tracking objects under the presence of noise, objects with partial and full occlusions in complex environments is a challenge for classical mean shift and unscented Kalman filter algorithms. In this paper we propose a new algorithm combining mean shift algorithm with corrected backgroundweighted histogram (CBWH) and unscented Kalman filter (UKF). The CBWH scheme can effectively reduce background's interference in target localization. So CBWH can guarantee accurate localization of the target. Then UKF algorithm has the ability to estimate the coming state. So the proposed algorithm is used to enhance the solution of object tracking problems. The experimental results show that the proposed method is superior to the traditional tracking methods.
Agriculture has become an essential field of study and is considered a challenge for many researchers in computer vision specialization. The early detection and classification of plant diseases are crucial for preventing growing diseases and hence yield reduction. Although many state-of-the-artwork proposed various classification techniques for plant diseases, still face many challenges such as noise reduction, extracting the relevant features, and excluding the redundant ones. Recently, deep learning models are noticeable as hot research and are widely used for plant leaf disease classification. Although the achievement with these models is notable, still the need for efficient, fast-trained, and few-parameters models without compromising on performance is inevitable. In this work, two approaches of deep learning have been proposed for Palm leaf disease classification: Residual Network (ResNet) and transfer learning of Inception ResNet. The models make it possible to train up to hundreds of layers and achieve superior performance. Considering the merit of their effective representation ability, the performance of image classification using ResNet has been boosted, such as diseases of plant leaves classification. In both approaches, problems such as variation of luminance and background, different scales of images, and inter-class similarity have been treated. Date Palm dataset having 2631 colored images with varied sizes was used to train and test the models. Using some well-known metrics, the proposed models outperformed many of the recent research in the field in original and augmented datasets and achieved an accuracy of 99.62% and 100% respectively.
Recently, the process of fish species classification has become one of the most challenging problems addressed by researchers. In this work, a robust scheme to classify fish images based on robust feature extraction from shape signatures is proposed. First, the image contour is fitted using one of the common approaches named radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) fitting to obtain image centroid. Afterward, prominent features from the shape signature are extracted. These features are representative of fish shapes because they can distinguish the characteristics of each class as well as being relatively robust to scale and rotation changes. Finally, for the classification process purpose, RBFNN is used again for image classification against one of the most commonly used classification techniques called support vector machine (SVM). The proposed paradigm has been applied to a standard fish dataset acquired from a live video dataset grouped into twenty-three clusters representing specific fish species. The resulting accuracy based on SVM and RBFNN was 90.41% and 98.04%, respectively.
In this search, two methods were used to include the watermark in the video. The first method was based on DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform), the second method was based on an algorithm SVD (Singular Value Decomposition) for the purpose of converting video to frequency domain. The process of embedding the watermark in both methods was done after the original video was divided into a set of frames, and one frame was divided into a block of 8 x 8 and the DCT on each block when using the first method and the SVD algorithm when using the second method. And then include the Bit Binary for the watermark inside the center of the cluster. Random selection of video frames and rows of watermark images has been adopted in both ways. The performance of the two methods was assessed using the experimental tests PSNR, MSE and NC.The experimental results show that both methods have achieved a good understanding and high resistance against various attacks, adopted Matlab 2013a language.
Particle filter has grown to be a standard tool for solving visual tracking problems in real world applications. One of the critical tasks in object tracking is the tracking of fast moving objects in complex environments, which contain cluttered background and scale change. In this paper, a new tracking algorithm is presented by using the joint color texture histogram to represent a target and then applying it to particle filter algorithm called PFJCTH. The texture features of the object are extracted by using the local binary pattern (LBP) technique to represent the object. The proposed algorithm extracts effectively the edge and corner features in the target region, which characterize better and represent more robustly the target. The experiments showed that this new proposed algorithm produces excellent tracking results and outperforms other tracking algorithms.
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