SSRN Electronic Journal,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2021
Object
recognition
is
a
computer
vision
technique
for
identifying
objects
inan
image.
Deep
neural
networks
have
demonstrated
remarkable
recognitionresults
on
the
basis
of
features
extracted
from
single
image
object.
In
this
paper,
we
present
feature
fusion-based
deep
learning
method
forclassifying
and
recognizing
multi-class
objects.
Specifically,
first
adopttwo
Convolutional
Neural
Network
models:
DenseNet
201
ResNet
101,
forfeature
extraction.
Then,
to
acquire
more
compact
presentation
featuresand
reduce
dimensions,
utilized
Neighborhood
Component
Analysis(NCA).
Furthermore,
fusion
performed
in
hierarchical
manner
byapplying
concatenation
operation.
Finally,
classify
multiple
objectsin
an
by
using
Support
Vector
Machine
(SVM)
classifier.
We
demonstrate
effectiveness
our
methodology
two
benchmark
datasets;
MSCOCO
wild
animal
camera
trap
dataset.
The
experimental
results
showthat
proposed
framework
achieved
accuracy
98.1%
97.5%
datasets
respectively.
Results
showed
thatour
effectively
improved
performance
favorably
bothrobustness
accuracy.
fair
comparison
with
existing
techniques
reported
literature
also
provided
Journal of Forensic Sciences,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
68(6), P. 1958 - 1971
Published: July 12, 2023
This
paper
explores
a
deep-learning
approach
to
evaluate
the
position
of
circular
delimiters
in
cartridge
case
images.
These
define
two
regions
interest
(ROI),
corresponding
breech
face
and
firing
pin
impressions,
are
placed
manually
or
by
an
image-processing
algorithm.
positioning
bears
significant
impact
on
performance
image-matching
algorithms
for
firearm
identification,
automated
evaluation
method
would
be
beneficial
any
computerized
system.
Our
contribution
consists
optimizing
training
U-Net
segmentation
models
from
digital
images
cases,
intending
locate
ROIs
automatically.
For
experiments,
we
used
high-resolution
2D
1195
samples
cases
fired
different
9MM
firearms.
results
show
that
models,
trained
augmented
data
sets,
exhibit
95.6%
IoU
(Intersection
over
Union)
99.3%
DC
(Dice
Coefficient)
with
loss
0.014
images;
95.9%
99.5%
0.011
We
observed
natural
shapes
predicted
circles
reduce
compared
perfect
ground
truth
masks
suggesting
our
provide
more
accurate
real
ROI
shape.
In
practice,
believe
these
could
useful
firearms
identification.
future
work,
predictions
may
quality
specimens
database,
they
determine
region
image.
SSRN Electronic Journal,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2021
Object
recognition
is
a
computer
vision
technique
for
identifying
objects
inan
image.
Deep
neural
networks
have
demonstrated
remarkable
recognitionresults
on
the
basis
of
features
extracted
from
single
image
object.
In
this
paper,
we
present
feature
fusion-based
deep
learning
method
forclassifying
and
recognizing
multi-class
objects.
Specifically,
first
adopttwo
Convolutional
Neural
Network
models:
DenseNet
201
ResNet
101,
forfeature
extraction.
Then,
to
acquire
more
compact
presentation
featuresand
reduce
dimensions,
utilized
Neighborhood
Component
Analysis(NCA).
Furthermore,
fusion
performed
in
hierarchical
manner
byapplying
concatenation
operation.
Finally,
classify
multiple
objectsin
an
by
using
Support
Vector
Machine
(SVM)
classifier.
We
demonstrate
effectiveness
our
methodology
two
benchmark
datasets;
MSCOCO
wild
animal
camera
trap
dataset.
The
experimental
results
showthat
proposed
framework
achieved
accuracy
98.1%
97.5%
datasets
respectively.
Results
showed
thatour
effectively
improved
performance
favorably
bothrobustness
accuracy.
fair
comparison
with
existing
techniques
reported
literature
also
provided