Colour imageprocessing is investigated in this paper using an algebraic approach based on triplet numbers. In the algebraic approach, each image element is considered not as a 3D vector, but as a triplet number. The ...
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(纸本)081944488X
Colour imageprocessing is investigated in this paper using an algebraic approach based on triplet numbers. In the algebraic approach, each image element is considered not as a 3D vector, but as a triplet number. The main goal of the paper is to show that triplet algebra can be used to solve colour imageprocessing problems in a natural and effective manner. In this work we propose novel methods for wavelet transforms implementation in colour triplet-valued space.
An automated pavement inspection system consists of image acquisition and distress imageprocessing. The former is accomplished with imaging sensors, such as video cameras and photomultiplier tubes. The latter include...
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An automated pavement inspection system consists of image acquisition and distress imageprocessing. The former is accomplished with imaging sensors, such as video cameras and photomultiplier tubes. The latter includes distress detection, isolation, classification, evaluation, segmentation, and compression. We focus on wavelet-based distress detection, isolation, and evaluation. After a pavement image is decomposed into different-frequency subbands by the wavelet transform, distresses are transformed into high-amplitude wavelet coefficients and noise is transformed into low-amplitude wavelet coefficients, both in the high-frequency subbands, referred to as details. Background is transformed into wavelet coefficients in a low-frequency subband, referred to as approximation. First, several statistical criteria are developed for distress detection and isolation, which include the high-amplitude wavelet coefficient percentage (HAWCP), the high-frequency energy percentage (HFEP), and the standard deviation (STD). These criteria are tested on hundreds of pavement images differing by type, severity, and extent of distress. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed criteria are reliable for distress detection and isolation and that real-time distress detection and screening is currently feasible. A norm for pavement distress quantification, which is defined as the product of HAWCP and HFEP, is also proposed. Experimental results show that the norm is a useful index for pavement distress evaluation. (c) 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
Nowadays one of the most important issue linked to image transform is to take into account the singularities of a signal which is organized on more than one dimension. The best example is the wavelet transform extensi...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819469236
Nowadays one of the most important issue linked to image transform is to take into account the singularities of a signal which is organized on more than one dimension. The best example is the wavelet transform extension to two dimensional signal analysis. The drawback when one pass from a one dimensional signal process to a two dimensional signal process by simply using separability of wavelet transform is the over representation of irregularities in the wavelet transform domain. In order to decrease this drawback, second generation wavelet transform tries to take geometrical aspects of the image into account in the analysis of the image (one can find examples with bandelets, curvelets, ridgelets and others). 2 layers bandelets or first generation bandelets is among the first wavelet transform which uses the flow to enhance the efficiency of the process. The present proposition is mainly theoretical : we will propose now a pratical interpretation of this work in order to make a new implementation of the transform.
Deconvolution in blind digital images is a common issue in image enhancement techniques, which basically was a notion of many researches. In this study, spatial varying blind deconvloution is stated and implemented. I...
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(纸本)9781728133775
Deconvolution in blind digital images is a common issue in image enhancement techniques, which basically was a notion of many researches. In this study, spatial varying blind deconvloution is stated and implemented. In addition, image noise removal approach which utilizes the normalized platform of second-generation wavelet transform is applied as pre-processing step. The low and high frequencies are decomposed in this step in order to be extracted. Practically, the main merit of wavelet transform is its efficiency in reduction of data redundancy in digital images. This feature helps a lot in terms of data classification where it is easy to distinguish the signal from its noisy counterpart. The second step, a recursive deep convolutional neural network (R-DbCNN) is implemented to suppress any image blur affected by second-generation wavelet transform to further remove the blur of noisy image. The experimental results depict that the suggested method outperforms recent blur removal techniques for different bluer image types in terms of image quality and time consumption.
The accurate and efficient representation of a signal in terms of elementary atoms has been a challenge in many signalprocessingapplications including harmonic analysis. The wavelet bases have been proved to be very...
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The accurate and efficient representation of a signal in terms of elementary atoms has been a challenge in many signalprocessingapplications including harmonic analysis. The wavelet bases have been proved to be very efficient and flexible atoms. Towards the goal of obtaining optimal wavelet bases, we present a simple and efficient parametrization technique for constructing linear phase biorthogonal discrete-time wavelet bases that have joint time frequency localization (JTFL) close to the lower bound of 0.25. In this paper, we first develop a parametrization technique to design biorthogonal filter banks (FBs). Then an optimization method is formulated to design jointly time frequency localized discrete wavelet bases employing the designed FBs. Finally, the performance of the optimal wavelet bases is evaluated in image coding application. The proposed parametrization method presents a general and yet a very simple framework to construct a linear phase biorthogonal FB of desired order, with the prescribed number of vanishing moments (vMs) and free parameters. Several examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and flexibility of the technique to design different classes of FB with various degrees of freedom. The performance of the designed FBs is compared with the other popular biorthogonal wavelet FBs.
We present a comparative study between a complex wavelet Coefficient Shrinkage (WCS) filter and several standard speckle filters that are widely used in the radar imaging community (Lee, Kuan, Frost, Geometric, Kalman...
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(纸本)0819425915
We present a comparative study between a complex wavelet Coefficient Shrinkage (WCS) filter and several standard speckle filters that are widely used in the radar imaging community (Lee, Kuan, Frost, Geometric, Kalman, Gamma, etc.). The WCS filter is based on the use of Symmetric Daubechies (SD) wavelets which share the same properties as the real Daubechies wavelets but with an additional symmetry property. The filtering operation is an elliptical soft-thresholding procedure with respect to the principal axes of the 2-D complex wavelet coefficient distributions. Both qualitative and quantitative results (signal to mean square error ratio, equivalent number of looks, edgemap figure of merit) are reported. Tests have been performed using simulated speckle noise as well as real radar images. It is found that the WCS filter performs equally well as the standard filters for low-level noise and slightly outperforms them for higher-level noise.
image compression is one of the most important research areas in the field of imageprocessing due to its large number of applications such as aerial surveillance, reconnaissance, medicine and multimedia communication...
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image compression is one of the most important research areas in the field of imageprocessing due to its large number of applications such as aerial surveillance, reconnaissance, medicine and multimedia communication. Even when high data rates are available, image compression is necessary in order to reduce the transmission cost. For applications involving information security, a fast delivery also reduces the chances of compromise over a communication channel. In this paper, we explore the possibility of using one of the computational intelligence techniques, namely, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), for optimal thresholding in the 2-D discrete wavelet transform (DWT) of an image. To this end, a set of optimal thresholds is obtained using the PSO algorithm. Finally, a variable length coding scheme, such as arithmetic coding is used to encode the results. Finding an optimal threshold value for the wavelet coefficients is very crucial in reducing the source entropy and bit-rate reduction. The proposed method is tested using several standard images against other popular techniques and proved to be more efficient compared to other methods. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.v. All rights reserved.
wavelet transform has been widely used in many signal and imageprocessingapplications such as edge detection and data compression. For applications that tolerate a slight compromise in accuracy for faster speed, a f...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819425915
wavelet transform has been widely used in many signal and imageprocessingapplications such as edge detection and data compression. For applications that tolerate a slight compromise in accuracy for faster speed, a fast approximation of wavelet transform is favorable. In this paper we propose a simple yet effective algorithm for fast wavelet transform. The use of fixed point numbers simplifies the hardware design and computation complexity than the use of a floating point arithmetic unit. Calculations are further reduced using our thresholding-in-calculations (TIC) technique to omit calculations of small terms that are negligible to the accumulated sum. The TIC technique basically determines whether a multiplication followed by an addition shall be executed using a look-up table with the quantized magnitude of multiplication operands as input parameters. Knowing the levels of quantization, any combination of the quantized multiplication operands can approximate the product and be compared to a predetermined threshold value. If the approximated product is greater than or equal to the threshold value, the corresponding entry in the look-up table is marked for multiplication;otherwise, no multiplication will be executed. Our simulation results show that our approximation algorithm is effective for wavelet transform of audio signals. In addition, when our algorithm is applied to a simple wavelet based edge detection algorithm, the detection result. is almost the same as the one using precise calculation of the wavelet transform.
In this paper, based on the logarithmic imageprocessing model and the dyadic wavelet transform (DWT), we introduce a logarithmic DWT (LDWT) that is a mathematical transform. It can be used in image edge detection, si...
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In this paper, based on the logarithmic imageprocessing model and the dyadic wavelet transform (DWT), we introduce a logarithmic DWT (LDWT) that is a mathematical transform. It can be used in image edge detection, signal and image reconstruction. Comparative study of this proposed LDWT-based method is done with the edge detection Canny and Sobel methods using Pratt's Figure of Merit, and the comparative results show that the LDWT-based method is better and more robust in detecting low contrast edges than the other two methods. The gradient maps of images are detected by using the DWT- and LDWT-based methods, and the experimental results demonstrate that the gradient maps obtained by the LDWT-based method are more adequate and precisely located. Finally, we use the DWT- and LDWT-based methods to reconstruct one-dimensional signals and two-dimensional images, and the reconstruction results show that the LDWT-based reconstruction method is more effective. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.v. All rights reserved.
In this paper, we propose a new wideband bearing estimation method based on wavelet transform. By analyzing the relationship between the wavelet transform of the frequency invariant beam's output and the array'...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479902699;9781479902675
In this paper, we propose a new wideband bearing estimation method based on wavelet transform. By analyzing the relationship between the wavelet transform of the frequency invariant beam's output and the array's beampattern, we derived spatial power spectrum based on wavelet transform (SPS-WT). The method has good performance on noise suppression by utilizing the statistical uncorrelation character between signals and noise, and also has high resolution on bearing estimation. The performance of the proposed method is illustrated in simulation results.
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