scholarly journals Track-to-Track Association for Intelligent Vehicles by Preserving Local Track Geometry

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1412
Author(s):  
Ke Zou ◽  
Hao Zhu ◽  
Allan De Freitas ◽  
Yongfu Li ◽  
Hamid Esmaeili Najafabadi
Keyword(s):  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Probabilistic Method ◽  
Likelihood Estimation ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Intelligent Vehicles ◽  
Connectivity Matrix ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Track Geometry ◽  
Track Association ◽  
Relative Geometry

Track-to-track association (T2TA) is a challenging task in situational awareness in intelligent vehicles and surveillance systems. In this paper, the problem of track-to-track association with sensor bias (T2TASB) is considered. Traditional T2TASB algorithms only consider a statistical distance cost between local tracks from different sensors, without exploiting the geometric relationship between one track and its neighboring ones from each sensor. However, the relative geometry among neighboring local tracks is usually stable, at least for a while, and thus helpful in improving the T2TASB. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic method, called the local track geometry preservation (LTGP) algorithm, which takes advantage of the geometry of tracks. Assuming that the local tracks of one sensor are represented by Gaussian mixture model (GMM) centroids, the corresponding local tracks of the other sensor are fitted to those of the first sensor. In this regard, a geometrical descriptor connectivity matrix is constructed to exploit the relative geometry of these tracks. The track association problem is formulated as a maximum likelihood estimation problem with a local track geometry constraint, and an expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm is developed to find the solution. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed methods offer better performance than the state-of-the-art methods.

scholarly journals Adaptive Method for Modeling of Temporal Dependencies between Fields of Vision in Multi-Camera Surveillance Systems

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1303
Author(s):  
Karol Lisowski ◽  
Andrzej Czyżewski
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Input Parameter ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Adaptive Method ◽  
Transition Time ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Modified Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Transition Times ◽  
Temporal Dependencies

A method of modeling the time of object transition between given pairs of cameras based on the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is proposed in this article. Temporal dependencies modeling is a part of object re-identification based on the multi-camera experimental framework. The previously utilized Expectation-Maximization (EM) approach, requiring setting the number of mixtures arbitrarily as an input parameter, was extended with the algorithm that automatically adapts the model to statistical data. The probabilistic model was obtained by matching to the histogram of transition times between a particular pair of cameras. The proposed matching procedure uses a modified particle swarm optimization (mPSO). A way of using models of transition time in object re-identification is also presented. Experiments with the proposed method of modeling the transition time were carried out, and a comparison between previous and novel approach results are also presented, revealing that added swarms approximate normalized histograms very effectively. Moreover, the proposed swarm-based algorithm allows for modelling the same statistical data with a lower number of summands in GMM.

scholarly journals Improving Many Volatility Forecasts Using Cross-Sectional Volatility Clusters

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro Coretto ◽  
Michele La Rocca ◽  
Giuseppe Storti
Keyword(s):  
Mixture Model ◽  
Likelihood Estimation ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Arts ◽  
State Dependent ◽  
Empirical Performance ◽  
Dependent Model ◽  
The Cross

The inhomogeneity of the cross-sectional distribution of realized assets’ volatility is explored and used to build a novel class of GARCH (Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity) models. The inhomogeneity of the cross-sectional distribution of realized volatility is captured by a finite Gaussian mixture model plus a uniform component that represents abnormal variations in volatility. Based on the cross-sectional mixture model, at each time point, memberships of assets to risk groups are retrieved via maximum likelihood estimation, as well as the probability that an asset belongs to a specific risk group. The latter is profitably used for specifying a state-dependent model for volatility forecasting. We propose novel GARCH-type specifications the parameters of which act “clusterwise” conditional on past information on the volatility clusters. The empirical performance of the proposed models is assessed by means of an application to a panel of U.S. stocks traded on the NYSE. An extensive forecasting experiment shows that, when the main goal is to improve overall many univariate volatility forecasts, the method proposed in this paper has some advantages bover the state-of-the-arts methods.

An Intelligent Video Surveillance System for Android Smart Phone

2013 ◽  
Vol 850-851 ◽  
pp. 884-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Yang ◽  
Xin Tan ◽  
Yong Rui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Video Surveillance ◽  
Surveillance System ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Moving Object ◽  
Video Surveillance System ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Surveillance Technology

Video surveillance technology is playing an important role, and it is widely used in some fields. With the popularity of Android OS, it draws researchers attention to increase the development of video surveillance systems on the platform. This paper presents a smart real-time video surveillance system based on Android smart phone. This system detects moving object by using improved GMM (Gaussian Mixture Mode) algorithm, recognizes invading human with cascade classifier, processes image data with coder & decoder, transmits data over RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol). It also applies some methods to improve the accuracy of moving object detection and recognition, speed up recognition process. The experimental evidences show that it can realize real-time video surveillance and smart alarm.

Spatio-Temporal Analysis for Human Action Detection and Recognition in Uncontrolled Environments

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianting Liu ◽  
Yilin Yan ◽  
Mei-Ling Shyu ◽  
Guiru Zhao ◽  
Min Chen
Keyword(s):  
Action Recognition ◽  
Hamming Distance ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Camera Motion ◽  
Action Detection ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Human Action Detection ◽  
Detection And Recognition

Understanding semantic meaning of human actions captured in unconstrained environments has broad applications in fields ranging from patient monitoring, human-computer interaction, to surveillance systems. However, while great progresses have been achieved on automatic human action detection and recognition in videos that are captured in controlled/constrained environments, most existing approaches perform unsatisfactorily on videos with uncontrolled/unconstrained conditions (e.g., significant camera motion, background clutter, scaling, and light conditions). To address this issue, the authors propose a robust human action detection and recognition framework that works effectively on videos taken in controlled or uncontrolled environments. Specifically, the authors integrate the optical flow field and Harris3D corner detector to generate a new spatial-temporal information representation for each video sequence, from which the general Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is learned. All the mean vectors of the Gaussian components in the generated GMM model are concatenated to create the GMM supervector for video action recognition. They build a boosting classifier based on a set of sparse representation classifiers and hamming distance classifiers to improve the accuracy of action recognition. The experimental results on two broadly used public data sets, KTH and UCF YouTube Action, show that the proposed framework outperforms the other state-of-the-art approaches on both action detection and recognition.

Robust LIDAR localization using multiresolution Gaussian mixture maps for autonomous driving

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan W Wolcott ◽  
Ryan M Eustice
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Probabilistic Method ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Road Surface ◽  
Vehicle Localization ◽  
Adverse Weather ◽  
Self Driving Cars

This paper reports on a fast multiresolution scan matcher for local vehicle localization of self-driving cars. State-of-the-art approaches to vehicle localization rely on observing road surface reflectivity with a 3D light detection and ranging (LIDAR) scanner to achieve centimeter-level accuracy. However, these approaches can often fail when faced with adverse weather conditions that obscure the view of the road paint (e.g. puddles and snowdrifts), poor road surface texture, or when road appearance degrades over time. We present a generic probabilistic method for localizing an autonomous vehicle equipped with a three-dimensional (3D) LIDAR scanner. This proposed algorithm models the world as a mixture of several Gaussians, characterizing the [Formula: see text]-height and reflectivity distribution of the environment—which we rasterize to facilitate fast and exact multiresolution inference. Results are shown on a collection of datasets totaling over 500 km of road data covering highway, rural, residential, and urban roadways, in which we demonstrate our method to be robust through heavy snowfall and roadway repavements.

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