Cone-beam x-ray computed tomography (CT) is attracting increasing attention due to its applications in medicine, biomedical sciences, material engineering, and nondestructive industrial evaluation. Rapid volumetric im...
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(纸本)9781424410163
Cone-beam x-ray computed tomography (CT) is attracting increasing attention due to its applications in medicine, biomedical sciences, material engineering, and nondestructive industrial evaluation. Rapid volumetric image reconstruction is highly desirable in all these fields for prompt visualization and analysis of complex structures of interest. However, in most applications, volumetric image reconstruction is still a very demanding computational task. The Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA) is a novel microprocessor architecture designed to provide power-efficient and cost-effective high-performance processing for some of the world's most demanding applications, including next generation game consoles. applications that show special promise of benefiting from CBEA are medical imaging, security and surveillance, digital media, entertainment, communications, and selected scientific workloads. We implemented 3-D CT image reconstruction on the CBEA. However, the programming scheme of CBEA is different from single-core architectures. To archive peak performance on CBEA, coding optimizations are needed by exploiting the unique features of the hardware. In this paper, we describe the parallelization of the 3-D image reconstruction algorithm on the CBEA. The results show that the CBEA can achieve significant run time savings.
The logarithmic imageprocessing (LIP) theory is a mathematical framework that provides a set of specific algebraic and functional operations and structures that are well adapted to the representation and processing o...
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The proceedings contain 80 papers. The topics discussed include: video error concealment with outer and inner boundary matching algorithms;new quality metrics for digital image resizing;image analysis for the identifi...
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(纸本)9780819468444
The proceedings contain 80 papers. The topics discussed include: video error concealment with outer and inner boundary matching algorithms;new quality metrics for digital image resizing;image analysis for the identification of coherent structures in plasma;real-time detection of targets in hyperspectral images using radial basis neural network filtering;image enhancement methods for the visually impaired;an efficient method of noise suppression in security systems;toward a tongue-based task triggering interface for computer interaction;pattern recognition and signal analysis in a mach-zehnder type phasing sensor;exploitation of hyperspectral imagery using adaptive resonance networks;fast super-resolution reconstructions of mobile video using warped transforms and adaptive thresholding;and coding and optimization of a fully scalable motion model.
This thesis presents a methodology for designing fixed-point implementations of linear algorithms for digital signalprocessingapplications. The algorithms targeted by this work are computation-intensive algorithms w...
This thesis presents a methodology for designing fixed-point implementations of linear algorithms for digital signalprocessingapplications. The algorithms targeted by this work are computation-intensive algorithms whose definitions require the use of floating point constants, such as the Inverse and Forward Discrete Cosine Transforms (DCT). These constants make the algorithms difficult to implement in fixed precision, especially when both efficiency and accuracy are concurrent design requirements for their implementations. Implementations that can be characterized as both efficient and accurate are important in the context of general consumer electronics, in particular portable consumer electronics, which can have limited energy resources available for numerical computation. Our methodology consists of five steps that can be used to design fixed-point implementations that are both efficient and accurate. We demonstrate its use throughout this work by applying it to the DCT which is a pervasive algorithm, particularly in the areas of still image and digital video coding. Moreover, our methodology is the underlying technology used in a new ISO/IEC standard for fixed-point implementations of the 8x8 Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT) and the 8x8 Forward Discrete Cosine Transform (FDCT). Specifically, our IDCT/FDCT implementations which are selected for this international standard are intended for use in video technologies by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, a working group within the ISO/IEC organization that is more widely known as the Moving Picture Experts Group or simply as MPEG. The flexibility of our methodology to be applied to other algorithms is shown also in our fixed-point design and implementation of a novel approach for performing 2x2 sub-sampling of Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) formatted digital images. This thesis presents our five-step methodology and reviews the results of its application to create efficient and accurate fixed-point implement
image registration is enabling in integrating complementary and heterogeneous information from multiple images, and is particularly important for high-quality healthcare. To improve registration efficiency and accurac...
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Dealing with high-speed image acquisition and processing systems, the speed of operation is often limited by the amount of available light, due to short exposure times. Therefore, high-speed applications often use lin...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819466099
Dealing with high-speed image acquisition and processing systems, the speed of operation is often limited by the amount of available light, due to short exposure times. Therefore, high-speed applications often use line-scan cameras, based on charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors with time delayed integration (TDI). Synchronous shift and accumulation of photoelectric charges on the CCD chip - according to the objects' movement - result in a longer effective exposure time without introducing additional motion blur. This paper presents a high-speed color line-scan camera based on a commercial complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) area image sensor with a Bayer filter matrix and a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The camera implements a digital equivalent to the TDI effect exploited with CCD cameras. The proposed design benefits from the high frame rates of CMOS sensors and from the possibility of arbitrarily addressing the rows of the sensor's pixel array. For the digital TDI just a small number of rows are read out from the area sensor which are then shifted and accumulated according to the movement of the inspected objects. This paper gives a detailed description of the digital TDI algorithm implemented on the FPGA. Relevant aspects for the practical application are discussed and key features of the camera are listed.
The change detection and analysis, as remote sensing application, is based on the multi-temporal and/or multi-sensors approaches. However, the accuracy of such change detection activities can be limited by several fac...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819469069
The change detection and analysis, as remote sensing application, is based on the multi-temporal and/or multi-sensors approaches. However, the accuracy of such change detection activities can be limited by several factors. A key variable that may reduce the accuracy of change detection is the misregistration error between the used images. By accounting for the spatial variation in geometric and misregistration errors there is the potential to reduce their effects during change detection, increasing the accuracy of land cover change mapping. The effect of misregistration on land cover mapping and change detection could be more accurately predicted and ultimately removed if this spatial variation in error was modeled. In this study, the estimation of the effect of misregistration on ASTER derived land cover types was attempt. The proposed methodology is based on the comparison of the regression correlation coefficients between two images derived either from one single band or from two bands. To check the level of correlation, a procedure of modifying the geometric position of one single band or of two different bands, using the same resolution or different resolutions was applied. In order to obtain this artificial degradation, a transformation on three directions: on x axis, on y axis and on both x and y axis of one image comparing with itself or with another was applied. The study was performed for different scales, different land cover types and different complexity to evaluate the most influencing factors. This approach allowed quantification of the inappropriate image georeferencing, as well as the quantitative estimation of the size of distortion of the final results, in case of comparison of images from different dates and different sensors.
In different applications, it is often desirable to retrieve useful information from multichannel (color, multispectral, dual or full-polarization) images. On one hand, multichannel images are potentially able to prov...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819466105
In different applications, it is often desirable to retrieve useful information from multichannel (color, multispectral, dual or full-polarization) images. On one hand, multichannel images are potentially able to provide a lot of useful information about sensed objects (terrains). On the other hand, the task of its reliable extraction is very complicated. And there are many reasons behind this like inherent noise, lack of a priori information about object features, complexity of scenes, etc. Therefore, numerous different approaches based on various functional principles and mathematical background have been already put forward. In majority of them, image classification and segmentation are common operations that precede estimation of object parameters. However, practically all methods are far away from completeness and/or perfection since they suffer from different drawbacks and application restrictions. Recently we have proposed methods based on learning with local parameter clustering that were rather successfully applied to image locally adaptive filtering and detection of objects with certain properties. This paper is an attempt to extend this approach to image classification, segmentation and object parameter estimation. A particular application of substance quantitative analysis from color images is considered. The proposed approach is shown to solve the aforementioned task quite well and to have a rather high potential for other applications.
The proceedings contain 20 papers. The topics discussed include: a system to automatically track humans and vehicles with a PTZ camera;visual signalprocessing using fly-eye based algorithm to detect the road edge;a p...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819466972
The proceedings contain 20 papers. The topics discussed include: a system to automatically track humans and vehicles with a PTZ camera;visual signalprocessing using fly-eye based algorithm to detect the road edge;a progressive de-skewing technique for document image analysis;applications of a adaptive feature-specific imaging;steganalysis feature improvement using expectation maximization;power spectrum weighted edge analysis for straight edge detection in images;local statistics based filtering method for enhancement in super-resolution image reconstruction;and image quality measure via a quadtree homogeneity analysis.
We examine a smugglers and border guards scenario. We place observers on a terrain so as to optimize their visible coverage area. Then we compute a path that a smuggler would take so as to avoid detection., while also...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819468451
We examine a smugglers and border guards scenario. We place observers on a terrain so as to optimize their visible coverage area. Then we compute a path that a smuggler would take so as to avoid detection., while also minimizing the path length. We also examine how our results are affected by using a lossy representation of the terrain instead. We propose three new application-specific error metrics for evaluating terrain compression. Our target terrain applications are the optimal placement of observers on a landscape and the navigation through the terrain by smuglers. Instead of using standard metrics such as average or maximum elevation error, we seek to optimize our compression on the specific real-world application of smugglers and border guards.
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