Computer Engineering / Bilgisayar Mühendisliği

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    Detection and Classification of Vehicles From Omnidirectional Videos Using Temporal Average of Silhouettes
    (INSTICC, 2015) Karaimer, Hakkı Can; Baştanlar, Yalın
    This paper describes an approach to detect and classify vehicles in omnidirectional videos. The proposed classification method is based on the shape (silhouette) of the detected moving object obtained by background subtraction. Different from other shape based classification techniques, we exploit the information available in multiple frames of the video. The silhouettes extracted from a sequence of frames are combined to create an 'average' silhouette. This approach eliminates most of the wrong decisions which are caused by a poorly extracted silhouette from a single video frame. The vehicle types that we worked on are motorcycle, car (sedan) and van (minibus). The features extracted from the silhouettes are convexity, elongation, rectangularity, and Hu moments. The decision boundaries in the feature space are determined using a training set, whereas the performance of the proposed classification is measured with a test set. To ensure randomization, the procedure is repeated with the whole dataset split differently into training and testing samples. The results indicate that the proposed method of using average silhouettes performs better than using the silhouettes in a single frame.
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    An Extension of Ontology Based Databases To Handle Preferences
    (INSTICC, 2009) Tapucu, Dilek; Ait-Ameur, Yamine; Jean, Stephane; Ünalır, Murat Osman
    Ontologies have been defined to make explicit the semantics of data. With the emergence of the SemanticWeb, the amount of ontological data (or instances) available has increased. To manage such data, Ontology Based DataBases (OBDBs), that store ontologies and their instance data in the same repository have been proposed. These databases are associated with exploitation languages supporting description, querying, etc. on both ontologies and data. However, usually queries return a big amount of data that may be sorted in order to find the relevant ones. Moreover, in the current, few approaches considering user preferences when querying have been developed. Yet this problem is fundamental for many applications especially in the e-commerce domain. In this paper, we first propose an extension of an existing OBDB, called OntoDB through extension of their ontology model in order to support semantic description of preferences. Secondly, an extension of an ontology based query language, called OntoQL defined on OntoDB for querying ontological data with preferences is presented. Finally, an implementation of the proposed extensions are described.