Effective and robust recognition and tracking of objects are the key problems in visual surveillance systems. Most existing object recognition methods were designed with particular objects in mind. This study presents...Effective and robust recognition and tracking of objects are the key problems in visual surveillance systems. Most existing object recognition methods were designed with particular objects in mind. This study presents a general moving objects recognition method using global features of targets. Targets are extracted with an adaptive Gaussian mixture model and their silhouette images are captured and unified. A new objects silhouette database is built to provide abundant samples to train the subspace feature. This database is more convincing than the previous ones. A more effective dimension reduction method based on graph embedding is used to obtain the projection eigenvector. In our experiments, we show the effective performance of our method in addressing the moving objects recognition problem and its superiority compared with the previous methods.展开更多
With the rapid development of flexible electronics,the tactile systems for object recognition are becoming increasingly delicate.This paper presents the design of a tactile glove for object recognition,integrating 243...With the rapid development of flexible electronics,the tactile systems for object recognition are becoming increasingly delicate.This paper presents the design of a tactile glove for object recognition,integrating 243 palm pressure units and 126 finger joint strain units that are implemented by piezoresistive Velostat film.The palm pressure and joint bending strain data from the glove were collected using a two-dimensional resistance array scanning circuit and further converted into tactile images with a resolution of 32×32.To verify the effect of tactile data types on recognition precision,three datasets of tactile images were respectively built by palm pressure data,joint bending strain data,and a tactile data combing of both palm pressure and joint bending strain.An improved residual convolutional neural network(CNN)model,SP-ResNet,was developed by light-weighting ResNet-18 to classify these tactile images.Experimental results show that the data collection method combining palm pressure and joint bending strain demonstrates a 4.33%improvement in recognition precision compared to the best results obtained by using only palm pressure or joint bending strain.The recognition precision of 95.50%for 16 objects can be achieved by the presented tactile glove with SP-ResNet of less computation cost.The presented tactile system can serve as a sensing platform for intelligent prosthetics and robot grippers.展开更多
Humans can perceive our complex world through multi-sensory fusion.Under limited visual conditions,people can sense a variety of tactile signals to identify objects accurately and rapidly.However,replicating this uniq...Humans can perceive our complex world through multi-sensory fusion.Under limited visual conditions,people can sense a variety of tactile signals to identify objects accurately and rapidly.However,replicating this unique capability in robots remains a significant challenge.Here,we present a new form of ultralight multifunctional tactile nano-layered carbon aerogel sensor that provides pressure,temperature,material recognition and 3D location capabilities,which is combined with multimodal supervised learning algorithms for object recognition.The sensor exhibits human-like pressure(0.04–100 kPa)and temperature(21.5–66.2℃)detection,millisecond response times(11 ms),a pressure sensitivity of 92.22 kPa^(−1)and triboelectric durability of over 6000 cycles.The devised algorithm has universality and can accommodate a range of application scenarios.The tactile system can identify common foods in a kitchen scene with 94.63%accuracy and explore the topographic and geomorphic features of a Mars scene with 100%accuracy.This sensing approach empowers robots with versatile tactile perception to advance future society toward heightened sensing,recognition and intelligence.展开更多
Object recognition and location has always been one of the research hotspots in machine vision.It is of great value and significance to the development and application of current service robots,industrial automation,u...Object recognition and location has always been one of the research hotspots in machine vision.It is of great value and significance to the development and application of current service robots,industrial automation,unmanned driving and other fields.In order to realize the real-time recognition and location of indoor scene objects,this article proposes an improved YOLOv3 neural network model,which combines densely connected networks and residual networks to construct a new YOLOv3 backbone network,which is applied to the detection and recognition of objects in indoor scenes.In this article,RealSense D415 RGB-D camera is used to obtain the RGB map and depth map,the actual distance value is calculated after each pixel in the scene image is mapped to the real scene.Experiment results proved that the detection and recognition accuracy and real-time performance by the new network are obviously improved compared with the previous YOLOV3 neural network model in the same scene.More objects can be detected after the improvement of network which cannot be detected with the YOLOv3 network before the improvement.The running time of objects detection and recognition is reduced to less than half of the original.This improved network has a certain reference value for practical engineering application.展开更多
Memory deficit,which is often associated with aging and many psychiatric,neurological,and neurodegenerative diseases,has been a challenging issue for treatment.Up till now,all potential drug candidates have failed to ...Memory deficit,which is often associated with aging and many psychiatric,neurological,and neurodegenerative diseases,has been a challenging issue for treatment.Up till now,all potential drug candidates have failed to produce satisfa ctory effects.Therefore,in the search for a solution,we found that a treatment with the gene corresponding to the RGS14414protein in visual area V2,a brain area connected with brain circuits of the ventral stream and the medial temporal lobe,which is crucial for object recognition memory(ORM),can induce enhancement of ORM.In this study,we demonstrated that the same treatment with RGS14414in visual area V2,which is relatively unaffected in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer s disease,produced longlasting enhancement of ORM in young animals and prevent ORM deficits in rodent models of aging and Alzheimer’s disease.Furthermore,we found that the prevention of memory deficits was mediated through the upregulation of neuronal arbo rization and spine density,as well as an increase in brain-derived neurotrophic factor(BDNF).A knockdown of BDNF gene in RGS14414-treated aging rats and Alzheimer s disease model mice caused complete loss in the upregulation of neuronal structural plasticity and in the prevention of ORM deficits.These findings suggest that BDNF-mediated neuronal structural plasticity in area V2 is crucial in the prevention of memory deficits in RGS14414-treated rodent models of aging and Alzheimer’s disease.Therefore,our findings of RGS14414gene-mediated activation of neuronal circuits in visual area V2 have therapeutic relevance in the treatment of memory deficits.展开更多
The digital twin is the concept of transcending reality,which is the reverse feedback from the real physical space to the virtual digital space.People hold great prospects for this emerging technology.In order to real...The digital twin is the concept of transcending reality,which is the reverse feedback from the real physical space to the virtual digital space.People hold great prospects for this emerging technology.In order to realize the upgrading of the digital twin industrial chain,it is urgent to introduce more modalities,such as vision,haptics,hearing and smell,into the virtual digital space,which assists physical entities and virtual objects in creating a closer connection.Therefore,perceptual understanding and object recognition have become an urgent hot topic in the digital twin.Existing surface material classification schemes often achieve recognition through machine learning or deep learning in a single modality,ignoring the complementarity between multiple modalities.In order to overcome this dilemma,we propose a multimodal fusion network in our article that combines two modalities,visual and haptic,for surface material recognition.On the one hand,the network makes full use of the potential correlations between multiple modalities to deeply mine the modal semantics and complete the data mapping.On the other hand,the network is extensible and can be used as a universal architecture to include more modalities.Experiments show that the constructed multimodal fusion network can achieve 99.42%classification accuracy while reducing complexity.展开更多
For some important object recognition applications such as intelligent robots and unmanned driving, images are collected on a consecutive basis and associated among themselves, besides, the scenes have steady prior fe...For some important object recognition applications such as intelligent robots and unmanned driving, images are collected on a consecutive basis and associated among themselves, besides, the scenes have steady prior features. Yet existing technologies do not take full advantage of this information. In order to take object recognition further than existing algorithms in the above application, an object recognition method that fuses temporal sequence with scene priori information is proposed. This method first employs YOLOv3 as the basic algorithm to recognize objects in single-frame images, then the DeepSort algorithm to establish association among potential objects recognized in images of different moments, and finally the confidence fusion method and temporal boundary processing method designed herein to fuse, at the decision level, temporal sequence information with scene priori information. Experiments using public datasets and self-built industrial scene datasets show that due to the expansion of information sources, the quality of single-frame images has less impact on the recognition results, whereby the object recognition is greatly improved. It is presented herein as a widely applicable framework for the fusion of information under multiple classes. All the object recognition algorithms that output object class, location information and recognition confidence at the same time can be integrated into this information fusion framework to improve performance.展开更多
The complexity of fire and smoke in terms of shape, texture, and color presents significant challenges for accurate fire and smoke detection. To address this, a YOLOv8-based detection algorithm integrated with the Con...The complexity of fire and smoke in terms of shape, texture, and color presents significant challenges for accurate fire and smoke detection. To address this, a YOLOv8-based detection algorithm integrated with the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) has been developed. This algorithm initially employs the latest YOLOv8 for object recognition. Subsequently, the integration of CBAM enhances its feature extraction capabilities. Finally, the WIoU function is used to optimize the network’s bounding box loss, facilitating rapid convergence. Experimental validation using a smoke and fire dataset demonstrated that the proposed algorithm achieved a 2.3% increase in smoke and fire detection accuracy, surpassing other state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
Tactile perception plays a vital role for the human body and is also highly desired for smart prosthesis and advanced robots.Compared to active sensing devices,passive piezoelectric and triboelectric tactile sensors c...Tactile perception plays a vital role for the human body and is also highly desired for smart prosthesis and advanced robots.Compared to active sensing devices,passive piezoelectric and triboelectric tactile sensors consume less power,but lack the capability to resolve static stimuli.Here,we address this issue by utilizing the unique polarization chemistry of conjugated polymers for the first time and propose a new type of bioinspired,passive,and bio-friendly tactile sensors for resolving both static and dynamic stimuli.Specifically,to emulate the polarization process of natural sensory cells,conjugated polymers(including poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophen e):poly(styrenesulfonate),polyaniline,or polypyrrole)are controllably polarized into two opposite states to create artificial potential differences.The controllable and reversible polarization process of the conjugated polymers is fully in situ characterized.Then,a micro-structured ionic electrolyte is employed to imitate the natural ion channels and to encode external touch stimulations into the variation in potential difference outputs.Compared with the currently existing tactile sensing devices,the developed tactile sensors feature distinct characteristics including fully organic composition,high sensitivity(up to 773 mV N^(−1)),ultralow power consumption(nW),as well as superior bio-friendliness.As demonstrations,both single point tactile perception(surface texture perception and material property perception)and two-dimensional tactile recognitions(shape or profile perception)with high accuracy are successfully realized using self-defined machine learning algorithms.This tactile sensing concept innovation based on the polarization chemistry of conjugated polymers opens up a new path to create robotic tactile sensors and prosthetic electronic skins.展开更多
An object learning and recognition system is implemented for humanoid robots to discover and memorize objects only by simple interactions with non-expert users. When the object is presented, the system makes use of th...An object learning and recognition system is implemented for humanoid robots to discover and memorize objects only by simple interactions with non-expert users. When the object is presented, the system makes use of the motion information over consecutive frames to extract object features and implements machine learning based on the bag of visual words approach. Instead of using a local feature descriptor only, the proposed system uses the co-occurring local features in order to increase feature discriminative power for both object model learning and inference stages. For different objects with different textures, a hybrid sampling strategy is considered. This hybrid approach minimizes the consumption of computation resources and helps achieving good performances demonstrated on a set of a dozen different daily objects.展开更多
BACKGROUND Diabetic cognitive dysfunction(DCD)is one of the chronic complications of diabetes,but its mechanism is currently unknown.Studies have shown that mitochondrial fission mediated by calcium overload is an imp...BACKGROUND Diabetic cognitive dysfunction(DCD)is one of the chronic complications of diabetes,but its mechanism is currently unknown.Studies have shown that mitochondrial fission mediated by calcium overload is an important mechanism of DCD.Blocking calcium overload and restoring calcium homeostasis are key steps in treatment.Transient receptor potential melastatin 7(TRPM7)is a novel player in causing calcium overload.Our previous studies have shown that genetic silencing of TRPM7 in type 1 diabetic rats leads to significant improvements in cognitive function,but the specific mechanism remains unclear.Troxerutin,extracted from the flowers of Sophora japonica,is one of the derivatives of rutin and has been shown to have neuroprotective effects.However,its association with TRPM7 remains unclear.AIM To use animal and cellular models,we investigated whether TRPM7 mediated mitochondrial fission by upregulation of calcineurin(CaN)/dynamin-related protein 1(Drp1)ser637 in DCD,and whether Troxerutin improved DCD by inhibiting TRPM7-mediated mitochondrial division.METHODS In this study,we used db/db mice and hippocampal neuronal cell lines(HT22)treated with high-concentration glucose as our study subjects.We evaluated cognitive function using Morris water maze,novel object recognition tasks,and Nesting tests.We observed mitochondrial morphology using transmission electron microscopy and measured mitochondrial energy metabolism indicators using a spectrophotometer.We also detected mRNA and protein expression of TRPM7,CaN,p-Drp1^(ser637),caspase-3,B-cell lymphoma 2 associated X protein,and B-cell lymphoma 2 using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction,western blotting,and immunofluorescence.RESULTS In the db/db diabetic mice with cognitive dysfunction,as well as in hippocampal neurons exposed to high-concentration glucose,TRPM7 and CaN expression were upregulated,phosphorylated Drp1^(ser637)expression was downregulated,and mitochondrial fission was increased.By modulating(inhibiting or overexpressing)TRPM7,it was further validated that TRPM7 activates the CaN/Drp1^(ser637)pathway,resulting in an increase in mitochondrial fission and neuronal cell apoptosis.Troxerutin downregulated TRPM7/CaN/Drp1^(ser637),reduced mitochondrial fission,and improved DCD.CONCLUSION TRPM7 promotes mitochondrial fission via the CaN/Drp1^(ser637)pathway.Troxerutin improves mitochondrial function and reduces neuronal damage by inhibiting this pathway,suggesting TRPM7 as a potential therapeutic target for DCD.展开更多
Top-view fisheye cameras are widely used in personnel surveillance for their broad field of view,but their unique imaging characteristics pose challenges like distortion,complex scenes,scale variations,and small objec...Top-view fisheye cameras are widely used in personnel surveillance for their broad field of view,but their unique imaging characteristics pose challenges like distortion,complex scenes,scale variations,and small objects near image edges.To tackle these,we proposed peripheral focus you only look once(PF-YOLO),an enhanced YOLOv8n-based method.Firstly,we introduced a cutting-patch data augmentation strategy to mitigate the problem of insufficient small-object samples in various scenes.Secondly,to enhance the model's focus on small objects near the edges,we designed the peripheral focus loss,which uses dynamic focus coefficients to provide greater gradient gains for these objects,improving their regression accuracy.Finally,we designed the three dimensional(3D)spatial-channel coordinate attention C2f module,enhancing spatial and channel perception,suppressing noise,and improving personnel detection.Experimental results demonstrate that PF-YOLO achieves strong performance on the challenging events for person detection from overhead fisheye images(CEPDTOF)and in-the-wild events for people detection and tracking from overhead fisheye cameras(WEPDTOF)datasets.Compared to the original YOLOv8n model,PFYOLO achieves improvements on CEPDTOF with increases of 2.1%,1.7%and 2.9%in mean average precision 50(mAP 50),mAP 50-95,and tively.On WEPDTOF,PF-YOLO achieves substantial improvements with increases of 31.4%,14.9%,61.1%and 21.0%in 91.2%and 57.2%,respectively.展开更多
A method for moving object recognition and tracking in the intelligent traffic monitoring system is presented. For the shortcomings and deficiencies of the frame-subtraction method, a redundant discrete wavelet transf...A method for moving object recognition and tracking in the intelligent traffic monitoring system is presented. For the shortcomings and deficiencies of the frame-subtraction method, a redundant discrete wavelet transform (RDWT) based moving object recognition algorithm is put forward, which directly detects moving objects in the redundant discrete wavelet transform domain. An improved adaptive mean-shift algorithm is used to track the moving object in the follow up frames. Experimental results show that the algorithm can effectively extract the moving object, even though the object is similar to the background, and the results are better than the traditional frame-subtraction method. The object tracking is accurate without the impact of changes in the size of the object. Therefore the algorithm has a certain practical value and prospect.展开更多
Space object recognition plays an important role in spatial exploitation and surveillance, followed by two main problems: lacking of data and drastic changes in viewpoints. In this article, firstly, we build a three-...Space object recognition plays an important role in spatial exploitation and surveillance, followed by two main problems: lacking of data and drastic changes in viewpoints. In this article, firstly, we build a three-dimensional (3D) satellites dataset named BUAA Satellite Image Dataset (BUAA-SID 1.0) to supply data for 3D space object research. Then, based on the dataset, we propose to recognize full-viewpoint 3D space objects based on kernel locality preserving projections (KLPP). To obtain more accurate and separable description of the objects, firstly, we build feature vectors employing moment invariants, Fourier descriptors, region covariance and histogram of oriented gradients. Then, we map the features into kernel space followed by dimensionality reduction using KLPP to obtain the submanifold of the features. At last, k-nearest neighbor (kNN) is used to accomplish the classification. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is more appropriate for space object recognition mainly considering changes of viewpoints. Encouraging recognition rate could be obtained based on images in BUAA-SID 1.0, and the highest recognition result could achieve 95.87%.展开更多
The performance of deep learning(DL)networks has been increased by elaborating the network structures. However, the DL netowrks have many parameters, which have a lot of influence on the performance of the network. We...The performance of deep learning(DL)networks has been increased by elaborating the network structures. However, the DL netowrks have many parameters, which have a lot of influence on the performance of the network. We propose a genetic algorithm(GA) based deep belief neural network(DBNN) method for robot object recognition and grasping purpose. This method optimizes the parameters of the DBNN method, such as the number of hidden units, the number of epochs, and the learning rates, which would reduce the error rate and the network training time of object recognition. After recognizing objects, the robot performs the pick-andplace operations. We build a database of six objects for experimental purpose. Experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms on the optimized robot object recognition and grasping tasks.展开更多
In the traditional pattern classification method,it usually assumes that the object to be classified must lie in one of given(known)classes of the training data set.However,the training data set may not contain the cl...In the traditional pattern classification method,it usually assumes that the object to be classified must lie in one of given(known)classes of the training data set.However,the training data set may not contain the class of some objects in practice,and this is considered as an Open-Set Recognition(OSR)problem.In this paper,we propose a new progressive open-set recognition method with adaptive probability threshold.Both the labeled training data and the test data(objects to be classified)are put into a common data set,and the k-Nearest Neighbors(k-NNs)of each object are sought in this common set.Then,we can determine the probability of object lying in the given classes.If the majority of k-NNs of the object are from labeled training data,this object quite likely belongs to one of the given classes,and the density of the object and its neighbors is taken into account here.However,when most of k-NNs are from the unlabeled test data set,the class of object is considered very uncertain because the class of test data is unknown,and this object cannot be classified in this step.Once the objects belonging to known classes with high probability are all found,we re-calculate the probability of the other uncertain objects belonging to known classes based on the labeled training data and the objects marked with the estimated probability.Such iteration will stop when the probabilities of all the objects belonging to known classes are not changed.Then,a modified Otsu’s method is employed to adaptively seek the probability threshold for the final classification.If the probability of object belonging to known classes is smaller than this threshold,it will be assigned to the ignorant(unknown)class that is not included in training data set.The other objects will be committed to a specific class.The effectiveness of the proposed method has been validated using some experiments.展开更多
A new method based on adaptive Hessian matrix threshold of finding key SRUF ( speeded up robust features) features is proposed and is applied to an unmanned vehicle for its dynamic object recognition and guided navi...A new method based on adaptive Hessian matrix threshold of finding key SRUF ( speeded up robust features) features is proposed and is applied to an unmanned vehicle for its dynamic object recognition and guided navigation. First, the object recognition algorithm based on SURF feature matching for unmanned vehicle guided navigation is introduced. Then, the standard local invariant feature extraction algorithm SRUF is analyzed, the Hessian Metrix is especially discussed, and a method of adaptive Hessian threshold is proposed which is based on correct matching point pairs threshold feedback under a close loop frame. At last, different dynamic object recognition experi- ments under different weather light conditions are discussed. The experimental result shows that the key SURF feature abstract algorithm and the dynamic object recognition method can be used for un- manned vehicle systems.展开更多
This paper proposes a method to recognize human-object interactions by modeling context between human actions and interacted objects.Human-object interaction recognition is a challenging task due to severe occlusion b...This paper proposes a method to recognize human-object interactions by modeling context between human actions and interacted objects.Human-object interaction recognition is a challenging task due to severe occlusion between human and objects during the interacting process.Since that human actions and interacted objects provide strong context information,i.e.some actions are usually related to some specific objects,the accuracy of recognition is significantly improved for both of them.Through the proposed method,both global and local temporal features from skeleton sequences are extracted to model human actions.In the meantime,kernel features are utilized to describe interacted objects.Finally,all possible solutions from actions and objects are optimized by modeling the context between them.The results of experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.展开更多
The application of high-performance imaging sensors in space-based space surveillance systems makes it possible to recognize space objects and estimate their poses using vision-based methods. In this paper, we propose...The application of high-performance imaging sensors in space-based space surveillance systems makes it possible to recognize space objects and estimate their poses using vision-based methods. In this paper, we proposed a kernel regression-based method for joint multi-view space object recognition and pose estimation. We built a new simulated satellite image dataset named BUAA-SID 1.5 to test our method using different image representations. We evaluated our method for recognition-only tasks, pose estimation-only tasks, and joint recognition and pose estimation tasks. Experimental results show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-arts in space object recognition, and can recognize space objects and estimate their poses effectively and robustly against noise and lighting conditions.展开更多
In order to accomplish the task of object recognition in natural scenes,a new object recognition algorithm based on an improved convolutional neural network(CNN)is proposed.First,candidate object windows are extracted...In order to accomplish the task of object recognition in natural scenes,a new object recognition algorithm based on an improved convolutional neural network(CNN)is proposed.First,candidate object windows are extracted from the original image.Then,candidate object windows are input into the improved CNN model to obtain deep features.Finally,the deep features are input into the Softmax and the confidence scores of classes are obtained.The candidate object window with the highest confidence score is selected as the object recognition result.Based on AlexNet,Inception V1 is introduced into the improved CNN and the fully connected layer is replaced by the average pooling layer,which widens the network and deepens the network at the same time.Experimental results show that the improved object recognition algorithm can obtain better recognition results in multiple natural scene images,and has a higher degree of accuracy than the classical algorithms in the field of object recognition.展开更多
基金Project (No. 60805001) partially supported by the National NaturalScience Foundation of China
文摘Effective and robust recognition and tracking of objects are the key problems in visual surveillance systems. Most existing object recognition methods were designed with particular objects in mind. This study presents a general moving objects recognition method using global features of targets. Targets are extracted with an adaptive Gaussian mixture model and their silhouette images are captured and unified. A new objects silhouette database is built to provide abundant samples to train the subspace feature. This database is more convincing than the previous ones. A more effective dimension reduction method based on graph embedding is used to obtain the projection eigenvector. In our experiments, we show the effective performance of our method in addressing the moving objects recognition problem and its superiority compared with the previous methods.
基金supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province(No.2024 GX-YBXM-178)the Shaanxi Province Qinchuangyuan“Scientists+Engineers”Team Development(No.2022KXJ032)。
文摘With the rapid development of flexible electronics,the tactile systems for object recognition are becoming increasingly delicate.This paper presents the design of a tactile glove for object recognition,integrating 243 palm pressure units and 126 finger joint strain units that are implemented by piezoresistive Velostat film.The palm pressure and joint bending strain data from the glove were collected using a two-dimensional resistance array scanning circuit and further converted into tactile images with a resolution of 32×32.To verify the effect of tactile data types on recognition precision,three datasets of tactile images were respectively built by palm pressure data,joint bending strain data,and a tactile data combing of both palm pressure and joint bending strain.An improved residual convolutional neural network(CNN)model,SP-ResNet,was developed by light-weighting ResNet-18 to classify these tactile images.Experimental results show that the data collection method combining palm pressure and joint bending strain demonstrates a 4.33%improvement in recognition precision compared to the best results obtained by using only palm pressure or joint bending strain.The recognition precision of 95.50%for 16 objects can be achieved by the presented tactile glove with SP-ResNet of less computation cost.The presented tactile system can serve as a sensing platform for intelligent prosthetics and robot grippers.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52072041)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.JQ21007)+2 种基金the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.Y8540XX2D2)the Robotics Rhino-Bird Focused Research Project(No.2020-01-002)the Tencent Robotics X Laboratory.
文摘Humans can perceive our complex world through multi-sensory fusion.Under limited visual conditions,people can sense a variety of tactile signals to identify objects accurately and rapidly.However,replicating this unique capability in robots remains a significant challenge.Here,we present a new form of ultralight multifunctional tactile nano-layered carbon aerogel sensor that provides pressure,temperature,material recognition and 3D location capabilities,which is combined with multimodal supervised learning algorithms for object recognition.The sensor exhibits human-like pressure(0.04–100 kPa)and temperature(21.5–66.2℃)detection,millisecond response times(11 ms),a pressure sensitivity of 92.22 kPa^(−1)and triboelectric durability of over 6000 cycles.The devised algorithm has universality and can accommodate a range of application scenarios.The tactile system can identify common foods in a kitchen scene with 94.63%accuracy and explore the topographic and geomorphic features of a Mars scene with 100%accuracy.This sensing approach empowers robots with versatile tactile perception to advance future society toward heightened sensing,recognition and intelligence.
基金supported by Henan Province Science and Technology Project under Grant No.182102210065.
文摘Object recognition and location has always been one of the research hotspots in machine vision.It is of great value and significance to the development and application of current service robots,industrial automation,unmanned driving and other fields.In order to realize the real-time recognition and location of indoor scene objects,this article proposes an improved YOLOv3 neural network model,which combines densely connected networks and residual networks to construct a new YOLOv3 backbone network,which is applied to the detection and recognition of objects in indoor scenes.In this article,RealSense D415 RGB-D camera is used to obtain the RGB map and depth map,the actual distance value is calculated after each pixel in the scene image is mapped to the real scene.Experiment results proved that the detection and recognition accuracy and real-time performance by the new network are obviously improved compared with the previous YOLOV3 neural network model in the same scene.More objects can be detected after the improvement of network which cannot be detected with the YOLOv3 network before the improvement.The running time of objects detection and recognition is reduced to less than half of the original.This improved network has a certain reference value for practical engineering application.
基金supported by grants from the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad(BFU2013-43458-R)Junta de Andalucia(P12-CTS-1694 and Proyexcel-00422)to ZUK。
文摘Memory deficit,which is often associated with aging and many psychiatric,neurological,and neurodegenerative diseases,has been a challenging issue for treatment.Up till now,all potential drug candidates have failed to produce satisfa ctory effects.Therefore,in the search for a solution,we found that a treatment with the gene corresponding to the RGS14414protein in visual area V2,a brain area connected with brain circuits of the ventral stream and the medial temporal lobe,which is crucial for object recognition memory(ORM),can induce enhancement of ORM.In this study,we demonstrated that the same treatment with RGS14414in visual area V2,which is relatively unaffected in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer s disease,produced longlasting enhancement of ORM in young animals and prevent ORM deficits in rodent models of aging and Alzheimer’s disease.Furthermore,we found that the prevention of memory deficits was mediated through the upregulation of neuronal arbo rization and spine density,as well as an increase in brain-derived neurotrophic factor(BDNF).A knockdown of BDNF gene in RGS14414-treated aging rats and Alzheimer s disease model mice caused complete loss in the upregulation of neuronal structural plasticity and in the prevention of ORM deficits.These findings suggest that BDNF-mediated neuronal structural plasticity in area V2 is crucial in the prevention of memory deficits in RGS14414-treated rodent models of aging and Alzheimer’s disease.Therefore,our findings of RGS14414gene-mediated activation of neuronal circuits in visual area V2 have therapeutic relevance in the treatment of memory deficits.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62001246,62001248,62171232)Key R&D Program of Jiangsu Province Key project and topics under Grant BE2021095+3 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province Higher Education Institutions(20KJB510020)the Future Network Scientific Research Fund Project(FNSRFP-2021-YB-16)the open research fund of Key Lab of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology(JZNY202110)the NUPTSF under Grant(NY220070).
文摘The digital twin is the concept of transcending reality,which is the reverse feedback from the real physical space to the virtual digital space.People hold great prospects for this emerging technology.In order to realize the upgrading of the digital twin industrial chain,it is urgent to introduce more modalities,such as vision,haptics,hearing and smell,into the virtual digital space,which assists physical entities and virtual objects in creating a closer connection.Therefore,perceptual understanding and object recognition have become an urgent hot topic in the digital twin.Existing surface material classification schemes often achieve recognition through machine learning or deep learning in a single modality,ignoring the complementarity between multiple modalities.In order to overcome this dilemma,we propose a multimodal fusion network in our article that combines two modalities,visual and haptic,for surface material recognition.On the one hand,the network makes full use of the potential correlations between multiple modalities to deeply mine the modal semantics and complete the data mapping.On the other hand,the network is extensible and can be used as a universal architecture to include more modalities.Experiments show that the constructed multimodal fusion network can achieve 99.42%classification accuracy while reducing complexity.
文摘For some important object recognition applications such as intelligent robots and unmanned driving, images are collected on a consecutive basis and associated among themselves, besides, the scenes have steady prior features. Yet existing technologies do not take full advantage of this information. In order to take object recognition further than existing algorithms in the above application, an object recognition method that fuses temporal sequence with scene priori information is proposed. This method first employs YOLOv3 as the basic algorithm to recognize objects in single-frame images, then the DeepSort algorithm to establish association among potential objects recognized in images of different moments, and finally the confidence fusion method and temporal boundary processing method designed herein to fuse, at the decision level, temporal sequence information with scene priori information. Experiments using public datasets and self-built industrial scene datasets show that due to the expansion of information sources, the quality of single-frame images has less impact on the recognition results, whereby the object recognition is greatly improved. It is presented herein as a widely applicable framework for the fusion of information under multiple classes. All the object recognition algorithms that output object class, location information and recognition confidence at the same time can be integrated into this information fusion framework to improve performance.
文摘The complexity of fire and smoke in terms of shape, texture, and color presents significant challenges for accurate fire and smoke detection. To address this, a YOLOv8-based detection algorithm integrated with the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) has been developed. This algorithm initially employs the latest YOLOv8 for object recognition. Subsequently, the integration of CBAM enhances its feature extraction capabilities. Finally, the WIoU function is used to optimize the network’s bounding box loss, facilitating rapid convergence. Experimental validation using a smoke and fire dataset demonstrated that the proposed algorithm achieved a 2.3% increase in smoke and fire detection accuracy, surpassing other state-of-the-art methods.
基金financially supported by the Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2022YFS0025 and 2024YFFK0133)supported by the“Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China.”。
文摘Tactile perception plays a vital role for the human body and is also highly desired for smart prosthesis and advanced robots.Compared to active sensing devices,passive piezoelectric and triboelectric tactile sensors consume less power,but lack the capability to resolve static stimuli.Here,we address this issue by utilizing the unique polarization chemistry of conjugated polymers for the first time and propose a new type of bioinspired,passive,and bio-friendly tactile sensors for resolving both static and dynamic stimuli.Specifically,to emulate the polarization process of natural sensory cells,conjugated polymers(including poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophen e):poly(styrenesulfonate),polyaniline,or polypyrrole)are controllably polarized into two opposite states to create artificial potential differences.The controllable and reversible polarization process of the conjugated polymers is fully in situ characterized.Then,a micro-structured ionic electrolyte is employed to imitate the natural ion channels and to encode external touch stimulations into the variation in potential difference outputs.Compared with the currently existing tactile sensing devices,the developed tactile sensors feature distinct characteristics including fully organic composition,high sensitivity(up to 773 mV N^(−1)),ultralow power consumption(nW),as well as superior bio-friendliness.As demonstrations,both single point tactile perception(surface texture perception and material property perception)and two-dimensional tactile recognitions(shape or profile perception)with high accuracy are successfully realized using self-defined machine learning algorithms.This tactile sensing concept innovation based on the polarization chemistry of conjugated polymers opens up a new path to create robotic tactile sensors and prosthetic electronic skins.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60672094,60971098)
文摘An object learning and recognition system is implemented for humanoid robots to discover and memorize objects only by simple interactions with non-expert users. When the object is presented, the system makes use of the motion information over consecutive frames to extract object features and implements machine learning based on the bag of visual words approach. Instead of using a local feature descriptor only, the proposed system uses the co-occurring local features in order to increase feature discriminative power for both object model learning and inference stages. For different objects with different textures, a hybrid sampling strategy is considered. This hybrid approach minimizes the consumption of computation resources and helps achieving good performances demonstrated on a set of a dozen different daily objects.
基金Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province,No.H2021206187 and No.H2021206452.
文摘BACKGROUND Diabetic cognitive dysfunction(DCD)is one of the chronic complications of diabetes,but its mechanism is currently unknown.Studies have shown that mitochondrial fission mediated by calcium overload is an important mechanism of DCD.Blocking calcium overload and restoring calcium homeostasis are key steps in treatment.Transient receptor potential melastatin 7(TRPM7)is a novel player in causing calcium overload.Our previous studies have shown that genetic silencing of TRPM7 in type 1 diabetic rats leads to significant improvements in cognitive function,but the specific mechanism remains unclear.Troxerutin,extracted from the flowers of Sophora japonica,is one of the derivatives of rutin and has been shown to have neuroprotective effects.However,its association with TRPM7 remains unclear.AIM To use animal and cellular models,we investigated whether TRPM7 mediated mitochondrial fission by upregulation of calcineurin(CaN)/dynamin-related protein 1(Drp1)ser637 in DCD,and whether Troxerutin improved DCD by inhibiting TRPM7-mediated mitochondrial division.METHODS In this study,we used db/db mice and hippocampal neuronal cell lines(HT22)treated with high-concentration glucose as our study subjects.We evaluated cognitive function using Morris water maze,novel object recognition tasks,and Nesting tests.We observed mitochondrial morphology using transmission electron microscopy and measured mitochondrial energy metabolism indicators using a spectrophotometer.We also detected mRNA and protein expression of TRPM7,CaN,p-Drp1^(ser637),caspase-3,B-cell lymphoma 2 associated X protein,and B-cell lymphoma 2 using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction,western blotting,and immunofluorescence.RESULTS In the db/db diabetic mice with cognitive dysfunction,as well as in hippocampal neurons exposed to high-concentration glucose,TRPM7 and CaN expression were upregulated,phosphorylated Drp1^(ser637)expression was downregulated,and mitochondrial fission was increased.By modulating(inhibiting or overexpressing)TRPM7,it was further validated that TRPM7 activates the CaN/Drp1^(ser637)pathway,resulting in an increase in mitochondrial fission and neuronal cell apoptosis.Troxerutin downregulated TRPM7/CaN/Drp1^(ser637),reduced mitochondrial fission,and improved DCD.CONCLUSION TRPM7 promotes mitochondrial fission via the CaN/Drp1^(ser637)pathway.Troxerutin improves mitochondrial function and reduces neuronal damage by inhibiting this pathway,suggesting TRPM7 as a potential therapeutic target for DCD.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.62171042,62102033,U24A20331)the R&D Program of Beijing Municipal Education Commission(No.KZ202211417048)+2 种基金the Project of Construction and Support for High-Level Innovative Teams of Beijing Municipal Institutions(No.BPHR20220121)Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Nos.4232026,4242020)the Academic Research Projects of Beijing Union University(Nos.ZKZD202302,ZK20202403)。
文摘Top-view fisheye cameras are widely used in personnel surveillance for their broad field of view,but their unique imaging characteristics pose challenges like distortion,complex scenes,scale variations,and small objects near image edges.To tackle these,we proposed peripheral focus you only look once(PF-YOLO),an enhanced YOLOv8n-based method.Firstly,we introduced a cutting-patch data augmentation strategy to mitigate the problem of insufficient small-object samples in various scenes.Secondly,to enhance the model's focus on small objects near the edges,we designed the peripheral focus loss,which uses dynamic focus coefficients to provide greater gradient gains for these objects,improving their regression accuracy.Finally,we designed the three dimensional(3D)spatial-channel coordinate attention C2f module,enhancing spatial and channel perception,suppressing noise,and improving personnel detection.Experimental results demonstrate that PF-YOLO achieves strong performance on the challenging events for person detection from overhead fisheye images(CEPDTOF)and in-the-wild events for people detection and tracking from overhead fisheye cameras(WEPDTOF)datasets.Compared to the original YOLOv8n model,PFYOLO achieves improvements on CEPDTOF with increases of 2.1%,1.7%and 2.9%in mean average precision 50(mAP 50),mAP 50-95,and tively.On WEPDTOF,PF-YOLO achieves substantial improvements with increases of 31.4%,14.9%,61.1%and 21.0%in 91.2%and 57.2%,respectively.
文摘A method for moving object recognition and tracking in the intelligent traffic monitoring system is presented. For the shortcomings and deficiencies of the frame-subtraction method, a redundant discrete wavelet transform (RDWT) based moving object recognition algorithm is put forward, which directly detects moving objects in the redundant discrete wavelet transform domain. An improved adaptive mean-shift algorithm is used to track the moving object in the follow up frames. Experimental results show that the algorithm can effectively extract the moving object, even though the object is similar to the background, and the results are better than the traditional frame-subtraction method. The object tracking is accurate without the impact of changes in the size of the object. Therefore the algorithm has a certain practical value and prospect.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China (60776793,60802043)National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB327900)
文摘Space object recognition plays an important role in spatial exploitation and surveillance, followed by two main problems: lacking of data and drastic changes in viewpoints. In this article, firstly, we build a three-dimensional (3D) satellites dataset named BUAA Satellite Image Dataset (BUAA-SID 1.0) to supply data for 3D space object research. Then, based on the dataset, we propose to recognize full-viewpoint 3D space objects based on kernel locality preserving projections (KLPP). To obtain more accurate and separable description of the objects, firstly, we build feature vectors employing moment invariants, Fourier descriptors, region covariance and histogram of oriented gradients. Then, we map the features into kernel space followed by dimensionality reduction using KLPP to obtain the submanifold of the features. At last, k-nearest neighbor (kNN) is used to accomplish the classification. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is more appropriate for space object recognition mainly considering changes of viewpoints. Encouraging recognition rate could be obtained based on images in BUAA-SID 1.0, and the highest recognition result could achieve 95.87%.
文摘The performance of deep learning(DL)networks has been increased by elaborating the network structures. However, the DL netowrks have many parameters, which have a lot of influence on the performance of the network. We propose a genetic algorithm(GA) based deep belief neural network(DBNN) method for robot object recognition and grasping purpose. This method optimizes the parameters of the DBNN method, such as the number of hidden units, the number of epochs, and the learning rates, which would reduce the error rate and the network training time of object recognition. After recognizing objects, the robot performs the pick-andplace operations. We build a database of six objects for experimental purpose. Experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms on the optimized robot object recognition and grasping tasks.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U20B2067).
文摘In the traditional pattern classification method,it usually assumes that the object to be classified must lie in one of given(known)classes of the training data set.However,the training data set may not contain the class of some objects in practice,and this is considered as an Open-Set Recognition(OSR)problem.In this paper,we propose a new progressive open-set recognition method with adaptive probability threshold.Both the labeled training data and the test data(objects to be classified)are put into a common data set,and the k-Nearest Neighbors(k-NNs)of each object are sought in this common set.Then,we can determine the probability of object lying in the given classes.If the majority of k-NNs of the object are from labeled training data,this object quite likely belongs to one of the given classes,and the density of the object and its neighbors is taken into account here.However,when most of k-NNs are from the unlabeled test data set,the class of object is considered very uncertain because the class of test data is unknown,and this object cannot be classified in this step.Once the objects belonging to known classes with high probability are all found,we re-calculate the probability of the other uncertain objects belonging to known classes based on the labeled training data and the objects marked with the estimated probability.Such iteration will stop when the probabilities of all the objects belonging to known classes are not changed.Then,a modified Otsu’s method is employed to adaptively seek the probability threshold for the final classification.If the probability of object belonging to known classes is smaller than this threshold,it will be assigned to the ignorant(unknown)class that is not included in training data set.The other objects will be committed to a specific class.The effectiveness of the proposed method has been validated using some experiments.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61103157)Beijing Municipal Education Commission Project(SQKM201311417010)
文摘A new method based on adaptive Hessian matrix threshold of finding key SRUF ( speeded up robust features) features is proposed and is applied to an unmanned vehicle for its dynamic object recognition and guided navigation. First, the object recognition algorithm based on SURF feature matching for unmanned vehicle guided navigation is introduced. Then, the standard local invariant feature extraction algorithm SRUF is analyzed, the Hessian Metrix is especially discussed, and a method of adaptive Hessian threshold is proposed which is based on correct matching point pairs threshold feedback under a close loop frame. At last, different dynamic object recognition experi- ments under different weather light conditions are discussed. The experimental result shows that the key SURF feature abstract algorithm and the dynamic object recognition method can be used for un- manned vehicle systems.
文摘This paper proposes a method to recognize human-object interactions by modeling context between human actions and interacted objects.Human-object interaction recognition is a challenging task due to severe occlusion between human and objects during the interacting process.Since that human actions and interacted objects provide strong context information,i.e.some actions are usually related to some specific objects,the accuracy of recognition is significantly improved for both of them.Through the proposed method,both global and local temporal features from skeleton sequences are extracted to model human actions.In the meantime,kernel features are utilized to describe interacted objects.Finally,all possible solutions from actions and objects are optimized by modeling the context between them.The results of experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
基金co-supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61371134, 61071137)the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2010CB327900)
文摘The application of high-performance imaging sensors in space-based space surveillance systems makes it possible to recognize space objects and estimate their poses using vision-based methods. In this paper, we proposed a kernel regression-based method for joint multi-view space object recognition and pose estimation. We built a new simulated satellite image dataset named BUAA-SID 1.5 to test our method using different image representations. We evaluated our method for recognition-only tasks, pose estimation-only tasks, and joint recognition and pose estimation tasks. Experimental results show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-arts in space object recognition, and can recognize space objects and estimate their poses effectively and robustly against noise and lighting conditions.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61701029)Basic Research Foundation of Beijing Institute of Technology(20170542008)Industry-University Research Innovation Foundation of the Science and Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Education(2018A02012)。
文摘In order to accomplish the task of object recognition in natural scenes,a new object recognition algorithm based on an improved convolutional neural network(CNN)is proposed.First,candidate object windows are extracted from the original image.Then,candidate object windows are input into the improved CNN model to obtain deep features.Finally,the deep features are input into the Softmax and the confidence scores of classes are obtained.The candidate object window with the highest confidence score is selected as the object recognition result.Based on AlexNet,Inception V1 is introduced into the improved CNN and the fully connected layer is replaced by the average pooling layer,which widens the network and deepens the network at the same time.Experimental results show that the improved object recognition algorithm can obtain better recognition results in multiple natural scene images,and has a higher degree of accuracy than the classical algorithms in the field of object recognition.