Under strong turbulence conditions, object's images can be severely distorted and become unrecognizable throughout the observing time. Conventional image restoring algorithms do not perform effectively in these ci...
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Under strong turbulence conditions, object's images can be severely distorted and become unrecognizable throughout the observing time. Conventional image restoring algorithms do not perform effectively in these circumstances due to the loss of good references on the object. We propose the use a plenoptic sensor as a light field camera to map a conventional camera image onto a cell image array in the image's sub-angular spaces. Accordingly, each cell image on the plenoptic sensor is equivalent to the image acquired by a sub-aperture of the imaging lens. The wavefront distortion over the lens aperture can be analyzed by comparing cell images in the plenoptic sensor. By using a modified "Laplacian" metric, we can identify a good cell image in a plenoptic image sequence. The good cell image corresponds with the time and sub-aperture area on the imaging lens where wavefront distortion becomes relatively and momentarily "flat". As a result, it will reveal the fundamental truths of the object that would be severely distorted on normal cameras. In this paper, we will introduce the underlying physics principles and mechanisms of our approach and experimentally demonstrate its effectiveness under strong turbulence conditions. In application, our approach can be used to provide a good reference for conventional image restoring approaches under strong turbulence conditions. This approach can also be used as an independent device to perform object recognition tasks through severe turbulence distortions. (C)2016 Optical Society of America
Models based on local operators can't preserve texture information. Nonlocal models can be used for many imageprocessing tasks. A main advantage of nonlocal models over classical PDE-based algorithms is the abili...
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We consider the problem of recovering an image using block compressed sensing (BCS). Traditional BCS algorithms recovers each image block independently and utilizes post-processing methods for removing the blocking ar...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538639542
We consider the problem of recovering an image using block compressed sensing (BCS). Traditional BCS algorithms recovers each image block independently and utilizes post-processing methods for removing the blocking artifacts. In contrast, we propose an image recovery method free of post-processing, where we utilize a lapped transform (LT) for the sparse representation of the image in order to reduce the blocking artifacts. Specifically, we derive an iterative image reconstruction method, where a small number of adjacent measurement blocks are jointly processed for recovering an image block. For this purpose, we propose a novel sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) algorithm.
Rail transportation systems, which are commonly used in today's world, should be inspected at certain intervals for possible accidents. During the rail inspection, the physical vibration on rail lines causes a blu...
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(纸本)9781467395557
Rail transportation systems, which are commonly used in today's world, should be inspected at certain intervals for possible accidents. During the rail inspection, the physical vibration on rail lines causes a blurring effect on the images. Doing deblurring automatically requires information of blurring rates and specifying the parameters accordingly for deblurring. With this purpose, a test equipment which can move on rail lines and a camera system for the detection of blurring and deblurring is integrated with Inertial Measurement Unit (EMU) is promoted in this study. Then, with Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) algorithm, the effect of blurring at the moment of the vibration is examined, point spread function (PSF) value is chosen dynamically and deblurring is achieved. In order to increase the accuracy rates of detection algorithms, a pretreatment method is proposed for detecting the blur effect and removing it.
algorithms that predict the degree of visual discomfort experienced when viewing stereoscopic 3D (S3D) images usually first execute some form of disparity calculation. Following that, features are extracted on these d...
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algorithms that predict the degree of visual discomfort experienced when viewing stereoscopic 3D (S3D) images usually first execute some form of disparity calculation. Following that, features are extracted on these disparity maps to build discomfort prediction models. These features may include, for example, the maximum disparity, disparity range, disparity energy, and other measures of the disparity distribution. Hence, the accuracy of prediction largely depends on the accuracy of disparity calculation. Unfortunately, computing disparity maps is expensive and difficult and most leading assessment models are based on features drawn from the outputs of high complexity disparity calculation algorithms that deliver high quality disparity maps. There is no consensus on the type of stereo matching algorithm that should be used for this type of model. Towards filling this gap, we study the relative performances of discomfort prediction models that use disparity algorithms having different levels of complexity. We also propose a set of new discomfort predictive features with good performance even when using low complexity disparity algorithms.
This paper describes a framework for temporally consistent video completion. Proposed method allow to remove dynamic objects or restore missing or tainted regions present in a video sequence by utilizing spatial and t...
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Color quantization is one of the most important preprocessing stages in many applications in computer graphics and imageprocessing. In this article, a new algorithm for color image quantization based on the harmony s...
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Color quantization is one of the most important preprocessing stages in many applications in computer graphics and imageprocessing. In this article, a new algorithm for color image quantization based on the harmony search (HS) algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm utilizes the clustering method, which is one of the most extensively applied methods to the color quantization problem. Two variants of the algorithm are examined. The first is based on a standalone HS algorithm, and the second is a hybrid algorithm of k-means (KM) and HS. The objective of the hybrid algorithm is to strengthen the local search process and balance the quantization quality and computational complexity. In the first stage, the high-resolution color space is initially condensed to a lower-dimensional color space by multilevel thresholding. In the second stage, the compressed colors are clustered to a palette using the hybrid KMHS to obtain final quantization results. The algorithm aims to design a postclustering quantization scheme at the color-space level instead of the pixel level. This significantly reduces the computational complexity while maintaining the quantization quality. Experimental results on some of the most commonly used test images in the quantization literature demonstrate that the proposed method is a powerful method, suggesting a higher degree of precision and robustness compared to existing algorithms.
Visual inspection procedures remain the primary method of infrastructure assessment throughout the USA, but their shortcomings are numerous. In addition to their widely acknowledged variability and subjectivity, the l...
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Visual inspection procedures remain the primary method of infrastructure assessment throughout the USA, but their shortcomings are numerous. In addition to their widely acknowledged variability and subjectivity, the large scale of civil infrastructure systems presents expensive access and time requirements that constrain the frequency of visual inspections and result in poor temporal resolution, which hampers effective decision-making. To overcome this challenge, the research reported herein aimed to assess the ability of computer algorithms together with imagery collected by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to extract accurate and quantitative information to help inform infrastructure management decisions. Techniques such as homography and lens distortion correction are used in this article in a post-processing framework that allows the use of color images obtained by UAVs for actual damage quantification measurements. The experiments described in this article utilize a UAV with a mounted camera and provide measurements from a representative infrastructure mockup with several simulated damage scenarios. Deformation measurements, change detection (related to structural features and the size of deterioration), and crack pattern identification were all analyzed. The results indicated that the developed post-processingalgorithms were able to extract quantitative information from UAV captured imagery. Copyright (c) 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
This paper presents a new approach for quantification of radiographic defects. This approach is based on calculating the size of the pixel using the known image quality indicator present in the radiographic image. Thi...
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ISBN:
(数字)9788132227557
ISBN:
(纸本)9788132227557;9788132227533
This paper presents a new approach for quantification of radiographic defects. This approach is based on calculating the size of the pixel using the known image quality indicator present in the radiographic image. This method is first applied on the ground truth realities of different shapes whose size is known in advance. The proposed method is then validated with the defect (porosity) where the defect is quantified accurately. The imageprocessing techniques applied on the radiographic image are contrast enhancement, noise reduction and image segmentation to quantify the defects present in the radiographic image. The imageprocessingalgorithms are validated using image quality parameter Mean Square Error (MSE) and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR).
imageprocessingalgorithms, implemented in hardware, have recently emerged as the most viable solution for improving the performance of imageprocessingsystems. In this paper, a version of an anisotropic diffusion t...
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imageprocessingalgorithms, implemented in hardware, have recently emerged as the most viable solution for improving the performance of imageprocessingsystems. In this paper, a version of an anisotropic diffusion technique is used to reduce noise from retinal images, namely Speckle Reducing Anisotropic Diffusion ( SRAD). The SRAD filter can improve images corrupted by multiplicative or additive noise, but it has been the most computationally complex and it has not been suitable for software implementation in real-time processing. In this paper, an efficient Field-Programmable Gate Array ( FPGA)-based implementation of the SRAD filter is presented to accelerate the processing time. A comparison of the most used classical suppression filters like Gaussian, Median, Perona and Malik anisotropic diffusion has been carried out. The experimental results reveal a 38x performance improvement over the original MATLAB implementation and a 1.33x performance improvement over the hardware implementation using the Xilinx System Generator tool.
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