基于圆形滤波器HOG特征的航拍图像车辆快速检测算法

航拍图像中车辆一般近似为矩形结构,因此通过统计检测窗口中的梯度方向直方图并根据梯度主方向估计车辆朝向,然后将检测窗口旋转到相应方向进行分类器判别。车辆检测采用级联boosting分类器和梯度方向直方图特征(HOG,Histograms of Orient Gradient),针对旋转窗口中HOG特征的计算,设计了一种基于圆形滤波器的HOG(Circle Filter based HOG,CFHOG)特征,与传统基于积分直方图的HOG特征提取方法相比,显著提高了旋转窗口中HOG特征的计算效率,此外在计算每个像素的梯度时采用查找表代替梯度向量的求模和角度计算也减小了计算量。使用真实图像进行的实验表明本文车辆检测算法快速高效。     

空间关联与多子区规范化梯度方向直方图的 异源图像匹配

提出一种基于稀疏空域分割与梯度方向直方图的异源图像匹配方法。将图像分为多个子区,计算每个子区的梯度方向直方图;计算直方图的汇聚度,并根据汇聚度计算直方图相似性;采用两步搜索法,寻找与基准图中与实时图直方图相似度最高的窗口即为正确匹配结果。采用仿真图和真实异源图像对算法进行了测试,结果表明,这种方法能够可靠快速实现异源图像匹配。     

基于单类集成分类器的JPEG通用隐写分析

针对JPEG图像通用隐写检测问题,提出了一种基于单类集成分类器的新方法。算法提取图像DCT块内、块间和小波层内、层间的共生特征以及小波子带系数的直方图特征对图像进行描述,并计算检测图像及其原始估计图像所提共生矩阵和直方图分布的对称交互熵作为隐写分析特征;然后,随机构造若干个特征子空间,利用bootstrap方法构造载体图像训练子集,分别进行单类训练得到数个基分类器;最后,将基分类器的分类结果按多数投票法进行融合作为单类集成分类器的分类结果。实验结果表明,单类集成分类器能显著提高算法的检测效果,而且,本方法相比基于多超球面OC-SVM分类器的单类隐写分析方法,具有更高检测率。     

基于梯度方向二进制模式的空间金字塔模型方法

空间金字塔模型由于其优势在当前图像分类中得到了广泛应用。然而,其码本生成和特征量化这两个环节具有较高的计算复杂度。为了解决这个问题,提出了一种新的局部特征表述———梯度方向二进制模式,首先对图像稠密采样得到多个子图像块,再将每个子图像块均匀划分为2×2个网格,计算每个网格的梯度直方图,然后对所有网格的梯度主方向进行二进制编码并连接为二进制串值,该二进制串值转换的十进制数即为子图像块的特征表述,最后将该特征表述嵌入到SPM模型中。在标准分类数据库上的实验结果证明了本方法在算法耗时和分类精度上均优于基于SIFT的SPM方法。     

一种基于不变特征的视频拼接方法

视频拼接是空中监视的一个关键部分,它有助于人们从全局的角度理解监控场景.视频拼接包括图像的配准和融合两部分.提出了一种基于不变特征的视频拼接方法,它通过相邻两帧的拼接来实现全景图的拼接.该算法配准部分首先采用梯度方向直方图确定相邻两帧的旋转角度;其次检测两幅图像的角点,特征描述采用SIFT,并结合旋转角度对特征点进行粗匹配;然后对粗匹配的结果采用RANSAc算法剔除错误匹配点.融合部分采用灰度加权的方法.实验结果表明,该算法能够有效地进行视频拼接,甚至存在运动目标的干扰下也能够完成拼接,具有鲁棒性好和速度较快的特点.     

结合分割和改进SIFT的不同波段SAR图像配准

针对不同波段SAR图像配准问题,提出一种结合阈值分割和改进SIFT描述子的配准方法。该方法首先基于改进的二维交叉熵进行图像分割,通过形态学处理获得图像的稳定区域;然后利用Sobel算子改进特征点梯度幅值和方向的计算,并通过优化的梯度位置方向直方图(GLOH)特征生成新的关键点描述子;最后采用距离比和快速抽样一致(FSC)算法获得最佳匹配点对,完成图像配准。实验结果表明,该方法在提升算法效率的同时,可以获得较高的配准精度。     

基于改进SIFT的航拍图像快速匹配方法

针对传统SIFT算法存在特征描述符计算复杂,匹配时间长,错匹配较多等问题,提出了一种基于改进SIFT特征的航拍图像快速匹配方法。该方法采用基于圆形窗口的梯度方向累加值与同心圆形窗口内的灰度累加值、灰度差分值来构建18维的改进特征描述符,并在特征点匹配过程中,采用基于相关系数相似度量准则的双向匹配方法来获取初始匹配特征点对。最后,运用RANSAC算法进一步消除错配和估算仿射变换模型,并通过双线性插值法对变换后的图像进行重采样和插值。实验表明,该方法可以实现航拍图像之间的有效匹配,在匹配速度和匹配精度上优于传统SIFT算法,具有较好的实时性。     

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。     

一种综合使用支持向量机和遗传算法的隐藏图像检测方法

提出了一种新的基于遗传算法和支持向量机的隐藏图像检测方法。用遗传算法进行图像特征选择，采用支持向量机作为分类器，将支持向量机的分类效果作为适应度函数值返回，指导遗传算法搜索最优的特征，移除图像的不相关特征和冗余特征，提高了学习效率。实验结果表明，与仅采用支持向量机分类但未进行特征选择的隐藏检测方法相比，本方法能有效地提升分类器性能。     

一种基于局部不变特征的图像特定场景检测方法

图像场景的自动检测,对于图像的标注以及语义检索具有非常重要的作用。本文研究根据实际应用的需要,围绕会晤、集会、海滩等八类特定场景图像的检测问题展开。首先对图像进行局部关键点的检测以及SIFT特征描述子的计算,从而提取图像的局部特征,在此基础上基于支撑向量机构建多分类器,进行特征训练,最终获得较为准确的检测结果。实验重点针对分类器核函数的确定以及特征选取策略等问题展开,实验结果表明,采用径向基核函数构建多分类器以及特征点按尺度大小排序取前n位的选取策略可以获得较为准确和鲁棒的特定场景检测结果。本方法在保证满足一定程度场景检测准确率的前提下,具有简单快速的特点,能够满足实际应用的需要。     

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).     

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.     

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.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.     

Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities

ABSTRACT

What was the scope of the Bosnian jihadi participation in the war in Syria? Did the Bosnian volunteers tend to join one particular faction? Why did the Bosnian youngsters decide to join the holy war in the Levant? Was this an organized and hierarchical process or was this a grassroots movement? Last, were all the Salafis in Bosnia supportive of this dynamic or did this process cause internal frictions? These are some of the questions that this research will try to answer.     

Country survey XVI the defence sector in the economy of a declining superpower: Soviet Union and Russia, 1965-2001

The Soviet Union was able to develop a large military-industrial complex and become the world's second superpower despite deficiencies in its centrally planned economy because defence was given high priority status and special planning, rationing and administrative mechanisms were used to attain national security objectives. However, in the period 1976-85 the effectiveness of priority protection diminished and defence institutions experienced more of the problems typical of the shortage economic system. The heavy defence burden also created growing difficulties for the civilian economy. The attempts by the Gorbachev government to reform the defence sector and improve defence-economic relationships during perestroika (1985-91) uniformly failed. For most of the transition period, the Russian military-industrial complex has been adversely affected by its low priority status, cuts in defence spending, instability of the hybrid politico-economic system, and negative growth of the economy. The armed forces and defence industry have been reduced in size and their outputs of military services and equipment have fallen to low levels. Nevertheless, the Russian armed forces still have over one million troops, significant stocks of sophisticated conventional weapons, and a large nuclear arsenal. The government of President Putin has raised the priority of the defence sector, increased real defence spending, and adopted ambitious plans to revive Russian military power. It is likely, though, that tight resource constraints will hamper efforts to reform the armed forces and to upgrade weapons. By 2010 Russia will be an important, but not dominant, military power in Eurasia.     

Traffickers,terrorists, and a ‘new security challenge’: Russian counternarcotics strategy and the Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade

The collapse of the Soviet Union precipitated the massive expansion of drug use and trade in Russia. The country now has one of the largest populations of injecting drug users in the world and has become the largest single-country market for Afghan heroin. In 2003 the Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade was created to coordinate a comprehensive counternarcotics strategy appropriate to the scale of this threat. The service continues to face a number of challenges in its early stages of development. However, it has made considerable advances in improving responses to large-scale organised crime and in building international cooperation.