LPR中车牌分割的Matlab解决方案

车牌的分割是车牌识别中比较重要的环节。通过Matlab,运用二值梯度边缘检测对生成的二值化图像进行检测,通过形态学的膨胀算法形成连通区域并判决连通区域,然后使用蒙板分割出车牌类似区域,并计算其间的欧拉数,最终筛选出车牌区域。     

雾霾环境下基于PLATE-YOLO的车牌检测方法

针对目前车牌识别领域中,雾霾环境下车牌检测准确率低的问题,本文提出一种基于深度学习的抗雾霾车牌检测方法,该方法能够检测民用车牌和机场民航车辆车牌。该方法首先利用一种基于卷积神经网络的去雾算法对车牌图片进行去雾预处理,然后将处理过的无雾霾图片送入PLATE-YOLO网络中检测车牌的位置。该PLATE-YOLO网络是本文针对车牌检测的特点,对YOLOv3网络做了修改后得到的适用于车牌检测的网络。主要改进点有两处:第一,提出了一种基于层次聚类算法的锚盒(Anchor Box)个数和初始簇中心的计算方法;第二,针对车牌目标较大的特点,对网络的多尺度特征融合做了优化。优化后的PLATE-YOLO网络更适合于车牌检测,且提高了检测速度。实验证明,PLATE-YOLO网络检测车牌的速度较YOLOv3提高了5 FPS;在雾霾环境下,经去雾预处理的PLATE-YOLO车牌检测方法比未经去雾处理的车牌检测方法准确率提高了9.2%。     

Real‐Time Apartment Building Detection and Tracking with AdaBoost Procedure and Motion‐Adjusted Tracker

In this letter, we propose a novel approach to detecting and tracking apartment buildings for the development of a video‐based navigation system that provides augmented reality representation of guidance information on live video sequences. For this, we propose a building detector and tracker. The detector is based on the AdaBoost classifier followed by hierarchical clustering. The classifier uses modified Haar‐like features as the primitives. The tracker is a motion‐adjusted tracker based on pyramid implementation of the Lukas‐Kanade tracker, which periodically confirms and consistently adjusts the tracking region. Experiments show that the proposed approach yields robust and reliable results and is far superior to conventional approaches.     

Acoustic Event Detection in Multichannel Audio Using Gated Recurrent Neural Networks with High‐Resolution Spectral Features

Recently, deep recurrent neural networks have achieved great success in various machine learning tasks, and have also been applied for sound event detection. The detection of temporally overlapping sound events in realistic environments is much more challenging than in monophonic detection problems. In this paper, we present an approach to improve the accuracy of polyphonic sound event detection in multichannel audio based on gated recurrent neural networks in combination with auditory spectral features. In the proposed method, human hearing perception‐based spatial and spectral‐domain noise‐reduced harmonic features are extracted from multichannel audio and used as high‐resolution spectral inputs to train gated recurrent neural networks. This provides a fast and stable convergence rate compared to long short‐term memory recurrent neural networks. Our evaluation reveals that the proposed method outperforms the conventional approaches.     

A Weighted Feature Voting Approach for Robust and Real‐Time Voice Activity Detection

This paper concerns a robust real‐time voice activity detection (VAD) approach which is easy to understand and implement. The proposed approach employs several short‐term speech/nonspeech discriminating features in a voting paradigm to achieve a reliable performance in different environments. This paper mainly focuses on the performance improvement of a recently proposed approach which uses spectral peak valley difference (SPVD) as a feature for silence detection. The main issue of this paper is to apply a set of features with SPVD to improve the VAD robustness. The proposed approach uses a weighted voting scheme in order to take the discriminative power of the employed feature set into account. The experiments show that the proposed approach is more robust than the baseline approach from different points of view, including channel distortion and threshold selection. The proposed approach is also compared with some other VAD techniques for better confirmation of its achievements. Using the proposed weighted voting approach, the average VAD performance is increased to 89.29% for 5 different noise types and 8 SNR levels. The resulting performance is 13.79% higher than the approach based only on SPVD and even 2.25% higher than the not‐weighted voting scheme.