基于尺度空间理论的角点检测

传统的Harris角点检测是一种经典的角点检测算法,但不具有尺度不变性。研究了一种基于尺度空间理论的Harris角点检测方法。建立Harris的尺度空间函数表示。利用多尺度分析的思想,使在小尺度上的角点精确定位和大尺度上的角点去伪存真。从而克服了传统的Harris角点检测可能存在的角点信息丢失、角点位置偏移和易受噪声影响等问题。试验结果表明,该算法明显地提高了图像角点检测性能。     

炮管内膛图像拼接检测算法研究

运用计算机图像拼接技术,提出一种将炮管内膛局部表面照片快速无缝拼接的算法.该算法选择Harris角点检测算子对特征点进行自动提取和匹配,通过对匹配过程的松弛迭代,消除误匹配;采用加权融合算法进行内膛图像融合,生成无缝拼接的内膛表面图.     

基于梯度直方图的交叉点检测方法

提出基于梯度直方图的交叉点检测方法:统计像素点邻域梯度信息生成特征描述子,通过判定准则筛选候选交叉点,基于欧氏距离对候选交叉点进行聚类后,利用灰度加权法定位图像交叉点坐标。仿真实验验证了算法的正确性与可行性,结果表明:该方法适用于交叉角为65°～90°范围内的交叉点检测,定位精度优于0.6像素,检测率大于90%;该方法可以很好地抵抗图像旋转,定位精度和检测率基本不受图像旋转影响。该方法具有良好的抗噪性能,可满足一般透视变换下的图像交叉点检测需求,适用于结构光三维重建中的系统标定和形貌测量。     

基于拼接算法的炮膛疵病自动识别技术

针对当前采用目测识别方法进行炮膛疵病检测时存在的识别速度慢、精度低、人为影响因素大等缺点,提出了一种基于拼接算法的炮膛疵病检测方法。该方法采用Harris角点检测算法进行特征点提取,采用归一化互相关法进行特征点初匹配,采用马氏距离提纯算法消除误匹配,采用改进的8参数透视变换优化估计算法和基于边界保持的函数加权平滑融合算法进行炮膛图像融合,并选取图像面积、短长径之比为特征参数完成疵病的自动识别。实验结果表明：该算法对炮膛图像能较好地进行拼接,而且数值化的疵病识别方法相比传统目测识别方法也更加快速、准确,可为部队和相关工程人员进行身管检测提供有益参考。     

基于不变矩和角点特征的目标识别*

在基于图像的识别系统中,图像发生几何变化或目标被部分遮挡会给识别带来困难,这时必须根据具体情况提取合适的目标特征。基于矩原理,运用Harris多尺度角点检测及SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform)描述算法,研究了基于不变矩和角点特征的目标识别算法。两种特征都具有平移、旋转、尺度不变性。仿真分析表明,在理想情况下,利用不变矩可以获得较高的识别率;而当目标被部分遮挡时,角点是一种有效的识别方法     

一种自适应Harris角点检测算法

针对传统算法检测效果不理想的问题,提出了一种基于自适应非最大抑制策略的Harris角点检测算法;通过设置抑制半径与角点响应函数的局部最大值关联,减小抑制半径获取角点。算法有效解决了阈值选取和"聚簇"的问题。实验表明,该算法检测出的角点均匀分布,能很好地适应特征匹配等实际应用。     

基于候选轨迹统计模型的红外弱小点目标检测(英文)

建立候选目标轨迹集合,以候选目标轨迹集合为样本空间,利用沿候选轨迹的能量积分构造此空间上的概率分布,从而建立候选轨迹的概率统计模型.以此模型为基础,设计了一种弱小点目标检测方法.通过蒙特卡罗实验方法调节模型参数,使得算法的检测性能达到所提出的指标.该算法规避了以往算法中需要获得解析形式的候选轨迹密度函数的限制,因此能检测出沿任意方向作直线运动的点目标.最后,针对给定的弱小点目标观测图像序列,利用所提出的算法进行检测,仿真结果证明此算法是有效的.     

基于多尺度小波变换的二维图像角点检测技术

提出一种基于多尺度小波变换的二维图像角点检测算法。首先利用二维零交叉边缘检测算子对图像进行边缘提取得到二值边缘图，通过基于边素（边过程）的围线跟踪算法得到图像的边缘围线。对边缘围线的方向曲线进行多尺度小波变换，利用变换结果的局部最大值信息检测和定位出图像角点。仿真结果表明该算法可有效地实现二维图像的角点检测与定位，具有较高的精度     

基于背景建模和前景建模的红外运动检测

为抑制了红外图像信噪比低、非静止背景等引起的虚警产生,将基于背景建模和前景建模运动检测(BM-FM)算法引入红外面目标检测中;为抑制因目标与背景对比度低引起的部分目标区域漏检,提出了基于空间邻域信息的前景建模方法(SNFM),利用前一帧图像在像素点邻域内的前景目标点为样本,用核密度估计进行前景建模.试验表明了基于该前景建模方法的BM-FM算法的有效性.     

基于自适应阈值的FAST特征点提取算法

FAST特征提取算法阈值选取固定,因此不能满足不同图像的特征点抽取要求,并且提取的结果存在着多个特征点块的现象。针对这些缺陷,首先采用动态全局阈值对原始灰度图像进行初步提取得到候选特征点,然后采取动态局部阈值和非极大值抑制法进一步对候选特征点进行筛选,从而达到自适应选取阈值和抑制多个特征点块的目的。实验表明,改进后的算法稳定性高,对不同光照和对比度情况下有一定的适应能力,并且运算量相对比于其他一些特征提取算法要小得多,满足实时应用的要求。     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

Cyberpower in Strategic Affairs: Neither Unthinkable nor Blessed

Abstract

This article explores the effect of connectivity on strategic affairs. It argues that the effect on war's character is potentially, although not yet shown in practice, considerably large. Its effect upon the distribution of power among states in the international system is small, contrary to the claims of ‘cyberwar’ alarmists. All told, however, its effect upon strategic affairs is complex. On the one hand, it represents a significant advance in the ‘complexification’ of state strategies, understood in the sense of the production of intended effects. On the other hand, strategists today – still predominantly concerned with the conflicts and confrontations of states and organised military power – are generally missing the power which non-traditional strategic actors, better adapted to the network flows of the information age, are beginning to deploy. These new forms of organization and coercion will challenge the status quo.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.