We try to measure lithography line edge roughness (LER) from a noisy SEM image using wavelet analysis. First, we evaluated the edge detection performance of the wavelet multiscale edge detection method without and wit...
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(纸本)0819455601
We try to measure lithography line edge roughness (LER) from a noisy SEM image using wavelet analysis. First, we evaluated the edge detection performance of the wavelet multiscale edge detection method without and with denoising by applying them to a modeled secondary electron (SE) signal of photoresist without and with noise. As denoising, the method called soft thresholding was used. Many modulus maxima lines with short lengths for a modeled SE signals with low SNR such as 3 appears and characteristic modulus maxima lines with long lengths do not come out. After denoising, the characteristic modulus maxima lines come out. When SNR was larger than 10, the standard deviation was less than 1 pixel and the average position converged to a point. Then we applied the wavelet multiscale edge detection method to a noisy SEM image of photoresist. LERs (1 sigma evaluated along a distance) along ninety scan lines were measured with the number of average line scans as a parameter. The measured LER for one scan line was determined to be reliable from results of averaging effects and LER for this photoresist pattern was about 3 pixels.
The wavelet transform is a very powerful tool for image coding for which the quality of the compression is depending on the choice of the filter banks associated to the wavelet. These filters can be characterized by t...
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(纸本)1604238216
The wavelet transform is a very powerful tool for image coding for which the quality of the compression is depending on the choice of the filter banks associated to the wavelet. These filters can be characterized by two indices: a spatial index related to their significant support and a frequency index related to their aliasing. This work explores the connection between a quality criteria and these two indices for a given image family. Two useful applications are presented: in the first one a neural network allows us to deduce the best filter bank for a given image. In the second one a quality criterion for a new image is estimated knowing the filter bank.
Differential Energy Watermarking (DEW) based techniques have been applied in DEW, modified schemes of DEW or wavelet Tree Quantization (WTQ) algorithms by differentiating the transformed coefficient energy to verify t...
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ISBN:
(纸本)1424407281
Differential Energy Watermarking (DEW) based techniques have been applied in DEW, modified schemes of DEW or wavelet Tree Quantization (WTQ) algorithms by differentiating the transformed coefficient energy to verify the watermark embedding for copyright protection and ownership verification. In this paper, we present a novel differential energy watermarking algorithm based on the wavelet tree group modulation (WTGM) structure. The wavelet coefficients of the image are divided into disjoint tree groups and each tree group contains two sub tree groups. The watermark is embedded in the tree components using the group strategy such that the energy of tree groups is close and each subgroup performs different modulation for watermark embedding. Therefore, the employment of wavelet tree structure, sum-of-subsets and positive/negative modulation effectively improve the watermark robustness. In addition, the contrast sensitive function (CSF) and noise visibility function (NVF) of human visual system are also considered for the better visual quality of the watermarked image. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of WTGM algorithm in terms of robustness and imperceptibility of watermarking.
The problem we are interested in is the restoration of nuclear medicine images acquired by a gamma camera. In a previous paper(1) the authors have developed a wavelet, based filtering method enabling to remove one of ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819432997
The problem we are interested in is the restoration of nuclear medicine images acquired by a gamma camera. In a previous paper(1) the authors have developed a wavelet, based filtering method enabling to remove one of the major sources of error in nuclear medicine, namely Poisson noise. The purpose of this paper is to show how the restoration algorithm has been improved by introducing the point spread function as additional constraint in the restoration of the wavelet coefficients and choosing the regularization constraint in the object space. We describe a new restoration algorithm where filtering and deconvolution are coupled in a multiresolution frame. The performances are illustrated with simulated data and phantom images.
The optics of satellite cameras as well as the satellite movement create a blurring effect to which is added a noise due to the electronics of the CCD captors. We introduce a deconvolution algorithm which is regulariz...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819422134
The optics of satellite cameras as well as the satellite movement create a blurring effect to which is added a noise due to the electronics of the CCD captors. We introduce a deconvolution algorithm which is regularized with a hard thresholding technic, in a wavelet frame. The restoration procedure is fast and provides good metrical and perceptual results.
Integer based-matrix algorithms for discrete Haar transform (DHT) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT) are proposed with relation to the multiresolution representation (MRR). A recursive wavelet transform technique is...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819425915
Integer based-matrix algorithms for discrete Haar transform (DHT) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT) are proposed with relation to the multiresolution representation (MRR). A recursive wavelet transform technique is used with a view to demonstrating simply lossy reconstructed images in contrast to an original image under the specified resolution size. A visual effect of reconstructed images with differnt appearance and image quality, caused by modifying or throwing away a part of the 2-D HT or WT coefficients, is discussed with a measure of quantitative evaluation such as similarity and/or modified similarity, and fidelity RMSE and/or PSNR.
wavelet transform is a main tool for imageprocessingapplications in modern existence. A Double Density Dual Tree Discrete wavelet Transform is used and investigated for image denoising. images are considered for the...
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wavelet transform is a main tool for imageprocessingapplications in modern existence. A Double Density Dual Tree Discrete wavelet Transform is used and investigated for image denoising. images are considered for the analysis and the performance is compared with discrete wavelet transform and the Double Density DWT. Peak signal to Noise Ratio values and Root Means Square error are calculated in all the three wavelet techniques for denoised images and the performance has evaluated. The proposed techniques give the better performance when comparing other two wavelet techniques.
A text watermark algorithm using wavelet transform and error-correcting code for color image is presented in this paper. First, We decompose the blue channel of original color image to three levels using Daubechies...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780374886
A text watermark algorithm using wavelet transform and error-correcting code for color image is presented in this paper. First, We decompose the blue channel of original color image to three levels using Daubechies' wavelets, which are well suited to deal with general-purpose images. Then the error-correcting encoded. text watermark is embedded by modifying the middle-frequency range of wavelet coefficients under the indicating of wavelet Coefficient Relation Matrix (WCRM), which is obtained by comparing coefficients of each resolution layer. The recovering of watermark does not require original image. Experimental results show that the algorithm is robust to some imageprocessing operations and JPEG lossy compression.
The method in which the wavelet transform and fractal theories are applied to detect chaotic signals with the additive observed noises is presented in this paper. Smoothing operator is derived from wavelet transform a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819422134
The method in which the wavelet transform and fractal theories are applied to detect chaotic signals with the additive observed noises is presented in this paper. Smoothing operator is derived from wavelet transform and used to process the chaotic time series. According to its character of no-scale interval in certain scales, a detected example of the noisy chaotic behavior produced by a Lorenz attractor is provided by using the improved G-P algorithm to calculate its fractal dimension. The results shows that the method introduced here expresses a good ability to detect chaos.
Recent years have seen the development of signal denoising algorithms based on wavelet transform. It has been shown that thresholding the wavelet coefficients of a noisy signal allows to restore the smoothness of the ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780370414
Recent years have seen the development of signal denoising algorithms based on wavelet transform. It has been shown that thresholding the wavelet coefficients of a noisy signal allows to restore the smoothness of the original signal. However, wavelet denoising suffers of a main drawback : around discontinuities the reconstructed signal is smoothed, exhibiting pseudo-Gibbs phenomenon. We consider the problem of denoising piecewise smooth signals with sharp discontinuities. We propose to apply a traditional wavelet denoising method and to restore the denoised signal using a total variation minimization approach. This second step allows to remove the Gibbs phenomena and therefore to restore sharp discontinuities, while the other structures are preserved. The main innovation of our algorithm is to constrain the total variation minimization by the knowledge of the remaining wavelet coefficients. In this way, we make sure that the restoration process does not deteriorate the information that has been considered as significant in the denoising step. With this approach we substantially improve the performance of classical wavelet denoising algorithms, both in terms of SNR and in terms of visual artifacts.
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