Michael Hoy, Chaoqun Weng, Junsong Yuan, J. Dauwels
{"title":"Bayesian tracking of multiple objects with vision and radar","authors":"Michael Hoy, Chaoqun Weng, Junsong Yuan, J. Dauwels","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838788","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with a system for detecting and tracking multiple 3D bounding boxes based on information from multiple sensors. Our framework is built around an inference engine similar to the probability hypothesis density (PHD) filter, where the state space consists of stochastic bounding boxes with constant velocity dynamics. We outline measurement equations for two modalities (vision and radar). The result is a flexible inference system suitable for use on autonomous vehicles.","PeriodicalId":128828,"journal":{"name":"2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120989880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving human body part detection using deep learning and motion consistency","authors":"M. Ramanathan, W. Yau, E. Teoh","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838651","url":null,"abstract":"Body part segmentation and detection in videos is a useful analysis for many computer vision tasks such as action recognition and video search. Conventional methods mainly focus on body part detection assuming upright posture of the human body. Recently, a body part detection framework was proposed to include non-upright postures. This method consists of 2 parts, initial segmentation and computation of body part likelihood score for each segment. In this paper, we propose improvements to this approach. Firstly, we propose a novel motion based body part segmentation using kinematic features to identify segments which undergo similar motion in the video based on a consistency or error measure. Secondly, we replace the Extreme Learning Machine classifier in the original work with deep learning to investigate it's performance. For accurate detection, deep learning requires a lot of training data and it has so far been used only in high resolution images. Here we apply deep learning for body part detection in low resolution cases. We conduct experiments to study and analyse the effect of the improvements proposed.","PeriodicalId":128828,"journal":{"name":"2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123813789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating symmetry of environment by designing special basis functions for value function approximation in reinforcement learning","authors":"Guo-fang Wang, Zhou Fang, Bo Li, Ping Li","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838691","url":null,"abstract":"Reinforcement learning (RL) is usually regarded as tabula rasa learning, and the agent needs to randomly explore the environment, so the time consuming and data inefficiency will hinder RL from the real application. In order to accelerate learning speed and improve data efficiency, in this paper we expand the symmetry definition from finite state space to infinite state space and then propose designing a special type of symmetric basis functions for value function approximation to integrate the prior knowledge of symmetry about the environment for large or even infinite state space. After that, as an example, this particular approximate structure is incorporated into the policy evaluation phase of Least-Square Policy Iteration (LSPI), which we call symmetric LSPI (S-LSPI) and the convergence property is analyzed. Simulation results of chain walk and inverted pendulum balancing demonstrate that in contrast with regular LSPI (R-LSPI), the convergence speed of S-LSPI increases greatly and the computational burden decreases significantly simultaneously. It can illustrate the use of symmetric basis functions to capture the property of symmetry very well, and as a case study, it shows the promise to integrate symmetry of environment into RL agent.","PeriodicalId":128828,"journal":{"name":"2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121359955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water levels forecast in Thailand: A case study of Chao Phraya river","authors":"Kitsuchart Pasupa, Siripen Jungjareantrat","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838716","url":null,"abstract":"It is always desirable to be able to manage level of water in river, dam, and reservoir. Models have been constructed for predicting the level of these bodies of water, and good models can help increase the effectiveness of water management. Presently, the model that is employed by the Hydrographic Department of the Royal Thai Navy for predicting the level of water in Chao Phraya river is a harmonic method of tidal modeling. This model can predict the overall trend well but with high individual prediction error. Many machine learning algorithms for making predictions have also been introduced in recent years. Therefore, it was attempted in this study to compare the prediction performance of several machine learning models to that of the Royal Thai Navys model. These models were the following: linear regression, kernel regression, support vector regression, k-nearest neighbors, and random forest. The data input into these models were water level time series data of past 24, 48, and 72 hours measured at the Royal Thai Navy headquarters station, Phra Chulachomklao Fort, thirteen other stations along the river, and the output were predictions for the next 24 hours. It was found that all of the machine learning techniques were able to achieve better performances than that of the harmonic method of tidal modeling. The support vector regression model with Radial basis function kernel and 72-hour past time series data yielded prediction results with the least errors, at 0.117 m and 0.116 m for the water levels at the Royal Thai Navy headquarters station and Phra Chulachomklao Fort, respectively.","PeriodicalId":128828,"journal":{"name":"2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122387485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Dao, Thanh-Hai Tran, Thi-Lan Le, Hai Vu, Viet-Tung Nguyen, Dang-Khoa Mac, Ngoc-Diep Do, Thanh-Thuy Pham
{"title":"Indoor navigation assistance system for visually impaired people using multimodal technologies","authors":"T. Dao, Thanh-Hai Tran, Thi-Lan Le, Hai Vu, Viet-Tung Nguyen, Dang-Khoa Mac, Ngoc-Diep Do, Thanh-Thuy Pham","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838771","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a complete indoor navigation assistance system for visually impaired people is introduced. Different multimedia technologies are integrated in a single system in order to provide a precise, safe and friendly navigation service. First, the environment is modeled and represented. After that, the user location is determined by combining Wi-Fi and vision information. This combination offers some benefits in comparison with single technology systems such as setup cost, computational time and accuracy. Finally, the interaction between users and the system is performed through natural Vietnamese language with the support of Vietnamese voice synthesis and recognition. The proposed the system has been successfully deployed in a school for visually impaired pupils. Evaluation with various criteria on visually impaired pupils reveals the feasibility of the solution.","PeriodicalId":128828,"journal":{"name":"2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122633754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on controls of sub crawlers for climbing up stairs with LRF for rescue robots","authors":"M. Hatano, Yuki Kitahara","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838672","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an autonomous control method for rescue robots climbing up stairs using LRF. In disaster areas caused by earthquakes, rescue robots are needed to find injured people from under broken buildings instead of rescue workers. Then, the robots require high skills to be controlled, because the robots are operated by remote controls with wireless cameras. Especially, in case of climbing up stairs to find victims, it is hard to recognize a depth between robots and steps for operators with wireless cameras. Then we have proposed the method to estimate slope angles of stairs using LRF and an angle control method for sub crawlers of rescue robots. Here, we try to develop the estimation system with small and low-cost sensors instead of commercial ranging sensors that are too large to be attached on rescue robots. In this paper, we present the validity of the proposed method for actual stairs in a building. First, we present a method for estimating a slope angle of stairs using LRF. Second, a selection method of measured points for an accurate estimation for the slope angle is considered. Third, it is shown that our constructed rescue robot estimates the angle of the slope and climbs up the actual stairs with controlling postures of the robot with sub crawlers.","PeriodicalId":128828,"journal":{"name":"2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131250793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xu Zhang, Yunfeng Liang, Dongyun Lin, Zhiping Lin, S. Thng, E. Y. Gan, E.Y. Tay
{"title":"Reaction-diffusion based level set method with local entropy thresholding for melasma image segmentation","authors":"Xu Zhang, Yunfeng Liang, Dongyun Lin, Zhiping Lin, S. Thng, E. Y. Gan, E.Y. Tay","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838823","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new method for melasma pigmentary area segmentation utilizing re action-diffusion based level set model (RDLSM) together with local entropy thresholding. In the adopted level set model, a diffusion term is used to regularize the level set function while a reaction term with anticipated sign property is used to force the zero level set towards desired locations. Then local entropy thresholding is applied to address the over-segmentation issue of RDLSM and to extract desired boundaries with higher overall local entropy. As a result, the melasma pigmentary areas and the normal skin areas can be better identified. Experimental results show that the proposed method performs well for melasma image segmentation, especially for cases with severe non-uniform illumination distribution.","PeriodicalId":128828,"journal":{"name":"2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131624894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Model predictive control strategy for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles","authors":"Yi-Min Hsieh, Yen‐Chen Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838781","url":null,"abstract":"Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a kind of hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) that has a large capacity battery to satisfy the requirement of the distance for commuters. The parallel PHEV has two kinds of power source, internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric motor (EM). To have a superior fuel economy, a control strategy to split the driving power to ICE and EM is important. In this paper, we propose a model predictive control strategy to regulate the individual power from ICE and EM in a parallel PHEV to minimize fuel consumption. The control strategy can improve fuel economy comparing with other strategies, and the proposed strategy also considers the computational burden for real time implement.","PeriodicalId":128828,"journal":{"name":"2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115161622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visually servoed trajectory tracking of quadrotors with the kinematic model","authors":"Penghong Lin, Kai Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838743","url":null,"abstract":"The visually servoed trajectory tracking of quadrotors has attracted many academic researchers over the past decade, and numerous controllers are proposed for this challenging problem. The trajectory tracking controller proposed in this paper follows the Position Based Visual Servoing (PBVS) paradigm. Most of the PBVS controllers, if not all, are implemented assuming that the position of the quadrotor has been accurately recovered with an independent estimator. Therefore the rigorous trajectory tracking stability cannot be promised due to the separation principle does not hold for the general nonlinear systems. Accordingly, a new PBVS controller is proposed in this paper for the trajectory tracking of quadrotors by embedding a novel adaptive estimator into this new controller to estimate the position of the quadrotor online. It is proved by Lyapunov theory that the proposed adaptive PBVS controller gives rise to the asymptotic trajectory tracking and the convergence of the estimated position to the actual one. An experiment is conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.","PeriodicalId":128828,"journal":{"name":"2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121856630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Boushaki, Chao Liu, B. Herman, V. Trévillot, M. Akkari, P. Poignet
{"title":"Optimization of concentric-tube robot design for deep anterior brain tumor surgery","authors":"M. Boushaki, Chao Liu, B. Herman, V. Trévillot, M. Akkari, P. Poignet","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838563","url":null,"abstract":"Most of existing works on the tubes design optimization of concentric-tube robot (CTR) do not include the elastic stability in the optimization criteria. The only work which formulates the elastic stability in the objective function is based on scalarization method which is used in existing multi-objective design optimization. The objective function is formed by a set of weighted objective functions. The selection of the weights is crucial as the optimization results are greatly affected by them and could be misleading if these weights are improperly chosen. As an alternative optimization technique, we use Pareto grid-searching method to avoid this problem and allow a straightforward interpretation of the results following the selection criteria for the parameters to be optimized. This paper shows a three-tube CTR design based on Pareto grid-searching method in order to optimize the reachability and elastic stability of the CTR within a specific curvature range dedicated to the deep anterior brain tumor removal surgery.","PeriodicalId":128828,"journal":{"name":"2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127829068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}