Vehicle logo recognition using histograms of oriented gradient descriptor and sparsity score

Most of vehicle have the similar structures and designs. It is extremely complicated and difficult to identify and classify vehicle brands based on their structure and shape. As we requirea quick and reliable response, so vehicle logos are an alternative method of determining the type of a vehicle. In this paper, we propose a method for vehicle logo recognition based on feature  selection method in a hybrid way. Vehicle logo images are first characterized by histograms of oriented gradient descriptors and the final features vector are then applied feature selection method to reduce the irrelevant information. Moreover, we release a new benchmark dataset for vehicle logo recognition and retrieval task namely, VLR-40. The experimental results are evaluated on this database which show the efficiency of the proposed approach

An online algorithm for separating sparse and low-dimensional signal sequences from their sum, and its applications in video processing

In signal processing, ``low-rank + sparse\u27\u27 is an important assumption when separating two signals from their sum. Many applications, e.g., video foreground/background separation are well-formulated by this assumption. In this work, with the ``low-rank + sparse\u27\u27 assumption, we design and evaluate an online algorithm, called practical recursive projected compressive sensing (prac-ReProCS) for recovering a time sequence of sparse vectors St and a time sequence of dense vectors Lt from their sum, Mt = St + Lt, when the Lt\u27s lie in a slowly changing low-dimensional subspace of the full space. In the first part of this work (Chapter 1-5), we study and discuss the prac-ReProCS algorithm, the practical version of the original ReProCS algorithm. We apply prac-ReProCS to a key application -- video layering, where the goal is to separate a video sequence into a slowly changing background sequence and a sparse foreground sequence that consists of one or more moving regions/objects on-the-fly. Via experiments we show that prac-ReProCS has significantly better performance compared with other state-of-the-art robust-pca methods when applied to video foreground-background separation. In the second part of this work (Chapter 6), we study the problem of video denoising. We apply prac-ReProCS to video denoising as a preprocessing step. We develop a novel approach to video denoising that is based on the idea that many noisy or corrupted videos can be split into three parts -- the ``low-rank laye\u27\u27, the ``sparse layer\u27\u27 and a small residual which is small and bounded. We show using extensive experiments, layering-then-denoising is effective, especially for long videos with small-sized images that those corrupted by general large variance noise or by large sparse noise, e.g., salt-and-pepper noise. In the last part of this work (Chapter 7), we discuss an independent problem called logo detection and propose a future research direction where prac-ReProCS can be combined with deep learning solutions