Este trabalho apresentou uma análise comparativa de algumas técnicas de correlações locais baseadas em intensidade luminosa, as quais são: Soma das Diferenças Absolutas, Soma dos Quadrados das Diferenças, Correlação Cruzada Normalizada, Transformada Rank e Transformada Censo. Para as comparações foram adotadas imagens estéreos disponíveis em repositórios de universidades e suas variantes com a inclusão de ruído e variação de intensidade luminosa. Após a implementação dos algoritmos escolhidos e a comparação de seus resultados, foi obtido que a Transformada Censo é um dos métodos com os piores resultados apresentando grande quantidade de correlações erradas. Foram apresentadas modificações para melhorar a performance desse método e os resultados obtidos foram melhores. / This work presents a comparative analysis of some local area intensity based correlation algorithm, which are: Sum of Absolute Differences, Sum of Squared Differences, Normalized Cross-Correlation, Rank Transform and Census Transform. For the tests stereo data sets are adopted. These data sets are available at universities websites and their variants with the inclusion of noise and variation of luminosity are created. After implementing the chosen algorithms a comparison were performed and the Census Transform was one of the methods that got the worst results showing large quantity of false correlations. On this work was presented some modifications to improve the performance of the Census Transform and the results obtained were better than the original Census Transform.

With the advance of facial recognition technology, many related applications such as the clearance of specific facilities, air port security, video camera surveillance, and personnel recognition. To maximize working efficiency and reduce human resource, the platform used for facial recognition should possess both low cost, multimedia performance, and the ease of use. Among the list of available platforms, a IBM CELL multi-core based platform that features the aforementioned advantages is used to manifest our work. To meet the demand of recognition accuracy, a recognition algorithms using features low error rate and regular data patterns are adopted. These algorithms are carried out in two parts: Modified Census Transform (MCT) and hypotheses of human facial calculation. The multi-point average value required by the MCT is obtained through parallel processing, and potential improvement in recognition efficiency is possible if wider data paths are used. A PlayStation 3 (PS3) platform equipped with the IBM CELL multi-core processor is used in this thesis. The IBM CELL multi-core processor consists of a PowerPC Processor Element (PPE) and 8 Synergistic Processor (SPE), which forms a heterogeneous multi-core system. This system is capable of parallelizing thread-level and data-level data words, which can meet the demand of high data bandwidth and data parallelization. By using this platform to accelerate the processing of facial recognition, simulation results suggest that the execution efficiency is improved by 24 times when compared with a single core SPE. The simulation also reveals that the use of parallelization of processing facial recognition data feasible. In the future, improved algorithms can be applied to improve the accuracy of facial recognition.

Este trabalho apresentou uma análise comparativa de algumas técnicas de correlações locais baseadas em intensidade luminosa, as quais são: Soma das Diferenças Absolutas, Soma dos Quadrados das Diferenças, Correlação Cruzada Normalizada, Transformada Rank e Transformada Censo. Para as comparações foram adotadas imagens estéreos disponíveis em repositórios de universidades e suas variantes com a inclusão de ruído e variação de intensidade luminosa. Após a implementação dos algoritmos escolhidos e a comparação de seus resultados, foi obtido que a Transformada Censo é um dos métodos com os piores resultados apresentando grande quantidade de correlações erradas. Foram apresentadas modificações para melhorar a performance desse método e os resultados obtidos foram melhores. / This work presents a comparative analysis of some local area intensity based correlation algorithm, which are: Sum of Absolute Differences, Sum of Squared Differences, Normalized Cross-Correlation, Rank Transform and Census Transform. For the tests stereo data sets are adopted. These data sets are available at universities websites and their variants with the inclusion of noise and variation of luminosity are created. After implementing the chosen algorithms a comparison were performed and the Census Transform was one of the methods that got the worst results showing large quantity of false correlations. On this work was presented some modifications to improve the performance of the Census Transform and the results obtained were better than the original Census Transform.

Orientador: Aparecido Nilceu Marana / Banca: Roberto Marcondes Cesar Junior / Banca: Ivan Rizzo Guilherme / Resumo: O reconhecimento facial é uma das principais formas de identificação humana. Apesar das pesquisas em reconhecimento facial automático terem crescido substancialmente ao longo dos últimos 35 anos, identificar pessoas a partir da face continua sendo um desafio para as áreas de Visão Computacional e Reconhecimento de Padrões. Em função dos cenários variarem desde a identificação a partir de fotografias até o reconhecimento baseado em vídeos sem nenhum tipo de controle ao serem gravados, os maiores desafios estão relacionados à independência contra diferentes tipos de iluminação, pose e expressão. O objetivo desta dissertação é propor técnicas que possam contribuir para a melhoria dos sistemas de reconhecimento facial. A primeira técnica endereça o problema da iluminação através da fusão dos espectros visível e infravermelho da face. Através desta abordagem, as taxas de reconhecimento foram melhoradas em 2.07% enquanto a taxa de erro igual (EER) foi reduzida em 45.47%. A segunda técnica trata do caso da extração e classificação de características faciais. Ela propõe um novo modelo para reconhecimento facial através do uso de características extraídas por Histogramas Census e de uma técnica de reconhecimento de padrões baseada em Máquinas de Vetores de Suporte (SVMs). Este outro grupo de experimentos nos possibilitou aumentar a precisão do reconhecimento no teste FERET fa/fb em 0.5%. Além destes resultados, algumas contribuições adicionais deste trabalho que merecem ser destacadas são a análise da dependência estatística entre classificadores de espectros diferentes e considerações sobre o comportamento de uma única C-SVC SVM para identificação de pessoas de forma eficaz. / Abstract: Face recognition is one of the primary ways of human identification. Although researches on automated face recognition have broadly increased along the last 35 years, it remains a challenging task in the fields of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. As the scenarios varies from static and constrained photographs to uncontrolled video images, the challenging issues on automatic face recognition are usually related with variations in illumination, pose and expressions. The goal of this master thesis is to propose techniques for the improvement of face recognition systems. The first technique addresses the problem of illumination by fusing the visible and the infrared spectra of the face. With this approach the recognition rates were improved in 2.07% while the Equal Error Rate (EER) were reduced in 45.47%. The second technique addresses the issue of face features extraction and classification. It proposes a new framework for face recognition by using features extracted by Census Histograms and a pattern recognition technique based on Support Vector Machines (SVMs). This other group of experiments enabled us to increase the recognition accuracy in the FERET fa/fb test in 0.5%. Beyond these results, additional contributions of this work that deserve to be highlighted are the statistical dependency analysis between face recognition systems based on different spectra and a better comprehension about the behavior of a single C-SVC SVM to reliably predict faces identities. / Mestre

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Stereo vision is a very useful, yet challenging technology for a wide variety of applications. One of the greatest challenges is meeting the computational demands of stereo vision applications that require real-time performance. The FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) is a readily-available technology that allows many stereo vision methods to be implemented while meeting the strict real-time performance requirements of some applications. Some of the best results have been obtained using non-parametric stereo correlation methods, such as the rank and census transform. Yet relatively little work has been done to study these methods or to propose new algorithms based on the same principles for improved stereo correlation accuracy or reduced resource requirements. This dissertation describes the sparse census and sparse rank transforms, which significantly reduce the cost of implementation while maintaining and in some case improving correlation accuracy. This dissertation also proposes the generalized census and generalized rank transforms, which opens up a new class of stereo vision transforms and allows the stereo system to be even more optimized, often reducing the hardware resource requirements. The proposed stereo methods are analyzed, providing both quantitative and qualitative results for comparison to existing algorithms. These results show that the computational complexity of local stereo methods can be significantly reduced while maintaining very good correlation accuracy. A hardware architecture for the implementation of the proposed algorithms is also described and the actual resource requirements for the algorithms are presented. These results confirm that dramatic reductions in hardware resource requirements can be achieved while maintaining high stereo correlation accuracy. This work proposes the multi-bit census, which provides improved pixel discrimination as compared to the census, and leads to improved correlation accuracy with some stereo configurations. A rotation-invariant census transform is also proposed and can be used in applications where image rotation is possible.