Modeling and learning of brain activity patterns represent a huge challenge to the brain-computer interface (BCI) based on electroencephalography (EEG). Many existing methods estimate the uncorrelated instantaneous demixing of EEG signals to classify multiclass motor imagery (MI). However, the condition of uncorrelation does not hold true in practice, because the brain regions work with partial or complete collaboration. This work proposes a novel method, termed as a common Bayesian network (CBN), to discriminate multiclass MI EEG signals. First, with the constraints of a Gaussian mixture model on every channel, only related channels are selected to construct a normal Bayesian network. Second, the nodes that have both common and varying edges are selected to construct a CBN. Third, the probabilities on common edges are used to learn about the support vector machine for classification. To validate the proposed method, we conduct experiments on two well-known BCI datasets and perform a numerical analysis of the propose algorithm for EEG classification in a multiclass MI BCI. Experimental results show that the proposed CBN method not only has excellent classification performance, but also is highly efficient. Hence, it is suitable for the cases where a system is required to respond within a second.

Since inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging is a valuable technique in the identification of space satellites, it can potentially detect interesting components of space satellites in ISAR images to further conduct identification. This study proposes a novel method, defined as feature probabilistic estimation (FPE), to detect interesting components of space satellites based on ISAR image registration. In FPE, area feature registration is provoked to establish the relationship between space satellites and off‐line templates of interesting components, followed by detection accuracy based on weighted Gaussian probabilistic density function. Electromagnetic simulations with different aspects, interesting components' structures and scenery noise demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of the proposed FPE, compared with the normalised cross coefficient.

An algorithm for license plate recognition (LPR) applied to the intelligent transportation system is proposed on the basis of a novel shadow removal technique and character recognition algorithms. This paper has two major contributions. One contribution is a new binary method, i.e., the shadow removal method, which is based on the improved Bernsen algorithm combined with the Gaussian filter. Our second contribution is a character recognition algorithm known as support vector machine (SVM) integration. In SVM integration, character features are extracted from the elastic mesh, and the entire address character string is taken as the object of study, as opposed to a single character. This paper also presents improved techniques for image tilt correction and image gray enhancement. Our algorithm is robust to the variance of illumination, view angle, position, size, and color of the license plates when working in a complex environment. The algorithm was tested with 9026 images, such as natural-scene vehicle images using different backgrounds and ambient illumination particularly for low-resolution images. The license plates were properly located and segmented as 97.16% and 98.34%, respectively. The optical character recognition system is the SVM integration with different character features, whose performance for numerals, Kana, and address recognition reached 99.5%, 98.6%, and 97.8%, respectively. Combining the preceding tests, the overall performance of success for the license plate achieves 93.54% when the system is used for LPR in various complex conditions.