Digital imaging acquisition and processing is applied for the tracking of a two-dimensional assembly of disks. The disks are used to assemble models for studying granular material behavior for which the kinematics of ...
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Digital imaging acquisition and processing is applied for the tracking of a two-dimensional assembly of disks. The disks are used to assemble models for studying granular material behavior for which the kinematics of the individual particles, and hence the disks' trajectory during motion, are of cardinal importance. Large particle size is dictated by photoelastic interparticle interaction analysis. Therefore, a sufficiently large representative number of particles results in a large physical model. The system requirements of a sizable physical model comprised of a large number of particles, and simultaneous precise tracking of all particles, are achieved through the use of high-resolution digital CCD camera and semi-automatic imageprocessing and analysis algorithms. The physical system setup, image acquisition procedure, calibration, accuracy, and algorithms of analysis are described. The system's performance is demonstrated through test results describing the displacement field along with the motion and interaction of individual particles. The system's advantages in providing detailed tracking of a large number of particles with minimal labor are unmatched by any other technique. The data obtained by such systems allow a better understanding of particulate media behavior with the ability to examine and calibrate numerical models on an individual grain basis.
Video display processing is an indispensable module in a variety of multimedia systems. With the increase of video format to 4K $\times$ 2K& x0040;60fps, the design of efficient display processing circuit faces se...
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Video display processing is an indispensable module in a variety of multimedia systems. With the increase of video format to 4K $\times$ 2K& x0040;60fps, the design of efficient display processing circuit faces severe challenges. This paper presents a video display processor which supports a variety of video formats and integrates multiple advanced algorithms for perpetual image quality improvement. By leveraging algorithm and architecture co-design, this paper efficiently implements these computational and memory intensive display processingalgorithms in a single chip. In particular, we describe three representative design modules in detail, including motion compensated frame rate up-conversion, content-adaptive contrast enhancement, and backlight local dimming. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed design modules outperform the previous works in terms of either image quality or hardware efficiency. The overall chip is fabricated in GF 55nm CMOS technology, and can work at the maximum operating frequency of 594 MHz. The maximum input and output video formats reach up to 4Kx2K@60fps.
Personal hygiene products, such as underarm products, deodorants, and antiperspirants, are essential for daily use. However, many people are concerned about the potential health effects of the unfamiliar ingredients l...
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imageprocessing is usually associated with pattern recognition and is rather treated as a subject outside of the computer graphics interest. Basically computer graphics algorithms are used for the visualization of sc...
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imageprocessing is usually associated with pattern recognition and is rather treated as a subject outside of the computer graphics interest. Basically computer graphics algorithms are used for the visualization of scenes or models described using some abstract notation, while imageprocessing is used on the opposite way -i.e. when finding an abstract description of an analyzed pattern. This paper proposes to use the imageprocessing approach for rendering optical effects in computer graphics algorithms. Proposed algorithms can be used for the generation of realistic and artistic optical effects in real-time, in, for example, visual simulators, virtual reality or multi-media applications. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
Many imageprocessing operations can be abstracted into matrix operations. With the help of matrix analysis, we can understand the inherent properties of the operations and thus design better algorithms. In this paper...
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Many imageprocessing operations can be abstracted into matrix operations. With the help of matrix analysis, we can understand the inherent properties of the operations and thus design better algorithms. In this paper, we propose a matrix decomposition method referred to as identity-plus-row decomposition, The decomposition is particularly useful in design of parallel projection algorithms on mesh-connected computers. Projection is a frequently used process in imageprocessing and visualization. In volume graphics, projection is used to render the essential content of a three-dimensional volume onto a two-dimensional image plane. For Radon transform, projection is used to transform the image space into a parameter space. By applying the identity-plus-row matrix decomposition method, we solve the data redistribution problem due to the irregular data access patterns present in those applications on single instruction stream, multiple data stream (SIMD) mesh-connected computers, developing fast algorithms for volume rendering and Radon transform on SIMD mesh-connected computers. (C) 2001 SPIE and IS&T.
This paper presents a new system that reconstructs, visualizes and classifies trabecular bone structure by using microscopic image slices. In this study, we evaluated the structure of a trabecular bone using 3D X-ray ...
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(纸本)9780819494283
This paper presents a new system that reconstructs, visualizes and classifies trabecular bone structure by using microscopic image slices. In this study, we evaluated the structure of a trabecular bone using 3D X-ray imaging after passing through the special image enhancement and de-nosing algorithms. We propose a new simple imaging technique tool for the quantification of structural changes within the micro architecture of human bones by enhancing the characteristics attributes of the bone architecture from mu-CT scans. Computer simulation illustrates that the presented imaging technique has the potential to become a powerful tool to investigate the structure of trabeculae during in vivo measurements.
A new DCT-based algorithm for signal and image scaling by arbitrary factor is presented. The algorithm is virtually free of boundary effects and implements the discrete sinc-interpolation, which preserves the spectral...
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(纸本)9780819494283
A new DCT-based algorithm for signal and image scaling by arbitrary factor is presented. The algorithm is virtually free of boundary effects and implements the discrete sinc-interpolation, which preserves the spectral content of the signal, and therefore is free from interpolation errors. Being implemented through the fast FFT-type DCT algorithm, the scaling algorithm has computational complexity of O(log left perpendicular sigma N right perpendicular) operations per output sample, where N and left perpendicular sigma N right perpendicular are number of signal input and output samples, correspondingly.
This paper presents a novel approach to the problem of face recognition that combines the classical Local Binary Pattern (LBP) feature descriptors with imageprocessing in the logarithmic domain and the human visual s...
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(纸本)9780819494283
This paper presents a novel approach to the problem of face recognition that combines the classical Local Binary Pattern (LBP) feature descriptors with imageprocessing in the logarithmic domain and the human visual system. Particularly, we have introduced parameterized logarithmic imageprocessing (PLIP) operators based LBP feature extractor. We also use the human visual system based image decomposition, which is based on the Weber's law to extract features from the decomposed images and combine those with the features extracted from the original images thereby enriching the feature vector set and obtaining improved rates of recognition. Comparisons with other methods are also presented. Extensive experiments clearly show the superiority of the proposed scheme over LBP feature descriptors. Recognition rates as high as 99% can be achieved as compared to the recognition rate of 96.5% achieved by the classical LBP using the AT&T Laboratories face database.
This paper describes a set of image segmentation algorithms for mineral froth images, based on gray-value valley detection and a kind of image classification. The size, shape, texture and color of froth bubbles are ve...
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This paper describes a set of image segmentation algorithms for mineral froth images, based on gray-value valley detection and a kind of image classification. The size, shape, texture and color of froth bubbles are very important pieces of information for production optimization in mineral processing. In order to determine these parameters, bubbles in a froth image first have to be delineated. Froth images display a large variation of image patterns and quality, thus it is difficult to use only a single algorithm for segmenting all images. To achieve successful segmentation the images are first classified into image classes. Then sets of segmentation algorithms are used, based on the different image classes. The segmentation algorithms and classification algorithms have been tested in a laboratory and in industrial on-line systems for froth images, the test results show that they are robust for froth images. The processing speed for the segmentation algorithm is much faster than for a standard morphological segmentation algorithm. The processing accuracy is comparable to manual drawn result. This test shows that the algorithms work satisfactorily. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The BiCG and QMR methods are well-known Krylov subspace iterative methods for the solution of linear systems of equations with a large nonsymmetric, nonsingular matrix. However. little is known of the performance of t...
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(纸本)0819441880
The BiCG and QMR methods are well-known Krylov subspace iterative methods for the solution of linear systems of equations with a large nonsymmetric, nonsingular matrix. However. little is known of the performance of these methods when they are applied to the computation of approximate solutions of linear systems of equations with a matrix of ill-determined rank. Such linear systems are known as linear discrete ill-posed problems. We describe an application of the BiCG and QMR methods to the solution of linear discrete ill-posed problems that arise in image restoration, and compare these methods to the conjugate gradient method applied to the associated normal equations and to total variation-penalized Tikhonov regularization.
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