Reflection separation technology based on polarization characteristics

Specific to the reflected light problem on the surface of transparent body,the polarization characteristics of the reflection region are analyzed,and a polarization characterization model combining the reflection and transmission effects is established.On the basis of the polarization characteristic analysis,the minimum value of normalized cross-correlation(NCC)coefficient between transmission and reflection images is solved through the gradient descent method,and their polarization degrees under the minimum correlation are acquired.According to the distribution relations of the transmitted and reflected lights in perpendicular and parallel directions,reflection separation is realized via the polarized orthogonality difference algorithm based on the degree of reflection polarization and the degree of transmission polarization.

Reconstruction of time series with missing value using 2D representation-based denoising autoencoder

Time series analysis is a key technology for medical diagnosis,weather forecasting and financial prediction systems.However,missing data frequently occur during data recording,posing a great challenge to data mining tasks.In this study,we propose a novel time series data representation-based denoising autoencoder(DAE)for the reconstruction of missing values.Two data representation methods,namely,recurrence plot(RP)and Gramian angular field(GAF),are used to transform the raw time series to a 2D matrix for establishing the temporal correlations between different time intervals and extracting the structural patterns from the time series.Then an improved DAE is proposed to reconstruct the missing values from the 2D representation of time series.A comprehensive comparison is conducted amongst the different representations on standard datasets.Results show that the 2D representations have a lower reconstruction error than the raw time series,and the RP representation provides the best outcome.This work provides useful insights into the better reconstruction of missing values in time series analysis to considerably improve the reliability of timevarying system.

Joint tracking and classification of extended targets with complex shapes

This paper addresses the problem of joint tracking and classification(JTC) of a single extended target with a complex shape. To describe this complex shape, the spatial extent state is first modeled by star-convex shape via a random hypersurface model(RHM), and then used as feature information for target classification. The target state is modeled by two vectors to alleviate the influence of the high-dimensional state space and the severely nonlinear observation model on target state estimation, while the Euclidean distance metric of the normalized Fourier descriptors is applied to obtain the analytical solution of the updated class probability. Consequently, the resulting method is called the "JTC-RHM method." Besides, the proposed JTC-RHM is integrated into a Bernoulli filter framework to solve the JTC of a single extended target in the presence of detection uncertainty and clutter, resulting in a JTC-RHM-Ber filter. Specifically, the recursive expressions of this filter are derived. Simulations indicate that:(1) the proposed JTC-RHM method can classify the targets with complex shapes and similar sizes more correctly, compared with the JTC method based on the random matrix model,(2) the proposed method performs better in target state estimation than the star-convex RHM based extended target tracking method,(3) the proposed JTC-RHM-Ber filter has a promising performance in state detection and estimation, and can achieve target classification correctly.