With new, third generation mobile terminals several multimedia-based applications will be soon available. The reliable transmission of audiovisual content will probably become one of the most asked services. On the ot...
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With new, third generation mobile terminals several multimedia-based applications will be soon available. The reliable transmission of audiovisual content will probably become one of the most asked services. On the other hand, when wireless delivery is addressed, it would be desirable to reach very high compression ratio keeping a good image perceptual quality. With these requirements the choice of JPEG2000 as the source encoding stage assures excellent results. However a non-ideal wireless network could seriously affect the received image decoding, despite JPEG2000's error resilience capabilities. In this paper a flexible DSP/FPGA system with high error-resilience features is proposed. Experimental results show very promising visual quality, with a limited complexity overhead, even in the presence of a mean loss rate of 10%.
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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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 with electric properties different from those of the surrounding water distort the electric field around fish's body depending on the size, distance and electric properties of objects. It is not clear yet how the fish recognizes the properties of an object such as its electric property, location and size based on its electric image. As the first step to clarify the neuronal mechanism of electrolocation, we developed a model of fish body by which we describe numerically the spatio-temporal patterns of electric field around the fish body. We made also neural models of electroreceptors distributed on the fish body and of electrosensory lateral line lobe (ELL) to investigate what kinds of information of electric field distorted by an object they detect. The models reproduce qualitatively the experimental results about the detections of size, distance, and moving directions of an object. We show that the lateral distance between a moving object and fish is encoded by the synchronous burst firing of ELL neurons, reflecting the spatio-temporal correlations of EOD stimuli received by the receptors.
The few-color images are often synthetic graphics without complicated color and texture variation, which makes the embedding of invisible digital watermark difficult. This paper proposes a data hiding method that can ...
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The few-color images are often synthetic graphics without complicated color and texture variation, which makes the embedding of invisible digital watermark difficult. This paper proposes a data hiding method that can hide a moderate amount of data in a few-color image, such as cartoon images, binary images, without introducing noticeable artifacts. To achieve least visual quality reduction, the prioritized pattern matching scheme is employed to embed the invisible data in the pixels those are close to the boundaries. The block permutation is also exploited before embedding. No additional color is introduced and the palette keeps unchanged after embedding. Extracting of the hidden data does not require the knowledge of the original image. The experimental results show that the approach achieves a quite great performance in visibility transparency. It is applicable to invisible annotation, covert communication etc.
A speckle reduction method for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is presented here. This method can be considered as a first step for the extraction of other important information. The second one is the detection ...
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A speckle reduction method for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is presented here. This method can be considered as a first step for the extraction of other important information. The second one is the detection of high reflectance regions which yields an important step to continue the segmentation of the total image. We have worked in 3-look simulated and real ERS-1 amplitude images. The iterative filter is based on a membrane model Markov random field (MRF) approximation optimized by a synchronous local iterative method (SLIM). The final form of restoration gives a total sum preserving regularization (TSPR).
Microarray image technology is a powerful tool for monitoring the expression of thousands of genes simultaneously. Each microarray experiment produces immense amounts of image data, and efficient storage and transmiss...
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Microarray image technology is a powerful tool for monitoring the expression of thousands of genes simultaneously. Each microarray experiment produces immense amounts of image data, and efficient storage and transmission requires compression that utilizes the microarray image's structure and unique analysis goals. We have developed a progressive compression scheme for microarray images which can be either lossy or lossless. Our scheme has a coded data structure that allows fast decoding and reprocessing of image subsets, and includes summary statistics and image segmentation information. Since visual fidelity is not the end goal for microarray images, we introduce a new measure of distortion for lossy compression: the sensitivity of microarray information extraction to compression loss. We find that a lossy compression ratio of 8:1 for cDNA microarrays minimally affects downstream processing. The average lossless compression ratio is 1.83:1 for cDNA images and 2.43:1 for inkjet images, comparable to state-of-the-art lossless schemas, yet with added flexibility and information.
Summary form only given. This talk focuses on the problem of shape estimation using multiple views from a land based mobile robot equipped with CCD cameras and a laser range finder that can compute the range of a targ...
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Summary form only given. This talk focuses on the problem of shape estimation using multiple views from a land based mobile robot equipped with CCD cameras and a laser range finder that can compute the range of a target along a fixed horizontal plane. The talk surveys the problem of shape estimation from optical flow of points, lines and algebraic curves and emphasizes the fusion of camera and range sensors. Inspired from Neuroscience, the talk also introduces the role of cortical flow to the problem of encoding visual input signals and subsequently decoding these inputs using maximum likelihood estimates. To end the talk, we model the appearance of an object using principal component analysis and argue the role of appearance dynamics as an alternative to optical flow based algorithms.
Novel polygon evolution models are introduced in this paper for capturing polygonal object boundaries in images which have one or more objects that have statistically different distributions on the intensity values. T...
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Novel polygon evolution models are introduced in this paper for capturing polygonal object boundaries in images which have one or more objects that have statistically different distributions on the intensity values. The key idea in our approach is to design evolution equations for vertices of a polygon that integrate both local and global image characteristics. Our method naturally provides an efficient representation of an object through a few number of vertices, which also leads to a significant amount of compression of image content. This methodology can effectively be used in the context of MPEG-7. We also propose usage of the Jensen-Shannon criterion as an information measure between the densities of regions of an image to capture more general statistical characteristics of the data.
Pre-processing and feature extraction can significantly enhance the performance of a neural network based classifier. In this paper several feature extraction techniques including edge filters, local features and dist...
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Pre-processing and feature extraction can significantly enhance the performance of a neural network based classifier. In this paper several feature extraction techniques including edge filters, local features and distance transformation are selected for image pre-processing in order to improve the recognition accuracy in combination with a neural network classifier. The visual object recognition performance of these algorithms is extensively compared based on a real world data set with significant variation of viewpoint and illumination.
In image sensing and processing, ambiguities arise when only one source of information is used. Thus, 3D object recognition and localization is a difficult task when using intensity image as single input. This paper p...
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In image sensing and processing, ambiguities arise when only one source of information is used. Thus, 3D object recognition and localization is a difficult task when using intensity image as single input. This paper presents a machine vision system that uses a Radio Frequency (RF) Tag device to identify objects prior to locating them visually. The tag system consists of a tag reader that can interrogate, and receive radio signals from, tags attached on objects and characterizing them. Laying the basis of an object model database shared on a network, we perform a knowledge-based recognition task where the information retrieved from the database query serves as a prior knowledge. The recognition algorithm used is a matching with projective invariants. We describe how this system can be used for efficient object registration and how the concept of integrated tag based systems can provide new insights in imageprocessing and machine vision.
To bridge the mismatch between the sizes of images and display devices, we present an efficient and automatic algorithm to create an adaptive image representation called SmartNail. Given a digital image and rectangula...
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To bridge the mismatch between the sizes of images and display devices, we present an efficient and automatic algorithm to create an adaptive image representation called SmartNail. Given a digital image and rectangular display frame smaller than the image, we define the SmartNail as an appropriately cropped part of a suitably scaled-down image. We choose the SmartNail-defining parameters - down-scaling factor and cropping location - to maximize a bit-allocation-based cost function that quantifies the visual importance of the image content in the SmartNail. For JPEG2000-encoded images, the SmartNail parameters can be determined using just the header information available in the encoded file. Hence, only the wavelet coefficients required to reconstruct the SmartNail need to be decoded from the entire JPEG2000 code stream. Consequently, the SmartNail construction requires minimal computation and memory requirements. Simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the SmartNail representations.
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