Pattern recognition is critical to map data handling and their applications.This study presents a model that combines the Shape Context(SC)descriptor and Graph Convolutional Neural Network(GCNN)to classify the pattern...Pattern recognition is critical to map data handling and their applications.This study presents a model that combines the Shape Context(SC)descriptor and Graph Convolutional Neural Network(GCNN)to classify the patterns of interchanges,which are indispensable parts of urban road networks.In the SC-GCNN model,an interchange is modeled as a graph,wherein nodes and edges represent the interchange segments and their connections,respectively.Then,a novel SC descriptor is implemented to describe the contextual information of each interchange segment and serve as descriptive features of graph nodes.Finally,a GCNN is designed by combining graph convolution and pooling operations to process the constructed graphs and classify the interchange patterns.The SC-GCNN model was validated using interchange samples obtained from the road networks of 15 cities downloaded from OpenStreetMap.The classification accuracy was 87.06%,which was higher than that of the image-based AlexNet,GoogLeNet,and Random Forest models.展开更多
Hand gesture recognition is a popular topic in computer vision and makes human-computer interaction more flexible and convenient.The representation of hand gestures is critical for recognition.In this paper,we propose...Hand gesture recognition is a popular topic in computer vision and makes human-computer interaction more flexible and convenient.The representation of hand gestures is critical for recognition.In this paper,we propose a new method to measure the similarity between hand gestures and exploit it for hand gesture recognition.The depth maps of hand gestures captured via the Kinect sensors are used in our method,where the 3D hand shapes can be segmented from the cluttered backgrounds.To extract the pattern of salient 3D shape features,we propose a new descriptor-3D Shape Context,for 3D hand gesture representation.The 3D Shape Context information of each 3D point is obtained in multiple scales because both local shape context and global shape distribution are necessary for recognition.The description of all the 3D points constructs the hand gesture representation,and hand gesture recognition is explored via dynamic time warping algorithm.Extensive experiments are conducted on multiple benchmark datasets.The experimental results verify that the proposed method is robust to noise,articulated variations,and rigid transformations.Our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in the comparisons of accuracy and efficiency.展开更多
AIM: To achieve symmetric boundaries for left and right breasts boundaries in thermal images by registration. METHODS: The proposed method for registration consists of two steps. In the first step, shape context, an a...AIM: To achieve symmetric boundaries for left and right breasts boundaries in thermal images by registration. METHODS: The proposed method for registration consists of two steps. In the first step, shape context, an approach as presented by Belongie and Malik was applied for registration of two breast boundaries. The shape context is an approach to measure shape similarity. Two sets of finite sample points from shape contours of two breasts are then presented. Consequently, the correspondences between the two shapes are found. By finding correspondences, the sample point which has the most similar shape context is obtained. RESULTS: In this study, a line up transformation which maps one shape onto the other has been estimated in order to complete shape. The used of a thin plate spline permitted good estimation of a plane transformation which has capability to map unselective points from one shape onto the other. The obtained aligningtransformation of boundaries points has been applied successfully to map the two breasts interior points. Some of advantages for using shape context method in this work are as follows:(1) no special land marks or key points are needed;(2) it is tolerant to all common shape deformation; and(3) although it is uncomplicated and straightforward to use, it gives remarkably powerful descriptor for point sets significantly upgrading point set registration. Results are very promising. The proposed algorithm was implemented for 32 cases. Boundary registration is done perfectly for 28 cases.CONCLUSION: We used shape contexts method that is simple and easy to implement to achieve symmetric boundaries for left and right breasts boundaries in thermal images.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant numbers 42071450 and 42001415].
文摘Pattern recognition is critical to map data handling and their applications.This study presents a model that combines the Shape Context(SC)descriptor and Graph Convolutional Neural Network(GCNN)to classify the patterns of interchanges,which are indispensable parts of urban road networks.In the SC-GCNN model,an interchange is modeled as a graph,wherein nodes and edges represent the interchange segments and their connections,respectively.Then,a novel SC descriptor is implemented to describe the contextual information of each interchange segment and serve as descriptive features of graph nodes.Finally,a GCNN is designed by combining graph convolution and pooling operations to process the constructed graphs and classify the interchange patterns.The SC-GCNN model was validated using interchange samples obtained from the road networks of 15 cities downloaded from OpenStreetMap.The classification accuracy was 87.06%,which was higher than that of the image-based AlexNet,GoogLeNet,and Random Forest models.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61773272,61976191)the Six Talent Peaks Project of Jiangsu Province,China(XYDXX-053)Suzhou Research Project of Technical Innovation,Jiangsu,China(SYG201711)。
文摘Hand gesture recognition is a popular topic in computer vision and makes human-computer interaction more flexible and convenient.The representation of hand gestures is critical for recognition.In this paper,we propose a new method to measure the similarity between hand gestures and exploit it for hand gesture recognition.The depth maps of hand gestures captured via the Kinect sensors are used in our method,where the 3D hand shapes can be segmented from the cluttered backgrounds.To extract the pattern of salient 3D shape features,we propose a new descriptor-3D Shape Context,for 3D hand gesture representation.The 3D Shape Context information of each 3D point is obtained in multiple scales because both local shape context and global shape distribution are necessary for recognition.The description of all the 3D points constructs the hand gesture representation,and hand gesture recognition is explored via dynamic time warping algorithm.Extensive experiments are conducted on multiple benchmark datasets.The experimental results verify that the proposed method is robust to noise,articulated variations,and rigid transformations.Our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in the comparisons of accuracy and efficiency.
文摘AIM: To achieve symmetric boundaries for left and right breasts boundaries in thermal images by registration. METHODS: The proposed method for registration consists of two steps. In the first step, shape context, an approach as presented by Belongie and Malik was applied for registration of two breast boundaries. The shape context is an approach to measure shape similarity. Two sets of finite sample points from shape contours of two breasts are then presented. Consequently, the correspondences between the two shapes are found. By finding correspondences, the sample point which has the most similar shape context is obtained. RESULTS: In this study, a line up transformation which maps one shape onto the other has been estimated in order to complete shape. The used of a thin plate spline permitted good estimation of a plane transformation which has capability to map unselective points from one shape onto the other. The obtained aligningtransformation of boundaries points has been applied successfully to map the two breasts interior points. Some of advantages for using shape context method in this work are as follows:(1) no special land marks or key points are needed;(2) it is tolerant to all common shape deformation; and(3) although it is uncomplicated and straightforward to use, it gives remarkably powerful descriptor for point sets significantly upgrading point set registration. Results are very promising. The proposed algorithm was implemented for 32 cases. Boundary registration is done perfectly for 28 cases.CONCLUSION: We used shape contexts method that is simple and easy to implement to achieve symmetric boundaries for left and right breasts boundaries in thermal images.
