4850 results about "Image pre processing" patented technology

Face detection techniques are provided that use a multiple-stage face detection algorithm. An exemplary three-stage algorithm includes a first stage that applies linear-filtering to enhance detection performance by removing many non-face-like portions within an image, a second stage that uses a boosting chain that is adopted to combine boosting classifiers within a hierarchy “chain” structure, and a third stage that performs post-filtering using image pre-processing, SVM-filtering and color-filtering to refine the final face detection prediction. In certain further implementations, the face detection techniques include a two-level hierarchy in-plane pose estimator to provide a rapid multi-view face detector that further improves the accuracy and robustness of face detection.

The invention provides a PCB apparent defect automatic detection system and method based on an image and aims at solving the problems that detection efficiency is low and misjudgment rate is high. The method comprises the following steps: firstly transmitting a to-be-detected PCB to a specified position by virtue of a motion control unit; acquiring an image of the to-be-detected PCB by utilizing image acquisition equipment such as an image acquisition card and an industrial camera; then sequentially carrying out a series of operation such as image preprocessing, PCB defect detection and PCB defect identification and classification on the acquired image, so that PCB defect automatic detection is completed; and finally realizing real-time automatic sorting of an unqualified PCB and timely reporting a defect position and a defect analysis result to an operator. The system and method which are provided by the invention can automatically detect the PCB defect and identify the defect type to a great extent, and false detection rate is reduced, so that enterprise cost is reduced, and the system and method which are provided by the invention have stronger practicability.

A method for detecting and tracking vehicle based on video camera and computer system includes obtaining preliminary edge object region by carrying out global domain value division on obtained difference image of background edge and front ground edge then carrying out interclass variance domain value division on intensified difference image to obtain preliminary object region, forming object region based on integration, carrying out expansion calculation and corrosion calculation on object region to pick up object character, carrying out object identification then locking and tracking object in real time to form object trace.

The invention discloses a method of 3D contour measurement of a workpiece on a conveyor belt based on line laser scanning. The method comprises the following steps of obtaining camera internal and external parameters through camera calibration, carrying out filtering and laser light strip center position initial extraction through an image preprocessing step, carrying out sub-pixel precision refinement on the center coordinates of a light bar, obtaining a light plane equation through the laser light plane calibration and finally carrying out reconstruction and measurement of the three-dimensional contour information of a workpiece to be measured. The workpiece 3D contour measurement brought forward by the invention has the following advantages: a high measurement precision which means thethree-dimensional contour information of the workpiece to be measured can be accurately obtained through the laser light bar extraction with sub-pixel precision and 3D reconstruction; a fast measurement speed which means real-time measurement of 3D contour information of the workpiece to be tested can be realized to improve the efficiency of industrial production site operations; and low hardwarecosts which is realized in a hardware implementation mode in which laser is combined with a monocular camera. Accordingly, the technical method of the application has advantages such as being in a non-contact mode, high in measurement precision, fast in speed and low in cost, and can be applied to an industrial automation production process to realize accurate measurement of the 3D contour information of the workpiece on the conveyor belt.

The invention discloses a view line tracking method and an assistant system for the handicapped by using the method. The method comprises the steps of image pretreatment, the orientation of a human eye area by utilizing Harr features, blinking recognition, the inspection and judgment of LED reflecting lightspot in pupils, the accurate position of pupil centre, the calculation of view line direction and so on. The system comprises an embedded-like platform, a camera, a display screen and four LED and wheelchair running control modules which are installed at the four corners of the display screen and arranged into a rectangular. The system is an embedded-type system, which carries out blinking inspection, the inspection of the reflecting lightspots against infrared light sources on corneas, the accurate position of the pupil centers and the judgment of view line directions by the camera and a processor, tracks the view line of human eyes and, meanwhile, carries out the recognition of the status of the human eyes by judging the view line directions of the human eyes when gazing on the screen, thus realizing the functions of wheelchair control, music play control, text reading and webpage rolling. The invention is convenient for use and has high accuracy, thereby being capable of bringing great convenience for the lives of the handicapped.

The invention belongs to the field of intelligent automobile road detection and relates to a method for detecting road information and identifying forward vehicles based on vision. The method comprises image preprocessing, lane line characteristic parameter extraction, region-of-interest segmentation and vehicle outline identification. According to the method for detecting the road information and identifying the forward vehicles based on vision, the complexity of computation is simplified by extracting the regions of interest, filtering out background regions and reducing the processing scope; the processing result of each frame of image is obtained through fixed computation times by use of a line-by-line retrieval method, and differing from the characteristic, namely linear fitting on each bright spot, of Hough conversion, the method has outstanding advantages in algorithm instantaneity; the instantaneity of the Robinson direction model operator is improved, and an intermediate variable is set to reduce the computation times of each pixel point. The regions of interest are screened and judged by use of an information entropy and a vehicle tail symmetry characteristic in the target region, and therefore, the omission factor and the false drop rate of the algorithm are reduced.

A CCD captures a subject image having passed through a taking lens and an image processing circuit performs various types of image pre-treatment including gamma correction and white balance on image data corresponding to n lines×m rows output by the CCD. The image processing circuit also performs format processing on the data. The data are then compressed at a compression circuit. The white balance adjustment and the like are implemented in line sequence at a line processing circuit which engages in signal processing in pixel sequence in units of individual lines in the output from the CCD. The image data having undergone the pre-treatment are then subjected to format processing prior to JPEG compression, at a block processing circuit that engages in signal processing in units of individual blocks each ranging over an n×m (N>n, M>m) block. In other words, the signal processing is performed in block sequence.

An apparatus for generating an overview image of a plurality of images includes an image preprocessor which preprocesses a new image by assigning the new image to a position in the overview image based on position information contained by meta-data of the new image. A storage unit stores a plurality of images of the overview image and provides the overview image for display. Further, the image processor receives accuracy information of the position information. The image processor determines an overlap region of the preprocessed new image and a stored image within the overview image based on the assigned positions of the preprocessed new image and of the stored image. Further, a controllable processing engine processes the preprocessed new image by re-adjusting the assigned position of the preprocessed new image based on comparing features of the overlap region of the preprocessed new image and the stored image. The controllable processing engine is controlled by accuracy information of the position information.

A method and apparatus are disclosed for an image preprocessing device that automatically detects chestwall laterality; removes border artifacts; and segments breast tissue and pectoral muscle from digital mammograms. The algorithms in the preprocessing device utilize the computer cache, a vertical Sobel filter and a probabilistic Hough transform to detect curved edges. The preprocessing result, along with a pseudo-modality normalized image, can be used as input to a CAD (computer-aided detection) server or to a mammography image review workstation. In the case of workstation input, the preprocessing results improve the protocol for chestwall-to-chestwall image hanging, and support optimal image contrast display of each segmented region.

The invention discloses an automatic character extraction and recognition system and method for a low-resolution medical bill image. The system comprises an image preprocessing module, a field segmenting module, a single character segmenting module and a character recognizing module. The method comprises the steps of image preprocessing, field area recognizing, character string segmenting and character recognizing and verifying. The automatic character extraction and recognition system and method can be better suitable for automatic character extraction and recognition of the low-resolution medical bill image. The information can be fully utilized by performing layout analysis on a bill. For the image of which the image quality is low and the noise and the image resolution influence are very high, a character string is conveniently segmented into single characters through the semanteme of each field area, and then recognition on the image is converted into recognition on the single characters; for example, an invoice number composed of pure numbers can be recognized through a method special for processing an image only containing numbers, and when the invoice number is recognized, the recognizing range is limited within ten numbers from 0 to 9, and therefore the recognition rate can be greatly increased.

The invention discloses an intelligent video monitor of railway crossing, which includes a video sensor that is arranged on the railway crossing and is capable of covering the traffic condition of the entire crossing as well as a monitoring computer that is used for monitoring the condition of the entire crossing and is capable of dynamic image understanding; wherein, the monitoring computer includes a video image collecting module, a displaying unit, an image pretreatment module, a railway crossing customizing module, a dynamic image understanding module used for analyzing the safety condition of the crossing, a video information saving module, a crossing wireless receiving and transmitting module and an issuing module of crossing safety information; wherein, the issuing module of crossing safety information is connected with a crossing displaying unit and an alarming sound playing unit; and the monitoring computer is connected with the wireless receiving and transmitting device. The invention has a high intelligence level and is capable of automatically judging various dangerous conditions or failures of the crossing through the image understanding technique and is also capable of mutual communication between the train driver and safety condition of the crossing as well as between the passengers and vehicles passing through the crossing and the train running condition through the wireless communication technique.

The invention discloses a movable substation for unmanned aerial vehicle electric transmission line inspection. The movable substation is used for planning and issuing flight tasks, carrying out local monitoring on inspection state information and inspection data, pre-processing inspection image data and carrying out defect pre-diagnosing on inspection result data. The movable substation comprises a human-computer interaction module, an inspection task synchronizing module, a nacelle control module, a GIS module, a flight control module, a flight task planning module, a defect pre-diagnosing module, an image pre-processing module, a meteorology monitoring module, a flight task monitoring module, a data storing module, a GPS module and a communication module. According to the movable substation, the informatization and automation degrees of unmanned aerial vehicle inspecting process and inspecting result processing are enhanced, the efficiency of inspection of an unmanned aerial vehicle is improved, and technology support is provided for safe and reliable operation of unmanned aerial vehicle circuit inspection.

An image processing apparatus includes an image input device that reads an original image and obtains image data from the original image by selecting one of plural types of image reading modes of the image input device, an image pre-processing mechanism that performs at least one pre-processing relative to the image data obtained by the image input device, an image pre-processing selecting mechanism that selects at least one pre-processing according to the image reading mode selected by the image input device and causes the image pre-processing mechanism to perform the selected at least one pre-processing, and an information extracting mechanism that extracts specific information included in the image data subjected to the at least one pre-processing performed by the image pre-processing mechanism.

An apparatus and method for generating and consuming a three-dimensional (3D) data format to generate a realistic panoramic image are provided. The apparatus may include an image preprocessing unit to search for a matching point between images captured by a plurality of cameras, and to extract, as image information, at least one of a depth value, a texture value and object division information from each of the captured images, an image information structuring unit to structure 3D data to use the extracted image information to generate a realistic image, a 3D data format storage unit to store format information of the to structured 3D data in a database (DB), realistic image generating unit to generate a realistic panoramic image using the stored format information of the 3D data, and a realistic image rendering unit to perform rendering on the generated realistic panoramic image.

The invention discloses a semantic image restoration method based on a DenseNet generative adversarial network. The method comprises the following steps of preprocessing collected images, and constructing a training and testing data set; constructing a DenseNet generative adversarial network; training a DenseNet generation adversarial network stage; and finally, realizing repair processing of thedefect image by using the trained network. Under the framework of the generative adversarial network, the DenseNet structure is introduced, a new loss function is constructed to optimize the network,the gradient disappearance is reduced, network parameters are reduced, meanwhile, transmission and utilization of features are improved, and the similarity and visual effect of large-area semantic information missing image restoration are improved and improved. Examples show that face image restoration with serious defect information can be achieved, and compared with other existing methods, the restoration results better conform to visual cognition.

A method, apparatus, and system for decoding and recognizing barcode information by using a general camera such as one in a mobile device is disclosed. The invention uses a set of compact point spread functions (PSF) with a squared-shape distribution to restore blurred barcode image for quick and efficient decoding and recognition. Image pre-processing methods are applied to reduce noise and normalize pixel grayscale. On each normalized image, the invention checks if the image contains barcode lines. If there is a barcode, the invention tries to identify the beginning and ending positions of the barcode. The invention selectively decodes multiple scan lines across the barcode and match against predefined barcode models. The best matched barcodes are saved in the history buffer.

The invention relates to a front small-region object recognition and vehicle early warning method, and belongs to technical field of early warning for collision in front of vehicles. The front small-region object recognition and vehicle early warning method specifically comprises the steps that an image of a target to be recognized in front of a vehicle is acquired, and a region of interest (ROI)image is obtained; image preprocessing is performed on the obtained region of interest image, the preprocessed region of interest image is inputted into an improved YOLO convolutional network structure model to perform target recognition, and a target regression frame and a target category are outputted; the recognition result is inputted into a vehicle early warning system, if the target regression frame is located beyond the range of a vehicle driving route or the target is recognized to be of a non-dangerous category, the target is marked as a non-dangerous target, and the vehicle does notperform early warning; and if the target regression frame is located within the vehicle driving route and the recognized object belongs to a dangerous category or the object cannot be recognized but has certain speed features, the target is marked as a dangerous target, the vehicle performs early warning to remind a driver to pay attention so as to avoid occurrence of an accident.

The invention discloses an intelligent system for monitoring vehicles and people in a community. The intelligent system comprises a monitor image collection module, a monitor image pre-processing module, a vehicle contour and license plate image information recognition module, a vehicle information database, a face image information recognition module, a people information database, an image information identification verification and positioning speed-measurement module and an intelligent management module. The monitor image collection module collects image information of the vehicles and the people, the monitor image pre-processing module pre-processes the image information, the vehicle contour and license plate image information recognition module processes, extracts and recognizes vehicle image information, and the face image information recognition module extracts and recognizes obtained people face information; and the image information identification verification and positioning speed-measurement module performs identification verification an positioning testing, and an intelligent control module is used for human-machine interactive interface operation and intelligent processing. The intelligent system monitors the vehicles and the people in the community and performs entrance guard management, thereby guaranteeing the trip safety of the people in the community.

The invention relates to a detection method for vehicle license plate real-time positioning character segmentation in the technical field of video monitoring, which comprises the following steps of: obtaining a video frame from image acquisition equipment; carrying out image preprocessing; increasing a signal-to-noise ratio; carrying out grey scale transformation; computing a threshold value by adopting an Otsu binarization method and converting a vehicle image into a binary image; firstly carrying out closed operation by using a structural element with the size of length pixels, separating a communicated region at a fine position and smoothing burrs appearing on the edge of the region; carrying out contour detection; and carrying out license plate region accurate positioning: accurately segmenting out each character. The invention has lower requirements for image color, a large amount of system memory resources of a computer can not occupied, the operational speed is quickened after an input image is converted into a grey-scale image, the accurate position of each character can be rapidly found, and each character is segmented out by applying an image shearing method.

The invention provides an automatic recognition and an extraction method and a device for a bill information area and relates to the fields of computer image processing and information recognition. According to the automatic recognition and the extraction method for the information area of the bill, processes of the information recognition, edge and shading processing, character zone enhancement processing, information area extraction and the like are performed through bill image preprocessing and according to an information area character database which is built in advance through self-learning and training of the information area. The automatic recognition and the extraction method for the bill information area has the advantage of being capable of automatically recognizing and extracting interested area information of multiple bills with good accuracy and adaptability to save manpower and time of the bill processing.

The invention provides a novel license plate identification method and a system and particularly relates to an integral license plate identification system which utilizes various image processing algorisms to complete license plate image pretreatment and the final license plate character identification. The identification method comprises the following steps: in license plate positioning, the filtering technique based on the math morphology is adopted; in license plate character segmentation and extraction, the methods such as perpendicular projection are adopted; lastly, the license plate characters are indentified through the template matching technique based on multiple-characteristic extraction. Compared with the prior art, the novel license plate identification method and the system can identify the license plate quickly, robustly and accurately.

The invention discloses an image processing method for automatic pointer-type instrument reading recognition. The method comprises the following steps: (1) Hough circle detection is carried out on the image, a weighted average method is used for positioning the circle center and the radius of a dial, and a dial region square image is extracted; (2) the image is pre-treated, and a binary thinning image of the instrument pointer is extracted; (3) a central projection method is used for determining a pointer angle; (4) a zero graduation line and full graduation line position templates are extracted, and a range starting point and ending point positions are calibrated; (5) by using template matching, zero graduation line and full graduation line angles are obtained; and (6) according to the pointer angle, the zero graduation line angle and the full graduation line angle, the pointer reading is obtained through calculation. Thus, the problem that the instrument dial position on the acquired image is not fixed as the relative position between a camera and the pointer-type instrument is not fixed can be solved, subjective errors as the reading of the instrument is read manually can be eliminated, the efficiency and the precision can be improved, safety of people is ensured, the application range is wide, and robustness is strong.

The invention discloses a hair modeling and portrait editing method based on a single image. The method can be used for rebuilding three-dimensional structures of parts such as the hairstyle and the head of a figure in an inputted image, and can realize various portrait editing functions by a small quantity of user inputs; and after steps of image preprocessing, head three-dimensional model rebuilding, two-dimensional hairline extracting and three-dimensional hairstyle rebuilding, portrait editing functions such as image three-dimension, hairstyle migration and hairstyle editing are realized finally. The method of building a three-dimensional hair model from the single image is first proposed, a series of practical portrait and hairstyle editing functions are realized, and compared with the conventional method, the method has good effects. Besides, the hair modeling and portrait editing method has the advantages of simplicity and convenience in interaction, high computing efficiency, and the like.

The present invention provides a deep convolution neural network-based traffic flow density estimation method. The method comprises the steps of collecting road video images by a camera, sending multi-scale pyramid image blocks into a convolution neural network through image pre-processing, extracting simple features and abstract features from a bottom layer to a high layer, and obtaining a distribution density image of each scale of traffic flow image; learning a mapping from the multi-scale distribution density image to a distribution density image of an overall image and a number of all vehicles in the image by using a fully connected network layer; dividing regions of interest of a distribution density image of a video image output by the convolution neural network, summing pixels of the regions of interest so as to obtain a number of vehicles of a single lane or multiple lanes; and calculating according to a region length so as to obtain an instantaneous traffic flow density of the region. Through adoption of the method, vehicles are calculated and traffic flow density is estimated in real time more accurately.

The invention discloses a moving target analyzing and tracking method and system based on video monitoring. The moving target analyzing and tracking method comprises the following steps of: monitoring video acquisition, acquiring video streaming recorded by a monitoring camera; performing image preprocessing: primarily processing an image of the video streaming, and acquiring a processed image; performing target recognition: performing target recognition classification on each foreground object of the processed image, wherein the classified type of targets comprises persons, vehicles and objects; performing motion track analysis: analyzing the motion track of each target according to the setting of an alarm rule, marking a target of which the motion track is matched with the alarm rule as a suspected target, and giving out an alarm; and tracking the target: tracking the suspected target, and recording the actual motion track and the actual motion direction of the suspected target. According to the method, the alarm is automatically given aiming at an abnormal event, the possibility of missing report and error report is reduced, and the workload of security monitoring personnel is lightened.

The invention discloses an aggregate digital image assessment system which comprises a motion control module, a computer module, an image acquisition module and a power supply module, an image preprocessing module, an aggregate identity module, an aggregate analysis and evaluation module and a data storage module. The assessment method includes that: a computer sends an instruction to a motion controller for controlling the linear sliding of a laser scanner; a CCD camera takes a picture of aggregate on a scanning board and transforms the image to a digital image; the digital image is transformed to a grey-scale map, And an edge detecting operator is utilized for carrying out image enhancement and restoration to the transformed grey-scale map so as to transform the grey-scale map to a binary image; the aggregate in the binary image is projected and the image of the aggregate in the binary image is detected and separated; IPP image processing and analysis software is used for calculating the three-dimensional coordinate of the surface of the aggregate; quantitative assessment category is carried out to the characteristics of the aggregate to obtain the gradation, the shape, the corner angle and the texture of the aggregate; the computer stores experimental data as well as analysis and assessment results. The aggregate digital image assessment system of the invention can be used for analysis and assessment of the aggregate.

The invention discloses an intelligent video analyzing system and method for automatically identifying a fake plate vehicle. The system comprises a video collecting unit, an image preprocessing unit, an intelligent video analyzing unit and a database, wherein after vehicle video information collected by the video collecting unit is processed by the image preprocessing unit, and is then transmitted to the intelligent video analyzing unit, the vehicle information and the database information are compared by the intelligent video analyzing unit, and the vehicle information is analyzed, matched and judged by software so as to automatically identify a suspected vehicle and carry out system prompt or alarm. By adopting the technical scheme disclosed by the invention, the participation of personnel is greatly reduced, the identification accuracy and efficiency are increased, and the intelligent video analyzing system and method disclosed by the invention can be used for assisting the public security bureau and the criminal investigation department to carry out real-time monitoring on the fake plate, false plate and counterfeit plate vehicles in the illegal criminal cases.

The invention relates to an adaptive low-illumination visible image and infrared image fusion method, and belongs to the field of digital image processing. The method comprises the steps: image preprocessing, NSCT transformation, frequency domain coefficient fusion and an NSCT inversion. The method mainly achieves the multi-scale decomposition of a bright image and an infrared visible image, extracts high-frequency components and low-frequency components, and selects different fusion rules to carry out the frequency domain fusion according to the characteristics of the high-frequency components and low-frequency components. The NSCT inversion part is mainly used for carrying out the multi-scale inversion of the obtained fusion high-frequency and low-frequency components, obtaining the gray scale image after fusion, then carrying out the weighting of the gray scale image after fusion and an original color visible image, and obtaining a color fusion image. The method can effectively keep more detail information of the original image, can improve the contrast and resolution of the fusion image, and can be widely used in the fields of intelligent traffic, video monitoring, medical diagnosis, target detection and national defense security.

The invention discloses a video-based 3D human face expression cartoon driving method, which comprises the following steps: (1) image preprocessing, namely improving the image quality through light compensation, Gaussian smoothing and morphology operation of a gray level image; (2) BP human face detection, namely detecting a human face in a video through a BP neural network algorithm, and returning the size of the position of the human face for providing a smaller search range for human face characteristic point positioning of the next step to ensure instantaneity; (3) ASM human face characteristic point positioning and tracking, namely precisely extracting characteristic point information of human face shape, eyes, eyebrows, mouth and nose through an enhanced active shape model algorithm and a predicted meanshift algorithm, and returning the definite position; and (4) data information conversion, namely converting the data information acquired in the human face characteristic point positioning and tracking step to acquire the motion information of the human face. The method can overcome the defects in the prior art, and can achieve live human face cartoon driving effect.

The present invention provides a reconstruction method of human posture based on the geometrical skeleton, including:determining human skeleton pattern; obtaining 3D human skeleton pattern, pre-processing image; obtaining bianry image of separation of the background and the human; acquiring human geometrical skeleton; obtaining linear geometrical skeleton; labelling articulare of the start frame; bonding the manual labelling articulare on the geometrical skeleton, shortening the initial error; tracing the articulare by light stream method; obtaining the new position by the light stream method; processing error judgement and position correction to the new articulare obtained by the trace with the combined geometrical skeleton; processing line correction calculated by the light stream method; re-constructing the human posture; converting the two-dimensinal coordinate of the articulare to the 3D skeleton pattern by the parameter evaluating method of the proportion orthogonal projection model. The invention improves accuracy of the posture reconstruction, obtaining a high processing efficiency, capable of processing stable and effect human posture reconstruction in the intelligent video monitor system.