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3D object processing and Image processing by numerical methods
No full textLa détection de peau consiste à détecter les pixels correspondant à une peau humaine dans une image couleur. Les visages constituent une catégorie de stimulus importante par la richesse des informations qu’ils véhiculent car avant de reconnaître n’importe quelle personne il est indispensable de localiser et reconnaître son visage. La plupart des applications liées à la sécurité et à la biométrie reposent sur la détection de régions de peau telles que la détection de visages, le filtrage d'objets 3D pour adultes et la reconnaissance de gestes. En outre, la détection de la saillance des mailles 3D est une phase de prétraitement importante pour de nombreuses applications de vision par ordinateur. La segmentation d'objets 3D basée sur des régions saillantes a été largement utilisée dans de nombreuses applications de vision par ordinateur telles que la correspondance de formes 3D, les alignements d'objets, le lissage de nuages de points 3D, la recherche des images sur le web, l’indexation des images par le contenu, la segmentation de la vidéo et la détection et la reconnaissance de visages. La détection de peau est une tâche très difficile pour différentes raisons liées en général à la variabilité de la forme et la couleur à détecter (teintes différentes d’une personne à une autre, orientation et tailles quelconques, conditions d’éclairage) et surtout pour les images issues du web capturées sous différentes conditions de lumière. Il existe plusieurs approches connues pour la détection de peau : les approches basées sur la géométrie et l’extraction de traits caractéristiques, les approches basées sur le mouvement (la soustraction de l’arrière-plan (SAP), différence entre deux images consécutives, calcul du flot optique) et les approches basées sur la couleur. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons des méthodes d'optimisation numérique pour la détection de régions de couleurs de peaux et de régions saillantes sur des maillages 3D et des nuages de points 3D en utilisant un graphe pondéré. En se basant sur ces méthodes, nous proposons des approches de détection de visage 3D à l'aide de la programmation linéaire et de fouille de données (Data Mining). En outre, nous avons adapté nos méthodes proposées pour résoudre le problème de la simplification des nuages de points 3D et de la correspondance des objets 3D. En plus, nous montrons la robustesse et l’efficacité de nos méthodes proposées à travers de différents résultats expérimentaux réalisés. Enfin, nous montrons la stabilité et la robustesse de nos méthodes par rapport au bruit.Skin detection involves detecting pixels corresponding to human skin in a color image. The faces constitute a category of stimulus important by the wealth of information that they convey because before recognizing any person it is essential to locate and recognize his face. Most security and biometrics applications rely on the detection of skin regions such as face detection, 3D adult object filtering, and gesture recognition. In addition, saliency detection of 3D mesh is an important pretreatment phase for many computer vision applications. 3D segmentation based on salient regions has been widely used in many computer vision applications such as 3D shape matching, object alignments, 3D point-point smoothing, searching images on the web, image indexing by content, video segmentation and face detection and recognition. The detection of skin is a very difficult task for various reasons generally related to the variability of the shape and the color to be detected (different hues from one person to another, orientation and different sizes, lighting conditions) and especially for images from the web captured under different light conditions. There are several known approaches to skin detection: approaches based on geometry and feature extraction, motion-based approaches (background subtraction (SAP), difference between two consecutive images, optical flow calculation) and color-based approaches. In this thesis, we propose numerical optimization methods for the detection of skins color and salient regions on 3D meshes and 3D point clouds using a weighted graph. Based on these methods, we provide 3D face detection approaches using Linear Programming and Data Mining. In addition, we adapted our proposed methods to solve the problem of simplifying 3D point clouds and matching 3D objects. In addition, we show the robustness and efficiency of our proposed methods through different experimental results. Finally, we show the stability and robustness of our methods with respect to noise
Traitement des objets 3D et images par les méthodes numériques sur graphes
No full textSkin detection involves detecting pixels corresponding to human skin in a color image. The faces constitute a category of stimulus important by the wealth of information that they convey because before recognizing any person it is essential to locate and recognize his face. Most security and biometrics applications rely on the detection of skin regions such as face detection, 3D adult object filtering, and gesture recognition. In addition, saliency detection of 3D mesh is an important pretreatment phase for many computer vision applications. 3D segmentation based on salient regions has been widely used in many computer vision applications such as 3D shape matching, object alignments, 3D point-point smoothing, searching images on the web, image indexing by content, video segmentation and face detection and recognition. The detection of skin is a very difficult task for various reasons generally related to the variability of the shape and the color to be detected (different hues from one person to another, orientation and different sizes, lighting conditions) and especially for images from the web captured under different light conditions. There are several known approaches to skin detection: approaches based on geometry and feature extraction, motion-based approaches (background subtraction (SAP), difference between two consecutive images, optical flow calculation) and color-based approaches. In this thesis, we propose numerical optimization methods for the detection of skins color and salient regions on 3D meshes and 3D point clouds using a weighted graph. Based on these methods, we provide 3D face detection approaches using Linear Programming and Data Mining. In addition, we adapted our proposed methods to solve the problem of simplifying 3D point clouds and matching 3D objects. In addition, we show the robustness and efficiency of our proposed methods through different experimental results. Finally, we show the stability and robustness of our methods with respect to noise.La détection de peau consiste à détecter les pixels correspondant à une peau humaine dans une image couleur. Les visages constituent une catégorie de stimulus importante par la richesse des informations qu’ils véhiculent car avant de reconnaître n’importe quelle personne il est indispensable de localiser et reconnaître son visage. La plupart des applications liées à la sécurité et à la biométrie reposent sur la détection de régions de peau telles que la détection de visages, le filtrage d'objets 3D pour adultes et la reconnaissance de gestes. En outre, la détection de la saillance des mailles 3D est une phase de prétraitement importante pour de nombreuses applications de vision par ordinateur. La segmentation d'objets 3D basée sur des régions saillantes a été largement utilisée dans de nombreuses applications de vision par ordinateur telles que la correspondance de formes 3D, les alignements d'objets, le lissage de nuages de points 3D, la recherche des images sur le web, l’indexation des images par le contenu, la segmentation de la vidéo et la détection et la reconnaissance de visages. La détection de peau est une tâche très difficile pour différentes raisons liées en général à la variabilité de la forme et la couleur à détecter (teintes différentes d’une personne à une autre, orientation et tailles quelconques, conditions d’éclairage) et surtout pour les images issues du web capturées sous différentes conditions de lumière. Il existe plusieurs approches connues pour la détection de peau : les approches basées sur la géométrie et l’extraction de traits caractéristiques, les approches basées sur le mouvement (la soustraction de l’arrière-plan (SAP), différence entre deux images consécutives, calcul du flot optique) et les approches basées sur la couleur. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons des méthodes d'optimisation numérique pour la détection de régions de couleurs de peaux et de régions saillantes sur des maillages 3D et des nuages de points 3D en utilisant un graphe pondéré. En se basant sur ces méthodes, nous proposons des approches de détection de visage 3D à l'aide de la programmation linéaire et de fouille de données (Data Mining). En outre, nous avons adapté nos méthodes proposées pour résoudre le problème de la simplification des nuages de points 3D et de la correspondance des objets 3D. En plus, nous montrons la robustesse et l’efficacité de nos méthodes proposées à travers de différents résultats expérimentaux réalisés. Enfin, nous montrons la stabilité et la robustesse de nos méthodes par rapport au bruit
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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