Image retrieval based on colour and improved NMI texture features

This paper proposes an improved method for extracting NMI features. This method uses Particle Swarm Optimization in advance to optimize the two-dimensional maximum class-to-class variance (2OTSU) in advance. Afterwards, the optimized 2OUSU is introduced into the Pulse Coupled Neural Network (PCNN) to automatically obtain the number of iterations of the loop. We use an improved PCNN method to extract the NMI features of the image. For the problem of low accuracy of single feature, this paper proposes a new method of multi-feature fusion based on image retrieval. It uses HSV colour features and texture features, where, the texture feature extraction methods include: Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM), Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and Improved PCNN. The experimental results show that: on the Corel-1k dataset, compared with similar algorithms, the retrieval accuracy of this method is improved by 13.6%; On the AT&T dataset, the retrieval accuracy is improved by 13.4% compared with the similar algorithm; on the FD-XJ dataset, the retrieval accuracy is improved by 17.7% compared with the similar algorithm. Therefore, the proposed algorithm has better retrieval performance and robustness compared with the existing image retrieval algorithms based on multi-feature fusion

Multi-channel quantum noise suppression and phase-sensitive modulation in a hybrid optical resonant cavity system

Quantum noise suppression and phase-sensitive modulation of continuously variable in vacuum and squeezed fields in a hybrid resonant cavity system are investigated theoretically. Multiple dark windows similar to electromagnetic induction transparency (EIT) are observed in quantum noise fluctuation curve. The effects of pumping light on both suppression of quantum noise and control the widths of dark windows are carefully analyzed, and the saturation point of pumping light for nonlinear crystal conversion is obtained. We find that the noise suppression effect is strongly sensitive to the pumping light power. The degree of noise suppression can be up to 13.9 dB when the pumping light power is 6.5 Beta_th. Moreover, a phase-sensitive modulation scheme is demonstrated, which well fills the gap that multi-channel quantum noise suppression is difficult to realize at the quadrature amplitude of squeezed field. Our result is meaningful for various applications in precise measurement physics, quantum information processing and quantum communications of system-on-a-chip

Histopathological Image Retrieval Based on Asymmetric Residual Hash and DNA Coding

Histopathological image retrieval is a key technology for computer-aided diagnosis. However, patients are reluctant to reveal their privacy in histopathological image retrieval. In order to further improve the effectiveness and safety of histopathological image retrieval, this paper proposes a new histopathological retrieval scheme based on asymmetric residual hash (ARH) and DNA coding techniques. In this paper, we first present a novel ARH for histopathological image retrieval to improve the effectiveness of histopathological search scheme, and then we use the 5-D hyperchaotic system to protect patient privacy. Specifically, the contribution consists of four aspects: 1) A histopathology ciphertext domain search scheme was proposed to improve the performance of computer-aided diagnosis. 2) An asymmetric approach was implemented to process histopathological query points and database points, and a novel asymmetric residual hash algorithm was first proposed to improve the accuracy and speed of histopathological image retrieval. 3) The 5-D hyperchaotic system and DNA coding technique are applied to histopathological image retrieval to protect patient privacy. 4) The loss function is constructed and optimized to learn network parameters and hash codes. The simulation experiment was performed on three datasets (Kimia Path24, Kimia Path960, and Malaria), and the results proved the effectiveness of the ARH algorithm. In addition, our proposed search method can resist common types of attacks during histopathological data transmission. Specifically, the MAP of the ARH is 0.9678 on the KIMIA Path24 with the value of hyperparameter is 125 and the length of hash code is 32. The MAP of the ARH is 0.966 on the KIMIA Path960 with the value of hyperparameter is 225 and the length of hash code is 32. The MAP of the ARH is 0.9482 on the Malaria with the value of hyperparameter is 10 and the length of hash code is 24

Research on an Insulator Defect Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv5

Insulators are widely used in various aspects of the power system and play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and stability of power transmission. Insulator detection is an important measure to guarantee the safety and stability of the transmission system, and accurate localization of insulators is a prerequisite for detection. In this paper, we propose an improved method based on the YOLOv5s model to address the issues of slow localization speed and low accuracy in insulator detection in power systems. In our approach, we first re-cluster the insulator image samples using the k-means algorithm to obtain different sizes of anchor box parameters. Then, we add the non-local attention module (NAM) to the feature extraction module of the YOLOv5s algorithm. The NAM improves the attention mechanism using the weights’ contribution factors and scaling factors. Finally, we recursively replace the ordinary convolution module in the neck network of the YOLOv5 model with the gated normalized convolution (gnConv). Through these improvements, the feature extraction capability of the network is enhanced, and the detection performance of YOLOv5s is improved, resulting in increased accuracy and speed in insulator defect localization. In this paper, we conducted training and evaluation on a publicly available dataset of insulator defects. Experimental results show that the proposed improved YOLOv5s model achieves a 1% improvement in localization accuracy compared to YOLOv5. The proposed method balances accuracy and speed, meeting the requirements of online insulator localization in power system inspection

Deep Semantic-Preserving Reconstruction Hashing for Unsupervised Cross-Modal Retrieval

Deep hashing is the mainstream algorithm for large-scale cross-modal retrieval due to its high retrieval speed and low storage capacity, but the problem of reconstruction of modal semantic information is still very challenging. In order to further solve the problem of unsupervised cross-modal retrieval semantic reconstruction, we propose a novel deep semantic-preserving reconstruction hashing (DSPRH). The algorithm combines spatial and channel semantic information, and mines modal semantic information based on adaptive self-encoding and joint semantic reconstruction loss. The main contributions are as follows: (1) We introduce a new spatial pooling network module based on tensor regular-polymorphic decomposition theory to generate rank-1 tensor to capture high-order context semantics, which can assist the backbone network to capture important contextual modal semantic information. (2) Based on optimization perspective, we use global covariance pooling to capture channel semantic information and accelerate network convergence. In feature reconstruction layer, we use two bottlenecks auto-encoding to achieve visual-text modal interaction. (3) In metric learning, we design a new loss function to optimize model parameters, which can preserve the correlation between image modalities and text modalities. The DSPRH algorithm is tested on MIRFlickr-25K and NUS-WIDE. The experimental results show that DSPRH has achieved better performance on retrieval tasks

Improving Performance in Person Reidentification Using Adaptive Multiple Loss Baseline

Currently, deep learning is the mainstream method to solve the problem of person reidentification. With the rapid development of neural networks in recent years, a number of neural network frameworks have emerged for it, so it is becoming more important to explore a simple and efficient baseline algorithm. In fact, the performance of the same module varies greatly in different positions of the network architecture. After exploring how modules can play a maximum role in the network and studying and summarizing existing algorithms, we designed an adaptive multiple loss baseline (AML) with a simple structure but powerful functions. In this network, we use an adaptive mining sample loss (AMS) and other modules, which can mine more information from input samples at the same time. Based on triplet loss, AMS loss can optimize the distance between the input sample and its positive and negative samples and protect structural information within the sample. During the experiment, we conducted several group tests and confirmed the high performance of AML baseline via the results. AML baseline has outstanding performance in three commonly used datasets. The two indicators of AML baseline on CUHK-03 are 25.7% and 26.8% higher than BagTricks

Improving Performance in Person Reidentification Using Adaptive Multiple Loss Baseline

Currently, deep learning is the mainstream method to solve the problem of person reidentification. With the rapid development of neural networks in recent years, a number of neural network frameworks have emerged for it, so it is becoming more important to explore a simple and efficient baseline algorithm. In fact, the performance of the same module varies greatly in different positions of the network architecture. After exploring how modules can play a maximum role in the network and studying and summarizing existing algorithms, we designed an adaptive multiple loss baseline (AML) with a simple structure but powerful functions. In this network, we use an adaptive mining sample loss (AMS) and other modules, which can mine more information from input samples at the same time. Based on triplet loss, AMS loss can optimize the distance between the input sample and its positive and negative samples and protect structural information within the sample. During the experiment, we conducted several group tests and confirmed the high performance of AML baseline via the results. AML baseline has outstanding performance in three commonly used datasets. The two indicators of AML baseline on CUHK-03 are 25.7% and 26.8% higher than BagTricks

CANet: A Combined Attention Network for Remote Sensing Image Change Detection

Change detection (CD) is one of the essential tasks in remote sensing image processing and analysis. Remote sensing CD is a process of determining and evaluating changes in various surface objects over time. The impressive achievements of deep learning in image processing and computer vision provide an innovative concept for the task of CD. However, existing methods based on deep learning still have problems detecting small changed regions correctly and distinguishing the boundaries of the changed regions. To solve the above shortcomings and improve the efficiency of CD networks, inspired by the fact that an attention mechanism can refine features effectively, we propose an attention-based network for remote sensing CD, which has two important components: an asymmetric convolution block (ACB) and a combined attention mechanism. First, the proposed method extracts the features of bi-temporal images, which contain two parallel encoders with shared weights and structures. Then, the feature maps are fed into the combined attention module to reconstruct the change maps and obtain refined feature maps. The proposed CANet is evaluated on the two publicly available datasets for challenging remote sensing image CD. Extensive empirical results with four popular metrics show that the designed framework yields a robust CD detector with good generalization performance. In the CDD and LEVIR-CD datasets, the F1 values of the CANet are 3.3% and 1.3% higher than those of advanced CD methods, respectively. A quantitative analysis and qualitative comparison indicate that our method outperforms competitive baselines in terms of both effectiveness and robustness

Responsive List Width for Portable Devices With Different Widths of Screen

With the increasing use of large-screen portable devices and the prevalence of list-based user interfaces, it has become critically important to design list interfaces that are visually appealing and user-friendly across various devices and screen sizes. The rules for adapting list-based user interfaces on large screens warrant investigation. Thus, the present study aimed to determine the responsive list width that can enhance visual search efficiency and improve user experience on portable devices with different widths of screen. Two experiments were conducted, in which we manipulated the width of single-column and parent-child lists on portable devices with medium- (Experiment 1; N = 80) and large-width screens (Experiment 2; N = 41), varying the range of list width from very narrow to very wide. Results show that for the single-column lists on a medium-width screen, users demonstrated the highest level of preference and gave the highest ratings for satisfaction and visual aesthetics when the lists were moderately wide. For the single-column lists on a large-width screen, users preferred both the moderately-narrow and moderately-wide lists. However, for parent-child lists, the results show that both the moderately-wide and very-wide lists were favored on both the medium-width and large-width screens. These findings may be attributed to users&#39; preference for the appropriate white space on different screens, thereby providing useful guidelines for the responsive design of lists on portable devices.</p