This paper presents a cooperative hierarchical fusion scheme based on "a trous" wavelet transformation for the fusion of Infrared and visible images. At first, the restoration algorithm of multi-frames is pr...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819436704
This paper presents a cooperative hierarchical fusion scheme based on "a trous" wavelet transformation for the fusion of Infrared and visible images. At first, the restoration algorithm of multi-frames is presented to filter image noise and to improve the detail information of the infrared image. Then both the infrared and the visible images are decomposed to multilayer wavelet planes, respectively. A hierarchical merging is used for feature selection of wavelet planes by taking the weighted average at each scale. Lastly, the inverse wavelet transformation is implemented from the approximation data of the infrared image and the fused wavelet coefficients at various scales. One visible and three-frame infrared images are used to test the performance of the proposed scheme. Experimental results show that the spatial resolution improvement of the infrared image can be cooperatively achieved by multi-frame image restoration and sensor fusion. The advantage of the proposed cooperative merging algorithm is that the salient detail information from both visible and infrared images is preserved. No artifacts such as the blocking effect exist in the merged result. Moreover, the proposed method allows use of a dyadic wavelet to merge different sensor data of nondyadic resolution in a simple and efficient approach.
Integration of the nonlinear approaches for system identification is proposed for spectral differentiation and object recognition in this research. Multi-scale nonlinear principal component analysis (NCA) has been imp...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424446018
Integration of the nonlinear approaches for system identification is proposed for spectral differentiation and object recognition in this research. Multi-scale nonlinear principal component analysis (NCA) has been implemented to analyze the individual components of approximations and details based on wavelet transform. Neural network training has been applied to NCA while both ID and 2D wavelet transform have been conducted across different scales. At each scale, the principal components are selected in order to reconstruct the intrinsic signal and image. This statistical identification approach is essential to enhance multivariate data processing. Case studies on signal and imageprocessing are both conducted. In addition, quantitative measures are presented to analyze the nonlinear multi-scale approach from the objective perspectives.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a recent technique that allows the measurement of brain metabolism (local concentration of deoxyhemoglobin using BOLD contrast) while subjects are performing a specific ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819432997
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a recent technique that allows the measurement of brain metabolism (local concentration of deoxyhemoglobin using BOLD contrast) while subjects are performing a specific task. A block paradigm produces alternating sequences of images (e.g., rest versus motor task). In order to detect and localize areas of cerebral activation, one analyzes the data using paired differences at the voxel level. As an alternative to the traditional approach which uses Gaussian spatial filtering to reduce measurement noise, we propose to analyze the data using an orthogonal filterbank. This procedure is intended to simplify and eventually improve the statistical analysis. The system is designed to concentrate the signal into a fewer number of components thereby improving the signal-to-noise ratio. Thanks to the orthogonality property, we can test the filtered components independently on a voxel-by-voxel basis;this testing procedure is optimal for i.i.d. measurement noise. The number of components to test is also reduced because of down-sampling. This offers a straightforward approach to increasing the sensitivity of the analysis (lower detection threshold) while applying the standard Bonferroni correction for multiple statistical tests. We present experimental results to illustrate the procedure. In addition, we discuss filter design issues. In particular, we introduce a family of orthogonal filters which are such that any integer reduction m can be implemented as a succession of elementary reductions m(1) to m(p) where m = m(1) ... m(p) is a prime number factorization of m.
Recently, a logarithmic imageprocessing model called Symmetric Logarithmic imageprocessing (S-LIP) has been investigated in the framework of the multiresolution analysis (MRA) performed by wavelet transform. The S-L...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479983391
Recently, a logarithmic imageprocessing model called Symmetric Logarithmic imageprocessing (S-LIP) has been investigated in the framework of the multiresolution analysis (MRA) performed by wavelet transform. The S-LIP model is an extension of the Logarithmic imageprocessing (LIP) model. The motivation of this work is to implement classical waveletapplications in the S-LIP framework. The underlying idea is to take advantage of both the multiscale analysis performed by the wavelet transform and the logarithmic processing of the pixels' intensity by the S-LIP model. The S-LIP wavelet transform is introduced and applied to automatic denoising in order to highlight its intrinsic characteristics. As an illustration, signal-to-Noise Ratios for both the linear wavelet transform and S-LIP wavelet transform are calculated for different levels of Gaussian, Poisson, Speckle and salt-and-pepper noises.
waveletsignalprocessing has demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reducing noise, achieving better resolution through edge detection and increasing data transmission by means of data compression. While wavelets ar...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819441929
waveletsignalprocessing has demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reducing noise, achieving better resolution through edge detection and increasing data transmission by means of data compression. While wavelets are digital, another field, Optical Phase Conjugation (OPC), is analog and has been applied to similar problems: signal and image distortion reduction and optical data storage. wavelets have been applied to optical solitons, laser beam diagnostics, diode laser arrays, interferometry and optical correlators. waveletsignalprocessing will be applied to Optical Phase Conjugation to examine laser beam interaction in nonlinear crystals and remove distortion from input and output laser beams.
This paper addresses the image denoising problem using a newly proposed digital image transform: the finite ridgelet transform (FRIT). The transform is invertible, non-redundant and achieved via fast algorithms. Furth...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819437646
This paper addresses the image denoising problem using a newly proposed digital image transform: the finite ridgelet transform (FRIT). The transform is invertible, non-redundant and achieved via fast algorithms. Furthermore this transform can be designed to be orthonormal thus indicating its potential in many other imageprocessingapplications. We then propose various improvements on the initial design of the FRIT in order to make it to have better energy compaction and to reduce the border effect. Experimental results show that the new transform outperforms wavelets in denoising images with linear discontinuities.
In image watermarking, hybrid approaches increase imperceptibility and robustness. Also, a scaling factor is used, which should be optimized when combining the cover image and watermark. In this study, discrete wavele...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781665450928
In image watermarking, hybrid approaches increase imperceptibility and robustness. Also, a scaling factor is used, which should be optimized when combining the cover image and watermark. In this study, discrete wavelet transform and discrete cosine transform (DCT) were used together. The watermark-edge image was obtained by randomly inserting the watermark on the horizontal, vertical and diagonal edge points of the cover image detected with Sobel. The DCT frequency components of the watermark-edge image were weighted with a generated matrix and combined with the DCT of the cover image. According to the obtained results, the proposed method is imperceptible and robust to various attacks, especially JPEG compression and noise attacks.
imageprocessing has gained an increased usage and impact in modern pavement networks automatic distress severity classification (DSC). DSC defines priorities and maintenance resources optimum allocation in order to a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728133775
imageprocessing has gained an increased usage and impact in modern pavement networks automatic distress severity classification (DSC). DSC defines priorities and maintenance resources optimum allocation in order to achieve a cost-effective rehabilitation process. This paper presents a novel computer vision algorithm having the ability to process, isolate and evaluate the distress severity level of a pavement. A pavement color image is converted to grayscale and then processed for image denoising of the granularity and complex texture that represent and artifact in cracks edge detection. The processing is achieved by a 2D dual-tree double density wavelet transform filter banks that significantly reduces the granularity noise while preserving the pavement cracks for edge detection. The 2D wavelet FIR filters perform analysis, soft thresholding then a synthesis of the image. The second step is then an edge detection process followed by morphological filtering and labeled components size-histogram filter to isolate false edges as residuals of denoising. A final step is performed by two Savitzky-Golay filters for the detection of longitudinal and transverse alligator cracks projections. A weighted score function with multiple parameters is used for DSC.
Lifting scheme for the real field wavelet transform has provided a new insight into its practical implementation. This paper shows that a similar scheme can be developed for the binary field wavelet transform. In part...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780367251
Lifting scheme for the real field wavelet transform has provided a new insight into its practical implementation. This paper shows that a similar scheme can be developed for the binary field wavelet transform. In particular, by using the Euclidean algorithm the binary filters can be decomposed into a finite sequence of simple lifting steps over the binary field. This provides an alternative method for the implementations of the binary field wavelet transform for imageprocessingapplications. It is found that the new implementation can reduce the number of arithmetic operations involved in the transform and allow an efficient in-place implementation structure.
This paper introduces a single-image super-resolution approach which is based on sparse representation over dictionaries learned in the wavelet domain. The diagonal detail subband learning and reconstruction is improv...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467355636;9781467355629
This paper introduces a single-image super-resolution approach which is based on sparse representation over dictionaries learned in the wavelet domain. The diagonal detail subband learning and reconstruction is improved by designing two diagonal dictionaries;one for the diagonal and another for the anti-diagonal orientations. Four pairs (low resolution and high resolution) of subband dictionaries are designed. The sparse representation coefficients for the respective low and high resolution images are assumed to be the same. The proposed algorithm is compared with the leading super-resolution techniques and is shown to excel both visually and quantitatively, with an average PSNR raise of 0.82 dB over the Kodak set. Moreover, this algorithm is shown to significantly reduce the dictionary learning computational complexity by designing compactly sized structural dictionaries.
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