A bintree energy approach for colour image segmentation using adaptive channel selection

A new hierarchical approach called bintree energy segmentation was presented for color image segmentation. The image features are extracted by adaptive clustering on multi-channel data at each level and used as the criteria to dynamically select the best chromatic channel, where the segmentation is carried out. In this approach, an extended direct energy computation method based on the Chan-Vese model was proposed to segment the selected channel, and the segmentation outputs are then fused with other channels into new images, from which a new channel with better features is selected for the second round segmentation. This procedure is repeated until the preset condition is met. Finally, a binary segmentation tree is formed, in which each leaf represents a class of objects with a distinctive color. To facilitate the data organization, image background is employed in segmentation and channels fusion. The bintree energy segmentation exploits color information involved in all channels data and tries to optimize the global segmentation result by choosing the ＂best＂ channel for segmentation at each level. The experiments show that the method is effective in speed, accuracy and flexibility.     

Segmentation of complex objects'' sonar images using parameter-fixed MRF model

The effective method of the recognition of underwater complex objects in sonar image is to segment sonar image into target, shadow and sea-bottom reverberation regions and then extract the edge of the object. Because of the time-varying and space-varying characters of underwater acoustics environment, the sonar images have poor quality and serious speckle noise, so traditional image segmentation is unable to achieve precise segmentation. In the paper, the image segmentation process based on MRF (Markov random field) model is studied, and a practical method of estimating model parameters is proposed. Through analyzing the impact of chosen model parameters, a sonar imagery segmentation algorithm based on fixed parameters' MRF model is proposed. Both of the segmentation effect and the low computing load are gained. By applying the algorithm to the synthesized texture image and actual side-scan sonar image, the algorithm can be achieved with precise segmentation result.     

浅析中小航运企业发展战略

针对现在存在只要和“物流”沾边的企业就要把自己改名,并建设成为物流公司的现象,提出了“中小航运企业究竟应该向哪里发展”的问题。通过回顾我国航运业发展的历史和了解世界上关于中小企业的存在理论,说明在中国中小航运企业有存在的可能性和必要性。     

图像分割在工件图像视觉检测中的应用

在介绍图像分割的主要特征的基础上,分析了目前几种典型图像分割方法。针对工件图像视觉检测中图像分割特点,提出了将边缘检测和域值分割方法相结合来分割工件图像的一种新方法,并开发了相应的软件。实验验证该方法用于工件图像测量,能很好消除图像噪声,得到连续的图像边界,并且定位较准,可以有效地提高检测系统的精度。     

一种基于语义分割结果的车道线检测拟合方法

车道线等地面标志物的检测是自动驾驶车辆环境感知的重要内容,能够为车辆提供可行驶区域的信息。文章提出一种基于语义分割结果的车道线检测拟合方法。使用车载单目相机获取车辆行驶过程中采集的道路图像,送入卷积神经网络进行车道线语义分割。将分割得到的仅含车道线的二值图像进行透视变换得到鸟瞰图,筛选有效车道线像素点,对有效车道线点使用最小二乘法进行多项式拟合,输出左右车道线多项式拟合系数,能够有效解决传统车道线检测算法的环境适应性差,鲁棒性不强,对弯道车道线检测信息不够准确等问题。     

线性需求下铁路客运差别定价模型研究

为提高席位资源利用率,研究了线性需求下我国铁路客运差别定价策略的优化模型。以收益最大化为目标,基于最优化理论和完全价格歧视策略,确定旅客群体最优细分数目以及每个旅客群体的最优票价,得出在客运淡季,铁路旅客最优细分数目为3~5个,各旅客群的最优票价由铁路客运市场细分数目决定。应用该模型为某城际高铁进行差别定价,试验结果表明,该模型可达到调节客流、增加收益的目的。     

A statistical analysis of consumer perceptions towards automated vehicles and their intended adoption

ABSTRACT

While automated vehicle (AV) development continues to progress rapidly, how the public will accept and adopt automated vehicles remains an open question. Using extensive survey data, we apply cluster analysis to better understand consumer perceptions toward potential benefits and concerns related to AVs with regard to factors influencing their AV adoption likelihood. Four market segments are identified – ‘benefits-dominated,’ ‘concerns-dominated,’ ‘uncertain,’ and ‘well-informed.’ A random parameters multinomial logit model is then estimated to identify factors influencing the probability of respondents belonging to one of these four market segments. Among other influences (such as socio-economic and current travel characteristics), it is found that ‘Millennials’ have a higher probability of belonging to the well-informed market segment, ‘Gen-Xers’ with a lower probability to the uncertain market segment, and ‘Baby Boomers’ with a higher probability to the concerns-dominated market (relative to the ‘Great Generation’). We also study the individuals’ expressed likelihood of AV adoption using separate random parameters ordered probit estimations for each of the four market segments. The substantial and statistically significant differences across each AV consumer market segment underscore the potentially large impact that different consumer demographics may have on AV adoption and the need for targeted marketing to achieve better market-penetration outcomes.     

Large-scale transit market segmentation with spatial-behavioural features

Transit market segmentation enables transit providers to comprehend the commonalities and heterogeneities among different groups of passengers, so that they can cater for individual transit riders’ mobility needs. The problem has recently been attracting a great interest with the proliferation of automated data collection systems such as Smart Card Automated Fare Collection (AFC), which allow researchers to observe individual travel behaviours over a long time period. However, there is a need for an integrated market segmentation method that incorporating both spatial and behavioural features of individual transit passengers. This algorithm also needs to be efficient for large-scale implementation. This paper proposes a new algorithm named Spatial Affinity Propagation (SAP) based on the classical Affinity Propagation algorithm (AP) to enable large-scale spatial transit market segmentation with spatial-behavioural features. SAP segments transit passengers using spatial geodetic coordinates, where passengers from the same segment are located within immediate walking distance; and using behavioural features mined from AFC data. The comparison with AP and popular algorithms in literature shows that SAP provides nearly as good clustering performance as AP while being 52% more efficient in computation time. This efficient framework would enable transit operators to leverage the availability of AFC data to understand the commonalities and heterogeneities among different groups of passengers.     

一种基于视频虚拟检测线的交通流参数检测方法

实时交通流参数检测在智能交通系统中起着重要的作用。参数检测有多种方式,其中基于图像处理的视频车辆检测方式近年来发展很快,由于它具有检测区域大、系统设置灵活等突出的优点,已成为智能交通系统领域的一个研究热点。车辆的检测基于车道,在每个车道设置两条虚拟检测线来检测交通流参数,虚拟检测线的作用类似于电磁感应线圈。系统通过对视频虚拟检测线的预处理将二维的数字图像转化成一维的检测信号,减小了运算量,降低了运算负荷。提出的基于视频虚拟检测线特征的交通流参数检测系统已经在PC机上用VC 6.0实现,并对不同典型天气条件下的交通流视频进行了实验,实验结果表明该系统具有较高的车流量统计精度。     

基于小波域隐马尔可夫树模型的多光谱遥感影像纹理分割技术研究

遥感图像纹理信息丰富，需要进行有效的纹理特征描述．小波域隐马尔可夫树（HMT）模型提供了一种有效的纹理特征提取方法．简述了HMT模型及分割思想，并在此基础上针对多光谱遥感图像，探索更好的纹理描述方法．通过适当的数学变换，得到多光谱遥感影像在不同角度下的描述：H—S—I分量和最大主成分分量．研究比较各分量特性并应用HMT模型，得到不同分量下纹理分割结果．实验表明，利用多光谱信息可有效地提高分割质量。