Whisper intelligibility enhancement based on noise robust feature and SVM

A machine learning based speech enhancement method is proposed to improve the intelligibility of whispered speech. A binary mask estimated by a two-class support vector machine （SVM） classifier is used to synthesize the enhanced whisper. A novel noise robust feature called Gammatone feature cosine coefficients （GFCCs） extracted by an auditory periphery model is derived and used for the binary mask estimation. The intelligibility performance of the proposed method is evaluated and compared with the traditional speech enhancement methods. Objective and subjective evaluation results indicate that the proposed method can effectively improve the intelligibility of whispered speech which is contaminated by noise. Compared with the power subtract algorithm and the log-MMSE algorithm, both of which do not improve the intelligibility in lower signal-to-noise ratio （SNR） environments, the proposed method has good performance in improving the intelligibility of noisy whisper. Additionally, the intelligibility of the enhanced whispered speech using the proposed method also outperforms that of the corresponding unprocessed noisy whispered speech.

Robust Image Watermarking Using Local Invariant Features and Independent Component Analysis

This paper proposes a novel robust image watermarking scheme for digital images using local invariant features and Independent Component Analysis （ICA）. Most present watermarking algorithms are unable to resist geometric distortions that desynchronize the location. The method we propose here is robust to geometric attacks. In order to resist geometric distortions, we use a local invariant feature of the image called the scale invariant feature transform, which is invariant to translation and scaling distortions. The watermark is inserted into the circular patches generated by scale-invariant key point extractor. Rotation invariance is achieved using the translation property of the polar-mapped circular patches. Our method belongs to the blind watermark category, because we use Independent Component Analysis for detection that does not need the original image during detection. Experimental results show that our method is robust against geometric distortion attacks as well as signal-processing attacks.

Deep Facial Emotion Recognition Using Local Features Based on Facial Landmarks for Security System

Emotion recognition based on facial expressions is one of the most critical elements of human-machine interfaces.Most conventional methods for emotion recognition using facial expressions use the entire facial image to extract features and then recognize specific emotions through a pre-trained model.In contrast,this paper proposes a novel feature vector extraction method using the Euclidean distance between the landmarks changing their positions according to facial expressions,especially around the eyes,eyebrows,nose,andmouth.Then,we apply a newclassifier using an ensemble network to increase emotion recognition accuracy.The emotion recognition performance was compared with the conventional algorithms using public databases.The results indicated that the proposed method achieved higher accuracy than the traditional based on facial expressions for emotion recognition.In particular,our experiments with the FER2013 database show that our proposed method is robust to lighting conditions and backgrounds,with an average of 25% higher performance than previous studies.Consequently,the proposed method is expected to recognize facial expressions,especially fear and anger,to help prevent severe accidents by detecting security-related or dangerous actions in advance.

Hard exudates referral system in eye fundus utilizing speeded up robust features

In the paper a referral system to assist the medical experts in the screening/referral of diabetic retinopathy is suggested. The system has been developed by a sequential use of different existing mathematical techniques. These techniques involve speeded up robust features（SURF）, K-means clustering and visual dictionaries（VD）. Three databases are mixed to test the working of the system when the sources are dissimilar. When experiments were performed an area under the curve（AUC） of 0.9343 was attained. The results acquired from the system are promising.

Binocular Visual Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance of Mobile Robots Based on Speeded-Up Robust Features

This article presents a good robust and real-time system scheme of the mobile robot obstacle detection and navigation, which principle of work is based on the feature descriptor SURF. In this scheme, firstly, the image information of the mobile robot path was captured by the binocular camera; then the feature points were extracted and corresponding matched using SURF to the binocular images as the undetected obstacles; finally fixed the position of the objective by the parallax between the matching points combining with the binocular vision calibration model. Theoretical derivation and experimental results show that this scheme is more accurate for the detection and navigation of the interest points. It has fast matching speed and high accuracy and low error. So, it has certain practical effect and popularizing value for the mobile robot real-time obstacle avoidance and navigation.

Robustness Evaluation of Remote-Sensing Image Feature Detectors with TH Priori-Information Data Set

In this paper,we build a remote-sensing satellite imagery priori-information data set,and propose an approach to evaluate the robustness of remote-sensing image feature detectors.The building TH Priori-Information(TPI)data set with 2297 remote sensing images serves as a standardized high-resolution data set for studies related to remote-sensing image features.The TPI contains 1)raw and calibrated remote-sensing images with high spatial and temporal resolutions(up to 2 m and 7 days,respectively),and 2)a built-in 3-D target area model that supports view position,view angle,lighting,shadowing,and other transformations.Based on TPI,we further present a quantized approach,including the feature recurrence rate,the feature match score,and the weighted feature robustness score,to evaluate the robustness of remote-sensing image feature detectors.The quantized approach gives general and objective assessments of the robustness of feature detectors under complex remote-sensing circumstances.Three remote-sensing image feature detectors,including scale-invariant feature transform(SIFT),speeded up robust features(SURF),and priori information based robust features(PIRF),are evaluated using the proposed approach on the TPI data set.Experimental results show that the robustness of PIRF outperforms others by over 6.2%.

An Adaptive Padding Correlation Filter With Group Feature Fusion for Robust Visual Tracking

In recent visual tracking research,correlation filter(CF)based trackers become popular because of their high speed and considerable accuracy.Previous methods mainly work on the extension of features and the solution of the boundary effect to learn a better correlation filter.However,the related studies are insufficient.By exploring the potential of trackers in these two aspects,a novel adaptive padding correlation filter(APCF)with feature group fusion is proposed for robust visual tracking in this paper based on the popular context-aware tracking framework.In the tracker,three feature groups are fused by use of the weighted sum of the normalized response maps,to alleviate the risk of drift caused by the extreme change of single feature.Moreover,to improve the adaptive ability of padding for the filter training of different object shapes,the best padding is selected from the preset pool according to tracking precision over the whole video,where tracking precision is predicted according to the prediction model trained by use of the sequence features of the first several frames.The sequence features include three traditional features and eight newly constructed features.Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed tracker is superior to most state-of-the-art correlation filter based trackers and has a stable improvement compared to the basic trackers.

A robust sparse representation algorithm based on adaptive joint dictionary

Sparse representation based on dictionary construction and learning methods have aroused interests in the field of face recognition.Aiming at the shortcomings of face feature dictionary not‘clean’and noise interference dictionary not‘representative’in sparse representation classification model,a new method named as robust sparse representation is proposed based on adaptive joint dictionary(RSR-AJD).First,a fast lowrank subspace recovery algorithm based on LogDet function(Fast LRSR-LogDet)is proposed for accurate low-rank facial intrinsic dictionary representing the similar structure of human face and low computational complexity.Then,the Iteratively Reweighted Robust Principal Component Analysis(IRRPCA)algorithm is used to get a more precise occlusion dictionary for depicting the possible discontinuous interference information attached to human face such as glasses occlusion or scarf occlusion etc.Finally,the above Fast LRSR-LogDet algorithm and IRRPCA algorithm are adopted to construct the adaptive joint dictionary,which includes the low-rank facial intrinsic dictionary,the occlusion dictionary and the remaining intra-class variant dictionary for robust sparse coding.Experiments conducted on four popular databases(AR,Extended Yale B,LFW,and Pubfig)verify the robustness and effectiveness of the authors’method.

多特征融合的无人艇视觉小目标鲁棒跟踪

[目的]针对低特征分辨率、相似环境信息引起的无人艇视觉小目标跟踪混淆问题,提出一种多特征融合的连续卷积算子跟踪算法。[方法]首先,采用双三次插值技术,提高多特征图分辨率,实现亚像素级定位;其次,利用特征投影和生成样本空间,提高目标跟踪的效率,避免滤波器过拟合;最后,设计高置信度模型更新策略,解决相似环境信息对滤波器的干扰问题。[结果]结果表明:相较于传统的连续卷积算子跟踪算法,平均成功率提升17.4%,平均距离精度指标提升17.8%,期望平均覆盖率提升5.1%。[结论]该算法法能够处理海洋环境下的小目标跟踪混淆问题,为提升无人艇及海洋机器人的智能感知能力,提供关键技术支撑。

多特征融合的无人艇视觉目标长时相关鲁棒跟踪

[目的]针对显著海浪遮挡、相机剧烈晃动引起的无人艇视觉目标跟踪脱靶问题,提出一种基于多特征融合的长时相关鲁棒跟踪算法。[方法]首先,采用多特征融合技术,增强目标特征表达,提高目标模型鲁棒性;其次,利用高维特征降维和响应图子网格插值,提高目标跟踪的效率与精度;然后,设计水面目标重识别机制,解决目标完全脱离视野时的稳定跟踪问题;最后,采用多个代表性视频数据集进行验证和比较分析。[结果]实验结果表明,相较于传统的长时相关跟踪算法,平均成功率提升15.7%,平均距离精度指标提升30.3%,F-Score指标提升7.0%。[结论]所提算法能够处理恶劣海况下的目标脱靶问题,对于提升无人船艇及海洋机器人智能感知能力,具有重要技术支撑意义。

基于问题特征变化引导的动态鲁棒优化算法

随着时间的推移,鲁棒优化是解决动态优化问题的一种新方法,其目标是找到在很长一段时间内仍然可以接受的解决方案。该领域中大多试图根据其未来预测适应度值来寻找新的鲁棒解决方案,然而,预测未来的适应度值的误差往往偏大,对其寻求较好的鲁棒解造成较大的困难。针对这一问题,提出了一个基于问题特征变化引导的算法框架(ROOT-PFCG)来进行动态鲁棒优化。其问题特征变化情况主要参考解在当前环境下的目标函数值和相应相邻环境下的目标函数浮动值,由此提出三个重要指标。在预测和非预测的情况下,基于指标分别提出了三种不同的适应度决策规则来选解,保证其所选解受预测误差影响较小或不受影响,以此寻找更优的鲁棒解,并在此基础上提出了新的性能评价指标。在基准问题上的实验结果表明,所提出的算法能更好地提升鲁棒解的性能,并对不同情况下的指标进一步分析了其对性能的影响,在此基础上分析了更好的指标结合方法。

基于对抗样本的负图片对分类网络的影响探究

将原始的样本图片(正图片)转换为负图片后,物体的关键类别信息可以保留,能被人类正确分类,但一般的神经网络模型对于负图片的识别能力较弱。人工智能领域,研究者更加追求模型在原始图片上的表现,鲜有对于负图片样本的研究工作。为了探索负图片特征对于模型学习的影响,针对MNIST、CIFAR10、ImageNet三种图片数据集,采用特征图的可视化呈现、不同场景下的识别能力比较等手段,对由正样本集,负样本集,正负混合样本集训练的三种模型进行研究。发现正负样本在模型的特征空间中具有一致性,使网络能够同时拟合正负图片。从准确性角度看,负样本的加入调整了网络深层的特征空间,使正负图片对每个类别的置信度输出统一、类内样本的分布更加紧凑。从对抗鲁棒性的角度看,学习到正负图片特征的模型在对抗扰动上也呈现出对称性,此外,经过负样本训练出的模型可以在一定程度上抵抗一般模型的迁移攻击。

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。

基于分类配准与全景像素坐标系的显微图像快速拼接算法

目的提出一种基于分类配准与全景像素坐标系的显微图像实时拼接算法,以解决现有图像拼接算法精度低、计算复杂度高等问题。方法依据单视野图像的质量特征,利用评价函数对图像进行分类配准,适应不同的配准模型;构建全景像素坐标系,依据配准结果在此坐标系下进行整体拼接与缝隙融合;基于自主搭建的尿液样本显微扫描系统进行实验,以验证算法的有效性。结果实验结果表明,相比现有的图像拼接方法,本文基于分类配准与全景像素坐标系的显微图像快速拼接算法更有利于拼接缝隙的融合,且更稳定,拼接效果显著优于加速鲁棒特征和快速傅里叶变换单独拼接;在拼接时间方面,基于分类配准与全景像素坐标系的显微图像实时拼接算法的拼接时间大大缩短,拼接速度提升了1倍,且对于矩形扫描区域拼接的大视野图像,无明显拼接缝隙痕迹,可完成高质量的实时拼接。结论基于分类配准与全景像素坐标系的显微图像快速拼接算法能够满足快速高分辨率的大视野图像拼接需求,为显微图像拼接提供了一种更优的方法,便于相关人员进一步分析和应用。

基于MCE/GPD的语音识别及其一种Robust应用中初始参数的选择

首先讨论了基于MCE/GPD的语音识别研究的最新进展。在此基础上 ,提出了一种环境特征判别学习的Robust语音识别方法 ,该方法基于最小分类错误准则利用梯度下降法迭代地学习环境特征。由于梯度下降法产生的是局部最优解 ,因此 ,寻找较好的环境特征初始值就显得非常重要。最后 。

基于线结构光的钢轨断面磨耗改进检测算法

经典的最近点迭代(IterativeClosest Point,ICP)配准算法常被应用于钢轨断面磨耗检测系统。当轨道检修车工作运行时,基于线结构光的钢轨断面磨耗检测系统采集的钢轨廓形数据通常会受到各种离群点噪声的干扰,导致计算得到的钢轨廓形几何形态变化较大。在实际应用中,轨道检修车钢轨断面磨耗动态检测精度要求侧磨为±0.5mm,垂磨为±1.0mm,故磨耗检测算法的设计不能因为廓形含离群点噪声而降低检测精度。因此,文章提出了一种改进的两阶段钢轨断面廓形磨耗检测算法。该算法在第一阶段首先利用钢轨廓形的特征点对进行快速初始配准,使得2个点云集具有较好的初始位姿,第二阶段采用改进的鲁棒ICP算法完成精确配准,最后计算得到钢轨断面磨耗几何参数。通过在实验室搭建钢轨断面磨耗检测系统试验平台,以试验模拟实测数据常见的轨腰段和轨底段离群点干扰,并以手工接触式磨耗仪的测量数据作为参考基准,对比经典ICP算法和文章所提出的改进算法,分析磨耗检测的精度误差和有效性,并在此基础上,对算法的检测速度进行对比分析,对改进算法的重复性测量精度进行验证,最后在地铁线路上开展轨道检修车实测验证。结果表明,文章所提的改进算法有效提高了在离群点干扰场景下钢轨断面磨耗检测的精度和速度,具有工程实用价值。

宽度学习系统中鲁棒性权值矩阵组合的筛选方法

宽度学习系统(BLS)具有出色的计算效率和预测准确性;然而,在传统BLS框架中,权值矩阵采用随机生成的方式,存在学习结果不稳定的风险。因此,设计一种BLS中鲁棒性权值矩阵组合的筛选方法(RWS-BLS)。首先,通过4组函数数据的验证,揭示随机权值矩阵在样本整体训练误差上的显著差异性;其次,研究权值矩阵组合的形式,放宽筛选条件的严格最优限制,将最优转换为较优,并将误差最小值限定在指定范围内,定义精英组合等条件;最后,得到可靠的权值矩阵的组合,有效降低随机性影响,并建立稳健的模型。实验结果表明,在16组模拟数据、NORB数据集和5组UCI回归数据集上,在数据更换或受噪声扰动的情况下,与BLS方法相比,所提方法的均方误差(MSE)下降了7.32%、8.73%和1.63%。RWS-BLS为BLS提供了一种模型平稳性研究的方向,提高了含有随机参数模型的效率和稳定性,并对涉及随机参数的其他机器学习方法具有借鉴作用。

仿射协变的G-质心

图像质心保持仿射协变,但仅可用于消除平移。为方便地提取仿射不变特征,需构造保持仿射协变且异于质心的类质心点。现有算法要么计算量大,要么对二值图像不适用。针对这种情况,提出G-质心,通过改造在极坐标系中图像质心的定义得到,引入极径方向积分的变换函数,使得目前大多的类质心构造算法均是其特例。实验结果表明,通过引入中心投影类的变换函数,所得G-质心可比广义质心、交叉权重质心等算法具有更优的抗噪性能。

融合深度学习的零件相似度匹配算法研究

使用传统算法对机械零件和模型图进行特征匹配时很依赖检测到的关键点,零件图受旋转角度和阴影反光的影响较大,并存在大量纹理稀疏的区域。针对传统算法在该情况下仅能提取到少量特征点,从而造成识别率低的问题,提出了一种融合了深度学习的特征匹配方法。首先,采用超像素分割算法将零件图分为纹理丰富区域和纹理稀疏区域;然后,对纹理丰富区域采用SuperPoint和SuperGlue算法提取了局部特征,对纹理稀疏区域采用LoFTR算法进行了全局提取,获得了具有更强鲁棒性的特征,其中,采用几何卷积神经网络(GCNNs)对LoFTR提取的特征进行了编码,使特征更具有旋转和平移的不变性;最后,引入最大后验样本一致性(MAGSAC++)改进算法,对匹配结果进行了鲁棒估计和筛选,剔除了错误匹配,进一步提高了匹配的准确性。研究结果表明:与基于传统算法的尺度不变特征变换(SIFT)、加速稳健特征(SURF)和基于深度学习的D2Net匹配方法相比较,该算法的F值分别提升了14.9%、23.1%和8.3%,在匹配特征点数量和准确度方面效果更优,有效提升了在复杂场景下的匹配性能。