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This paper addresses the problem of defocus map estimation from a single image. We present a fast yet effective approach to estimate the spatially varying amounts of defocus blur at edge locations, which is based on the maximum ranks of the corresponding local patches with different orientations in gradient domain. Such an approach is motivated by the theoretical analysis which reveals the connection...
Although the existing correlation filter based on trackers has appeared to be more excellent in the visual tracking problem, there is still tremendous space for the improvement of the tracking performance, especially in the occlusion situation which is often ignored due to the difficulty in detection and processing. In this paper, a scale-adaptive tracker is proposed to handle the case of occlusion...
Monitoring of dynamic industrial process has been increasingly important due to more and more strict safety and reliability requirements. Popular methods like time lagged arrangement-based and subspace-based approaches exhibit good performance in fault detection, however, they suffer from difficulty in accurately isolating faulty variables and diagnosing fault types. To alleviate this difficulty,...
Standard video frame interpolation methods first estimate optical flow between input frames and then synthesize an intermediate frame guided by motion. Recent approaches merge these two steps into a single convolution process by convolving input frames with spatially adaptive kernels that account for motion and re-sampling simultaneously. These methods require large kernels to handle large motion,...
Markov Random Fields are widely used to model lightfield stereo matching problems. However, most previous approaches used fixed parameters and did not adapt to lightfield statistics. Instead, they explored explicit vision cues to provide local adaptability and thus enhanced depth quality. But such additional assumptions could end up confining their applicability, e.g. algorithms designed for dense...
In order to improve the posture estimation accuracy of small ship, a regularized particle filter based on multidimensional autoregressive model (MARM) is proposed in this paper. The small ship has the characteristics of nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems. Particle filter algorithm has been proposed to deal with nonlinear problems for many years. Although it is effective, two problems often arise:...
The conventional methods for estimating camera poses and scene structures from severely blurry or low resolution images often result in failure. The off-the-shelf deblurring or super-resolution methods may show visually pleasing results. However, applying each technique independently before matching is generally unprofitable because this naive series of procedures ignores the consistency between images...
Deblurring images with outliers has attracted considerable attention recently. However, existing algorithms usually involve complex operations which increase the difficulty of blur kernel estimation. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective blind image deblurring algorithm to handle blurred images with outliers. The proposed method is motivated by the observation that outliers in the blurred...
We present nonlinear Schur-type orthogonal representations of nonlinear filters of the Volterra-Wiener class for higher-order and non-Gaussian stochastic processes, and propose efficient and numerically attractive solutions of the orthogonal transformations (innovations, stochastic modeling) for this class of processes.
Displacement estimation is a critical component of elastography. The measurement of sub-resolution displacements relies on high cross-correlation (CC) between repeated collinear RF acquisitions. CCs are degraded by common sources of acoustic noise, such as reverberation clutter, in addition to the displacement of scatterers within the radiation force field. CCs are also degraded spatially across the...
A Bayesian approach for system identification using kernel functions is a popular method. The kernel functions are considered as certain prior knowledge about a target system, so selecting proper kernels is required. Recent studies show that it is successful to use OBF-s(orthonormal basis function)-based kernels as the kernel functions, but estimating hyper-parameters of the kernel functions is a...
By taking the advantages of both CPU and GPU as well as the shared DRAM and cache, the integrated CPU-GPU architecture has the potential to boost the performance for a variety of applications, including real-time applications as well. However, before being applied to the hard real-time and safety-critical applications, the time-predictability of the integrated CPU-GPU architecture needs to be studied...
A routing graph allows to find paths in buildings quickly. Raster images of floor plans are simple to obtain but display poor performance. A manually constructed graph is quite optimal if designed by an informed person, but the process is time consuming and expensive. We describe a fast method to calculate a 2D routing graph from raster images. We adapt image processing techniques and apply a conditional...
The Volterra model is a well-established option in nonlinear black-box system identification. However, the estimated model is often over-parametrized. This paper presents an approach to reducing the number of parameters of a Volterra model with the kernels parametrized in the orthonormal basis of Laguerre functions by estimating it with a sparse estimation algorithm subject to constraints. The resulting...
The novel adaptive multiple-model target tracking algorithm presented here employs a non-asymptotic state and parameter estimator whose design hinges on a non-standard integral system representation. The same estimator can be used for target maneuver detection and isolation and hence constitutes the principal ingredient of the tracking algorithm. The algorithm does not maintain a model bank, but creates...
Cloud service recommendation has become an important technique that helps users decide whether a service satisfies their requirements or not. However, the few existing recommendation systems are not suitable for real world environments and only deal with services hosted in a single cloud, which is simply unrealistic. In addition, a same service may be hosted on more than one cloud and, hence, may...
This paper proposes a new TDOA estimation based on phase-voting cross correlation and circular standard deviation. Based on phase delay and kernel function, the proposed method generates a probability density function (PDF) of TDOA for each frequency bin. TDOA estimate is determined by voting the PDFs generated for all frequency bins. Peak positions of the bin-wise PDFs for the target signal are concentrated...
We address the problem of estimating a spatial field of signal strength from measurements of low accuracy. The measurements are obtained by users whose locations are inaccurately estimated. The spatial field is defined on a grid of nodes with known locations. The users report their locations and received signal strength to a central unit where all the measurements are processed. After the processing...
Granger causality approaches have been widely used to estimate effective connectivity in complex dynamic systems. These techniques are based on the building of predictive models which not only depend on a proper selection of the predictive vectors size but also on the chosen class of regression functions. The question addressed in this paper is the estimation of the model order in the computation...
Multivariance identification methods exploit input signals with multiple variances for estimating the Volterra kernels of nonlinear systems. They overcome the problem of the locality of the solution, i.e., the fact that the estimated model well approximates the system only at the same input signal variance of the measurement. The estimation of a kernel for a certain input signal variance requires...
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