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Due to the ubiquity of web browsers and the dramatic development of dynamic web pages, web applications become the most popular computing model for providing services over the Internet. Unfortunately, this type of systems is vulnerable to the attacks issued by automated programs. CAPTCHA, a challenge-response test, is the most widely used mechanism to protect web application systems from attacks issued...
The human experience in the analysis of the handwriting of male and female writers indicates that gender affects the appearance of the handwritten text. These differences are usually very difficult to describe numerically. In order to analyze the handwriting differences between male and female writers, several shape description techniques, such as the tangent angle function, curvature function and...
Creating robots that can act autonomously in dynamic, unstructured environments is a major challenge. In such environments, learning to recognize and manipulate novel objects is an important capability. A truly autonomous robot acquires knowledge through interaction with its environment without using heuristics or prior information encoding human domain insights. Static images often provide insufficient...
In this paper, we propose an effective approach towards color image segmentation for micro-vessel detection in the virtual slide of double stained liver tissue. The contribution of the proposed method lies in three aspects. First, the dominant colors of white/gray, blue, red and brown are modeled in the RGB color space. Second, the CART (classification and regress tree) method is implemented to segment...
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Human Apart) is widely used than before, which becomes the common part of current website login system. However, the CAPTCHA implementation is tricky and risky without deliberate design. In this paper, we give a study case of the vulnerabilities in current login website using text-based CAPTCHA. Our target is a website of mainstream...
This paper proposes a method for alignment of human brain magnetic resonance (MR) image sequences in the brain based on a 3D human brain model (triangulated mesh). The brain model is composed of four components, namely, cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem and pituitary gland which are represented by four different colors. Synthesized image sequences (cross-sections) are extracted from the model at regular...
Human Computation is defined as the integration of human tasks and automated algorithms to achieve superior quality in complex tasks like multimedia content analysis. This paper discusses a scenario in which human computation is used to segment time stamped fashion images for mining trends based on visual features of garments (e.g., color and texture) and attributes of portrayed subjects (e.g., gender...
The implications of exposure to electromagnetic waves for human health are a subject of rising concern. Numerical simulations using anatomically realistic computational human models have recently been performed for electromagnetic dosimetry simulation. However, most of these computational models are reference (average) models. In this study, we present a shape-deformable human model to which we applied...
We present an automatic human background substitution system based on a Random Walk (RW) algorithm on a multi-core processing architecture. Firstly, a fast algorithm is proposed to solve the large linear system in RW based on adapting the Gauss-Seidel method. Two tables, TYPE and INDEX, are introduced to fast locate the required data for the close-form solution. Then, face detection along with a human...
In this paper, we propose a novel motion detection method for moving human detection based only on range sensor. Different from the state-of-art frameworks on human detection field, our innovation is taking advantages of range data in motion detection and introducing a effective motion capture approach. In preliminary segmentation term the concept of Positive Motion is presented which can obtain points...
Visual detection based sense and avoid problem is more and more important nowadays as UAVs are getting closer to entering remotely piloted or autonomously into the airspace. It is critical to gain as much information as possible from the silhouettes of the distant aircrafts. In our paper, we investigate the reachable accuracy of the orientation information of remote planes under different geometrical...
In this paper we present a salient object detection model from an over-segmented image. The input image is initially segmented by the mean-shift segmentation algorithm and then over-segmented by a quad mesh to even smaller segments. Such segmented regions overcome the disadvantage of using patches or single pixels to compute saliency. Segments that are similar and spread over the image receive low...
Salient region-based image retrieval is one of the hotspots in the domain of content-based image retrieval; however the metrics about region saliency is not in the uniform frame. The research on visual attention has shown that the factors including color, texture, scale and position influence on visual perception mostly. Consequently, the algorithm of salient region extraction is proposed by using...
In this paper, a simple method to extract regions of interest (ROI) from images is proposed. In the field of image processing, intensity, color and orientation are commonly used features for saliency map generation in most visual attention model. However, texture feature can contribute to the guidance of attention in a bottom-up model. We consider texture contrast as a component of final saliency...
When user uploads a video clip to the video sharing websites, a video thumbnail needs to be generated as the cover to represent the video content. In this paper, a novel video thumbnail generation framework is presented. For generating a good thumbnail, three criteria are considered: (1) the thumbnail should be distinct, in order to make user feel more pleasant; (2) the thumbnail should be easily...
In this paper, a scheme is proposed for solving segmentation problem when people engage in body contact in a video sequence. First, the body parts belonging to each interacting person are extracted using the deformable triangulation technique. The color blobs of each person are learned by Gaussian mixtures model on the fly before the person is interacting with another. Finally, those learned blob...
Selective visual attention is a kind of mechanism of the primate visual system for rapidly focusing on attractive objects or regions in visual environment. Numerous visual attention models have been developed and optimized over the past decades. Most of the existing models concentrate on static monocular image, but little attention has been devoted to stereo depth information which is an important...
In order to reduce the impact of image background and illumination in face locating, this dissertation has put forward a new algorithm to locate human eyes, applying YCbCr model to extract human face region, and then locating eyes correctly according to geometry and pixel features of human eyes. Experimental results show that this algorithm can be applicable in images with different backgrounds and...
Visual attention is useful for computer vision and it has been applied in image compression and object recognition. In existing methods on saliency detection, most of them are unrelated to the depth feature. So we propose a bottom-up saliency detection model that combines the depth feature with region contrast based saliency model and the precision and recall rate of our algorithm is higher than those...
The measurement or evaluation and clinical significance of human sperm morphology has always been and still is a controversial aspect of the semen analysis for the determination of a male's fertility potential. The evaluation of sperm size, shape and morphological smear characteristics should be assesed by carefully observing a stained sperm sample under a microscope. In order to avoid subjectivity,...
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