A novel motion activity descriptor and its extraction from a compressed MPEG (MPEG-1/2) video stream are presented. The descriptor consists of two parts, a temporal descriptor and a spatial descriptor. To get the temporal descriptor, the “motion intensity” is first computed based on P frame macroblock information. Then the motion intensity histogram is generated for a given video unit as the te...

BACKGROUND Classification of breast ultrasound (BUS) images is an important step in the computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for breast cancer. In this paper, a novel phase-based texture descriptor is proposed for efficient and robust classifiers to discriminate benign and malignant tumors in BUS images. METHOD The proposed descriptor, namely the phased congruency-based binary pattern (PCBP)...

Pyramid Histogram of Multi-scale Block Local Binary Pattern (PH-MBLBP) descriptor for recognizing scene categories, is presented in this paper. We show that scene categorization, especially for indoor and outdoor environments, requires its visual descriptor to process properties that are different from other vision domains (e.g., SIFT descriptor used for object categorization). Our proposed PH-...

According to the rotational invariance of Harris corner detector and the robustness of Sift descriptor. An improved Harris-Sift corner descriptor was proposed. At first, the algorithm given multi-scale strategy to Harris corner, improved corner counting method and removed redundant points at the same time, then, the corner was directly applied to low-pass Gaussian filter image. Based on the his...

This paper is concerned with a KYP-type result for descriptor systems. Matrix inequalities are shown that provide necessary and sufficient conditions of dissipativity of descriptor systems, without such restriction on the realization of descriptor systems as in many of previous results. Furthermore, LMI conditions are presented for synthesis of control gains to attain dissipativity of feedback ...

Descriptor systems constitute an important class of systems of both theoretical and practical interests and have been attracting the attention of many researchers over recent decades. This dissertation is concerned with non-standard H2 and H∞ control for linear time-invariant descriptor systems. Within the descriptor framework, the contributions of this dissertation are threefold: i) review of ...

Statistical learning of materials properties or functions so far starts with a largely silent, nonchallenged step: the choice of the set of descriptive parameters (termed descriptor). However, when the scientific connection between the descriptor and the actuating mechanisms is unclear, the causality of the learned descriptor-property relation is uncertain. Thus, a trustful prediction of new pr...

We present three descriptors of texture feature of a region. Namely, the homogeneous texture descriptor (HTD), the edge histogram descriptor (EHD), and the perceptual browsing descriptor (PBD). They are currently included in the Committee Draft of the MPEG-7 Visual (ISO/IEC 15938-3). Each descriptor has a unique functionality and application domain. HTD and EHD describe statistical distribution...

Rhythm is one of the main properties of Western tonal music. Existing content-based retrieval systems generally deal with melody or style. A few existing ones based on meter or rhythm characteristics have been recently proposed but they require a precise analysis, or they rely on a low-level descriptor. In this paper, we propose a midlevel descriptor: the Meter Class Profile (MCP). The MCP is c...

In this note, the problem of states and unknown inputs estimation of nonlinear descriptor system is considered. The methodology is based on the use of Proportional Integral and Unknown Input Observers. The considered nonlinear descriptor system is transformed into an equivalent multi-models form by using the Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) approach. In this paper, the design methods of both proportional in...