In digital imageprocessingimage edge detection, enhancement and extraction have very important role. There are many methods and systems, already accepted very widely, which show the above operations with their own a...
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(纸本)0819446963
In digital imageprocessingimage edge detection, enhancement and extraction have very important role. There are many methods and systems, already accepted very widely, which show the above operations with their own advantages and limitations. Here in this paper we propose a completely new scheme of getting the edge of any digital image by proper use of optical non-linear material. Some intensity modulated switching behaviors of optical non-linear materials are also coped up in this method. Here we can obtain the required image edges as necessary. images with variation of transparencies are used here suitably.
The presented work aims to automatically register high-resolution polarimetric SAR images with each other and other types of images. A digital topographic map is used as an aid for the registration. SAR images are ver...
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(纸本)0819442666
The presented work aims to automatically register high-resolution polarimetric SAR images with each other and other types of images. A digital topographic map is used as an aid for the registration. SAR images are very different from visual or infrared images. The idea is to identify, for each type of image, objects present on the map and easily detectable in the image. Detecting these objects in the image and matching them between map and image provides a first registration. Several object detectors were developed for the subsequent stages of the registration. Each of these detectors is briefly described. The actual registration uses a hierarchical method. First the SAR image is converted into ground range. Then a rough registration between image and map is obtained based on the position of forests and/or built-up areas. A voting method is used to find the parameters of a simple transformation model and to match the objects between map and image. The third step finds the parameters of an affine transformation based on the objects matched by the voting method. To improve the registration, objects with low 3D structure, e.g. roads and rivers, are used. The method for detecting these in SAR images yields an incomplete results leading to ambiguities for the optimal local displacement. Optimisation methods are used to overcome this problem and yield the parameters of a global transformation model. The accuracy of the registration is now within the accuracy of the map. Once the different images are registered with the map, the results of edge detectors are used to refine the registration between them.
Purpose: To investigate the relative importance of spatial resolution and noise on the image quality of clinical radiographs. Methods: The spatial resolution and noise of fifteen digitised lumbar spine radiographs wer...
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(纸本)0819444316
Purpose: To investigate the relative importance of spatial resolution and noise on the image quality of clinical radiographs. Methods: The spatial resolution and noise of fifteen digitised lumbar spine radiographs were altered with imageprocessing. Three different MTF curves and three different Wiener spectra were combined into seven different combinations of spatial resolution and noise. These seven combinations were applied to the original data set, and the resulting images were printed on film. Seven expert radiologists evaluated the clinical image quality of the resulting images with visual grading analysis (VGA) of structures based on the European image Criteria. Results: The results show that added noise is more deteriorating than reduced spatial resolution for the clinical image quality. For a given MTF and noise level, the worst was the one with increased noise followed by the one with both reduced MTF and added noise (mimicking a faster screen-film combination). Reduced MTF only gave the highest rating. Conclusions: It is more important to find methods for removing noise than to try to improve the MTF of a radiographic system. A noisy image can sometimes be improved by reducing the spatial resolution.
Different authors have studied the response of the human visual system (HVS) in the chromatic frequency domain and have obtained its spectral modulation sensitivity function (SMSF), either computationally1 or experime...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0892082399
Different authors have studied the response of the human visual system (HVS) in the chromatic frequency domain and have obtained its spectral modulation sensitivity function (SMSF), either computationally1 or experimentally.2,3 The Fourier analysis applied to the colour signals (product of the spectral power distribution of the illuminant and the reflectance or transmittance function of an object) carries out the chromatic frequency domain. The SMSF defined in this domain is analogous to the CSF or the TMTF, which are defined in the spatial and temporal domains, respectively.1-3 We have studied how HVS processes chromatic information of daylight and natural objects. The analysis of the original and filtered colour signal with different cut-off frequencies reveals some degree of degradation of these colour signals. This is particularly important when the colour signal are characterised by peaked spectral power distributions.
Weakly electric fish generates electric field around its body using electric organ discharge and can accurately detect the location of an object using the modulation of electric field induced by an object. Objects wit...
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The JPEG (joint photographic experts group) compression algorithm is possible to decode an image effectively, by considering the visual characteristic of human beings. The mosquito noise generates in the block, when a...
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The JPEG (joint photographic experts group) compression algorithm is possible to decode an image effectively, by considering the visual characteristic of human beings. The mosquito noise generates in the block, when a compression rate of the JPEG is high. On the other hand, the block noise is not generated in the JPEG2000 decoded image because an algorithm of the JPEG2000 based on DWT (discrete wavelet transform). However, the mosquito noise appears to a high compressed image by using the JPEG2000. We lose not only the mosquito noise but also some important image information, when the usual noise reduction filter is applied for a JPEG/JPEG2000 decoded image including the mosquito noise. As a result, the image quality worsens. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm which reduces the mosquito noise of the JPEG/JPEG2000 decoded image by using Ε-filter. We confirmed that our proposed method was effective by the computer experiments.
The quality of satellite images propagating through the atmosphere is affected by phenomena such as scattering and absorption of the fight, and turbulence, which degrade the image by blurring it and reducing its contr...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819445576
The quality of satellite images propagating through the atmosphere is affected by phenomena such as scattering and absorption of the fight, and turbulence, which degrade the image by blurring it and reducing its contrast. Here, a new approach for digital restoration of Landsat thematic mapper (TM) imagery is presented by implementing several filters as atmospheric filters which correct for turbulence blur, aerosol blur, and path radiance simultaneously. Aerosol modulation transfer function (MTF) is consistent with optical depth. Turbulence MTF is calculated from meteorological data. The product of the two yields atmospheric MTF, which is implemented in the atmospheric filters. Restoration improves both smallness of size of resolvable detail and contrast. Restorations are quite apparent even under clear weather conditions. Different restoration results are obtained by trying to restore the degraded image. Here, restorations results of the Kalman filter and the atmospheric Wiener filter are presented along with restoration results based on wavelets and multifractals. A way to determine which is the best restoration result and how good is the restored image is presented by a visual comparison and by examining several mathematical criteria.
Gloss characteristics of printed images contribute significantly to visualimage quality. However, traditional gloss instruments provided limited information about first surface optical characteristics of printed mate...
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Gloss characteristics of printed images contribute significantly to visualimage quality. However, traditional gloss instruments provided limited information about first surface optical characteristics of printed materials. In the current work, several new instrumental techniques for characterizing gloss and gloss variations in printed images have been developed. These instruments use a radiometrically calibrated digital camera to capture gloss images of printed surfaces that can be resolved spatially to provide micro-gloss information. The unique characteristics of the instrument is in the illumination optics. Illumination is not done with a traditional collimated source at an equal/opposite angle. Rather, the illumination system modulates the light spatially in such a way that much more quantitative information about gloss can be extracted from the images. The instrument quantitatively separates diffusely reflected light from the first surface light. The first surface gloss can then be related quantitatively to the physical topography of the surface.
Tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is unique in its ability to non-invasively image the motion and deformation of the heart in-vivo, but one of the fundamental reasons limiting its use in the clinical environment...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819444294
Tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is unique in its ability to non-invasively image the motion and deformation of the heart in-vivo, but one of the fundamental reasons limiting its use in the clinical environment is the absence of automated tools to derive clinically useful information from tagged MR images. In this paper we present a novel and fully automated technique based on nonrigid image registration using mufti-level free-form deformations (MFFDs) for the analysis of myocardial motion using tagged MRI. The novel aspect of our technique is its integrated nature for tag localization and deformation field reconstruction. To extract the motion field within the myocardium during systole we register a sequence of images taken during systole to a set of reference images taken at end-diastole, maximizing the mutual information between images. We use both short-axis and long-axis images of the heart to estimate the full four-dimensional motion field within the myocardium. We have validated our method using a cardiac motion simulator and we also present quantitative comparisons of cardiac motion from nine volunteers.
An inspection system has been developed for on-line detection of film defects, which bases on combination of photoelectric imaging and digital imageprocessing. The system runs in high speed of maximum 60m/min. Moving...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819447102
An inspection system has been developed for on-line detection of film defects, which bases on combination of photoelectric imaging and digital imageprocessing. The system runs in high speed of maximum 60m/min. Moving film is illuminated by LED array which emits even infrared (peak wavelength lambda(p)=940nm), and infrared images are obtained with a high quality and high speed CCD camera. The application software based on visual C++6.0 under Windows processes images in real time by means of such algorithms as median filter, edge detection and projection, etc. The system is made up of four modules, which are introduced in detail in the paper. On-line experiment results shows that the inspection system can recognize defects precisely in high speed and run reliably in practical application.
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