Fetal movement is an important clinical indicator to assess fetus growth and development status in the uterus. In recent years, a noninvasive intelligent sensing fetal movement detection system that can monitor high‐risk pregnancies at home has received a lot of attention in the field of wearable health monitoring. However, recovering fetal movement signals from a continuous low‐amplitude background that is heavily contaminated with noise and recognizing real fetal movements is a challenging task. In this paper, fetal movement can be efficiently recognized by combining the strength of Kalman filtering, time and frequency domain and wavelet domain feature extraction, and hyperparameter tuned Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) model. Firstly, the Kalman filtering (KF) algorithm is used to recover the fetal movement signal in a continuous low‐amplitude background contaminated by noise. Secondly, the time domain, frequency domain, and wavelet domain (TFWD) features of the preprocessed fetal movement signal are extracted. Finally, the Bayesian Optimization algorithm (BOA) is used to optimize the LightGBM model to obtain the optimal hyperparameters. Through this, the accurate prediction and recognition of fetal movement are successfully achieved. In the performance analysis of the Zenodo fetal movement dataset, the proposed KF + TFWD + BOA‐LGBM approach’s recognition accuracy and F1‐Score reached 94.06% and 96.85%, respectively. Compared with 8 existing advanced methods for fetal movement signal recognition, the proposed method has better accuracy and robustness, indicating its potential medical application in wearable smart sensing systems for fetal prenatal health monitoring.
Single image super resolution (SISR) is an important research content in the field of computer vision and image processing. With the rapid development of deep neural networks, different image super-resolution models have emerged. Compared to some traditional SISR methods, deep learning-based methods can complete the superresolution tasks through a single image. In addition, compared with the SISR methods using traditional convolutional neural networks, SISR based on generative adversarial networks (GAN) has achieved the most advanced visual performance. In this review, we first explore the challenges faced by SISR and introduce some common datasets and evaluation metrics. Then, we review the improved network structures and loss functions of GAN-based perceptual SISR. Subsequently, the advantages and disadvantages of different networks are analyzed by multiple comparative experiments. Finally, we summarize the paper and look forward to the future development trends of GAN-based perceptual SISR.
SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is the core technology enabling autonomous exploration by mobile robots in unknown environments. While there have been numerous impressive SLAM systems developed, many of them are primarily based on the assumption of static environments, limiting their applicability in real-world settings. In order to enhance the robustness and accuracy of systems in dynamic real-world scenarios, we have introduced a parallelized real-time SLAM system called PR-SLAM, building upon the foundation of ORB-SLAM3. This algorithm introduces a dynamic probability update strategy within the semantic segmentation thread, completely decoupling the semantic segmentation thread from the tracking thread. Theoretically, the processing time per frame is solely dependent on the runtime of the tracking thread. Furthermore, we employ a geometric approach based on reprojection error to compensate for semantic gaps generated during semantic segmentation model inference. We have also designed a semantic optimization thread based on the dynamic probability of map points to optimize camera poses during semantic gaps. Finally, to reduce semantic gaps, we have performed lightweight modifications to SOLOV2. Comparative experiments were conducted against the state-of-the-art SLAM systems using the TUM dataset. The results indicate significant improvements in both accuracy and real-time performance for PR-SLAM. When compared to ORB-SLAM3, PR-SLAM achieved a remarkable 97.83% improvement in absolute trajectory accuracy and demonstrated an impressive 86.71% increase in runtime speed compared to DynaSLAM.
Automated segmentation of diabetic retinopathy (DR) lesions is crucial for assessing DR severity and diagnosis. Most previous segmentation methods overlook the detrimental impact of texture information bias, resulting in suboptimal segmentation results. Additionally, the role of lesion shape is not thoroughly considered. In this paper, we propose a lightweight frequency recalibration network (LFRC-Net) for simultaneous multi-lesion DR segmentation, which integrates a frequency recalibration module into the bottleneck layers of the encoder to analyze texture information and shape features together. The module utilizes a Gaussian pyramid to generate features at different scales, constructs a Laplacian pyramid using a difference of Gaussian filter, and then analyzes object features in different frequency domains with the Laplacian pyramid. The high-frequency component handles texture information, while the low-frequency area focuses on learning the shape features of DR lesions. By adaptively recalibrating these frequency representations, our method can differentiate the objects of interest. In the decoder, we introduce a residual attention module (RAM) to enhance lesion feature extraction and efficiently suppress irrelevant information. We evaluate the proposed model’s segmentation performance on two public datasets, IDRiD and DDR, and a private dataset, an ultra-wide-field fundus images dataset. Extensive comparative experiments and ablation studies are conducted across multiple datasets. With minimal model parameters, our approach achieves an mAP_PR of 60.51%, 34.83%, and 14.35% for the segmentation of EX, HE, and MA on the DDR dataset and also obtains excellent results for EX and SE on the IDRiD dataset, which validates the effectiveness of our network.
31 January 2022 in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
In response to the traditional WiFi location fingerprint positioning algorithm still having a low positioning accuracy, which is difficult to meet the robot indoor positioning and navigation needs, a series of improvements are made to the traditional WiFi location fingerprint positioning algorithm, so that the positioning accuracy of the algorithm can be effectively improved. At the stage of building the location fingerprint library offline, WiFi signals are collected at each reference point by reducing the reference point spacing of the traditional location fingerprinting algorithm and then using different time period collection methods. The WiFi signal strength values are standardized using the standardization processing method to improve the specificity of traditional location fingerprinting. In the real-time localization stage, the WiFi signals collected from the unknown location points are averaged, and then, the fingerprint similarity calculation is performed using a matching method based on the magnitude of the Marxian distance as a similarity reference. In order to eliminate the location fingerprints that degrade the localization accuracy, an improved adaptive -value WKNN algorithm is integrated at the end of the localization algorithm. The improved localization algorithm and the proposed raster-based navigation algorithm are validated in a fixed experimental environment. The experimental results show that the probability of the improved algorithm’s positioning error within 0.4 m is 49%, which is a 35% improvement over the conventional algorithm. Combining the improved positioning algorithm with our proposed grid-based navigation algorithm, the final navigation error probability within 0.8 m is 62%.
About Me
Jiansheng Peng, male, was born in December 1979, in Chaling, Hunan. He holds a Doctorate in Engineering and is a Professor and Senior Engineer. Dr. Peng specializes in intelligent control, intelligent automation, and embedded development and applications and is a supervisor for master's students. He is recognized as an outstanding young and middle-aged core teacher in Guangxi Higher Education Institutions, as well as one of the top 1,000 young and middle-aged core teachers in Guangxi Higher Education Institutions. He also serves as an expert for the Guangxi Industrial Innovation and Development Project and is an expert in Guangxi Industrial Green Development. He is a member of the second Vocational Electronic Information Education and Teaching Guidance Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and is a member of the Teaching Guidance Committee and Academic Committee of Hechi University.
Jiansheng Peng, male, was born in December 1979, in Chaling, Hunan. He holds a Doctorate in Engineering and is a Professor and Senior Engineer. Dr. Peng specializes in intelligent control, intelligent automation, and embedded development and applications and is a supervisor for master's students. He is recognized as an outstanding young and middle-aged core teacher in Guangxi Higher Education Institutions, as well as one of the top 1,000 young and middle-aged core teachers in Guangxi Higher Education Institutions. He also serves as an expert for the Guangxi Industrial Innovation and Development Project and is an expert in Guangxi Industrial Green Development. He is a member of the second Vocational Electronic Information Education and Teaching Guidance Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and is a member of the Teaching Guidance Committee and Academic Committee of Hechi University.