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Wireless endoscopy systems is a new innovative method widely used for gastrointestinal tract examination in recent decade. Wireless Micro-Ball endoscopy system with multiple image sensors is the newest proposed method which can make a full view image of the gastrointestinal tract. But still the quality of images from this new wireless endoscopy system is not satisfactory. It's hard for doctors and specialist to easily examine and interpret the captured images. The image features also are not distinct enough to be used for further processing. So as to enhance these low-contrast endoscopic images a new image enhancement method based on the endoscopic images features and color distribution is proposed in this work. The enhancement method is performed on three main steps namely color space transformation, edge preserving mask formation, and histogram information correction. The luminance component of CIE Lab, YCbCr, and HSV color space is enhanced in this method and then two other components added finally to form an enhanced color image. The experimental result clearly show the robustness of the method. © 2014 IEEE.

This paper presents a system for automatically classifying the resting location of a moving object in an indoor environment. The system uses an unsupervised neural network (Self Organising Feature Map) fully implemented on a low-cost, low-power automated home-based surveillance system, capable of monitoring activity level of elders living alone independently. The proposed system runs on an embedded platform with a specialised ceiling-mounted video sensor for intelligent activity monitoring. The system has the ability to learn resting locations, to measure overall activity levels and to detect specific events such as potential falls. First order motion information, including first order moving average smoothing, is generated from the 2D image coordinates (trajectories). A novel edge-based object detection algorithm capable of running at a reasonable speed on the embedded platform has been developed. The classification is dynamic and achieved in real-time. The dynamic classifier is achieved using a SOFM and a probabilistic model. Experimental results show less than 20% classification error, showing the robustness of our approach over others in literature with minimal power consumption. The head location of the subject is also estimated by a novel approach capable of running on any resource limited platform with power constraints. © 2014 IEEE.

Most of visual pattern recognition algorithms try to emulate the mechanism of visual pathway within the human brain. Regarding of classic face recognition task, by using the spatiotemporal information extracted from Spiking neural network (SNN), batch learning rule and on-line learning rule stand out from their competitors. However, the former one simply considers the average pattern within the class, and the latter one just relies on the nearest relevant single pattern. In this paper, a novel learning rule and its SNN framework has been proposed. It considers all relevant patterns in the local domain around the undetermined sample rather than just nearest relevant single pattern. Experimental results show the proposed learning rule and its SNN framework obtains satisfactory testing results under the ORL face database.

In order to see under low light conditions nocturnal insects rely on neural strategies based on combinations of spatial and temporal summations. Though these summation techniques when modelled are effective in improving the quality of low light images, using the temporal summation in scenes where image velocity is high only come at a cost of motion blurring in the output scenes. Most recent research has been towards reducing motion blurring in scenes where motion is caused by moving objects rather than effectively reducing motion blurring in scenes where motion is caused by moving cameras. This makes it impossible to implement the night vision algorithm in moving robots or cars that operate under low light conditions. In this paper we present a generic new method that can replace the normal temporal summation in scenes where motion is detected. The proposed method is both suitable for motion caused by moving objects as well as moving cameras. The effectiveness of this new generic method is shown with relevant supporting experiments.

This paper presents a new method for the extraction and clustering of Catadioptric Line Images (CLIs) from a single catadioptric image. The estimation of vanishing directions is also achieved simultaneously. With the mirror parameters provided, the central catadioptric system can be fully calibrated using the projected mirror boundary. Once the system is fully calibrated, the problem of conic fitting is reduced from five parameters to two parameters. This method requires the central catadioptric system to be vertically aligned i.e. the mirror axis is orthogonal to the floor. In a man-made environment where lots of parallel and orthogonal lines are presented, placing the catadioptric system in such a way allows us to obtain some degenerate CLIs, e.g. projections of lines orthogonal or parallel to the mirror axis. In this paper, we integrate the geometric properties associated with the degenerate CLIs into a J-linkage based algorithm for CLIs clustering and Vanishing Points (VPs) estimation. An exhaustive analysis on the influence of arc occlusion and noise to CLI fitting and grouping is also performed. The proposed approach is targeted to tackle the problem of occlusion and noise. The evaluation of the method is carried out on both synthetic and real data.

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is considered as the main technological solution that will enable the aged and people in recovery to maintain their independence and a consequent high quality of life for a longer period of time than would otherwise be the case. This goal is achieved by monitoring human's activities and deploying the appropriate collection of services to set environmental features and satisfy user preferences in a given context. However, both human monitoring and services deployment are particularly hard to accomplish due to the uncertainty and ambiguity characterising human actions, and heterogeneity of hardware devices composed in an AAL system. This research addresses both the aforementioned challenges by introducing 1) an innovative system, based on Self Organising Feature Map (SOFM), for automatically classifying the resting location of a moving object in an indoor environment and 2) a strategy able to generate context-aware based Fuzzy Markup Language (FML) services in order to maximize the users' comfort and hardware interoperability level. The overall system runs on a distributed embedded platform with a specialised ceiling-mounted video sensor for intelligent activity monitoring. The system has the ability to learn resting locations, to measure overall activity levels, to detect specific events such as potential falls and to deploy the right sequence of fuzzy services modelled through FML for supporting people in that particular context. Experimental results show less than 20% classification error in monitoring human activities and providing the right set of services, showing the robustness of our approach over others in literature with minimal power consumption. © 2014 IEEE.