Linear filters banks are being used extensively in image and video applications. New research results in waveletapplications for compression and de-noising are constantly appearing in the technical literature. On the...
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(纸本)0819424374
Linear filters banks are being used extensively in image and video applications. New research results in waveletapplications for compression and de-noising are constantly appearing in the technical literature. On the other hand, non-linear filter banks are also being used regularly in image pyramid algorithms. There are some inherent advantages in using non-linear filters [1] instead of linear filters when non-Gaussian processes are present in images. However, a consistent way of comparing performance criteria between these two schemes has not been fully developed yet. In this paper a recently discovered tool, sample selection probabilities [16], is used to compare the behavior of linear and non-linear filters. In [16] the conversion from weights of order statistics (OS) filters to coefficients of the impulse response is obtained through these probabilities, However, the reverse problem: the conversion from coefficients of the impulse response to the weights of OS filters is not yet fully understood. One of the reasons for this difficulty is the highly non-linear nature of the partitions and generating function used in [16]. In the present paper the problem is posed as an optimization of integer linear programming subject to constraints directly obtained from the coefficients of the impulse response. Although the technique to be presented is not completely refined, it certainly appears to be promising. Some results will be shown.
Edges in images convey a great deal of information, but wavelet transforms do not provide an economical representation. Thus, popular wavelet-based compression and restoration techniques perform poorly in the presence...
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Edges in images convey a great deal of information, but wavelet transforms do not provide an economical representation. Thus, popular wavelet-based compression and restoration techniques perform poorly in the presence of edges. We present here a new multiresolution wedgelet transform based on the lifting construction. This transform provides an economical edge representation and thus offers the potential for improved imageprocessing. We demonstrate this potential with applications in image denoising.
We detect the presence of a vehicle or an air borne target from a certain class via the analysis of its acoustic signature against an existing database of recorded and processed acoustic signals. To achieve this detec...
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(纸本)0819437646
We detect the presence of a vehicle or an air borne target from a certain class via the analysis of its acoustic signature against an existing database of recorded and processed acoustic signals. To achieve this detection with no false alarms we construct the acoustic signatures of certain targets to be found by the distribution of the energies among blocks which consist of wavelet packet coefficients. We developed an efficient procedure for adaptive selection of the characteristic blocks. We modified the CART algorithm in order to utilize it as a decision unit in our scheme. A wide series of field experiments manifested a remarkable efficiency of the algorithm. The detection had been achieved practically with no false alarms even under severe conditions such as the acoustic recording of sought-after object was a superposition of the acoustics emitted from other targets that belong to other classes. The detection was even immune to severe noisy surroundings.
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.
Detection of active areas in the brain by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a challenging problem in medical imaging. Moreover, determining the onset and end of activation signals at specific locations i...
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(纸本)0819437646
Detection of active areas in the brain by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a challenging problem in medical imaging. Moreover, determining the onset and end of activation signals at specific locations in 3-space can determine networks of temporal relationships required for brain mapping. We introduce a method for activation detection in fMRI data via wavelet analysis of singular features. We pose the problem of determining activated areas as singularity detection in the temporal domain. Overcomplete wavelet expansions at integer scales are used to trace wavelet modulus maxima across scales to construct maxima lines. From these maxima lines, singularities in the signal are localized corresponding to the onset and end of an activation signal. We present results for simulated phantom waveforms and clinical fMRI data from human finger tapping experiments. Different levels of noise were added to two waveforms of phantom data. No assumptions about specific frequency and amplitude of an activation signal were made prior to analysis. Detection was reliable for modest levels of random noise, but less precise at higher levels. For clinical fMRI data, activation maps were comparable to those of existing standard techniques.
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.
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.
We develop a general framework to simultaneously exploit texture and shape characterization in multiscale image segmentation. By posing multiscale segmentation as a model selection problem, we invoke the powerful fram...
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(纸本)0819437646
We develop a general framework to simultaneously exploit texture and shape characterization in multiscale image segmentation. By posing multiscale segmentation as a model selection problem, we invoke the powerful framework offered by minimum description length (MDL). This framework dictates that multiscale segmentation comprises multiscale texture characterization and multiscale shape coding. Analysis of current multiscale maximum a posteriori (MAP) segmentation algorithms reveals that these algorithms implicitly use a shape coder with the aim to estimate the optimal MDL solution, but find only an approximate solution. Towards achieving better segmentation estimates, we first propose a shape coding algorithm based on zero-trees which is well-suited to represent images with large homogeneous regions. For this coder, we design an efficient tree-based algorithm using dynamic programming that attains the optimal MDL segmentation estimate. To incorporate arbitrary shape coding techniques into segmentation, we design an iterative algorithm that uses dynamic programming for each iteration. Though the iterative algorithm is not guaranteed to attain exactly optimal estimates, it more effectively captures the prior set by the shape coder. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed algorithms yield excellent segmentation results on both synthetic and red world data examples.
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.
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