{"title":"A framework for extracting and representing project knowledge contexts using topic models and dynamic knowledge maps","authors":"Jin Xu, Zheng Li, Shuliang Li, Yanyan Zhang","doi":"10.1117/12.2196528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2196528","url":null,"abstract":"There is still a lack of effective paradigms and tools for analysing and discovering the contents and relationships of project knowledge contexts in the field of project management. In this paper, a new framework for extracting and representing project knowledge contexts using topic models and dynamic knowledge maps under big data environments is proposed and developed. The conceptual paradigm, theoretical underpinning, extended topic model, and illustration examples of the ontology model for project knowledge maps are presented, with further research work envisaged.","PeriodicalId":273984,"journal":{"name":"CiiT international journal of digital image processing","volume":"185 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122809645","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":"Moiré fringe center determination using artificial neural network","authors":"Wing Hon Woo, K. Yen","doi":"10.1117/12.2197089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2197089","url":null,"abstract":"Moiré methods are commonly used in various engineering metrological practices such as deformation measurements and surface topography. In the past, most of the applications required human intervention in fringe pattern analysis and image processing development to analyze the moiré patterns. In a recent application of using circular gratings moiré pattern, researchers developed graphical analysis method to determine the in-plane (2-D) displacement change between the two circular gratings by analyzing the moiré pattern change. In this work, an artificial neural network approach was proposed to detect and locate moiré fringe centers of circular gratings without image preprocessing and curve fitting. The intensity values in columns of the transformed circular moiré pattern were extracted as the input to the neural network. Moiré fringe centers extracted using graphical analysis method were used as the target for the neural network training. The neural network produced reasonably accurate output with an average mean error of an average mean error of less than 1 unit pixel with standard deviation of less than 4 unit pixels in determining the location of the moiré fringe centers. The result showed that the neural network approach is applicable in moiré fringe centers determination and its feasibility in automating moiré pattern analysis with further improvement.","PeriodicalId":273984,"journal":{"name":"CiiT international journal of digital image processing","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124276974","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 non rigid registration algorithm of DCE-MRI based on mutual information and optical flow","authors":"Shihua Yu, Rui Wang, Kaiyu Wang, Mengmeng Xi, Jiashuo Zheng, Hui Liu","doi":"10.1117/12.2197181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2197181","url":null,"abstract":"Image matching plays a very important role in the field of medical image, while the two image registration methods based on the mutual information and the optical flow are very effective. The experimental results show that the two methods have their prominent advantages. The method based on mutual information is good for the overall displacement, while the method based on optical flow is very sensitive to small deformation. In the breast DCE-MRI images studied in this paper, there is not only overall deformation caused by the patient, but also non rigid small deformation caused by respiratory deformation. In view of the above situation, the single-image registration algorithms cannot meet the actual needs of complex situations. After a comprehensive analysis to the advantages and disadvantages of these two methods, this paper proposes a registration algorithm of combining mutual information with optical flow field, and applies subtraction images of the reference image and the floating image as the main criterion to evaluate the registration effect, at the same time, applies the mutual information between image sequence values as auxiliary criterion. With the test of the example, this algorithm has obtained a better accuracy and reliability in breast DCE-MRI image sequences.","PeriodicalId":273984,"journal":{"name":"CiiT international journal of digital image processing","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115122417","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":"Genre-based image classification using ensemble learning for online flyers","authors":"Payam Pourashraf, Noriko Tomuro, Emilia Apostolova","doi":"10.1117/12.2197138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2197138","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an image classification model developed to classify images embedded in commercial real estate flyers. It is a component in a larger, multimodal system which uses texts as well as images in the flyers to automatically classify them by the property types. The role of the image classifier in the system is to provide the genres of the embedded images (map, schematic drawing, aerial photo, etc.), which to be combined with the texts in the flyer to do the overall classification. In this work, we used an ensemble learning approach and developed a model where the outputs of an ensemble of support vector machines (SVMs) are combined by a k-nearest neighbor (KNN) classifier. In this model, the classifiers in the ensemble are strong classifiers, each of which is trained to predict a given/assigned genre. Not only is our model intuitive by taking advantage of the mutual distinctness of the image genres, it is also scalable. We tested the model using over 3000 images extracted from online real estate flyers. The result showed that our model outperformed the baseline classifiers by a large margin.","PeriodicalId":273984,"journal":{"name":"CiiT international journal of digital image processing","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124775402","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":"Unsupervised segmentation of soil x-ray microtomography images","authors":"Ajay K. Mandava, E. Regentova, M. Berli","doi":"10.1117/12.2197067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2197067","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in X-ray microtomography (XMT) are opening new opportunities for examining soil structural properties and fluid distribution around living roots in-situ. The low contrast between moist soil, root and air-filled pores in XMT images presents a problem with respect to image segmentation. In this paper, we develop an unsupervised method for segmenting XMT images to pores (air and water), soil, and root regions. A feature-based segmentation method is provided to isolate regions that consist of similar texture patterns from an image based on the normalized inverse difference moment of gray-level co-occurrence matrix. The results obtained show that the combination of features, clustering, and post-processing techniques has advantageous over other advanced segmentation methods.","PeriodicalId":273984,"journal":{"name":"CiiT international journal of digital image processing","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116313842","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":"The analysis of frequency domain characteristics of emotional images in eye-tracking experiment","authors":"Boqiang Fan, Huimin Ma, Xiang Wang","doi":"10.1117/12.2196909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2196909","url":null,"abstract":"Although recently eye-tracking method has been introduced into behavioral experiments based on dot-probe paradigm, some characteristics in eye-tracking data do not draw as much attention as traditional characteristics like reaction time. It is also necessary to associate eye-tracking data to characteristics of images shown in experiments. In this research, new variables, such as fixation length, times of fixation and times of eye movement, in eye-tracking data were extracted from a behavioral experiment based on dot probe paradigm. They were analyzed and compared to traditional reaction time. After the analysis of positive and negative scenery images, parameters such as hue frequency spectrum PAR (Peak to Average Ratio) were extracted and showed difference between negative and positive images. These parameters of emotional images could discriminate scenery images according to their emotions in an SVM classifier well. Besides, it was found that images’ hue frequency spectrum PAR is obviously relevant to eye-tracking statistics. When the dot was on the negative side, negative images’ hue frequency spectrum PAR and horizontal eye-jumps confirmed to hyperbolic distribution, while that of positive images was linear with horizontal eye-jumps. The result could help to explain the mechanism of human’s attention and boost the study in computer vision.","PeriodicalId":273984,"journal":{"name":"CiiT international journal of digital image processing","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126639303","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":"Infrared and visible image fusion based on shearlet transform and image enhancement","authors":"Xiuqiong Zhang, Li Yu, Guo Huang","doi":"10.1117/12.2197091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2197091","url":null,"abstract":"In order to fuse the visible and infrared images captured in low visibility conditions, a method based on shearlet transform(ST) and image enhancement is proposed in this paper. Shearlets are equipped with a simple mathematical structure similar to wavelets, which are associated to a multi-scale analysis. An image could be decomposed by ST in any scale and any direction, in which shearlets show a greater ability to fully capture the intrinsic geometrical features of multidimensional phenomena. Firstly, the infrared and visible images are decomposed by ST respectively; meanwhile all the sub-images of R, G and B channels of visible image are enhanced. Secondly, the statistical character of the directional coefficients decomposed by ST meet the generalized Gaussian distribution (GGD). So, the coefficients are estimated using absolute moment estimation in local neighbor in directional coefficients. The estimated scale parameter is used to measure the saliency and compute the weight. The fused coefficients are obtained by the weighted average and are reconstructed the final fused image. The results of experiment show that the fused image has the maximum value of entropy and is more accord with the human visual system.","PeriodicalId":273984,"journal":{"name":"CiiT international journal of digital image processing","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125990591","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":"Application of clustering for customer segmentation in private banking","authors":"Xuan Yang, Jin Chen, P. Hao, Y. Wang","doi":"10.1117/12.2197182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2197182","url":null,"abstract":"With fierce competition in banking industry, more and more banks have realised that accurate customer segmentation is of fundamental importance, especially for the identification of those high-value customers. In order to solve this problem, we collected real data about private banking customers of a commercial bank in China, conducted empirical analysis by applying K-means clustering technique. When determine the K value, we propose a mechanism that meet both academic requirements and practical needs. Through K-means clustering, we successfully segmented the customers into three categories, and features of each group have been illustrated in details.","PeriodicalId":273984,"journal":{"name":"CiiT international journal of digital image processing","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127090842","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":"The trigonometric interpolation spline surface and its application in image zooming","authors":"Juncheng Li, Lian Yang","doi":"10.1117/12.2197085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2197085","url":null,"abstract":"The trigonometric polynomial spline surface generated over the space {1, sint, cost, sin2t, cos2t} is presented in this work. The proposed surface can automatically interpolate all the given data points and satisfy C2 continuous without solving equation systems. Then, image zooming making use of the proposed surface is investigated. Experimental results show that the proposed surface is effective for dealing with image zooming problems.","PeriodicalId":273984,"journal":{"name":"CiiT international journal of digital image processing","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122311996","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":"Method and simulation for spacecraft clock correction based on x-ray pulsars signal","authors":"Xianzhou Gui, Chen Sun, Senlin Huang","doi":"10.1117/12.2197156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2197156","url":null,"abstract":"X-ray pulsar-based spacecraft navigation comes to be a new kind of autonomous navigation technology with high potential, for the advantages of high reliability, good autonomy, high precision and wide applicability. Timing, determination of position and attitude are main prospects of using X-ray pulsars [1,2]. To realize the pulse signal timing, in this paper, a Phase-Locked Loop circuit for tracking pulsar signal frequency is designed; PLL is built in the Simulink environment and tested by using simple pulse signal to get circuit parameters with good track effect. The Crab Nebula pulse profile, which is used as the simulation signal source, is modelled by using the mathematical method [3]. The simulation results show that the PLL circuit designed in the paper can track the frequency of pulse signal precisely and can be used for spacecraft clock correction.","PeriodicalId":273984,"journal":{"name":"CiiT international journal of digital image processing","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131843009","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}