We develop a wavelet-based codec using a low-cost and low-energy-consuming 16-bit fixed-point digital signal processor (DSP). The target application is designed to grab an image from a camera, code the image using a w...
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We develop a wavelet-based codec using a low-cost and low-energy-consuming 16-bit fixed-point digital signal processor (DSP). The target application is designed to grab an image from a camera, code the image using a wavelet-based codec, and send a coded file over a wireless global system for mobile communications/general packet radio services (GSMIGPRS) network. Since the channel capacity of the GSMIGPRS network is limited, a DSP with a relatively low computational power is sufficient to implement an image codec. A trade-off is made between the complexity and the efficiency of the wavelet-based image coder. Any implementation issues concerning the wavelet transform and entropy coding are discussed. Lifting schemes for a 9-7 and a 5-3 filter bank are used. The novel ordering of bit-plane bits is presented. The proposed codec is comparable with a JPEG2000 codec in the rate-distortion sense. The experimental results show that the implementation of JPEG 2000 on the presented platform runs 60% slower than the proposed codec. The coded file is transmitted over a wireless network using Internet protocolluser datagram protocolltrivial file transfer protocol (IP/UDP/TFTP). (c) 2006 SPIE and IS&T.
An automated pavement inspection system consists of image acquisition and distress imageprocessing. The former is accomplished with imaging sensors, such as video cameras and photomultiplier tubes. The latter include...
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An automated pavement inspection system consists of image acquisition and distress imageprocessing. The former is accomplished with imaging sensors, such as video cameras and photomultiplier tubes. The latter includes distress detection, isolation, classification, evaluation, segmentation, and compression. We focus on wavelet-based distress detection, isolation, and evaluation. After a pavement image is decomposed into different-frequency subbands by the wavelet transform, distresses are transformed into high-amplitude wavelet coefficients and noise is transformed into low-amplitude wavelet coefficients, both in the high-frequency subbands, referred to as details. Background is transformed into wavelet coefficients in a low-frequency subband, referred to as approximation. First, several statistical criteria are developed for distress detection and isolation, which include the high-amplitude wavelet coefficient percentage (HAWCP), the high-frequency energy percentage (HFEP), and the standard deviation (STD). These criteria are tested on hundreds of pavement images differing by type, severity, and extent of distress. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed criteria are reliable for distress detection and isolation and that real-time distress detection and screening is currently feasible. A norm for pavement distress quantification, which is defined as the product of HAWCP and HFEP, is also proposed. Experimental results show that the norm is a useful index for pavement distress evaluation. (c) 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
An adaptive blind wavelet-based watermarking scheme using tree mutual differences (ABW-TMD) is proposed by exploiting mutual differences between grouped coefficients of so-called wavelet trees. The ABW-TMD encoder ada...
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An adaptive blind wavelet-based watermarking scheme using tree mutual differences (ABW-TMD) is proposed by exploiting mutual differences between grouped coefficients of so-called wavelet trees. The ABW-TMD encoder adaptively searches for the bit host difference in such a manner to minimize the embedding error The proposed ABW-TMD scheme proves its superiority in resisting against various imageprocessing attacks as well as in reducing the computational cost when compared to other schemes. For the same watermark bit length, a 35% increase in peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) can be achieved over what is possible using an earlier method. Also, when fixing the PSNR of the watermarked image, the watermark bit length can be doubled with the ability to extract the watermark, even in the presence of high JPEG/JPEG2000 compression ratios. (c) 2006 SPIE and IS&T.
In this paper, we introduce a simple and efficient representation for natural images. We view an image (in either the spatial domain or the wavelet domain) as a collection of vectors in a high-dimensional space. We th...
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In this paper, we introduce a simple and efficient representation for natural images. We view an image (in either the spatial domain or the wavelet domain) as a collection of vectors in a high-dimensional space. We then fit a piece-wise linear model (i.e., a union of affine subspaces) to the vectors at each downisampling scale. We call this a multiscale hybrid linear model for the image. The model can be effectively estimated via a new algebraic method known as generalized principal component analysis (GPCA). The hybrid and hierarchical structure of this model allows us to effectively extract and exploit multimodal correlations among the imagery data at different scales. It conceptually and computationally remedies limitations of many existing image representation methods that are based on either a fixed linear transformation (e.g., DCT, wavelets), or an adaptive uni-modal linear transformation (e.g., PCA), or a multimodal model that uses only cluster means (e.g., VQ). We will justify both quantitatively and experimentally why and how such a simple multiscale hybrid model is able to reduce simultaneously the model complexity and computational cost. Despite a small overhead of the model, our careful and extensive experimental results show that this new model gives more compact representations for a wide variety of natural images under a wide range of signal-to-noise ratios than many existing methods, including wavelets. We also briefly address how the same (hybrid linear) modeling paradigm can be extended to be potentially useful for other applications, such as image segmentation.
This letter introduces a new representation of discrete signals based on the mathematical notions of functionals and continuous dual spaces. A new and more general sampling theorem is also suggested. Next, the problem...
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This letter introduces a new representation of discrete signals based on the mathematical notions of functionals and continuous dual spaces. A new and more general sampling theorem is also suggested. Next, the problems of interpolating and resampling discrete signals are addressed;and a general solution using functional interpolation-which is applicable to many different settings-is proposed. Families of resampling filters dubbed de Boor-Ron filters that use de Boor-Ron interpolation are introduced, and their numerical realization is discussed. Some applications of this research are suggested.
In this paper, an efficient representation method insensitive to varying illumination is proposed for human face recognition. Theoretical analysis based on the human face model and the illumination model shows that th...
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In this paper, an efficient representation method insensitive to varying illumination is proposed for human face recognition. Theoretical analysis based on the human face model and the illumination model shows that the effects of varying lighting on a human face image can be modeled by a sequence of multiplicative and additive noises. Instead of computing these noises, which is very difficult for real applications, we aim to reduce or even remove their effect. In our method, a local normalization technique is applied to an image, which can effectively and efficiently eliminate the effect of uneven illuminations while keeping the local statistical properties of the processed image the same as in the corresponding image under normal lighting condition. After processing, the image under varying illumination will have similar pixel values to the corresponding image that is under normal lighting condition. Then, the processed images are used for face recognition. The proposed algorithm has been evaluated based on the Yale database, the AR database, the PIE database, the YaleB database and the combined database by using different face recognition methods such as PCA, ICA and Gabor wavelets. Consistent and promising results were obtained, which show that our method can effectively eliminate the effect of uneven illumination and greatly improve the recognition results. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Real-time image rotation is an essential operation in many application areas such as imageprocessing, computer graphics and pattern recognition. Existing architectures that rely on CORDIC computations for trigonometr...
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Real-time image rotation is an essential operation in many application areas such as imageprocessing, computer graphics and pattern recognition. Existing architectures that rely on CORDIC computations for trigonometric operations cause a severe bottleneck in high-throughput applications, especially where high-resolution images are involved. A novel hierarchical method that exploits the symmetrical characteristics of the image to accelerate the rotation of high-resolution images is presented. Investigations based on a 512 x 512 image show that the proposed method yields a speedup of similar to 20x for a mere 3% increase in area cost when compared with existing techniques. Moreover, the effect of hierarchy on the computational efficiency has been evaluated to provide for area-time flexibility. The proposed technique is highly scalable and significant performance gains are evident for very high-resolution images.
A non-orthogonal wavel ET-based multiresolution analysis was already provided by scaling and wavelet filters derived from Gegenbauer polynomials. Allowing for odd n (the polynomial order) and a value (a polynomial par...
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A non-orthogonal wavel ET-based multiresolution analysis was already provided by scaling and wavelet filters derived from Gegenbauer polynomials. Allowing for odd n (the polynomial order) and a value (a polynomial parameter) within the orthogonality range of such polynomials, scaling and wavelet functions are generated by frequency selective FIR filters. These filters have compact support and generalized linear phase. Special cases of such filter banks include Haar, Legendre, and Chebyshev wavelets. As an improvement, it has been achieved that for specific a values it is possible to reach a filter with flat magnitude frequency response. We obtain a unique closed expression for a value for every n odd value. The main advantages in favor of Gegenbauer filters are their smaller computational effort and a constant group delay, as they are symmetric filters. Potential applications of such wavelets include fault analysis in transmission lines of power systems and imageprocessing.
By integrating the Fourier techniques and the edge information obtained using the radial symmetric functions, we propose in this paper an invariant feature extraction algorithm. Unlike the Gabor feature extraction met...
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By integrating the Fourier techniques and the edge information obtained using the radial symmetric functions, we propose in this paper an invariant feature extraction algorithm. Unlike the Gabor feature extraction method, the present method does not use direction dependent filters, nor does it use the images in polar form, for rotation invariance. Besides, the present Fourier-Radial invariant feature extraction algorithm, suitable for both the texture and non-texture images, has functional analogy with the Gabor feature extraction method, and hence, is easily implementable. It is mathematically proved, and justified through computations, that the method can generate the invariant and discriminative feature vectors. Our simulation results demonstrate that the method can be used for such applications as content-based image retrieval.
A new generalized way of signal decomposition and reconstruction entitled ISITRA is proposed. It is similar to the 2-channel filter bank scheme. fit ISITRA, all the filters are obtained from a real vector. ISITRA allo...
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A new generalized way of signal decomposition and reconstruction entitled ISITRA is proposed. It is similar to the 2-channel filter bank scheme. fit ISITRA, all the filters are obtained from a real vector. ISITRA allows decomposition of a signal into (1) an approximation and a detail, (2) two details and (3) two approximations. The latter two cases are not generally possible in the filter bank scheme. The choice of filter coefficients in ISITRA is much simpler and more arbitrary compared to that in the existing schemes. This allows one to find better filter coefficients for different applications. One can straight achieve an image compression ratio of 8:1 without doing any coding by modifying the range of pixel values in the decomposed components. One can also find a better set of decomposition and reconstruction filters than the commonly used Daubechies' wavelet filters of length 4. ISITRA is simpler and computationally marginally better than even the computationally efficient polyphase filter bank scheme. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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