274 research outputs found
Foreground Detection in Camouflaged Scenes
Foreground detection has been widely studied for decades due to its
importance in many practical applications. Most of the existing methods assume
foreground and background show visually distinct characteristics and thus the
foreground can be detected once a good background model is obtained. However,
there are many situations where this is not the case. Of particular interest in
video surveillance is the camouflage case. For example, an active attacker
camouflages by intentionally wearing clothes that are visually similar to the
background. In such cases, even given a decent background model, it is not
trivial to detect foreground objects. This paper proposes a texture guided
weighted voting (TGWV) method which can efficiently detect foreground objects
in camouflaged scenes. The proposed method employs the stationary wavelet
transform to decompose the image into frequency bands. We show that the small
and hardly noticeable differences between foreground and background in the
image domain can be effectively captured in certain wavelet frequency bands. To
make the final foreground decision, a weighted voting scheme is developed based
on intensity and texture of all the wavelet bands with weights carefully
designed. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves
superior performance compared to the current state-of-the-art results.Comment: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 201
Modeling Based on Elman Wavelet Neural Network for Class-D Power Amplifiers
In Class-D Power Amplifiers (CDPAs), the power supply noise can intermodulate
with the input signal, manifesting into power-supply induced intermodulation
distortion (PS-IMD) and due to the memory effects of the system, there exist
asymmetries in the PS-IMDs. In this paper, a new behavioral modeling based on
the Elman Wavelet Neural Network (EWNN) is proposed to study the nonlinear
distortion of the CDPAs. In EWNN model, the Morlet wavelet functions are
employed as the activation function and there is a normalized operation in the
hidden layer, the modification of the scale factor and translation factor in
the wavelet functions are ignored to avoid the fluctuations of the error
curves. When there are 30 neurons in the hidden layer, to achieve the same
square sum error (SSE) , EWNN needs 31 iteration steps,
while the basic Elman neural network (BENN) model needs 86 steps. The
Volterra-Laguerre model has 605 parameters to be estimated but still can't
achieve the same magnitude accuracy of EWNN. Simulation results show that the
proposed approach of EWNN model has fewer parameters and higher accuracy than
the Volterra-Laguerre model and its convergence rate is much faster than the
BENN model
A Fusion Framework for Camouflaged Moving Foreground Detection in the Wavelet Domain
Detecting camouflaged moving foreground objects has been known to be
difficult due to the similarity between the foreground objects and the
background. Conventional methods cannot distinguish the foreground from
background due to the small differences between them and thus suffer from
under-detection of the camouflaged foreground objects. In this paper, we
present a fusion framework to address this problem in the wavelet domain. We
first show that the small differences in the image domain can be highlighted in
certain wavelet bands. Then the likelihood of each wavelet coefficient being
foreground is estimated by formulating foreground and background models for
each wavelet band. The proposed framework effectively aggregates the
likelihoods from different wavelet bands based on the characteristics of the
wavelet transform. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method
significantly outperformed existing methods in detecting camouflaged foreground
objects. Specifically, the average F-measure for the proposed algorithm was
0.87, compared to 0.71 to 0.8 for the other state-of-the-art methods.Comment: 13 pages, accepted by IEEE TI
Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in a number of papers on advanced economies and some work on the Chinese economy. While the Unskilled and Self-Employment jobs remain below median income, the redistribution of employment has not been associated with a commensurate polarization of labor income. We find no evidence of polarization of either employment or income at the upper end of the job-skill spectrum
Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in a number of papers on advanced economies and some work on the Chinese economy. While the Unskilled and Self-Employment jobs remain below median income, the redistribution of employment has not been associated with a commensurate polarization of labor income. We find no evidence of polarization of either employment or income at the upper end of the job-skill spectrum
Robust Control of Automotive Active Seat-Suspension System Subject to Actuator Saturation
This paper deals with the problem of robust sampled-data control for an automotive seatsuspension system subject to control input saturation. By using the nature of the sector nonlinearity, a sampled-data based control input saturation in the control design is studied. A passenger dynamic behavior is considered in the modeling of seat-suspension system, which makes the model more precisely and brings about uncertainties as well in the developed model. Robust output feedback control strategy is adopted since some state variables, such as, body acceleration and body deflection, are unavailable. The desired controller can be achieved by solving the corresponding linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Finally, a design example has been given to demonstrate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed controller design approach
Numerical Analysis of Modeling Based on Improved Elman Neural Network
A modeling based on the improved Elman neural network (IENN) is proposed to analyze the nonlinear circuits with the memory effect. The hidden layer neurons are activated by a group of Chebyshev orthogonal basis functions instead of sigmoid functions in this model. The error curves of the sum of squared error (SSE) varying with the number of hidden neurons and the iteration step are studied to determine the number of the hidden layer neurons. Simulation results of the half-bridge class-D power amplifier (CDPA) with two-tone signal and broadband signals as input have shown that the proposed behavioral modeling can reconstruct the system of CDPAs accurately and depict the memory effect of CDPAs well. Compared with Volterra-Laguerre (VL) model, Chebyshev neural network (CNN) model, and basic Elman neural network (BENN) model, the proposed model has better performance
Empowering LLM to use Smartphone for Intelligent Task Automation
Mobile task automation is an attractive technique that aims to enable
voice-based hands-free user interaction with smartphones. However, existing
approaches suffer from poor scalability due to the limited language
understanding ability and the non-trivial manual efforts required from
developers or end-users. The recent advance of large language models (LLMs) in
language understanding and reasoning inspires us to rethink the problem from a
model-centric perspective, where task preparation, comprehension, and execution
are handled by a unified language model. In this work, we introduce AutoDroid,
a mobile task automation system that can handle arbitrary tasks on any Android
application without manual efforts. The key insight is to combine the
commonsense knowledge of LLMs and domain-specific knowledge of apps through
automated dynamic analysis. The main components include a functionality-aware
UI representation method that bridges the UI with the LLM, exploration-based
memory injection techniques that augment the app-specific domain knowledge of
LLM, and a multi-granularity query optimization module that reduces the cost of
model inference. We integrate AutoDroid with off-the-shelf LLMs including
online GPT-4/GPT-3.5 and on-device Vicuna, and evaluate its performance on a
new benchmark for memory-augmented Android task automation with 158 common
tasks. The results demonstrated that AutoDroid is able to precisely generate
actions with an accuracy of 90.9%, and complete tasks with a success rate of
71.3%, outperforming the GPT-4-powered baselines by 36.4% and 39.7%. The demo,
benchmark suites, and source code of AutoDroid will be released at
url{https://autodroid-sys.github.io/}
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