An experimental radar at 220 GHz has been developed, which is capable of delivering an instantaneous bandwidth of 8000 MHz. The solid-state radar uses an FM-CW waveform. The development is based on experience with a 9...
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An experimental radar at 220 GHz has been developed, which is capable of delivering an instantaneous bandwidth of 8000 MHz. The solid-state radar uses an FM-CW waveform. The development is based on experience with a 94 GHz broadband measurement radar. The data undergo an ISAR imaging process to derive high-resolution scattering centre distributions for targets measured in tower/turntable configuration. High-resolution processing algorithms have been developed, which result in scattering centre distributions with a resolution better than 2 cm at ranges of and exceeding 200 m. The radar will be used for investigations on target signatures of small objects for stand-off detection of concealed weapons and other threat material.
In packet switched networks such as the Internet, packets may get lost during transmission due to, e.g., network congestion. This leads to a quality degradation of the original signal. As video communication is a band...
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(纸本)9780819466211
In packet switched networks such as the Internet, packets may get lost during transmission due to, e.g., network congestion. This leads to a quality degradation of the original signal. As video communication is a bandwidth consuming application, the original data are first compressed. This compression step increases the impact of information loss even more. In wavelet based image and video coding, the low frequency data is the most important. Loss of low frequency coefficients results in annoying black holes in the received images and video. This effect can be countered by post processing error concealment: a lost coefficient is estimated from its neighboring coefficients. In this paper we present a locally adaptive interpolation method for the lost low frequency coefficients. For each lost low frequency coefficient, we estimate the optimal interpolation direction (horizontal or vertical) using novel error measures. In this way, we preserve the edges in the reconstructed image much better. Compared to older techniques of similar complexity, our scheme reconstructs images with the same or better quality. This is reflected in the visual as well as in the numerical results: there is an increase of up to 4.4 dB compared to bilinear concealment. The proposed scheme is fast and simple, which makes it suitable for real-time applications.
Digital watermarking technology has the advantages of easy implementation and capability of providing wide security services such as copyright protection, authentication and secret communication. In this paper, a digi...
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This paper proposes a new format for storing and processing hyperspectral images captured by spectrometer AVIRIS (Airborne Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer). Obtaining such images is difficult, because the sensor...
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(纸本)9789898111135
This paper proposes a new format for storing and processing hyperspectral images captured by spectrometer AVIRIS (Airborne Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer). Obtaining such images is difficult, because the sensor that takes the images is carried in an aircraft that suffers turbulences while the camera is taking photos. So, a geo-rectification process is necessary to correct the information of different bands. The format proposed in this paper, DMF (Diffuse Matrix Format), allows a more efficient storage, because a list with the original information received in the sensor is saved for each position (x,Y) of the scanned ground. The format of the list saves space and time because no redundant information is saved using it. To show the possibilities of this new format an application that makes some thresholding and filter operations has been built. This program, firstly, creates the diffuse matrix in memory from the file that stores the image information, and then, some filter operations are executed over the diffuse matrix to check it. In this way, we prove that diffuse matrixprocessing is fast and simple, as well as the space used in the disk for its storage is quite less than the space used by typical formats.
Atmospheric water vapor effects represents a major limitation to accuracy in InSAR applications. a method based on GPS-ZWD timeseries and atmospheric transport model is developed to reproduce InSAR atmospheric signal ...
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(纸本)9780819469540
Atmospheric water vapor effects represents a major limitation to accuracy in InSAR applications. a method based on GPS-ZWD timeseries and atmospheric transport model is developed to reproduce InSAR atmospheric signal so as to be applied to reduce atmospheric effects in interferogram. Firstly, based on correlation between wator vapor effect and topography, topography-dependent component of delay variation can be estimated by fitting a model of the vertical profile of neutral atmospheric delay to the GPS ZWD measurements at the SAR overpass time, then we use the fitting model and a SRTM DEM of imaged area to generate a map of altitude-dependent ZWD delay difference, which can be used to reduce topography-dependent atmospheric phase in InSAR interferogram. After removing the topography-dependent model, the residual fluctuations can be interpreted as turbulent variations of water vapor. Atmospheric transport model is introduced to transform GPS-ZWD timeseries around SAR overpass time into a spatially denser network of GPS-ZWD control points. The denser network of GPS-ZWD enable estimation of ZWD difference maps that better match the turbulently-mixed atmospheric phase distortions observed in the InSAR data. Experimental data analysis showed the method to seperately consider topography-dependent and turbulent mixing atmospheric effects effectively reproduce atmospheric signal in InSAR interferogram.
There are several security issues tied to multimedia when implementing the various applications in the cellular phone and wireless industry. One primary concern is the potential ease of implementing a steganography sy...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819467010
There are several security issues tied to multimedia when implementing the various applications in the cellular phone and wireless industry. One primary concern is the potential ease of implementing a steganography system. Traditionally, the only mechanism to embed information into a media file has been with a desktop computer. However, as the cellular phone and wireless industry matures, it becomes much simpler for the same techniques to be performed using a cell phone. In this paper, two methods are compared that classify cell phone images as either an anomaly or clean, where a clean image is one in which no alterations have been made and an anomalous image is one in which information has been hidden within the image. An image in which information has been hidden is known as a stego image. The main concern in detecting steganographic content with machine learning using cell phone images is in training specific embedding procedures to determine if the method has been used to generate a stego image. This leads to a possible flaw in the system when the learned model of stego is faced with a new stego method which doesn't match the existing model. The proposed solution to this problem is to develop systems that detect steganography as anomalies, making the embedding method irrelevant in detection. Two applicable classification methods for solving the anomaly detection of steganographic content problem are single class support vector machines (SVM) and Parzen-window. Empirical comparison of the two approaches shows that Parzen-window outperforms the single class SVM most likely due to the fact that Parzen-window generalizes less.
It is a key point of CO2 laser beam monitoring in the CO2 laser processing system to achieve alignment between CO2 laser and PL (pointing and launching, system, By monitoring the angle offset of CO2 laser beam, the co...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819470102
It is a key point of CO2 laser beam monitoring in the CO2 laser processing system to achieve alignment between CO2 laser and PL (pointing and launching, system, By monitoring the angle offset of CO2 laser beam, the compensation can be gotten witch is given to fast-steering mirror to rectify the direction of laser beam. But the normal photoelectric detector can not get the laser signal because of CO2 laser's high energy and long wavelength. Its wavelength is 10.6 mu m and its power can reach kW level. Consequently, it is difficult to detect the high-energy 10.6 mu m laser beam directly. So, we monitored the Output mirror of laser resonator superseded the laser beam, indirectly. The laser beam monitoring system could be designed based on CCD laser auto-collimation angular measurement principle and imageprocessing method. In this paper, application of CCD laser auto-collimation angular measurement principle and imageprocessing method for CO2 laser beam monitoring system is introduced particularly, After design, fabrication and alignment, the monitoring system can be used for experimental study that including angular measurement accuracy and angle offset measurement of CO2 laser beam. Angle offset range and angle variation rule of CO2 laser beam is also can be acquired for further research.
Statistical shape priors try to faithfully represent the full range of biological variations in anatomical structures. These priors are now widely used to restrict shapes;obtained in applications like segmentation and...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819466303
Statistical shape priors try to faithfully represent the full range of biological variations in anatomical structures. These priors are now widely used to restrict shapes;obtained in applications like segmentation and registration;to a subspace of plausible shapes. Principle component analysis (PCA) is commonly used to represent modes of shape variations in a training set. In an attempt to face some of the limitations in the PCA-based shape model, this paper describes a new multi-scale shape prior using independent component analysis (ICA) and adaptive wavelet decomposition. Within a best basis selection framework, the proposed method benefits from the multi-scale nature of wavelet packets, and the capability of ICA to capture higher order statistics in wavelet subspaces. The proposed approach is evaluated using contours from digital x-ray images of five vertebrae of human spine. We demonstrate the ability of the proposed shape prior to capture both local and global shape variations, even with limited number of training samples. Our results also show the performance gains of the ICA-based analysis for the wavelet sub-spaces, as compared to PCA-based analysis approach.
In order to fully exploit emerging 3rd generation infrared detector technology, very high performance signalprocessing electronics are required in order to process in real-time, the vast amount of data that can be ge...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819466646
In order to fully exploit emerging 3rd generation infrared detector technology, very high performance signalprocessing electronics are required in order to process in real-time, the vast amount of data that can be generated. This paper describes SELEx Sensors and Airborne System's most recent developments based upon the existing Sensor Integrated Modular Architecture (SiGMA) thermal imager. The key advances described in this paper include a modular architecture approach allowing physical separation of the processing core from the detector and proximity electronics, the miniaturisation of the processing electronics and the introduction of a solid state micro-scan mechanism which builds upon concepts developed during the company's previous work with uncooled infrared detector technology. The sensor architecture is initially designed to operate with the SELEx S&AS developed Hawk infrared detector, a medium waveband 640*512 element CMT array on a 16 micron pitch, but will also be compatible with the emerging Albion detector arrays, a medium waveband 1024*768 element CMT array on a 16 micron pitch and a long waveband 640*512 element CMT array on a 24 micron pitch. Other areas described are the development of advanced imageprocessing algorithms including non-linear correction for display optimisation.
Gabor wavelets (GWs) are commonly used for extracting local features for various applications like object detection, recognition and tracking. However, extracting Gabor features is computationally intensive, so the fe...
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Gabor wavelets (GWs) are commonly used for extracting local features for various applications like object detection, recognition and tracking. However, extracting Gabor features is computationally intensive, so the features are impractical for real-time applications. In this paper, we propose a simplified version of Gabor wavelets (SGWs) and an efficient algorithm for extracting the features based on an integral image. We evaluate the performance of the SGWs for face recognition. Experimental results show that SGWs can achieve a performance level similar to GWs, while the runtime for feature extraction using SGWs is about 4.39 times faster than that of GWs, implemented by using fast Fourier transform (FFT).
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