the national level.We included 13,465 traumatic spinal cord injury patients who were injured between January 2013 and December 2018 and treated in 30 hospitals in 11 provinces/municipalities representing all geographical divisions of China.Patient epidemiological and clinical features,treatment status,and total and daily costs were recorded.Trends in the percentage of traumatic spinal cord injuries among all hospitalized patients and among patients hospitalized in the orthopedic department and cost of care were assessed by annual percentage change using the Joinpoint Regression Program.The percentage of traumatic spinal cord injuries among all hospitalized patients and among patients hospitalized in the orthopedic department did not significantly change overall(annual percentage change,-0.5%and 2.1%,respectively).A total of 10,053(74.7%)patients underwent surgery.Only 2.8%of patients who underwent surgery did so within 24 hours of injury.A total of 2005(14.9%)patients were treated with high-dose(≥500 mg)methylprednisolone sodium succinate/methylprednisolone(MPSS/MP);615(4.6%)received it within 8 hours.The total cost for acute traumatic spinal cord injury decreased over the study period(-4.7%),while daily cost did not significantly change(1.0%increase).Our findings indicate that public health initiatives should aim at improving hospitals’ability to complete early surgery within 24 hours,which is associated with improved sensorimotor recovery,increasing the awareness rate of clinical guidelines related to high-dose MPSS/MP to reduce the use of the treatment with insufficient evidence.

Psychometric Properties of Geometrical Texture Features for Tactile Roughness Sensation of Fabric Surfaces

The lack of understanding of the psychometric properties on the basic texture features forming tactile texture sense hinders the development of haptic rendering technology of textiles. The differential threshold and Weber fraction were investigated for a deep understanding of how surface texture features of fabrics affect the perceived roughness sensation by the constant stimulus method and the paired comparison method. The results showed that the differential threshold for the mean deviation of surface profile was0. 86 μm,and that the differential threshold of texture spatial period(TSP) was 2. 48 mm. And also,the difference thresholds and Weber fraction were affected by the reference stimulus intensity. As there is a significant interaction between four extracted texture feature indexes,any of the indexes alone cannot represent roughness sensation of fabrics.

A Study in Search of Interconnection between Surface Parameters and Surrounding Synoptic And Subsynoptic Features

The paper reveals that the variations in parameters like u *, the scaling velocity and θ*. The scaling temperature during the various phases of monsoon might be linked with subsynoptic features. The rise in u * is mainly connected with the presence of lower tropospheric cyclonic vorticity over a subsynoptic scale of the site. However the variations in θ. is mainly linked with the various phases of monsoon and θ * shows a sharp rise in presence of low level convective cloud.Besides the correlation studies of u and u., θv and θv, θv-θv0 and θv, * are undertaken. The correlation between θv and θv * is poor. In other two cases correlations are good. Besides u / u * has shown good coefficient of variation values within the ξ range.

基于伪Zernike矩与SURF特征的自适应水印算法

针对目前多数图像水印算法水印的嵌入区域固定不变带来的安全性问题,且水印的抗旋转攻击能力弱,提出一种基于伪Zernike矩和SURF的自适应水印算法。首先,利用SURF(Speed Up Robust Features)算法对图像进行特征提取,然后采用RANSAC(Random Sample Consensus)算法筛选出稳定的特征点,根据特征点位置构建合适的水印嵌入区域。最后,采用SWT变换和SVD分解将水印信息嵌入在构造区域内。利用伪Zernike矩估计旋转角度对图像进行旋转校正。实验结果表明,该水印算法可以有效地抵抗旋转攻击,水印的安全性得到提高。

Endoscopic features and treatments of gastric cystica profunda

BACKGROUND Gastric cystica profunda(GCP)represents a rare condition characterized by cystic dilation of gastric glands within the mucosal and/or submucosal layers.GCP is often linked to,or may progress into,early gastric cancer(EGC).AIM To provide a comprehensive evaluation of the endoscopic features of GCP while assessing the efficacy of endoscopic treatment,thereby offering guidance for diagnosis and treatment.METHODS This retrospective study involved 104 patients with GCP who underwent endoscopic resection.Alongside demographic and clinical data,regular patient followups were conducted to assess local recurrence.RESULTS Among the 104 patients diagnosed with GCP who underwent endoscopic resection,12.5%had a history of previous gastric procedures.The primary site predominantly affected was the cardia(38.5%,n=40).GCP commonly exhibited intraluminal growth(99%),regular presentation(74.0%),and ulcerative mucosa(61.5%).The leading endoscopic feature was the mucosal lesion type(59.6%,n=62).The average maximum diameter was 20.9±15.3 mm,with mucosal involvement in 60.6%(n=63).Procedures lasted 73.9±57.5 min,achieving complete resection in 91.3%(n=95).Recurrence(4.8%)was managed via either surgical intervention(n=1)or through endoscopic resection(n=4).Final pathology confirmed that 59.6%of GCP cases were associated with EGC.Univariate analysis indicated that elderly males were more susceptible to GCP associated with EGC.Conversely,multivariate analysis identified lesion morphology and endoscopic features as significant risk factors.Survival analysis demonstrated no statistically significant difference in recurrence between GCP with and without EGC(P=0.72).CONCLUSION The findings suggested that endoscopic resection might serve as an effective and minimally invasive treatment for GCP with or without EGC.

Gauss Gradient and SURF Features for Landmine Detection from GPR Images

Recently,ground-penetrating radar(GPR)has been extended as a well-known area to investigate the subsurface objects.However,its output has a low resolution,and it needs more processing for more interpretation.This paper presents two algorithms for landmine detection from GPR images.The first algorithm depends on a multi-scale technique.A Gaussian kernel with a particular scale is convolved with the image,and after that,two gradients are estimated;horizontal and vertical gradients.Then,histogram and cumulative histogram are estimated for the overall gradient image.The bin values on the cumulative histogram are used for discrimination between images with and without landmines.Moreover,a neural classifier is used to classify images with cumulative histograms as feature vectors.The second algorithm is based on scale-space analysis with the number of speeded-up robust feature(SURF)points as the key parameter for classification.In addition,this paper presents a framework for size reduction of GPR images based on decimation for efficient storage.The further classification steps can be performed on images after interpolation.The sensitivity of classification accuracy to the interpolation process is studied in detail.

Automatic Extraction Method of 3D Feature Guidelines for Complex Cultural Relic Surfaces Based on Point Cloud

Cultural relics line graphic serves as a crucial form of traditional artifact information documentation,which is a simple and intuitive product with low cost of displaying compared with 3D models.Dimensionality reduction is undoubtedly necessary for line drawings.However,most existing methods for artifact drawing rely on the principles of orthographic projection that always cannot avoid angle occlusion and data overlapping while the surface of cultural relics is complex.Therefore,conformal mapping was introduced as a dimensionality reduction way to compensate for the limitation of orthographic projection.Based on the given criteria for assessing surface complexity,this paper proposed a three-dimensional feature guideline extraction method for complex cultural relic surfaces.A 2D and 3D combined factor that measured the importance of points on describing surface features,vertex weight,was designed.Then the selection threshold for feature guideline extraction was determined based on the differences between vertex weight and shape index distributions.The feasibility and stability were verified through experiments conducted on real cultural relic surface data.Results demonstrated the ability of the method to address the challenges associated with the automatic generation of line drawings for complex surfaces.The extraction method and the obtained results will be useful for line graphic drawing,displaying and propaganda of cultural relics.

A Model for Detecting Fake News by Integrating Domain-Specific Emotional and Semantic Features

With the rapid spread of Internet information and the spread of fake news,the detection of fake news becomes more and more important.Traditional detection methods often rely on a single emotional or semantic feature to identify fake news,but these methods have limitations when dealing with news in specific domains.In order to solve the problem of weak feature correlation between data from different domains,a model for detecting fake news by integrating domain-specific emotional and semantic features is proposed.This method makes full use of the attention mechanism,grasps the correlation between different features,and effectively improves the effect of feature fusion.The algorithm first extracts the semantic features of news text through the Bi-LSTM(Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory)layer to capture the contextual relevance of news text.Senta-BiLSTM is then used to extract emotional features and predict the probability of positive and negative emotions in the text.It then uses domain features as an enhancement feature and attention mechanism to fully capture more fine-grained emotional features associated with that domain.Finally,the fusion features are taken as the input of the fake news detection classifier,combined with the multi-task representation of information,and the MLP and Softmax functions are used for classification.The experimental results show that on the Chinese dataset Weibo21,the F1 value of this model is 0.958,4.9% higher than that of the sub-optimal model;on the English dataset FakeNewsNet,the F1 value of the detection result of this model is 0.845,1.8% higher than that of the sub-optimal model,which is advanced and feasible.

Japanese Sign Language Recognition by Combining Joint Skeleton-Based Handcrafted and Pixel-Based Deep Learning Features with Machine Learning Classification

Sign language recognition is vital for enhancing communication accessibility among the Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities.In Japan,approximately 360,000 individualswith hearing and speech disabilities rely on Japanese Sign Language(JSL)for communication.However,existing JSL recognition systems have faced significant performance limitations due to inherent complexities.In response to these challenges,we present a novel JSL recognition system that employs a strategic fusion approach,combining joint skeleton-based handcrafted features and pixel-based deep learning features.Our system incorporates two distinct streams:the first stream extracts crucial handcrafted features,emphasizing the capture of hand and body movements within JSL gestures.Simultaneously,a deep learning-based transfer learning stream captures hierarchical representations of JSL gestures in the second stream.Then,we concatenated the critical information of the first stream and the hierarchy of the second stream features to produce the multiple levels of the fusion features,aiming to create a comprehensive representation of the JSL gestures.After reducing the dimensionality of the feature,a feature selection approach and a kernel-based support vector machine(SVM)were used for the classification.To assess the effectiveness of our approach,we conducted extensive experiments on our Lab JSL dataset and a publicly available Arabic sign language(ArSL)dataset.Our results unequivocally demonstrate that our fusion approach significantly enhances JSL recognition accuracy and robustness compared to individual feature sets or traditional recognition methods.

Constitution identification model in traditional Chinese medicine based on multiple features

Objective To construct a precise model for identifying traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)constitutions;thereby offering optimized guidance for clinical diagnosis and treatment plan-ning;and ultimately enhancing medical efficiency and treatment outcomes.Methods First;TCM full-body inspection data acquisition equipment was employed to col-lect full-body standing images of healthy people;from which the constitutions were labelled and defined in accordance with the Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire(CCMQ);and a dataset encompassing labelled constitutions was constructed.Second;heat-suppres-sion valve(HSV)color space and improved local binary patterns(LBP)algorithm were lever-aged for the extraction of features such as facial complexion and body shape.In addition;a dual-branch deep network was employed to collect deep features from the full-body standing images.Last;the random forest(RF)algorithm was utilized to learn the extracted multifea-tures;which were subsequently employed to establish a TCM constitution identification mod-el.Accuracy;precision;and F1 score were the three measures selected to assess the perfor-mance of the model.Results It was found that the accuracy;precision;and F1 score of the proposed model based on multifeatures for identifying TCM constitutions were 0.842;0.868;and 0.790;respectively.In comparison with the identification models that encompass a single feature;either a single facial complexion feature;a body shape feature;or deep features;the accuracy of the model that incorporating all the aforementioned features was elevated by 0.105;0.105;and 0.079;the precision increased by 0.164;0.164;and 0.211;and the F1 score rose by 0.071;0.071;and 0.084;respectively.Conclusion The research findings affirmed the viability of the proposed model;which incor-porated multifeatures;including the facial complexion feature;the body shape feature;and the deep feature.In addition;by employing the proposed model;the objectification and intel-ligence of identifying constitutions in TCM practices could be optimized.