wavelets provide an attractive method for efficient image compression. For transmission across noisy or bandwidth limited channels, a signal may be subjected to quantization in which the signal is transcribed onto a r...
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(纸本)9780819486332
wavelets provide an attractive method for efficient image compression. For transmission across noisy or bandwidth limited channels, a signal may be subjected to quantization in which the signal is transcribed onto a reduced alphabet in order to save bandwidth. Unfortunately, the performance of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) degrades at increasing levels of quantization. In recent years, evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been employed to optimize wavelet-inspired transform filters to improve compression performance in the presence of quantization. wavelet filters consist of a pair of real-valued coefficient sets;one set represents the compression filter while the other set defines the image reconstruction filter. The reconstruction filter is defined as the biorthogonal inverse of the compression filter. Previous research focused upon two approaches to filter optimization. In one approach, the original wavelet filter is used for image compression while the reconstruction filter is evolved by an EA. In the second approach, both the compression and reconstruction filters are evolved. In both cases, the filters are not biorthogonally related to one another. We propose a novel approach to filter evolution. The EA optimizes a compression filter. Rather than using a wavelet filter or evolving a second filter for reconstruction, the reconstruction filter is computed as the biorthogonal inverse of the evolved compression filter. The resulting filter pair retains some of the mathematical properties of wavelets. This paper compares this new approach to existing filter optimization approaches to determine its suitability for the optimization of image filters appropriate for defense applications of imageprocessing.
Brain CT images are very useful in diagnosis of cerebrovascular accidents (CVA). These images contain too many information. But most of the times, provided information is contaminated by noise and suffer from poor con...
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The proceedings contain 108 papers. The topics discussed include: magnetic imaging of ferromagnetic shape with mobile hall sensor array system;forward and backward automatic censoring binary integration detectors usin...
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(纸本)9781457702419
The proceedings contain 108 papers. The topics discussed include: magnetic imaging of ferromagnetic shape with mobile hall sensor array system;forward and backward automatic censoring binary integration detectors using Weber-Haykin thresholding;child face detection using age specific luminance invariant geometric descriptor;a color based approach for eye blink detection in image sequences;multi-color ULBP with wavelet transform in invariant pose face recognition;monocular vision system development for depth estimation;high dynamic range stereo video using SIFT and simultaneous multi-exposure;classification gel electrophoretic image of DNA fusarium graminearum featuring support vector machine;pattern recognition for insect behavior by wrapper approach to subset selection of wavelet-multifractal attributes;and adaptive filtering for noisy and mismatched conditions in speaker recognition.
The technologies making possible to change even the content of the digital media are developing fast. The demand for the development of mathematical and computational algorithms to determine the modifications on digit...
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This paper proposes a new illumination compensation technique based on iterative implementation of singular value equalization of low frequency subband of a given image. In this work, both input and reference images a...
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High resolution through-the-wall radar imaging (TTWRI) demands wideband signals and large array apertures. Thus a vast amount of measurements is needed for a detailed reconstruction of the scene of interest. For pract...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781457705397
High resolution through-the-wall radar imaging (TTWRI) demands wideband signals and large array apertures. Thus a vast amount of measurements is needed for a detailed reconstruction of the scene of interest. For practical TTWRI systems it is imperative to reduce the number of samples to cut down on hardware cost and/or acquisition time. This can be achieved by employing compressive sensing (CS). Existing approaches imply a point target assumption, which may not hold in practical applications. We apply a novel CS approach for TTWRI using the 2D discrete wavelet transform to sparsify images. In this fashion, we overcome the above stated limitation and are able to deal with extended targets. Experimental results show that high image qualities are obtained, similar to images generated using the full measurement set.
This paper presents design and development of a Human Visual System (HVS) based video coder. The major aim of developing such a coder is to highlight the role of perceptual models in improving the reconstructed video ...
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(纸本)9780889868946
This paper presents design and development of a Human Visual System (HVS) based video coder. The major aim of developing such a coder is to highlight the role of perceptual models in improving the reconstructed video quality. The proposed coder incorporates vision models into the coding stream of both the luma and chroma components of the Intra-frames (I-frames) of the input video stream, when represented in the YCbCr space. Unlike the standard video codecs which uses a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) based transform coding scheme, a Discrete wavelet Transform (DWT) based coding is adopted for the compression of I-frames. This not only gives improved compression but also serves as a suitable platform to incorporate the HVS models to improve the quality of the reconstructed video. We call the proposed perceptual video coder a complete video coder since it uses HVS models at all stages of processing. A perceptual metric Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM), is used as the cost function for fast motion estimation which improves the speed of processing and prediction. The performance comparison of the proposed and the standard coders are done in terms of latest perceptual measures, such as SSIM and VSNR to highlight the perceptual quality improvements.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is becoming popular in medical diagnosis due to its diagnostic applications and advantages over X- rays. But diagnosis task becomes difficult when noise gets introduced in MR images. A...
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In this paper, we propose two multiview image compression methods. The basic concept of both schemes is the layer-based representation, in which the captured three-dimensional (3D) scene is partitioned into layers eac...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819487452
In this paper, we propose two multiview image compression methods. The basic concept of both schemes is the layer-based representation, in which the captured three-dimensional (3D) scene is partitioned into layers each related to a constant depth in the scene. The first algorithm is a centralized scheme where each layer is de-correlated using a separable multi-dimensional wavelet transform applied across the viewpoint and spatial dimensions. The transform is modified to efficiently deal with occlusions and disparity variations for different depths. Although the method achieves a high compression rate, the joint encoding approach requires the transmission of all data to the users. By contrast, in an interactive setting, the users request only a subset of the captured images, but in an unknown order a priori. We address this scenario in the second algorithm using Distributed Source Coding (DSC) principles which reduces the inter-view redundancy and facilitates random access at the image level. We demonstrate that the proposed centralized and interactive methods outperform H.264/MVC and JPEG 2000, respectively.
image watermarking schemes allow a cover image to be embedded with a watermark for diverse applications, such as copyright protection and covert communication. Recently, a hybrid image watermarking scheme based on red...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783642271410
image watermarking schemes allow a cover image to be embedded with a watermark for diverse applications, such as copyright protection and covert communication. Recently, a hybrid image watermarking scheme based on redundant discrete wavelet transform and singular value decomposition is proposed by Lagzian et al. This scheme demonstrates high robustness against common imageprocessing attacks such as geometric attack, JPEG compression, Gaussian noise and histogram equalization. In this paper, we present a fundamental flaw in the scheme that leads to false-positive detection problem and hence, undermines the robustness and suitability of the scheme to be used as a proof of ownership application.
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