The statistics of natural scenes in the wavelet domain are accurately characterized by the Gaussian Scale Mixture (GSM) model. The model lends itself easily to analysis and many applications that use this model are em...
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Many signal and imageprocessingapplications will be more benefited if the transform gives good spectral and temporal resolution in arbitrary regions of the time-frequency plane that is provided by the Discrete Wavel...
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Multiple description coding (MDC) recently appeared as a joint source-channel coding technique specifically designed for real-time multimedia applications over best effort switched packet networks such as Internet, in...
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Minutiae extraction is one of the most important steps for automatic fingerprint identification and classification systems. The performance of minutiae extraction can be changed depends on an image enhancement algorit...
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In this paper, we apply independent component analysis (ICA) to the reduction of spatially correlated additive noise in images. We take a degraded image as the mixture of the noise and the original image, which are st...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819456462
In this paper, we apply independent component analysis (ICA) to the reduction of spatially correlated additive noise in images. We take a degraded image as the mixture of the noise and the original image, which are statistically independent. From a view of blind signal separation, we try to restore the original image from two linear mixtures. Motivated by the fact that autocorrelation exists in the neighborhoods of the image and the noise, we design another mixture using the diffusion equation. Then we employ independent component analysis to separate the image and the noise from the two mixtures. Simulation experiments are carried out to remove the Poisson noise from images. Experimental results indicate an impressive performance of the proposed method. Furthermore, the proposed method can be combined with the wavelet Shrinkage method to improve the denoising performance.
There are two big stages to implement in a signal classification process: features extraction and signal classification. The present work shows up the development of an automated classifier based on the use of the Wav...
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ISBN:
(纸本)3540263195
There are two big stages to implement in a signal classification process: features extraction and signal classification. The present work shows up the development of an automated classifier based on the use of the wavelet Transform to extract signal characteristics, and Neural Networks (Feed Forward type) to obtain decision rules. The classifier has been applied to the nuclear fusion environment (TJ-II stellarator), specifically to the Thomson Scattering diagnostic, which is devoted to measure density and temperature radial profiles. The aim of this work is to achieve an automated profile reconstruction from raw data without human intervention. Raw data processing depends on the image pattern obtained in the measurement and, therefore, an image classifier is required. The method reduces the 221.760 original features to only 900, being the success mean rate over 90%. This classifier has been programmed in MATLAB.
For tracking applications, the estimation of the "true" motion vector is crucial. The Complex Discrete wavelet Transform (CDWT) based motion estimation algorithm developed by Magarey and Kingsbury produced s...
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ISBN:
(纸本)1604238216
For tracking applications, the estimation of the "true" motion vector is crucial. The Complex Discrete wavelet Transform (CDWT) based motion estimation algorithm developed by Magarey and Kingsbury produced superior results for the estimation of the dense flow field. In this work, the use of the CDWT-based motion estimation algorithm for the vision-based tracking of targets has been evaluated. First, a comparison of the results of the CDWT-based ME algorithm with the results of the Lucas and Kanade's (LK) and Horn and Schunk's (HS) motion estimation algorithms is performed. Second, the tracking performances are compared for the cases of CDWT-based and LK-based flow fields. Lastly, the tracking performance of the proposed tracker is evaluated by using a number of test sequences and is compared to the Correlation and Mean Shift Tracker. It is observed that it can successfully track various different targets and is robust to changes of the target signature.
The best basis paradigm is a lower cost alternative to the principal component analysis (PCA) for feature extraction in pattern recognition applications. Its main idea is to build a collection of bases and search for ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819456454
The best basis paradigm is a lower cost alternative to the principal component analysis (PCA) for feature extraction in pattern recognition applications. Its main idea is to build a collection of bases and search for the best one in terms of e.g. best class separation. Recently, fast best basis search algorithms have been generalized for anisotropic wavelet packet bases. Anisotropy is preferable for 2-D objects since it helps capturing local image features in a better way. In this contribution, the best anisotropic basis search framework is applied to the problem of recognition of characters captured from gray-scale pictures of car license plates. The goals are to simplify the classifier and to avoid a preliminary binarization stage by extracting features directly from the gray-scale images. The collection of bases is formed by anisotropic wavelet packets. The search algorithm seeks for a basis providing the lowest-dimensional data representation preserving the inter-class separability for given training data set, measured as Euclidean distance between class centroids. The relationship between the feature extractor and classifier complexity is clarified by training neural networks for different local bases. The proposed methodology shows its superiority to PCA as it yields equal and even lower classification error rate with considerably reduced computational costs.
The proceedings contain 32 papers. The topics discussed include: Neuro-fuzzy logic in signalprocessing for communications: from bits to protocols;connected operators for signal and imageprocessing;exploiting high-le...
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(纸本)3540312579
The proceedings contain 32 papers. The topics discussed include: Neuro-fuzzy logic in signalprocessing for communications: from bits to protocols;connected operators for signal and imageprocessing;exploiting high-level information provided by ALISP in speaker recognition;parameter optimization in a text-dependent cryptographic-speech-key generation task;the COST-277 speech database;bispectrum estimators for voice activity detection and speech recognition;on the acoustic-to-electropalatographic mapping;support vector machines applied to the detection of voice disorders;segment boundaries in low latency phonetic recognition;spotting multilingual consonant-vowel units of speech using neutral network models;and method for real-time signalprocessing via wavelet transform.
A poor inherent resolution capability of the passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) imaging becomes a problem in many applications. The need for efficient post-processing to achieve resolution improvement is being increasingl...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819457744
A poor inherent resolution capability of the passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) imaging becomes a problem in many applications. The need for efficient post-processing to achieve resolution improvement is being increasingly recognized. To obtain high- and super-resolution PMMW imaging, many restoration methods have been developed and evaluated. In this paper, two recent advanced wavelet based methods are discussed;Fourier-wavelet regularized deconvolution (ForWaRD) and multiscale entropy method. The ForWaRD is a linear deconvolution algorithm that performs noise regularization via scalar shrinkage in both the Fourier and wavelet domains. The ForWaRD has been reported to be efficient and applicable to all ill-conditioned deconvolution problems. The multiscale entropy method, which generalized the wavelet-regularized iterative methods, is advance of the maximum entropy method (MEM), which is more effective and leads to efficient restoration. These two methods have not been applied and analyzed in the PMMW images which were highly blurred and low signal to noise circumstance. We have studied the restoration performance of wavelet-based methods in the PMMW imaging comparing with particular reference to the Lorentzian method. The evaluation has been performed with actual radiometer imaging with the 94 GHz mechanically scanned radiometer as well as simulation. In the actual radiometer imaging, a simple blind restoration method was exploited with blur identification. To compare the restored image fidelity, objective and subjective criteria were used, and the super-resolution capability was also checked. Comparison of the linear and non-linear methods revealed the preferable bandwidth extension of the non-linear methods. In the non-linear methods, the multiscale entropy and Lorentzian, they showed their strength and weakness.
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