Search results for "descripteur"
showing 10 items of 21 documents
Potential predictability of crop impacting climate variables for East Africa and application to sorghum in the Mt Kenya area
2013
In Southern countries with rural low income populations, the vulnerability of rainfed agriculture to rainfall variability requires effective solutions to mitigate the effects of climatic hazards on crops. Predicting the characteristics of rainy seasons some time before they start should help the establishment of agricultural adaptation strategies to rainfall hazards. This is the objective of the present study, focused on East Africa (Kenya and northern Tanzania), and divided in three parts:- Define and document intra-seasonal descriptors (ISD) that will be considered in the predictability study. A new methodological approach has been developed in order to define the onset date (ORS) and the…
DEFINITION ET ETUDE DES PERFORMANCES D'UN DETECTEUR DE STRUCTURES CURVILINEAIRES. APPLICATION A LA STEREOSCOPIE ET LA DETECTION D'OBJETS FILAIRES
2008
The work presented in this paper falls under the domain of matching. In this context, we try to show the interest of using the curvilinear regions in order to enhance the global performance of various matching applications. A brand new detector for curvilinear regions is introduced (CRD), along with the specific curvilinear regions descriptor (CRD) required. Performance evaluations were done in two parts: First, we evaluated and compared the segmentations performances of our detector, in particular on a retina vessels segmentation application. And second, we estimated the matching performances using K. Mykolajczyk toolkit. This methodology helps obtaining intrinsic performances and comparin…
Spatial coherence and potential predictability of intraseasonal descriptors of the rainy season in Soudano-Sahelian Africa : application to the pearl…
2010
The aim of this thesis is twofold : (i) fill a lack of knowledge about the spatial coherence and seasonal predictability of the intraseasonal characteristics (ISC) of the soudano-sahelian rainy season. These ISC are the seasonal rainfall amount (S), the daily rainfall frequency > 1 mm (O), the daily rainfall mean intensity (I), the dates of the onset and withdrawal of the rainy season, the mean length of the dry (LDS) and/or wet spells (LWS) ; (ii) document the climate-agriculture relationship over the Niamey area based on the millet crop example.From FRIEND-AOC daily rainfall records (1950-2000) for a 136 stations-network located in Senegal, Mali, Burkina-Faso and Niger, the spatial cohere…
Shape matching, shape retrieval
2016
This thesis concerns shape matching and shape retrieval. It describes four contributions to thisdomain. The first is an improvement of the k-means method, in order to find the best partition ofvoxels inside a given shape ; these best partitions permit to match shapes using an optimal matchingin a bipartite graph. The second contribution is the fusion of two descriptors, one local, the otherglobal, with the product rule. The third contribution considers the complete graph, the vertices ofwhich are the shapes in the database and the query. Edges are labelled with several distances,one per descriptor. Then the method computes, with linear programming, the convex combinationof distances which m…
Spectral interest points and texture extraction and fusion for identification, control and security
2018
Biometrics is an emerging technology that proposes new methods of control, identification and security. Biometric systems are often subject to risks. Face recognition is popular and several existing approaches use images in the visible spectrum. These traditional systems operating in the visible spectrum suffer from several limitations due to changes in lighting, poses and facial expressions. The methodology presented in this thesis is based on multispectral facial recognition using infrared and visible imaging, to improve the performance of facial recognition and to overcome the deficiencies of the visible spectrum. The multispectral images used in this study are obtained by fusion of visi…
Optimisation et implémentation de méthodes bio-inspirées d'extraction de caractéristiques pour la reconnaissance d'objets visuels
2016
Industry has growing needs for so-called “intelligent systems”, capable of not only ac-quire data, but also to analyse it and to make decisions accordingly. Such systems areparticularly useful for video-surveillance, in which case alarms must be raised in case ofan intrusion. For cost saving and power consumption reasons, it is better to perform thatprocess as close to the sensor as possible. To address that issue, a promising approach isto use bio-inspired frameworks, which consist in applying computational biology modelsto industrial applications. The work carried out during that thesis consisted in select-ing bio-inspired feature extraction frameworks, and to optimize them with the aim t…
Détermination de la texture de la feuille de vigne par imagerie
2013
National audience; Dans le contexte de la pulvérisation de précision, nombreuses sont les recherches menées sur l'optimisation d'utilisation des produits phytosanitaires. L'objectif final étant de réduire de manière significative la quantité d'intrant dans les cultures . Dans ce cadre, les travaux présentés dans cet article s'intéresse particulièrement à l'analyse de l'état de surface foliaire qui présente une part essentielle dans le processus d'adhésion du produit pulvérisé sur la feuille. L'analyse de surface de la feuille est réalisée à travers l'analyse des caractéristiques texturale extraites d'images microscopics. Afin de discriminer les différents cépages et âges des feuilles retenu…
Mesure de netteté basée sur les descripteurs généralisés de Fourier appliquée à la reconstruction 3D par Shape from Focus
2013
National audience; L'étape principale de la méthode de reconstruction 3D " Shape from Focus " est l'utilisation d'un opérateur de mesure de netteté de chaque pixel de la séquence d'image. Le choix de l'opérateur de mesure de netteté est une étape cruciale pour une reconstruction 3D de qualité. La précision de la mesure de netteté dépend de la taille du voisinage autour du pixel choisi et de la présence ou non de bruit additif dans la séquence d'images. Dans cet article, nous présentons deux nouveaux opérateurs de mesure de netteté basés sur les Descripteurs Généralisés de Fourier. Une nouvelle étude comparative des différents opérateurs est présentée. Cette comparaison est basée sur un plan…
Intraseasonal descriptors and rainfall extremes in austral summer over South Africa : Observations and Meso-scale modelling
2022
Rainfall extremes are of major and increasing importance in semi-arid countries and their variability has strong implications for water resource and climate impacts on the local societies and environment. Here, we examine intraseasonal descriptors (ISDs) and wet extremes in austral summer rainfall (November−February) over South Africa (SA). Using daily observations from 225 rain gauges and ERA5 reanalysis between 1979 and 2015, we propose a novel typology of wet extreme events based on their spatial fraction, thus differentiating large- and small-scale extremes. Long-term variability of both types of extreme rainfall events is then extensively discussed in the context of ISDs. Following the…
Exploring the diversity of listeria monocytogenes biofilm architecture by high-throughput confocal laser scanning microscopy and the predominance of …
2015
ABSTRACT Listeria monocytogenes is involved in food-borne illness with a high mortality rate. The persistence of the pathogen along the food chain can be associated with its ability to form biofilms on inert surfaces. While most of the phenotypes associated with biofilms are related to their spatial organization, most published data comparing biofilm formation by L. monocytogenes isolates are based on the quantitative crystal violet assay, which does not give access to structural information. Using a high-throughput confocal-imaging approach, the aim of this work was to decipher the structural diversity of biofilms formed by 96 L. monocytogenes strains isolated from various environments. Pr…