In recent years, the increase of satellites and UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) has multiplied the amount of remote sensing data available to people, but only a small part of the remote sensing data has been properly used; problems such as land planning, disaster management and resource monitoring still need to be solved. Buildings in remote sensing images have obvious positioning characteristics; thus, the detection of buildings can not only help the mapping and automatic updating of geographic information systems but also have guiding significance for the detection of other types of ground objects in remote sensing images. Aiming at the deficiency of traditional building remote sensing detection, an improved Faster R-CNN (region-based Convolutional Neural Network) algorithm was proposed in this paper, which adopts DRNet (Dense Residual Network) and RoI (Region of Interest) Align to utilize texture information and to solve the region mismatch problems. The experimental results showed that this method could reach 82.1% mAP (mean average precision) for the detection of landmark buildings, and the prediction box of building coordinates was relatively accurate, which improves the building detection results. Moreover, the recognition of buildings in a complex environment was also excellent.
Microwave-absorbing materials have attracted increased research interest in recent years because of their core roles in the fields of electromagnetic (EM) pollution precaution and information security. In this paper, microwave-absorbing material NiFe-layered double hydroxide (NiFe-LDH) was synthesized by a simple co-precipitation method and calcined for the fabrication of NiFe-mixed metal oxide (NiFe-MMO). The phase structure and micromorphology of the NiFe-LDH and NiFe-MMO were analyzed, and their microwave-absorbing properties were investigated with a vector network analyzer in 2–18 GHz. Both NiFe-LDH and NiFe-MMO possessed abundant interfaces and a low dielectric constant, which were beneficial to electromagnetic wave absorption, owing to the synergistic effect of multi-relaxation and impedance matching. The optimum reflection loss (RL) of NiFe-LDH and NiFe-MMO was −58.8 dB and −64.4 dB, respectively, with the thickness of 4.0 mm in the C band. This work demonstrates that LDH-based materials have a potential application in electromagnetic wave absorption.
The rapid increase in the number of vehicles has led to increasing traffic congestion, traffic accidents, and motor vehicle crime rates. The management of various parking lots has also become increasingly challenging. Vehicle-type recognition technology can reduce the workload of humans in vehicle management operations. Therefore, the application of image technology for vehicle-type recognition is of great significance for integrated traffic management. In this paper, an improved faster region with convolutional neural network features (Faster R-CNN) model was proposed for vehicle-type recognition. Firstly, the output features of different convolution layers were combined to improve the recognition accuracy. Then, the average precision (AP) of the recognition model was improved through the contextual features of the original image and the object bounding box optimization strategy. Finally, the comparison experiment used the vehicle image dataset of three vehicle types, including cars, sports utility vehicles (SUVs), and vans. The experimental results show that the improved recognition model can effectively identify vehicle types in the images. The AP of the three vehicle types is 83.2%, 79.2%, and 78.4%, respectively, and the mean average precision (mAP) is 1.7% higher than that of the traditional Faster R-CNN model.
Autonomous navigation technology is a core technology for intelligent operation, allowing the vehicles to perform tasks without relying on external information, which effectively improves the concealability and reliability. In this paper, based on the previous research on the bionic compound eye, a multi-channel camera array with different polarization degrees was used to construct the atmospheric polarization state measurement platform. A polarization trough threshold segmentation algorithm was applied to study the distribution characteristics and characterization methods of polarization states in atmospheric remote sensing images. In the extracted polarization feature map, the tilting suggestion box was obtained based on the multi-direction window extraction network (similarity-based region proposal networks, SRPN) and the rotation of the suggestion box (Rotation Region of interests, RRoIs). Fast Region Convolutional Neural Networks (RCNN) was used to screen the suggestion boxes, and the Non-maximum suppression (NMS) method was used to select the angle, corresponding to the label of the suggestion box with the highest score, as the solar meridian azimuth in the vehicle coordinate system. The azimuth angle of the solar meridian in the atmospheric coordinate system can be calculated by the astronomical formula. Finally, the final heading angle can be obtained according to the conversion relationship between the coordinate systems. By fitting the measured data based on the least Square method, the slope K value is −1.062, RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) is 6.984, and the determination coefficient R-Square is 0.9968. Experimental results prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, and this study can construct an autonomous navigation algorithm with high concealment and precision, providing a new research idea for the research of autonomous navigation technology.
Body area network (BAN) is a body-centered network of wireless wearable devices. As the basic technology of telemedicine service, BAN has aroused an immense interest in academia and the industry and provides a new technical method to solve the problems that exist in the field of medicine. However, guaranteeing full proof security of BAN during practical applications has become a technical issue that hinders the further development of BAN technology. In this article, we propose a data encryption method based on electroencephalogram (EEG) characteristic values and linear feedback shift register (LFSR) to solve the problem of data security in BAN. First, the characteristics of human EEG signals were extracted based on the wavelet packet transform method and as the MD5 input data to ensure its randomness. Then, an LFSR stream key generator was adopted. The 128-bit initial key obtained through the message-digest algorithm 5 (MD5) was used to generate the stream key for BAN data encryption. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed security scheme was verified by various experimental evaluations. The experimental results showed that the correlation coefficient of data before and after encryption was very low, and it was difficult for the attacker to obtain the statistical features of the plaintext. Therefore, the EEG-based security scheme proposed in this article presents the advantages of high randomness and low computational complexity for BAN systems.
With the advent of smart cities, the text information in an image can be accurately located and recognized, and then applied to the fields of instant translation, image retrieval, card surface information recognition, and license plate recognition. Thus, people’s lives and work will become more convenient and comfortable. Owing to the varied orientations, angles, and shapes of text, identifying textual features from images is challenging. Therefore, we propose an improved EAST detector algorithm for detecting and recognizing slanted text in images. The proposed algorithm uses reinforcement learning to train a recurrent neural network controller. The optimal fully convolutional neural network structure is selected, and multi-scale features of text are extracted. After importing this information into the output module, the Generalized Intersection over Union algorithm is used to enhance the regression effect of the text bounding box. Next, the loss function is adjusted to ensure a balance between positive and negative sample classes before outputting the improved text detection results. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm can address the problem of category homogenization and improve the low recall rate in target detection. When compared with other image detection algorithms, the proposed algorithm can better identify slanted text in natural scene images. Finally, its ability to recognize text in complex environments is also excellent.