In the transportation systems engineering field, there is a fast growing interest to use small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for structural inspections. Of particular importance is the development of imageprocessing ...
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Pavement cracks are dangerous because they can cause accidents such as tire punctures, slips, and collapses. Therefore, it is necessary to repair them properly. In recent years, various crack detection methods using p...
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Pavement cracks are dangerous because they can cause accidents such as tire punctures, slips, and collapses. Therefore, it is necessary to repair them properly. In recent years, various crack detection methods using pavement images have been proposed. However, in many cases, there are problems with accuracy and processing time. In this paper, we propose a new crack detection method using multi-scale image and neighborhood information. Experimental results show that the proposed method is superior to the most advanced crack detection methods in both accuracy and processing time.
The huge capacity of the coherent optical systems is restricted by fiber nonlinearity. Using digital signal processingalgorithms has the opportunity to reduce this limitation. In this work, we investigate the compens...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728131573
The huge capacity of the coherent optical systems is restricted by fiber nonlinearity. Using digital signal processingalgorithms has the opportunity to reduce this limitation. In this work, we investigate the compensation of fiber nonlinearities by digital backpropagation in both Polarization-division-multiplexed 16-level quadrature amplitude modulation system and polarization multiplexed 0.3 return-to-zero quadrature phase-shift keying system. The comparison is done at the same symbol rate. The systems performances are measured in terms of bit error rate, optical signal noise ratio penalty, and the maximum reach. The polarization multiplexed 0.3 return-to-zero quadrature phase-shift keying system performs better by increased sensitivity and the maximum transmission distance.
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are present in most areas of science and engineering where difficult problems arise. However, EAs are often applied to design problems where the speed is not a crucial factor. This tenden...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538613764
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are present in most areas of science and engineering where difficult problems arise. However, EAs are often applied to design problems where the speed is not a crucial factor. This tendency has lead EAs to be excluded from real-time applications due to its iterative nature. imageprocessing has benefited from EAs on many off-line applications, but little research has been made for real-time imageprocessing problems. This paper presents the evaluation of EAs applied to the thresholding of a stream of images in real-time. Results indicate that Differential Evolution (DE) can be modified to achieve real-time performance on a single core implementation without any form of parallelization. These circumstances indicate that the performance can be further improved with multi-core implementations or GPU parallelization.
This paper presents the detailed comparison of various imageprocessing techniques for analyzing satellite images. The satellite images are large in size, acquired from long distances and are affected by noise and oth...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728102122
This paper presents the detailed comparison of various imageprocessing techniques for analyzing satellite images. The satellite images are large in size, acquired from long distances and are affected by noise and other environmental conditions. Hence it is necessary to process them so that they can be used by the researchers for analysis. Satellite images are widely used in many real time applications such as in agriculture land detection, navigation and in geographical information systems. In this paper, a review of some popular machine learning based imageprocessing techniques is presented. Also a detailed comparison of various techniques is performed. Limitations in each imageprocessing method are also described. In addition to reviewing of different methods, different metrics for performance evaluation in each of the imageprocessing areas is studied.
In many image and video processingalgorithms, pre-processing filters are the first and most important step. These filters reduce the noise present in the images, preserving the required information depending on the a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538635216
In many image and video processingalgorithms, pre-processing filters are the first and most important step. These filters reduce the noise present in the images, preserving the required information depending on the action performed. Due to increasing demands for real time processingsystems, the traditional software solutions cannot be chosen. In this paper, we are introducing a new hardware architecture for imageprocessing filters, which are optimized to increase the speed of processing, which is vital for real time systems. The decision based algorithm used for optimizing the median filter helps in avoiding corruption of original pixels and the hardware optimization used for the Gaussian filter reduces the required computations, making it faster. The proposed architecture is simulated in ModelSim and the simulation results are presented.
The manufacturing of Micro-Electromechanical systems (MEMS) antennas has recently outperformed major hurdles by reducing the long and expensive development cycles due to adequate Computer Aided Design (CAD) equipments...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728131573
The manufacturing of Micro-Electromechanical systems (MEMS) antennas has recently outperformed major hurdles by reducing the long and expensive development cycles due to adequate Computer Aided Design (CAD) equipments with advanced optimization methods to address the special need for a new class of terahertz (THz) antennas, and model accurately the physical behavior of such three dimensional (3D) micro-devices. In this paper a new design of a highly miniaturized MEMS conical helix antenna modeled by High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) based on Genetic algorithms (GA), is proposed for THz wireless systems to present very low return losses of less than -20dB to -70dB and excellent voltage standing wave ratios of less than 1.20 to 1.00 for a wide frequency band ranging from 3.5 to 4.5 THz, resulting in excellent electromagnetic response and good directivity due to the high geometrical accuracy achieved using effective automatic techniques to rectify various tunable parameters embedded in silicon platform divided into helix variables and feeding line characteristics.
One of the most basic and important operations in the field of imageprocessing is image extraction and detection. Edge recognition is very important for image clarity and image segmentation. The importance of edge de...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728153506
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728153513
One of the most basic and important operations in the field of imageprocessing is image extraction and detection. Edge recognition is very important for image clarity and image segmentation. The importance of edge detection is that the human eye can recognizes the existence of different objects by observing the edges. So it makes sense to do edge detection before interpreting images in automated systems. Edges are points in the image where the two pixels are two different values, or two values very large in numerical value. It can be said that one of the goals of edge reduction in data size in images is to preserve the original structure and shape of the images. Editing has various applications, including object recognition, segmentation and image coding, in a variety of medical images. One of the problems we encounter when editing images has noises. In this paper, a combination of several standard edge- matching algorithms, neural network and multi-objective genetic algorithm NonDominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) is used to edge detection. In the proposed method, we give the standard multiedge finder to a forward propagating (FP) neural network as input. A multi-objective genetic algorithm with Non- Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II was used to select the number of edge detectors to access the neural network and to select the most accurate ones. The genetic algorithm selects the least accurate number of edge detectors to enter the neural network. To evaluate the proposed method, TP, TN, FP, FN criteria were used to compare with other methods. Finally, by comparing the results obtained on different images using existing methods and the proposed method it is observed that the proposed method has better accuracy in detecting the edge of noise images.
This demo displays an autonomous image acquisition and processing system that operates simultaneously with two image sensors either in the visible and the Long Wave Infrared Band (LWIR), inside the Infrared (IR) band....
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781450371896
This demo displays an autonomous image acquisition and processing system that operates simultaneously with two image sensors either in the visible and the Long Wave Infrared Band (LWIR), inside the Infrared (IR) band. The entire system is controlled a Raspberry Pi board that allows to easily program imageprocessingalgorithms to process the images acquired with each sensor. It is a competitive alternative to conventional commercial closed systems with infrared cameras. The proposed imaging system can be easily adapted to different operation scenarios by adding new peripherals, sensors and full custom imageprocessingalgorithms.
In fisheries industry, flatfish accounts for about half of the domestic fish production and is a specie with active aquaculture activities. As flatfish grows, classification according to the size should be periodicall...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9788993215151
In fisheries industry, flatfish accounts for about half of the domestic fish production and is a specie with active aquaculture activities. As flatfish grows, classification according to the size should be periodically carried out for efficient growth. In this paper, the correlation between area and weight of flatfish required for classification algorithms using machine vision is derived. 120 simulations are performed using flatfish models and the area is obtained through imageprocessing. In imageprocessing process, the area of flatfish model is calculated using a reference square known in size. The weight of actual fish corresponding to the length of the model is obtained using the reference equation. Then, regression analysis is performed to derive the interpolation of linear and power equations which show correlation between area and weight of the flatfish.
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