Aiming at the problems of insufficient generalization ability, poor stability and difficulty in meeting the real-time requirement of facial expression recognition, a real-time facial expression recognition method based on multi-scale kernel feature convolutional neural network was proposed. Firstly, an improved MSSD (MobileNet+Single Shot multiBox Detector) lightweight face detection network was proposed, and the detected face coordinates information was tracked by Kernel Correlation Filter (KCF) model to improve the detection speed and stability. Then, three linear bottlenecks of three different scale convolution kernels were used to form three branches. The multi-scale kernel convolution unit was formed by the feature fusion of channel combination, and the diversity feature was used to improve the accuracy of expression recognition. Finally, in order to improve the generalization ability of the model and prevent over-fitting, different linear transformation methods were used for data enhancement to augment the dataset, and the model trained on the FER-2013 facial expression dataset was migrated to the small sample CK+ dataset for retraining. The experimental results show that the recognition rate of the proposed method on the FER-2013 dataset reaches 73.0%, which is 1.8% higher than that of the Kaggle Expression Recognition Challenge champion, and the recognition rate of the proposed method on the CK+ dataset reaches 99.5%. For 640×480 video, the face detection speed of the proposed method reaches 158 frames per second, which is 6.3 times of that of the mainstream face detection network MTCNN (MultiTask Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network). At the same time, the overall speed of face detection and expression recognition of the proposed method reaches 78 frames per second. It can be seen that the proposed method can achieve fast and accurate facial expression recognition.
For the common key space shortage problem found in existing Arnold digital image encryption algorithm, a new digital image encryption algorithm-SMA (Sparse Matrix Arnold) based on sparse matrix and Arnold transformation was proposed and in order to further improve the security of the algorithm, an improved algorithm-3SMA (3 round SMA) using the ideas of multi-layered decomposition and three-tier structure encryption was proposed. The SMA algorithm adopted Arnold transform to spread the plaintext picture into a large sparse matrix, and then removed invalid sparse matrix elements to get the cipher text. While, the decryption of SMA needed to enter the cipher text picture, and moved pixels in cipher text picture back to their original positions in accordance with the previously computed swapping table. The 3SMA algorithm comprised three different round keys. Each round, the improved algorithm needed to process two color components of the plaintext picture to achieve the purpose of encryption. The experimental results show that the proposed encryption algorithm and its improvement obtain higher security compared to Arnold encryption algorithms analyzed.
To solve the problem that high dimension of descriptor decreases the matching speed of Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorithm, an improved SIFT algorithm was proposed. The feature point was acted as the center, the circular rotation invariance structure was used to construct feature descriptor in the approximate size circular feature points' neighborhood, which was divided into several sub-rings. In each sub-ring, the pixel information was to maintain a relatively constant and positions changed only. The accumulated value of the gradient within each ring element was sorted to generate the feature vector descriptor when the image was rotated. The dimensions and complexity of the algorithm was reduced and the dimensions of feature descriptor were reduced from 128 to 48. The experimental results show that, the improved algorithm can improve rotating registration repetition rate to more than 85%. Compared with the SIFT algorithm, the average matching registration rate increases by 5%, the average time of image registration reduces by about 30% in the image rotation, zoom and illumination change cases. The improved SIFT algorithm is effective.
A robust distributed output tracking controller was proposed for a class of linear multi-Agent system subject to external disturbances. This controller was applied to the case where the communication topology among the Agents was direct and possibly time-varying (i.e. switching). This controller is composed of two parts: the first part could ensure the tracking error uniformly exponentially converges to zero in the ideal case (without external disturbances), while the other part was used to compensate for the effect of the present disturbances. It is shown that the effect of constant disturbances can be completely attenuated by the proposed controller, that is, the tracking error converges asymptotically to zero even in the presence of constant disturbances; while for other type of disturbances with bounded derivatives, the ultimate bound of tracking error can be made arbitrarily small by choosing appropriate design parameters. Finally, the two-fold theoretical results were verified by a simulation example.
Concerning the serious recession problems of the low-dose Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction images, a low-dose CT reconstruction method of MLEM based on non-locality and variable exponent was presented. Considering the traditional anisotropic diffusion noise reduction is insufficient, variable exponent which could effectively compromise between heat conduction and anisotropic diffusion P-M models, and the similarity function which could detect the edge and details instead of gradient were applied to the traditional anisotropic diffusion, so as to achieve the desired effect. In each iteration, firstly, the basic MLEM algorithm was used to reconstruct the low-dose projection data. And then the diffusion function was improved by the non-local similarity measure, variable index and fuzzy mathematics theory, and the improved anisotropic diffusion was used to denoise the reconstructed image. Finally median filter was used to eliminate impulse noise points in the image. The experimental results show the proposed algorithm has a smaller numerical value than OS-PLS (Ordered Subsets-Penalized Least Squares), OS-PML-OSL (Ordered Subsets-Penalized Maximum Likelihood-One Step Late), and the algorithm based on the traditional PM, in the variance of Mean Absolute Error (MAE), and Normalized Mean Square Distance (NMSD), especially its Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) is up to 10.52. This algorithm can effectively eliminate the bar of artifacts, and can keep image edges and details information better.
In order to decrease the influence caused by low bandwidth and high latency on Media Access Control (MAC) layer in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network (UWASN), an Evolutionary Game Theory based MAC (EGT-MAC) protocol was proposed. In EGT-MAC, each sensor node adopted two strategies including spatial multiplexing and temporal multiplexing. With the replication kinetics equation, each strategy got an evolutionary stable strategy and reached stable equilibrium of evolution. In this way, it improved channel utilization rate and data transmission efficiency to achieve performance optimization for MAC protocol. The simulation results show that EGT-MAC can improve the network throughput as well as the transmission rate of data packet.
Concerning the contradiction between edge-preserving and noise-suppressing in the process of image denoising, a patch similarity anisotropic diffusion algorithm based on variable exponent for image denoising was proposed. The algorithm combined adaptive Perona-Malik (PM) model based on variable exponent for image denoising and the idea of patch similarity, constructed a new edge indicator and a new diffusion coefficient function. The traditional anisotropic diffusion algorithms for image denoising based on the intensity similarity of each single pixel (or gradient information) to detect edge cannot effectively preserve weak edges and details such as texture. However, the proposed algorithm can preserve more detail information while removing the noise, since the algorithm utilizes the intensity similarity of neighbor pixels. The simulation results show that, compared with the traditional image denoising algorithms based on Partial Differential Equation (PDE), the proposed algorithm improves Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) and Peak-Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) to 16.602480dB and 31.284672dB respectively, and enhances anti-noise capability. At the same time, the filtered image preserves more detail features such as weak edges and textures and has good visual effects. Therefore, the algorithm achieves a good balance between noise reduction and edge maintenance.
In order to deal with the problem that current digital rights expression models have less ability to describe dynamic semantics, a new model, DDRM(Dynamic Digical Rights Model), which can describe action state was presented. Based on first-order dynamic logic, a new symbol system of first-order dynamic logic, DrFDL(Digital rights Fist-order Dynamic Logic), was defined to describe digital rights conception DrFDL semantic structure which can reflect dynamic property of action was presented based on DDRM. In addition, a license syntax based on DDRM was provided for rights expression. Then DrFDL logic was used to express the formal semantics of the licenses produced from this syntax and the determinacy with validity of these licenses was explored at last.