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Multispectral Palmprint Encoding and Recognition
Palmprints are emerging as a new entity in multi-modal biometrics for human
identification and verification. Multispectral palmprint images captured in the
visible and infrared spectrum not only contain the wrinkles and ridge structure
of a palm, but also the underlying pattern of veins; making them a highly
discriminating biometric identifier. In this paper, we propose a feature
encoding scheme for robust and highly accurate representation and matching of
multispectral palmprints. To facilitate compact storage of the feature, we
design a binary hash table structure that allows for efficient matching in
large databases. Comprehensive experiments for both identification and
verification scenarios are performed on two public datasets -- one captured
with a contact-based sensor (PolyU dataset), and the other with a contact-free
sensor (CASIA dataset). Recognition results in various experimental setups show
that the proposed method consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art
methods. Error rates achieved by our method (0.003% on PolyU and 0.2% on CASIA)
are the lowest reported in literature on both dataset and clearly indicate the
viability of palmprint as a reliable and promising biometric. All source codes
are publicly available.Comment: Preliminary version of this manuscript was published in ICCV 2011. Z.
Khan A. Mian and Y. Hu, "Contour Code: Robust and Efficient Multispectral
Palmprint Encoding for Human Recognition", International Conference on
Computer Vision, 2011. MATLAB Code available:
https://sites.google.com/site/zohaibnet/Home/code
GETNET: A General End-to-end Two-dimensional CNN Framework for Hyperspectral Image Change Detection
Change detection (CD) is an important application of remote sensing, which
provides timely change information about large-scale Earth surface. With the
emergence of hyperspectral imagery, CD technology has been greatly promoted, as
hyperspectral data with the highspectral resolution are capable of detecting
finer changes than using the traditional multispectral imagery. Nevertheless,
the high dimension of hyperspectral data makes it difficult to implement
traditional CD algorithms. Besides, endmember abundance information at subpixel
level is often not fully utilized. In order to better handle high dimension
problem and explore abundance information, this paper presents a General
End-to-end Two-dimensional CNN (GETNET) framework for hyperspectral image
change detection (HSI-CD). The main contributions of this work are threefold:
1) Mixed-affinity matrix that integrates subpixel representation is introduced
to mine more cross-channel gradient features and fuse multi-source information;
2) 2-D CNN is designed to learn the discriminative features effectively from
multi-source data at a higher level and enhance the generalization ability of
the proposed CD algorithm; 3) A new HSI-CD data set is designed for the
objective comparison of different methods. Experimental results on real
hyperspectral data sets demonstrate the proposed method outperforms most of the
state-of-the-arts
Filmy Cloud Removal on Satellite Imagery with Multispectral Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets
In this paper, we propose a method for cloud removal from visible light RGB
satellite images by extending the conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
(cGANs) from RGB images to multispectral images. Satellite images have been
widely utilized for various purposes, such as natural environment monitoring
(pollution, forest or rivers), transportation improvement and prompt emergency
response to disasters. However, the obscurity caused by clouds makes it
unstable to monitor the situation on the ground with the visible light camera.
Images captured by a longer wavelength are introduced to reduce the effects of
clouds. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is such an example that improves
visibility even the clouds exist. On the other hand, the spatial resolution
decreases as the wavelength increases. Furthermore, the images captured by long
wavelengths differs considerably from those captured by visible light in terms
of their appearance. Therefore, we propose a network that can remove clouds and
generate visible light images from the multispectral images taken as inputs.
This is achieved by extending the input channels of cGANs to be compatible with
multispectral images. The networks are trained to output images that are close
to the ground truth using the images synthesized with clouds over the ground
truth as inputs. In the available dataset, the proportion of images of the
forest or the sea is very high, which will introduce bias in the training
dataset if uniformly sampled from the original dataset. Thus, we utilize the
t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) to improve the problem of
bias in the training dataset. Finally, we confirm the feasibility of the
proposed network on the dataset of four bands images, which include three
visible light bands and one near-infrared (NIR) band
Hyperspectral Image Restoration via Total Variation Regularized Low-rank Tensor Decomposition
Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are often corrupted by a mixture of several types
of noise during the acquisition process, e.g., Gaussian noise, impulse noise,
dead lines, stripes, and many others. Such complex noise could degrade the
quality of the acquired HSIs, limiting the precision of the subsequent
processing. In this paper, we present a novel tensor-based HSI restoration
approach by fully identifying the intrinsic structures of the clean HSI part
and the mixed noise part respectively. Specifically, for the clean HSI part, we
use tensor Tucker decomposition to describe the global correlation among all
bands, and an anisotropic spatial-spectral total variation (SSTV)
regularization to characterize the piecewise smooth structure in both spatial
and spectral domains. For the mixed noise part, we adopt the norm
regularization to detect the sparse noise, including stripes, impulse noise,
and dead pixels. Despite that TV regulariztion has the ability of removing
Gaussian noise, the Frobenius norm term is further used to model heavy Gaussian
noise for some real-world scenarios. Then, we develop an efficient algorithm
for solving the resulting optimization problem by using the augmented Lagrange
multiplier (ALM) method. Finally, extensive experiments on simulated and
real-world noise HSIs are carried out to demonstrate the superiority of the
proposed method over the existing state-of-the-art ones.Comment: 15 pages, 20 figure
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