Optical coherence tomography produces high resolution medical images based on spatial and temporal coherence of the optical waves backscattered from the scanned tissue. However, the same coherence introduces speckle n...
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(纸本)9780819468444
Optical coherence tomography produces high resolution medical images based on spatial and temporal coherence of the optical waves backscattered from the scanned tissue. However, the same coherence introduces speckle noise as well;this degrades the quality of acquired images. In this paper we propose a technique for noise reduction of 3D OCT images, where the 3D volume is considered as a sequence of 2D images, i.e., 2D slices in depth-lateral projection plane. In the proposed method we first perform recursive temporal filtering through the estimated motion trajectory between the 2D slices using noise-robust motion estimation/compensation scheme previously proposed for video denoising. The temporal filtering scheme reduces the noise level and adapts the motion compensation on it. Subsequently, we apply a spatial filter for speckle reduction in order to remove the remainder of noise in the 2D slices. In this scheme the spatial (2D) speckle-nature of noise in OCT is modeled and used for spatially adaptive denoising. Both the temporal and the spatial filter are wavelet-based techniques, where for the temporal filter two resolution scales are used and for the spatial one four resolution scales. The evaluation of the proposed denoising approach is done on demodulated 3D OCT images on different sources and of different resolution. For optimizing the parameters for best denoising performance fantom OCT images were used. The denoising performance of the proposed method was measured in terms of SNR, edge sharpness preservation and contrast-to-noise ratio. A comparison was made to the state-of-the-art methods for noise reduction in 2D OCT images, where the proposed approach showed to be advantageous in terms of both objective and subjective quality measures.
In this paper, a new method for inspection of textile defects in fabrics is presented. The method is based upon the extraction of fabric features by Gabor wavelets. The Gabor wavelets transform provides an effective w...
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(纸本)9781424407781;1424407796
In this paper, a new method for inspection of textile defects in fabrics is presented. The method is based upon the extraction of fabric features by Gabor wavelets. The Gabor wavelets transform provides an effective way to analyze images and extract features of textures. Principal component analysis using singular value decomposition is used to reduce the dimension of feature vectors. Performance of the method has been tested with defective fabric images taken from TILDA textile texture database. Experiments show that these defects are detected accurately.
A Wavelet Tour of signalprocessing(AWT) is a complete guide to not only the important results and applications of wavelets—also known as multiresolution analysis—but also many of their lesser-known aspects. It cont...
A Wavelet Tour of signalprocessing(AWT) is a complete guide to not only the important results and applications of wavelets—also known as multiresolution analysis—but also many of their lesser-known aspects. It contains eleven well-written chapters, two appendixes, and 361 references. Each chapter, except for the first, contains several theorems—most accompanied by thorough proofs—and concludes with a set of problems for students and further exploration. Stéphane Mallat, having made seminal contributions to the theory behind and application of wavelets to signalprocessing, is certainly qualified to be an official tour guide to the world of *** history of multiresolution analysis is quite diverse, extending from contributions made by mathematicians, physicists, statisticians, and engineers. As such, it has found application in a broad range of disciplines, of which signalprocessing is only one. In fact, it is especially applicable to signalprocessing, whether working with sounds, images, or higher-dimensional data. Mr. Mallat makes this clear in his first chapter, where he motivates the utility of wavelets by discussing problems difficult to approach using Fourier methods, but easier using wavelets. He writes, "If we are interested in transient phenomena—a word pronounced at a particular time, an apple located in the left corner of an image—the Fourier transform becomes a cumbersome tool" (p. 2). wavelets provide an intuitive means of analyzing signals at various scales for, among other things, segmenting and representing these transient *** formal definition of the wavelet transform (WT) is no different from the Fourier transform, save for the fact that the signal is correlated with a basis created by scaling and translating a single zero-mean time-localized function. In contrast, the Fourier transform basis consists of a set of infinite duration sinusoids, and the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) uses a basis of windowed sinusoids at a fix
In this paper, a technique for the extraction of roads in a high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image is presented. And a three-step method is developed for the extraction of road network from space borne S...
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(纸本)9780819469540
In this paper, a technique for the extraction of roads in a high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image is presented. And a three-step method is developed for the extraction of road network from space borne SAR image: the process of the feature points, road candidate detection and connection. Roads in a high resolution SAR image can be modeled as a homogeneous dark area bounded by two parallel boundaries. Dark areas, which represent the candidate positions for roads, are extracted from the image by a Gaussian probability iteration segmentation. Possible road candidates are further processed using the morphological operators. And the roads are accurately detected by Hough Transform, and the extraction of lines is achieved by searching the peak values in Hough Space. In this process, to detect roads more accurately, post-processing, including noisy dark regions removal and false roads removal is performed. At last, Road candidate connection is carried out hierarchically according to road established models. Finally, the main road network is established from the SAR image successfully. As an example, using the ERS-2SAR image data, automatic detection of main road network in Shanghai Pudong area is presented.
This paper describes the use of adaptive filtering to control vibration and optical jitter. Adaptive filtering is a class of signalprocessing techniques developed over the last several decades and applied since to ap...
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(纸本)9780819466914
This paper describes the use of adaptive filtering to control vibration and optical jitter. Adaptive filtering is a class of signalprocessing techniques developed over the last several decades and applied since to applications ranging from communications to imageprocessing. Basic concepts in adaptive filtering and feedforward control are reviewed. A series of examples in vibration, motion and jitter control, including cryocoolers, ground-based active optics systems, flight motion simulators, wind turbines and airborne optical beam control systems, illustrates the effectiveness of the adaptive methods. These applications make use of information and signals that originate from system disturbances and minimize the correlations between disturbance information and error and performance measures. The examples incorporate a variety of disturbance types including periodic, multi-tonal, broadband stationary and non-stationary. Control effectiveness with slowly-varying narrowband disturbances originating from cryocoolers can be extraordinary, IN reaching 60 dB of reduction or rejection. In other cases, performance improvements are only 30-50%, but such reductions effectively complement feedback servo performance in many applications.
In this paper, we present a novel approach for a real time dynamical Infrared/Visible images fusion. The advantage of the proposed system compared with previous studies are its huge flexibility and probably lowest cos...
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The main challenge working with underwater imagery results from both rapid decay of signals due to absorption, which leads to poor signal to noise returns, and the blurring caused by strong scattering by the water its...
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(纸本)9780819468444
The main challenge working with underwater imagery results from both rapid decay of signals due to absorption, which leads to poor signal to noise returns, and the blurring caused by strong scattering by the water itself and constituents within, especially particulates. The modulation transfer function (MTF) of an optical system gives the detailed and precise information regarding the system behavior. Underwater imageries can be better restored with the knowledge of the system MTF or the point spread function (PSF), the Fourier transformed equivalent, extending the performance range as well as the information retrieval from underwater electro-optical system. This is critical in many civilian and military applications, including target and especially mine detection, search and rescue, and diver visibility. This effort utilizes test imageries obtained by the Laser Underwater Camera Imaging Enhancer (LUCIE) from Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC), during an April-May 2006 trial experiment in Panama City, Florida. Imaging of a standard resolution chart with various spatial frequencies were taken underwater in a controlled optical environment, at varying distances. In-water optical properties during the experiment were measured, which included the absorption and attenuation coefficients, particle size distribution, and volume scattering function. Resulting images were preprocessed to enhance signal to noise ratio by averaging multiple frames, and to remove uneven illumination at target plane. The MTF of the medium was then derived from measurement of above imageries, subtracting the effect of the camera system. PSFs converted from the measured MTF were then used to restore the blurred imageries by different deconvolution methods. The effects of polarization from source to receiver on resulting MTFs were examined and we demonstrate that matching polarizations do enhance system transfer functions. This approach also shows promise in deriving medium optical prop
In this work, improved performance is obtained in human iris matching systems using a Fourier-based description to approximate non-circular pupil boundaries in human eyes. The study also leads an analysis of pupil sha...
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(纸本)9781424412259
In this work, improved performance is obtained in human iris matching systems using a Fourier-based description to approximate non-circular pupil boundaries in human eyes. The study also leads an analysis of pupil shape. Excellent fitting is obtained for non-ideal cases such as oblong, irregular, off-centre and dilated pupils, and improved iris normalization is obtained compared to best fit circles. The method is applied to 1912 eye images of 478 eyes from the Bath database and the effect of increasing the number of Fourier coefficients on the pupil outline accuracy is studied. The RMS pixel error between the outline and actual edge points is seen to decrease from 1.48 (for circles) to 0.34 (for 9 coefficients). Only 21 cases are found to produce low deviations from a circular boundary, indicating that a majority of pupils (98.9%) are non-circular. The Equal Error Rate (EER) in verification using the new method is estimated to be significantly reduced, at 7.5x10(-5) compared to 1.2x10(-4) for pupils fitted as circular.
A recently introduced concept, virtual dimensionality (VD) has been shown promise in many applications of hyperspectral data exploitation. It was originally developed for estimating number of spectrally distinct signa...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819466877
A recently introduced concept, virtual dimensionality (VD) has been shown promise in many applications of hyperspectral data exploitation. It was originally developed for estimating number of spectrally distinct signal sources. This paper explores utility of the VD from various signalprocessing perspectives and further investigates four techniques, Gershgorin radius (GR), orthogonal projection subspace (OSP), signal subspace estimation (SSE), Neyman-Pearson detection (NPD), to be used to estimate the VD. In particular, the OSP-based VD estimation technique is new and has several advantages over other methods. In order to evaluate their performance, a comparative study and analysis is conducted via synthetic and real image experiments.
The use of wavelets in the imageprocessing domain is still in its infancy, and largely associated with image compression. With the advent of the dual-tree hypercomplex wavelet transform (D-HWT) and its improved shift...
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The use of wavelets in the imageprocessing domain is still in its infancy, and largely associated with image compression. With the advent of the dual-tree hypercomplex wavelet transform (D-HWT) and its improved shift invariance and directional selectivity, applications in other areas of imageprocessing are more conceivable. This paper discusses the problems and solutions in developing the DHWT and its inverse. It also offers a practical implementation of the algorithms involved. The aim of this work is to apply the DHWT in machine vision. Tentative work on a possible new way of feature extraction is presented. The paper shows that 2-D hypercomplex basis wavelets can be used to generate steerable filters which allow rotation as well as translation.
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