Visual Background extractor (ViBe)model for moving target detection cannot avoid interference caused by irregular flicker pixels noise in dynamic outdoor scenes. In order to solve the issue, a flicker pixels noise-suppression method based on ViBe model algorithm was proposed. In the initial stage of background model, a fixed standard deviation of background model samples was used as the threshold value to limit the range of background model samples and get suitable background model samples for each pixel. In the foreground detection stage, an adaptive detection threshold was applied to improve the accuracy of detection result. Edge inhibition of image edge background pixels was executed to avoid error background sample values updating to the background model in the background model update process. On the basis of above, morphological operation was added to fix connected components to get more complete foreground images. Finally, the proposed method was compared with the original ViBe algorithm and the ViBe's improvement with morphology post-processing on the results of multiple video sequences. The experimental results show that the flicker pixels noise-suppression method can suppress flicker pixels noise effectively and get more accurate results.
A big data benchmark is needed eagerly by customers, industry and academia, to evaluate big data systems, improve current techniques and develop new techniques. A number of prominent works in last several years were reviewed. Their characteristics were introduced and the shortcomings were analyzed. Based on that, some suggestions on building a new big data benchmark are provided, including: 1) component based benchmarks as well as end-to-end benchmarks should be used in combination to test different tools inside the system and test the system as a whole, while component benchmarks are ingredients of the whole big data benchmark suite; 2) workloads should be enriched with complex analytics to encompass different application requirements, besides SQL queries; 3) other than performance metrics (response time and throughput), some other metrics should also be considered, including scalability, fault tolerance, energy saving and security.
Focusing on the drawback that Discovering Maximum Frequent Itemsets Algorithm (DMFIA) has to generate lots of maximum frequent candidate itemsets in each dimension when given datasets with many candidate items and each maximum frequent itemset is not long, an improved Algorithm for mining Maximum Frequent Itemsets based of Frequent-Pattern tree (FP-MFIA) for mining maximum frequent itemsets based on FP-tree was proposed. According to Htable of FP-tree, this algorithm used bottom-up searches to mine maximum frequent itemsets, thus accelerated the count of candidates. Producing infrequent itemsets with lower dimension according to conditional pattern base of every layer when mining, cutting and reducing dimensions of candidate itemsets can largely reduce the amount of candidate itemsets. At the same time taking full advantage of properties of maximum frequent itemsets will reduce the search space. The time efficiency of FP-MFIA is at least two times as much as the algorithm of DMFIA and BDRFI (algorithm for mining frequent itemsets based on dimensionality reduction of frequent itemset) according to computational time contrast based on different supports. It shows that FP-MFIA has a clear advantage when candidate itemsets are with high dimension.
Focusing on the issue that the prediction model for task accuracy is deficient in the relationship of speed-accuracy tradeoff in human computer interaction, a method of predictive model for accuracy based on temporal constraint was proposed. The method studied the relationship between task accuracy and specified temporal constraint when users tried to complete the task with a specified amount of time in the computer user interface by controlled experiments, which was used to measure the human performance in temporal constraint tasks. A series of steering tasks with temporal constraint were designed in the experiment, which manipulated the tunnel amplitude, tunnel width and specified movement time. The dependent variable in the experiment was the task accuracy, which was quantifiable as lateral deviation of the trajectory. It was pointed out that the task accuracy was linearly related to tunnel width and steering speed (indicated as specified movement time divided by tunnel amplitude) by analyzing the experimental data from 30 participants. Finally, a quantitative model was established to predict the task accuracy based on the least-square regression in steering tasks with temporal constraint. The proposed model has a good fit with the real dataset, the goodness of fit is 0.857.
To solve the low running speed problem of Knuth39 random number generator, a Knuth39 parallelization method based on Many Integrated Core (MIC) platform was proposed. Firstly, the random number sequence of Knuth39 generator was divided into subsequences by regular interval. Then, the random numbers were generated by every thread from the corresponding subsequence's starting point. Finally, the random number sequences generated by all threads were combined into the final sequence. The experimental results show that the parallelized Knuth39 generator successfully passed 452 tests of TestU01, the results are the same as those of Knuth39 generator without parallelization. Compared with single thread on Central Processing Unit (CPU), the optimal speed-up ratio on MIC platform is 15.69 times. The proposed method improves the running speed of Knuth39 generator effectively, ensures the randomness of the generated sequences, and it is more suitable for high performance computing.
To improve the accuracy of bird sounds recognition in low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) environment, a new bird sounds recognition technology based on Radon Transform (RT) and Translation Invariant Discrete Wavelet Transform (TIDWT) from spectrogram after the noise reduction was proposed. First, an improved multi-band spectral subtraction method was presented to reduce the background noise. Second, short-time energy was used to detect silence of clean bird sound, and the silence was removed. Then, the bird sound was translated into spectrogram, RT and TIDWT were used to extract features. Finally, classification was achieved by Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. The experimental results show that the method can achieve better recognition effect even the SNR belows 10dB.
Traditional wavelet-based algorithm has a common effect on the images of light nonuniformity and scarcity. Aiming at the shortcoming, a new wavelet-based algorithm for image enhancement was proposed. The image was first decomposed into multi-level wavelet to obtain the scaling coefficients and the multi-level wavelet coefficients. Then, every level of wavelet coefficients was enhanced by different algorithms, and the scaling coefficients were processed by MSR(Multiscale Retinex). Finally, the image of enhancement was obtained via the inverse wavelet transform. Experiments show that the algorithm excels conventional algorithms in the effect of enhancement and the abatement of noise, at the same time, it has an excellent effect on the images of light nonuniformity and scarcity.