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The Application of Preconditioned Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers in Depth from Focal Stack
Post capture refocusing effect in smartphone cameras is achievable by using
focal stacks. However, the accuracy of this effect is totally dependent on the
combination of the depth layers in the stack. The accuracy of the extended
depth of field effect in this application can be improved significantly by
computing an accurate depth map which has been an open issue for decades. To
tackle this issue, in this paper, a framework is proposed based on
Preconditioned Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (PADMM) for depth
from the focal stack and synthetic defocus application. In addition to its
ability to provide high structural accuracy and occlusion handling, the
optimization function of the proposed method can, in fact, converge faster and
better than state of the art methods. The evaluation has been done on 21 sets
of focal stacks and the optimization function has been compared against 5 other
methods. Preliminary results indicate that the proposed method has a better
performance in terms of structural accuracy and optimization in comparison to
the current state of the art methods.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figure
Fast Ewald summation for free-space Stokes potentials
We present a spectrally accurate method for the rapid evaluation of
free-space Stokes potentials, i.e. sums involving a large number of free space
Green's functions. We consider sums involving stokeslets, stresslets and
rotlets that appear in boundary integral methods and potential methods for
solving Stokes equations. The method combines the framework of the Spectral
Ewald method for periodic problems, with a very recent approach to solving the
free-space harmonic and biharmonic equations using fast Fourier transforms
(FFTs) on a uniform grid. Convolution with a truncated Gaussian function is
used to place point sources on a grid. With precomputation of a scalar grid
quantity that does not depend on these sources, the amount of oversampling of
the grids with Gaussians can be kept at a factor of two, the minimum for
aperiodic convolutions by FFTs. The resulting algorithm has a computational
complexity of O(N log N) for problems with N sources and targets. Comparison is
made with a fast multipole method (FMM) to show that the performance of the new
method is competitive.Comment: 35 pages, 15 figure
Stain Consistency Learning: Handling Stain Variation for Automatic Digital Pathology Segmentation
Stain variation is a unique challenge associated with automated analysis of
digital pathology. Numerous methods have been developed to improve the
robustness of machine learning methods to stain variation, but comparative
studies have demonstrated limited benefits to performance. Moreover, methods to
handle stain variation were largely developed for H&E stained data, with
evaluation generally limited to classification tasks. Here we propose Stain
Consistency Learning, a novel framework combining stain-specific augmentation
with a stain consistency loss function to learn stain colour invariant
features. We perform the first, extensive comparison of methods to handle stain
variation for segmentation tasks, comparing ten methods on Masson's trichrome
and H&E stained cell and nuclei datasets, respectively. We observed that stain
normalisation methods resulted in equivalent or worse performance, while stain
augmentation or stain adversarial methods demonstrated improved performance,
with the best performance consistently achieved by our proposed approach. The
code is available at: https://github.com/mlyg/stain_consistency_learnin
Comparación del rendimiento de los métodos de detección de daños estructurales basados en la función de respuesta en frecuencia y la densidad espectral de potencia
[EN] Recent catastrophic events have aroused great interest in the scientific community regarding the evaluation and prediction of the structural response along the life cycle of infrastructures. Efforts are put into developing adequate health monitoring systems to help prevent future human life and economic losses. Here, two non-destructive damage detection methods are presented: the Frequency Response Function-based and the Spectral Density Function-based methods. The damage detection performance of both methods is compared through a particular case study, where different damage scenarios are analyzed in a 2D truss bridge. The reliability of each method is studied in terms of different prediction errors. Numerical results show that the PSD method for damage detection on a steel truss bridge structure provides more accurate and robust results when compared to that based on FRF.Grant PID2020-117056RB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF A way of making Europe.Hadizadeh-Bazaz, M.; Navarro, I.; Yepes, V. (2022). Performance comparison of structural damage detection methods based on Frequency Response Function and Power Spectral Density. DYNA Ingeniería e Industria (Online). 97(5):493-500. https://doi.org/10.6036/1050449350097
Optimization of Fuzzy Support Vector Machine (FSVM) Performance by Distance-Based Similarity Measure Classification
This research aims to determine the maximum or minimum value of a Fuzzy Support Vector Machine (FSVM) Algorithm using the optimization function. As opposed to FSVM, which is less effective on large and complex data because of its sensitivity to outliers and noise, SVM is considered an effective method of data classification. One of the techniques used to overcome this inefficiency is fuzzy logic, with its ability to select the right membership function, which significantly affects the effectiveness of the FSVM algorithm performance. This research was carried out using the Gaussian membership function and the Distance-Based Similarity Measurement consisting of the Euclidean, Manhattan, Chebyshev, and Minkowsky distance methods. Subsequently, the optimization of the FSVM classification process was determined using four proposed FSVM models and normal SVM as comparison references. The results showed that the method tends to eliminate the impact of noise and enhance classification accuracy effectively. FSVM provides the best and highest accuracy value of 94% at a penalty parameter value of 1000 using the Chebyshev distance matrix. Furthermore, the model proposed will be compared to the performance evaluation model in preliminary studies. The result further showed that using FSVM with a Chebyshev distance matrix and a Gaussian membership function provides a better performance evaluation value. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2021-02-04-02 Full Text: PD
Towards automatic extraction of harmony information from music signals
PhDIn this thesis we address the subject of automatic extraction of harmony
information from audio recordings. We focus on chord symbol recognition
and methods for evaluating algorithms designed to perform that task.
We present a novel six-dimensional model for equal tempered pitch
space based on concepts from neo-Riemannian music theory. This model
is employed as the basis of a harmonic change detection function which
we use to improve the performance of a chord recognition algorithm.
We develop a machine readable text syntax for chord symbols and
present a hand labelled chord transcription collection of 180 Beatles songs
annotated using this syntax. This collection has been made publicly available
and is already widely used for evaluation purposes in the research
community. We also introduce methods for comparing chord symbols
which we subsequently use for analysing the statistics of the transcription
collection. To ensure that researchers are able to use our transcriptions
with confidence, we demonstrate a novel alignment algorithm based on
simple audio fingerprints that allows local copies of the Beatles audio files
to be accurately aligned to our transcriptions automatically.
Evaluation methods for chord symbol recall and segmentation measures
are discussed in detail and we use our chord comparison techniques
as the basis for a novel dictionary-based chord symbol recall calculation.
At the end of the thesis, we evaluate the performance of fifteen chord
recognition algorithms (three of our own and twelve entrants to the 2009
MIREX chord detection evaluation) on the Beatles collection. Results
are presented for several different evaluation measures using a range of
evaluation parameters. The algorithms are compared with each other in
terms of performance but we also pay special attention to analysing and
discussing the benefits and drawbacks of the different evaluation methods
that are used
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