This thesis deals with the image object detection using Haar--like features and AdaBoost algorithm. The text describes methods how to train and test an object detector. The main contributon of this thesis consists in creation image object detector in Java programming language. Created algorithms were integrated as plugin into the RapidMiner tool, which is widely used and known worldwide as tool for data mining. The thesis contains the instructions for created operators and few exaples for executing in RapidMiner tool. The functionality of image object detector was demonstrated on selected medical images.

With the development of posibilities of image processing, stereoscopy, prices of web cameras and power of computers an opportunity to multiply an experience with working with 3D programs showed. From the picture from webcamera an estimation of a pose of user's head can be made. According to this pose a view on 3D scene can be changed. Then, when user moves his head, he will have a feeling as if monitor was a window through which one can see the scene behind. With the system which is the result of this project it will be possible to easily and cheaply add this kind of behaviour to any 3D application.

This thesis deals with the study of contactless and noninvasive methods for estimation of heart rate. Contactless measurement is based on capturing person faces by video camera and from sequences of pictures are estimated values of the heart rate. The theoretical part describes heart rate and methods that are being used to estimate heart rate from color changes in the face. It also contains testing of tracking algorithms. Practical part deals with user interface of program for contactless measurement of heart rate and its software solution. Thesis also contains statistical evaluation of program functionality.

Integration of audio and video signals for automatic speech recognition has become an important field of study. The Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) system is known to have accuracy higher than audio-only or visual-only system. The research focused on the visual front end and has been centered around lip segmentation. Experiments performed for lip feature extraction were mainly done in constrained environment with controlled background noise. In this thesis we focus our attention to a database collected in the environment of a moving car which hampered the quality of the imagery. We first introduce the concept of illumination compensation, where we try to reduce the dependency of light from over- or under-exposed images. As a precursor to lip segmentation, we focus on a robust face detection technique which reaches an accuracy of 95%. We have detailed and compared three different face detection techniques and found a successful way of concatenating them in order to increase the overall accuracy. One of the detection techniques used was the object detection algorithm proposed by Viola-Jones. We have experimented with different color spaces using the Viola-Jones algorithm and have reached interesting conclusions. Following face detection we implement a lip localization algorithm based on the vertical gradients of hybrid equations of color. Despite the challenging background and image quality, success rate of 88% was achieved for lip segmentation.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-10-01T15:06:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MATHEUS BEZERRA ESTRELA RODRIGUES - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCC 2012..pdf: 7068761 bytes, checksum: 4b1283a1da5ca466fcf0357c33091a30 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-01T15:06:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MATHEUS BEZERRA ESTRELA RODRIGUES - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCC 2012..pdf: 7068761 bytes, checksum: 4b1283a1da5ca466fcf0357c33091a30 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-29 / Impulsionado pelo crescimento no uso de vigilância eletrônica, essa pesquisa introduz o uso de uma técnica que demonstra eficiência no reconhecimento de faces em imagens, alterando o objeto de busca para pneus de veículos, visando o reconhecimento da presença do veículo na cena. A técnica aplicada para o reconhecimento é o algoritmo Viola-Jones. Essa técnica é dividida em dois momentos: o treinamento e a detecção. Na primeira etapa, vários treinamentos são executados, usando aproximadamente 7000 imagens diferentes. Para a etapa final, um detector de faces foi adaptado para reconhecer pneus, utilizando o treinamento da etapa anterior, e sua eficiência em reconhecer os pneus foi comparável à eficiência do detector de faces que usa treinamento de referência da biblioteca em software que é referência nesta área, OpenCV. O detector desenvolvido apresentou taxa de reconhecimento de 77%, quando o reconhecimento de faces obteve 80%. A taxa de falsos negativos também foi próxima, apresentando o detector de pneus 2% e o de faces 1%. / Motivated by the growing use of electronic surveillance, this research introduces the use of the Viola-Jones algorithm, which is known to be efficient in recognition of human faces in images, changing the object to be recognized to vehicle tires, aiming to detect vehicles in a scene. This approach divides the process in two steps: training and detection. Training was done using around 7000 different images of vehicles. For the detection step, work was done to adapt a face detector to detect vehicles tires. The tire detector was compared to a face detector that used a reference training for faces from OpenCV library. The tire detector showed 77% efficiency, whereas the face detector showed 80%. False negative numbers also showed similar closeness, as 2% for the tire detector and 1% for the reference face detector.

Σκοπός της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η δημιουργία ενός συστήματος αναγνώρισης ταυτότητας προσώπων μέσω βιντεοσκοπήσεων. Αφού έγινε εκτενής μελέτη των τεχνικών που έχουν προταθεί για τον εντοπισμό και την αναγνώριση προσώπου επιλέχθηκαν ο αλγόριθμος Viola-Jones για το κομμάτι του εντοπισμού και η ανάλυση κυρίων συνιστωσών (PCA) για το κομμάτι της αναγνώρισης. Επίσης έγινε εφαρμογή του αλγορίθμου PCA στη βάση προσώπων ORL και μελετήθηκαν οι παράμετροι που επηρεάζουν την απόδοσή του.Τέλος, το σύστημα ταυτοποίησης που κατασκευάστηκε δοκιμάστηκε σε πραγματικές συνθήκες και προέκυψαν κάποια συμπεράσματα για την απόδοσή του. / The subject of this diploma thesis is the creation of a face recognition system from video sequences. After thoroughly studying various proposed methods for face detection and recognition, Viola-Jones algorithm and principal component analysis (PCA) algorithm were chosen for the detection and recognition parts respectively. PCA was also performed on ORL face database and its perfomance was measured. Finally the face identification system that was created, was tested on real conditions to measure its perfomance.

In this thesis project techniques for training a rapid image classifier that can recognize an object of a predefined type has been studied. Classifiers have been trained with the AdaBoost algorithm, with and without the use of Viola-Jones cascades. The use of Weight trimming in the classifier training has been evaluated and resulted in a significant speed up of the training, as well as improving the performance of the trained classifier. Different preprocessings of the images have also been tested, but resulted for the most part in worse performance for the classifiers when used individually. Several rectangle shaped Haar-like features including novel versions have been evaluated and the magnitude versions proved to be best at separating the image classes.

Orchard fruits and vegetable crops are vulnerable to wild birds and animals. These wild birds and animals can cause critical damage to the produce. Traditional methods of scaring away birds such as scarecrows are not long-term solutions but short-term solutions. This is a huge problem especially near areas like San Luis Obispo where there are vineyards. Bird damage can be as high as 50% for grapes being grown in vineyards. The total estimated revenue lost annually in the 10 counties in California due to bird and rodent damage to 22 selected crops ranged from $168 million to $504 million (in 2009 dollars). A more effective and permanent system needs to be put into place. Monitoring systems in agricultural settings could potentially provide a lot of data for image processing. Most current monitoring systems however don’t focus on image processing but instead really heavily on sensors. Just having sensors for certain systems work, but for birds, monitoring it is not an option because they are not domesticated like pigs, cows etc. in which most these agricultural monitoring systems work on. Birds can fly in and out of the area whereas domesticated animals can be confined to certain physical regions. The most crucial step in a smart scarecrow system would be how a threat would v be detected. Image processing methods can be effectively applied to detecting items in video footage. This paper will focus on bird detection and will analyze motion detection with image subtraction, bird detection with template matching, and bird detection with the Viola-Jones Algorithm. Of the methods considered, bird detection with the Viola-Jones Algorithm had the highest accuracy (87%) with a somewhat low false positive rate. This image processing step would ideally be incorporated with hardware (such as a microcontroller or FPGA, sensors, a camera etc.) to form a smart scarecrow system.

This master's thesis focuses on smartphone game for iOS, which uses recognition of face features and other information, which can be obtained from a smartphone's camera and sensors. This work describes a few approaches for real-time face detection and then introduces and compares possibilities for such task on iOS. Moreover, the thesis contains a draft of the final game and its levels. The game showcases various technologies in its levels such as object detection, processing an image color and others. Finally, the thesis introduces the final form of the game that is released and available on the App Store.

Description cephalometric images and the characteristic points on the skull for cephalometric analysis. Theoretical analysis of digital image editing and image before the actual detection. The range of possible methods for determining the characteristic points on the face. Experimental verification of edge detectors, Hu moments with neural networks and Haar wavelets with Viola-Jones detector.