Due to the complex and variable structure of fundus vessels, and the low contrast between the fundus vessel and the background, there are huge difficulties in segmentation of fundus vessels, especially small fundus vessels. U-Net based on deep fully convolutional neural network can effectively extract the global and local information of fundus vessel images,but its output is grayscale image binarized by a hard threshold, which will cause the loss of vessel area, too thin vessel and other problems. To solve these problems, U-Net and Pulse Coupled Neural Network (PCNN) were combined to give play to their respective advantages and design a fundus vessel segmentation method. First, the iterative U-Net model was used to highlight the vessels, the fusion results of the features extracted by the U-Net model and the original image were input again into the improved U-Net model to enhance the vessel image. Then, the U-Net output result was viewed as a gray image, and the PCNN with adaptive threshold was utilized to perform accurate vessel segmentation. The experimental results show that the AUC (Area Under the Curve) of the proposed method was 0.979 6,0.980 9 and 0.982 7 on the DRVIE, STARE and CHASE_DB1 datasets, respectively. The method can extract more vessel details, and has strong generalization ability and good application prospects.
In order to solve the problems of small targets, large noises, and many types in the logo recognition for vehicles on traffic road, a method combining a target detection algorithm based on deep learning and a template matching algorithm based on morphology was proposed, and a recognition system with high accuracy and capable of dealing with new types of vehicle logo was designed. First, K-Means++ was used to re-cluster the anchor box values and residual network was introduced into YOLOv4 for one-step positioning of the vehicle logo. Secondly, the binary vehicle logo template library was built by preprocessing and segmenting standard vehicle logo images. Then, the positioned vehicle logo was preprocessed by MSRCR (Multi-Scale Retinex with Color Restoration), OTSU binarization, etc. Finally, the Hamming distance was calculated between the processed vehicle logo and the standard vehicle logo in the template library and the best match was found. In the vehicle logo detection experiment, the improved YOLOv4 detection achieves the higher accuracy of 99.04% compared to the original YOLOv4, two-stage positioning method of vehicle logo based on license plate position and the vehicle logo positioning method based on radiator grid background; its speed is slightly lower than that of the original YOLOv4, higher than those of the other two, reaching 50.62 fps (frames per second). In the vehicle logo recognition experiment, the recognition accuracy based on morphological template matching is higher compared to traditional Histogram Of Oriented Gradients (HOG), Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and convolutional neural network, reaching 91.04%. Experimental results show that the vehicle logo detection algorithm based on deep learning has higher accuracy and faster speed. The morphological template matching method can maintain a high recognition accuracy under the conditions of light change and noise pollution.
Due to the characteristics of water itself and the absorption and scattering of light by suspended particles in the water, a series of problems, such as low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and low resolution, exist in underwater images. Most of the traditional processing methods include image enhancement, restoration and reconstruction rely on degradation model and have ill-posed algorithm problem. In order to further improve the effects and efficiency of underwater image restoration algorithm, an improved image super-resolution reconstruction method based on deep convolutional neural network was proposed. An Improved Dense Block structure (IDB) was introduced into the network of the method, which can effectively solve the gradient disappearance problem of deep convolutional neural network and improve the training speed at the same time. The network was used to train the underwater images before and after the degradation by registration and obtained the mapping relation between the low-resolution image and the high-resolution image. The experimental results show that on a self-built underwater image training set, the underwater image reconstructed by the deep convolutional neural network with IDB has the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) improved by 0.38 dB and 0.013 respectively, compared with SRCNN (an image Super-Resolution method using Conventional Neural Network) and proposed method can effectively improve the reconstruction quality of underwater images.
With the development of bioinformatics, gene expression microarray and image recognition, classification on high-dimensional and small-sample-size data has become a challenging task in data ming, machine learning and pattern recognition as well. High-dimensional and small-sample-size data may cause the problem of "curse of dimensionality" and overfitting. Feature selection can prevent the "curse of dimensionality" effectively and promote the generalization ability of classification mode, and thus become a hot research topic. Accordingly, some recent development of world-wide research on feature selection in high-dimensional and small-sample-size classification was briefly reviewed. Firstly, the nature of high-dimensional and small-sample feature selection was analyzed. Secondly, according to their essential difference, feature selection algorithms for high-dimensional and small-sample-size classification were divided into four categories and compared to summarize their advantages and disadvantages. Finally, challenges and prospects for future trends of feature selection in high-dimensional small-sample-size data were proposed.