Image Texture Features Research Articles

Research on Artificial Intelligence Data Based on Image Texture Characterization and Aerobics Teaching Mode in Colleges and Universities

Abstract In this paper, we first studied the action recognition method based on image texture features, established a human body model, and realized the extraction of skeletal data and joint calibration. Based on the skeleton information, the aerobic movements are recognized, the difference between the aerobics movement sequence and the standard movement sequence is calculated, and the movements are scored. Then, the database for aerobic movements was established, and an AI-assistant aerobics teaching model was developed. Finally, the effect of the teaching method was analyzed through indicators of recognition effect, skill impact, and students’ learning interests. The results show that the accuracy of the system’s action recognition reaches 95%, and the overall response time is between 5.2-6.4s, with high real-time performance. And it has a significant effect on students’ movement participation, active interest, and independent learning behavior, with p-values of 0.013, 0.041, and 0.036, respectively, p<0.05. This study promotes the development and innovation of aerobics, which can scientifically adjust training countermeasures and enhance the skill level of aerobics athletes.

The Application of Traditional Hakka Clothing Cultural Elements in Modern Clothing Design in Western Fujian Based on Image Feature Extraction Technology

Abstract In this paper, by applying the SIFT algorithm to the color category, texture and shape features of the dress pattern image for feature extraction and eliminating the low contrast texture feature points of the Taylor series expansion, using the statistics of the grayscale covariance matrix as the texture features. Based on the SIFT algorithm, the SURF feature extraction algorithm is proposed. The ideas of the Hessian matrix, determinant value approximation (DoH) and integral image (IGI) classifier are integrated to construct the feature fusion algorithm. Finally, the experimental results of several algorithms are compared and analyzed by taking the traditional dress pattern of the western Fujian Hakka family as the experimental object. The results show that among all the fusion algorithms, the SURF+IGI algorithm achieves an average recognition rate of 0.8914, which is the best performance. And the AUC value of its test set is 0.9445 when the learning rate is 0.005. The research in this paper meets the demand of extracting and applying the cultural elements of the traditional dresses of the Hakka family in western Fujian in modern dress design.

IoT and Cloud Based Automated Pothole Detection Model Using Extreme Gradient Boosting with Texture Descriptors

One of crucial activity related to road monitoring and maintenance is the occurrence of potholes. These potholes are also be major reason of road accidents, damaging of vehicles, discomfort of passenger journey and extensive in terms of time and cost. But, identification of potholes can significantly alleviate the aforementioned issues. Other side, the Internet of Things (IoT) plays a crucial role in different applications, and provides viable and state of art solutions for variety of problems. Hence, the aim of this work is to develop a real time automated pothole detection model to detect the potholes in asphalt roads based on IoT devices.The proposed model comprises of three main components such as collection of pothole data and labeling, image pre-processing and texture feature extraction, and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) algorithm. The potholes data on asphalt road is collected by three IoT sensors such as accelerometer, ultrasonic sensor, and GPS and further, the collected data is transmitted on cloud via Wi-Fi module. The texture features are extracted using Gaussian steerable and median filters. The extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) classifier is adopted for prediction task. The simulation results showed that proposed XGBoost model obtains higher accuracy, recall, precision and F1-score rates as 94.56, 97.41, 96.40, and 96.90 respectively using 10-cross fold validation method.

A Method of Extracting the SWH Based on a Constituted Wave Slope Feature Vector (WSFV) from X-Band Marine Radar Images

The shadow statistical method (SSM) used for extracting the significant wave height (SWH) from X-band marine radar images was further investigated because of its advantage of not requiring an external reference for calibration. Currently, a fixed shadow segmentation threshold is utilized to extract the SWH from a radar image based on the SSM. However, the retrieval accuracy of the SWH is not ideal for low wind speeds since the echo intensity of sea waves rapidly decays over distance. In order to solve this problem, an adaptive shadow threshold, which varies with echo intensity over distance and can accurately divide the radar image into shadow and nonshadow areas, is adopted to calculate the wave slope (WS) based on the texture feature of the edge image. Instead of using the averaged WS, the wave slope feature vector (WSFV) is constructed for retrieving the SWH since the illumination ratio and the calculated WS in the azimuth are different for shore-based radar images. In this paper, the SWH is calculated based on the constructed WSFV and classical support vector regression (SVR) technology. The collected 222 sets of X-band marine radar images with an SWH range of 1.0∼3.5 m and an average wind speed range of 5∼10 m/s were utilized to verify the performance of the proposed approach. The buoy record, which was deployed during the experiment, was used as the ground truth. For the proposed approach, the mean bias (BIAS) and the mean absolute error (MAE) were 0.03 m and 0.14 m when the ratio of the training set to the test set was 1:1. Compared to the traditional SSM, the correlation coefficient (CC) of the proposed approach increased by 0.27, and the root mean square error (RMSE) decreased by 0.28 m.

Machine learning provides specific detection of salt and drought stresses in cucumber based on miRNA characteristics

BackgroundSpecific detection of the type and severity of plant abiotic stresses helps prevent yield loss by considering timely actions. This study introduces a novel method to detect the type and severity of stress in cucumber plants under salinity and drought conditions. Various features, i.e., morphological (image textural features), physiological/biochemical (relative water content, chlorophyll, catalase activity, anthocyanins, phenol content, and proline), as well as miRNA characteristics (the concentration of miRNA-156a, miRNA-166i, miRNA-399g, and miRNA-477b) were extracted from plant leaves, and machine learning methods were used to predict the type and severity of stress by having these features. Support vector machine (SVM) with parameters optimized by genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) was used for machine learning.ResultsThe coefficient of determination of predicting the stress type and severity in plants under both stresses was 0.61, 0.82, and 0.99 using morphological, physiological/biochemical, and miRNA characteristics, respectively. This reveals machine learning methods optimized by metaheuristic optimization techniques can provide specific detection of salt and drought stresses in cucumber plants based on miRNA characteristics. Among the study miRNAs, miRNA-477b and miRNA-399g had the highest and lowest contribution to salt and drought stresses, respectively.ConclusionsComapred to conventional plant traits, miRNAs are more reliable features for providing us with valuable information about plant abiotic diseases at early stages. Using an electrochemical miRNA biosensor similar to one used in this work to measure the miRNA concentration in plant leaves and using a machine learning algorithm such as SVM enable farmers to detect the salt and drought stress at early stages in cucumber plants with very high accuracy.

Multi-dimensional stereo face reconstruction for psychological assistant diagnosis in medical meta-universe

Virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) technology is very important for meta-cosmic medicine. It is the technical link between the material world and the virtual world. The realization of face-to-face psychological diagnosis with three-dimensional holography is a difficult problem in meta-cosmic medicine. Because psychological diagnosis needs to observe rapidly changing microexpressions, it is difficult to capture them. At present, most of the research is based on two dimensions, which cannot meet the real-time reconstruction requirements of meta-universe medicine. To solve these problems, this paper introduces a 3D facial reconstruction algorithm composed of multiresolution feature fusion and attention mechanisms. It can be used for psychological assistant diagnosis of meta-cosmic medicine. First, face alignment and 3D coordinate construction of the feature point cloud are carried out through a 3D convolution coding network. After that, multiresolution cost convolution is used to extract and match the color, facial bones, and depth features of texture images. Finally, the transposed three-dimensional convolution is used to decode and output. To achieve the real-time reconstruction of psychotherapy, we designed a three-dimensional channel attention mechanism module for acceleration. This makes this method suitable for the construction of virtual doctors and virtual patients in the virtual platform of the medical universe of psychological medicine and can also complete the construction of the virtual teaching platform of the medical universe.

GoComfort: Comfortable Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles Leveraging High-Precision Road Damage Crowdsensing

Recent years have witnessed rapid advances in autonomous driving technologies. Autonomous vehicles are more likely to be accepted if they drive comfortably to avoid potholes, bumps, and other road damage conditions, especially when there are elderly and disabled passengers on board. Traditionally, sensing road damage conditions is either labor-intensive by field investigation and reporting, or inaccurate by surveillance cameras and driving recorders due to limited perspective. In this paper, we propose GoComfort, a crowdsensing-based framework to provide low-cost and fine-grained comfortable navigation for autonomous vehicles with road damage identification leveraging high-precision road sensing data. First, we propose to exploit city-wide autonomous vehicle fleets as crowdsensing participants, and employ an edge-cloud-hybrid computing paradigm to efficiently collect high-precision road damage-related data, including 3D LiDAR point clouds and street view images. Second, we design an accurate road damage identification model fusing spatial structures of point clouds and texture features of street view images, and use an active learning-based method to address the sparse labels issue. Finally, we devise two comfortable navigation scenarios, i.e., fine-grained road damage avoidance and coarse-grained city-wide navigation, and propose a hierarchical road damage assessment diagram for comfortable route planning. Experiments using real-world road sensing data in Xiamen, China show that our approach identifies road damage conditions with an accuracy of 87.5%, and achieves a user acceptance rate of 93.8% in riding comfort evaluation, outperforming the state-of-the-art baselines.

High-resolution art recognition of modern packaging design and images based on texture image classification

Abstract First, this paper proposes the EPNN algorithm to recognize the high-resolution art of texture images. Then, a multi-scale multivariate image analysis method for color-textured surface classification is established. Regarding probabilistic neural networks, a differential evolutionary algorithm is proposed to optimize the smoothing parameters of basic probabilistic neural networks. Texture feature extraction involves extracting energy and statistical features of texture images using tree-structured wavelet packet decomposition and statistical-based methods. The image classification is performed by estimating similarity distances and classifying typical feature clusters. The results show that in terms of recognition ability, the proposed EPNN in this paper achieves an average improvement of 0.216 in CCP compared to the LBP method. In terms of classification ability, the proposed multi-scale multivariate image analysis color texture surface classification method in this paper generally achieves more than 10% higher classification ability than LGP in CUReT and Outex texture image libraries.

A fine-grained recognition technique for identifying Chinese food images

As a crucial area of research in the field of computer vision, food recognition technology has become a core technology in many food-related fields, such as unmanned restaurants and food nutrition analysis, which are closely related to our healthy lives. Obtaining accurate classification results is the most important task in food recognition. Food classification is a fine-grained recognition process, which involves extracting features from a group of objects with similar appearances and accurately classifying them into different categories. In a such usage environment, the network is required to not only overview the overall image, but also capture the subtle details within it. In addition, since Chinese food images have unique texture features, the model needs to extract texture information from the image. However, existing CNN methods have not focused on and processed this information. To classify food as accurately as possible, this paper introduces the Laplace pyramid into the convolution layer and proposes a bilinear network that can perceive image texture features and multi-scale features (LMB-Net). The proposed model was evaluated on a public dataset, and the results demonstrate that LMB-Net achieves state-of-the-art classification performance.

Study on the development strategy of information integration of packaging design and pattern design under visual communication course

Abstract In this paper, the importance of modern packaging design and pattern design and the application of pattern design in modern packaging design are the first two aspects of achieving the development of information integration of packaging design and pattern design, and the visual design based on Markov random field is proposed for the image retrieval and classification problems in traditional model packaging design and pattern design. Wavelet transforms, multi-scale analysis of image texture features and region merging conditions in visual design using GBIS algorithm, and image retrieval in pattern design are examined and analyzed. The results show that the model trained with both loss functions has the best retrieval top-k accuracy on both datasets, reaching 54.3% on the DARN dataset and 3.9% accuracy on Deep Fashion. This paper demonstrates the model’s effectiveness for modifying and retrieving pattern design image attributes.

Smart soil image classification system using lightweight convolutional neural network

In the agriculture sector, soil classification plays a significant task, as it helps in soil tillage, crop selection, moisture level estimation, and automation. Conventionally, soil classification is carried out with the help of physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the geo-referenced and mapped soil. Soil classification by conventional and laboratory methods is time-consuming, high-cost, and requires proficiency. This study presents a quick and cost-effective prediction of soil type by using soil images. A soil image dataset has been created to classify the soil type using images. To create the soil image dataset, 392 soil samples are collected from different agricultural fields in Andhra Pradesh, India. The collected samples are dried and the soil type is identified using a sieve and hydrometer analysis in the laboratory. An imaging setup has been made to capture the images of the dried soil samples using a smartphone camera. The captured images are pre-processed using: RGB extraction, and V extraction from HSV bins, and adaptive histogram are applied to highlight the texture features of the soil images. A novel lightweight convolutional neural network called Light-SoilNet is proposed to classify five soil sample images: sand, clay, loam, loamy sand, and sandy loam. The proposed network is designed to take care of the imbalanced soil image dataset. The proposed network is tested and compared with state-of-the-art lightweight and pre-trained deep learning networks. The proposed Light-SoilNet network architecture has produced an overall accuracy of 97.2% in classifying the soils. The comparison of the results shows the performance of the proposed model using the image and deep learning techniques in classifying the soil types.

GLCM-Based FBLS: A Novel Broad Learning System for Knee Osteopenia and Osteoprosis Screening in Athletes

Due to the physical strain experienced during intense workouts, athletes are at a heightened risk of developing osteopenia and osteoporosis. These conditions not only impact their overall health but also their athletic performance. The current clinical screening methods for osteoporosis are limited by their high radiation dose, complex post-processing requirements, and the significant time and resources needed for implementation. This makes it challenging to incorporate them into athletes’ daily training routines. Consequently, our objective was to develop an innovative automated screening approach for detecting osteopenia and osteoporosis using X-ray image data. Although several automated screening methods based on deep learning have achieved notable results, they often suffer from overfitting and inadequate datasets. To address these limitations, we proposed a novel model called the GLCM-based fuzzy broad learning system (GLCM-based FBLS). Initially, texture features of X-ray images were extracted using the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). Subsequently, these features were combined with the fuzzy broad learning system to extract crucial information and enhance the accuracy of predicting osteoporotic conditions. Finally, we applied the proposed method to the field of osteopenia and osteoporosis screening. By comparing this model with three advanced deep learning models, we have verified the effectiveness of GLCM-based FBLS in the automatic screening of osteoporosis for athletes.

Image restoration and analysis with application to quality variable prediction in flotation process

Flotation process is commonly used to separate valuable minerals from undesirable ones. Measurement of flotation froth concentration is essential for control applications. The concentration of froth is often evaluated visually by operators and through the laboratory analysis of collected samples over a long period of time. However, the latter suffers from significant time delays and the former is not very reliable. Computer vision is widely used in industry to analyze the froth concentration based on various froth image features. In this study, we propose a computer vision model to estimate the froth concentration. Important practical challenges including contaminated images with bright lighting spots, camera noise and outliers are addressed. First, the contaminated images are restored using a modified Kalman filter. The color, texture, and deep features of froth images are then extracted using gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and a transfer learning-based convolutional neural network (CNN), respectively. Afterward, a regression model is built to estimate the froth concentration based on the integrated visual features. An expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm is then applied to determine the unknown parameters of the model, which is also robust against outliers by using a t-distribution to model the noise. Experiments conducted on a batch flotation column for tailings bitumen extraction show that the proposed algorithm is able to estimate the bitumen concentration with reasonable accuracy. The proposed algorithm is a time-saving alternative to time-consuming and costly laboratory analysis and is essential for advanced process control applications.

SDE-RAE:CLIP-based realistic image reconstruction and editing network using stochastic differential diffusion

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has long dominated the field of image reconstruction and editing. It is capable to train a generator in an adversarial way, which can fool the discriminator and enable the generated image to be of high quality. However, this approach is often difficult to train, and the final result is hard to converge. Each different style of image requires construction of different datasets and complex optimization functions, and the training process is uncertain. To solve this problem, we propose a realistic image reconstruction and editing method based on Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE-RAE), where the diffusion model converts Gaussian noise to real photos by iterative denoising. What we only need to do is to construct simple loss functions in the reconstruction process to achieve high-quality image reconstruction, and we propose a novel semantic enhancement CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) to interfere with the SDE parameter optimization direction in the editing process. Simple text is needed to achieve unique image editing. Our method generates high-quality images that retain the texture and contour features of the original image. Specifically, we manipulate the initial image, perturb the image by adding random noise, and then iteratively denoise the image by reverse SDE, manipulating the image's RGB pixels to achieve image reconstruction and editing. Code and dataset https://github.com/haizhu12/SDE-RAE.

Infrared Thermography: Clinical Value for Diagnosing Persistent Somatoform Pain Disorders?

BACKGROUND: Patients with persistent somatoform pain disorder (PSPD) are not uncommon. Still, the disease diagnosis relies primarily on structured interviews, with no objective indicators yet available to aid in the diagnosis. This has led to low diagnostic rates and overconsumption of health care resources for the disorder. Although there is a large body of research to improve the diagnosis of the condition, there are currently no objective indicators available for diagnosis. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to investigate the clinical value of infrared thermography (IRT) for diagnosing PSPD. STUDY DESIGN: This is a retrospective study. SETTING: A single academic hospital, outpatient setting. METHODS: The clinical data of patients diagnosed with PSPD in the Pain Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of the Army Medical University from September 2020 to September 2022 were analyzed. The differences in IR thermograms between PSPD patients and healthy controls were analyzed, as well as the relationship between the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Hamilton Anxiety Scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) score, Patient Health Questionnaire-15, and Symptom Check List-90 and the differences in IR thermograms of PSPD patients. RESULTS: The mean squared error, structural similarity measure, different hash, contrast, entropy, inverse variance, and correlation values of the IR thermogram helped to determine PSPD with statistically significant differences (P < 0.05). Inverse variance values were weakly negatively correlated with PSQI scores of PSPD patients (r -0.4721, P < 0.05). LIMITATIONS: This study was limited by its sample size and retrospective observational design. CONCLUSIONS: IRT analysis is a useful objective method in diagnosis of PSPD, which also provides a new line of thought for studying the pathogenesis of PSPD. KEY WORDS: Persistent somatoform pain disorder, PSPD, thermal imaging, infrared thermography, IRT, image texture characteristics, psychometric variables, image analysis

Metal Abrasive Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on K-means Clustering

Metal abrasive image segmentation is one of the important image processing tasks in the industrial field. However, due to the complex color and texture characteristics of metal abrasive images, as well as difficult factors such as noise and lighting changes, traditional image segmentation methods often fail to achieve high accuracy and stability. In order to solve this problem, a metal abrasive image segmentation algorithm based on K-means clustering is proposed. The algorithm applies the K-means clustering algorithm to the image segmentation of metal abrasive particles, and realizes the separation of metal abrasive grains from the background by clustering the color features of image pixels. Experimental results show that our algorithm shows good accuracy and stability in the metal abrasive image segmentation task, and has high efficiency. Therefore, the algorithm provides an accurate and efficient method for metal abrasive image segmentation.

A despeckling method for ultrasound images utilizing content-aware prior and attention-driven techniques

The despeckling of ultrasound images contributes to the enhancement of image quality and facilitates precise treatment of conditions such as tumor cancers. However, the use of existing methods for eliminating speckle noise can cause the loss of image texture features, impacting clinical judgment. Thus, maintaining clear lesion boundaries while eliminating speckle noise is a challenging task. This paper presents an innovative approach for denoising ultrasound images using a novel noise reduction network model called content-aware prior and attention-driven (CAPAD). The model employs a neural network to automatically capture the hidden prior features in ultrasound images to guide denoising and embeds the denoiser into the optimization module to simultaneously optimize parameters and noise. Moreover, this model incorporates a content-aware attention module and a loss function that preserves the structural characteristics of the image. These additions enhance the network’s capacity to capture and retain valuable information. Extensive qualitative evaluation and quantitative analysis performed on a comprehensive dataset provide compelling evidence of the model’s superior denoising capabilities. It excels in noise suppression while successfully preserving the underlying structures within the ultrasound images. Compared to other denoising algorithms, it demonstrates an improvement of approximately 5.88% in PSNR and approximately 3.61% in SSIM. Furthermore, using CAPAD as a preprocessing step for breast tumor segmentation in ultrasound images can greatly improve the accuracy of image segmentation. The experimental results indicate that the utilization of CAPAD leads to a notable enhancement of 10.43% in the AUPRC for breast cancer tumor segmentation.

Comprehensive Analysis and Classification of Skin Diseases based on Image Texture Features using K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm

Skin is the largest organ in humans, it functions as the outermost protector of the organs inside. Therefore, the skin is often attacked by various diseases, especially cancer. Skin cancer is divided into two, namely benign and malignant. Malignant has the potential to spread and increase the risk of death. Skin cancer detection traditionally involves time-consuming laboratory tests to determine malignancy or benignity. Therefore, there is a demand for computer-assisted diagnosis through image analysis to expedite disease identification and classification. This study proposes to use the K-nearest neighbor (KNN) classifier and Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) to classify these two types of skin cancer. Apart from that, the average filter is also used for preprocessing. The analysis was carried out comprehensively by carrying out 480 experiments on the ISIC dataset. Dataset variations were also carried out using random sampling techniques to test on smaller datasets, where experiments were carried out on 3297, 1649, 825, and 210 images. Several KNN parameters, namely the number of neighbors (k)=1 and distance (d)=1 to 3 were tested at angles 0, 45, 90, and 135. Maximum accuracy results were 79.24%, 79.39%, 83.63%, and 100% for respectively 3297, 1649, 825, and 210. These findings show that the KNN method is more effective in working on smaller datasets, besides that the use of the average filter also has a significant contribution in increasing the accuracy.

Visual Security Index Combining CNN and Filter for Perceptually Encrypted Light Field Images

Visual security index (VSI) represents a quantitative index for the visual security evaluation of perceptually encrypted images. Recently, the research on visual security of encrypted light field (LF) images faces two challenges. One is that the existing perceptually encrypted image databases are often too small, which is easy to cause overfitting in convolutional neural network (CNN). The other is that existing VSI models did not take a full account the intrinsic characteristics of the LF images and highly relied on handcrafted feature extraction. In this article, we construct a new database of perceptually encrypted LF images, called the PE-SLF, which is 2.6 times as big as the existing largest perceptual encrypted image database. Moreover, a novel visual security index (VSI) model is proposed by taking into full consideration the intrinsic spatial-angular characteristics of the LF images and the outstanding capabilities of CNN in feature extraction. First, we exploit CNN to detect the texture and structure features of encrypted sub-aperture images in the spatial domain. Second, we apply the Gabor filter to detect the Gabor feature over the epi-polar plane images in angular domain. Last, the spatial and angular similarity measurements are subsequently calculated for jointly yielding the final visual security score. Experimental results on the constructed PE-SLF demonstrate that the proposed VSI model is closer to the perception of HVS in visual security evaluation of encrypted LF images compared to other classical and state-of-the-art models.

Optimized Swarm Enabled Deep Learning Technique for Bone Tumor Detection using Histopathological Image

Cancer subjugates a community that lacks proper care. It remains apparent that research studies enhance novel benchmarks in developing a computer-assisted tool for prognosis in radiology yet an indication of illness detection should be recognized by the pathologist. In bone cancer (BC), Identification of malignancy out of the BC’s histopathological image (HI) remains difficult because of the intricate structure of the bone tissue (BTe) specimen. This study proffers a new approach to diagnosing BC by feature extraction alongside classification employing deep learning frameworks. In this, the input is processed and segmented by Tsallis Entropy for noise elimination, image rescaling, and smoothening. The features are excerpted employing Efficient Net-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Feature Extraction. ROI extraction will be employed to enhance the precise detection of atypical portions surrounding the affected area. Next, for classifying the accurate spotting and for grading the BTe as typical and a typical employing augmented XGBoost alongside Whale optimization (WOA). HIs gathering out of prevailing scales patients is acquired alongside texture characteristics of such images remaining employed for training and testing the Neural Network (NN). These classification outcomes exhibit that NN possesses a hit ratio of 99.48 percent while this occurs in BT classification.