In this paper, we investigate the concetanation of Alamouti's 2-antenna space-time coding scheme with standard outer error-correcting codes. By introducing a proper matrix description, the channel can be visualize...
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In this paper, we investigate the concetanation of Alamouti's 2-antenna space-time coding scheme with standard outer error-correcting codes. By introducing a proper matrix description, the channel can be visualized as a 4-dimensional rotation of a generalized phasor (given by the pair of transmit symbols), followed by the attenuation given by the composed fading amplitude. This interpretation makes it easy to understand that this 2-transmit (TX) antenna scheme is completely equivalent to a 2-receive (RX) antenna setup with maximum ratio combining (MRC). Analytical formulas for pair error probabilities will be derived for the time/frequency flat fading and for the ideally interleaved Rayleigh fading channel as well as for the correlated fading channel. As a practical example, we study how the performance of a Walsh-Hadamard coded multi-carrier (MC-) CDMA system depends of the correlation bandwidth of the channel and the number of RX and TX antennas.
From the industrial point of view, image quality is a key-issue. Many post-processing algorithms have been proposed to improve visual quality after the MPEG decoder. Most of them need precise location of the 8/spl tim...
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From the industrial point of view, image quality is a key-issue. Many post-processing algorithms have been proposed to improve visual quality after the MPEG decoder. Most of them need precise location of the 8/spl times/8 grid on which the blocking effect appears. However, in real-life applications, the blocking effect is rarely located on such a basic grid, due to the cascaded bit-rate or format transcoding, rescaling, etc., that occur during acquisition, compression, transmission and display of the video. Consequently, most of these methods see their efficiency largely reduced, or are simply useless. A grid detector is proposed, based on a fine modeling of blocking artifacts in the wavelet domain. It aims at providing essential information to any post-processing algorithm that requires the position of the grid. Several experiments and reliable subjective tests demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed grid detector, and highlight the added value it yields to a post-processing algorithm in terms of visual quality.
The automatic recognition of video clips is an important capability with applications in broadcast monitoring for content theft and adherence to advertisement campaign. In this paper, we present an approach for video ...
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We present a blind data hiding method for JPEG compressed images, which minimizes the perceptual distortion due to data embedding. The proposed system presents a number of options to the encoder to cast the given hidd...
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We present a blind data hiding method for JPEG compressed images, which minimizes the perceptual distortion due to data embedding. The proposed system presents a number of options to the encoder to cast the given hidden bits in the compressed content signal. The perceptual distortion cost of each option is calculated from the parameters available to the encoder such as the original image, quantization error due to compression and just noticeable distortion (JND) levels of the original image derived through an empirical human visual system model. The encoder selects the option with the minimum JND cost to cast the hidden bits. By the definition of blind decoding, the decoder should be able to extract the hidden bits without any side information on the option selected or the parameters available to the encoder. The decoder of the proposed system uses simple binary addition on their received transform coefficients to extract the hidden bits blindly. System performance is examined by computer experiments at different compression levels and at different embedding bitrates.
image quality assessment plays an important role in various imageprocessing applications. A great deal of effort has been made in recent years to develop objective image quality metrics that correlate with perceived ...
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image quality assessment plays an important role in various imageprocessing applications. A great deal of effort has been made in recent years to develop objective image quality metrics that correlate with perceived quality measurement. Unfortunately, only limited success has been achieved. In this paper, we provide some insights on why image quality assessment is so difficult by pointing out the weaknesses of the error sensitivity based framework, which has been used by most image quality assessment approaches in the literature. Furthermore, we propose a new philosophy in designing image quality metrics: The main function of the human eyes is to extract structural information from the viewing field, and the human visual system is highly adapted for this purpose. Therefore, a measurement of structural distortion should be a good approximation of perceived image distortion. Based on the new philosophy, we implemented a simple but effective image quality indexing algorithm, which is very promising as shown by our current results.
Unequal error protection is one of the key tools in video communication systems operating over error-prone networks. In order to allow unequal protection of a video bit-stream, codewords have to be categorized accordi...
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Unequal error protection is one of the key tools in video communication systems operating over error-prone networks. In order to allow unequal protection of a video bit-stream, codewords have to be categorized according to their importance to visual quality. The proposed sub-picture coding method allows partitioning images to regions of interest and helps to maintain a good image quality in the chosen regions. As an example, the sub-picture coding scheme is applied to multicast Internet streaming. It is shown that the overall subjective image quality and the objective foreground image quality are considerably better when compared to the selected conventional coding schemes.
A robust image watermarking technique based on Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is introduced in the paper. By utilizing the masking properties of the human visual system (HVS), a grayscale watermark is chosen whi...
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A robust image watermarking technique based on Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is introduced in the paper. By utilizing the masking properties of the human visual system (HVS), a grayscale watermark is chosen which is found to be more robust against various attacks. Comparing with other watermarking schemes (for example, by Cox et. al. [1]), our proposed ICA based watermarking scheme can successfully extract a watermark where watermark embedding can be done either instantaneously or convolutively. Various existing ICA algorithms are employed and compared in terms of watermark extraction performance. This paper also shows the robustness in watermark extraction against some standard imageprocessing attacks such as scaling, cropping, rotation, JPEG compression, filtering, additive noise, multiple marks and collusion.
We present a barcode reader to decode two-dimensional symbology PDF-417 and propose a novel method to extract the bar-space patterns directly from the gray-level barcode image, which employs the location and the dista...
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We present a barcode reader to decode two-dimensional symbology PDF-417 and propose a novel method to extract the bar-space patterns directly from the gray-level barcode image, which employs the location and the distance between extreme points of each row of the barcode image. This algorithm proves to be very robust for high convolution distortion environments such as defocussing and warping, even under bad illumination conditions. If the scanned barcode image is a result of the convolution of a Gaussian-shaped point spread function with a bilevel image, popular image segmentation methods such as image thresholding cannot distinguish between very narrow bar-space patterns which are a couple of pixels wide. The proposed algorithm shows improved performance over current barcode readers.
We have been developing the Next Generation remote lecture system that real-time transmits "high presence" audio/visualimages (that are, as real as it feels no distance or screen is ever existing), without ...
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In real-time multicast communication scalability, reliability, and feedback implosion are of paramount importance. In this work we have developed an efficient feedback-free, entirely receiver-driven, and reliable visu...
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In real-time multicast communication scalability, reliability, and feedback implosion are of paramount importance. In this work we have developed an efficient feedback-free, entirely receiver-driven, and reliable visual information delivery hybrid scheme (SIGMA-EC) for multicast applications over unreliable communication networks, that requires no per-receiver status at the sender. Efficient bandwidth utilization is achieved by transmitting the parity packets over separate multicast channels, which receivers dynamically join and leave, preventing unnecessary receiver processing overhead and storage requirements for those packets that have already received correctly, and giving rise to a tradeoff between bandwidth and quality. Our XOR-based scheme's encoding and decoding processing time is an order of magnitude faster than conventional RS-based loss recovery schemes. Furthermore, we obtain all these advantages using a remarkably simple structure, both conceptually as well as computationally.
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