Matching of occluded objects is a difficult problem. Moreover, the problem is more difficult when scale-invariant matching is needed. A scale invariant representation is essential for this application. In this paper, ...
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(纸本)0819415367
Matching of occluded objects is a difficult problem. Moreover, the problem is more difficult when scale-invariant matching is needed. A scale invariant representation is essential for this application. In this paper, we propose using the wavelet transform of a boundary to obtain a scale-invariant representation. We use the cubic B-spline as a smoothing function of the wavelet transform since the B-spline is analytically well defined and simple to implement. We implement the fast continuous wavelet transform by using a dyadic wavelet decomposition and dilated B-splines. As a result of using the wavelet transform, we obtain boundaries at various scales while using a small number of data points. The existing scale-space image approaches are not effective for occluded object matching since they use a normalized x-axis and too many data points. We propose a new scale-invariant representation similar to the scale-space image. The representation is generated by locating zero-crossings of the curvature function of boundaries at only the scales where the number of zero-crossings is changing. We scale the x-axis for each scale instead of using the same normalization for all scales. The proposed representation is scale-invariant and appropriate for scale-invariant matching with occlusion.
A GaAs monolithic varactor multiplier has been developed for collision avoidance radars with a conversion efficiency of 31% @ 76.5 GHz when driven by 25dBm @ 38.25 GHz. This corresponds to nearly 20dBm (100mW) of outp...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819415588
A GaAs monolithic varactor multiplier has been developed for collision avoidance radars with a conversion efficiency of 31% @ 76.5 GHz when driven by 25dBm @ 38.25 GHz. This corresponds to nearly 20dBm (100mW) of output power at W-band. We believe this to be the best performance reported to date for a diode-based monolithic multiplier at this output frequency.
Advanced algorithms for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging have in the past required computing capabilities only available from high performance special purpose hardware. Such architectures have tended to have sho...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819415340
Advanced algorithms for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging have in the past required computing capabilities only available from high performance special purpose hardware. Such architectures have tended to have short life cycles with respect to development expense. Current generation Massively Parallel Processors (MPP) are offering high performance capabilities necessary for such applications with both a scalable architecture and a longer projected life cycle. In this paper we explore issues associated with implementation of a SAR imaging algorithm on a mesh configured MPP architecture.
This paper describes applications of Maximum Likelihood Adaptive Neural System (MLANS) to the characterization of clutter in IR images and to the identification of targets. The characterization of image clutter is nee...
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Automatic target recognition makes it possible to provide weapons with lock-on-after-launch (LOAL) capability. For such applications, characterization of digital images for real-time application is required. One metho...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819415367
Automatic target recognition makes it possible to provide weapons with lock-on-after-launch (LOAL) capability. For such applications, characterization of digital images for real-time application is required. One method for this has been partially achieved using a modification of Karhunen-Loueve transformation. This technique makes unsupervised lower-dimensional characterization feasible, so as to be able to locate sensor position in a digital image.
A digital camera has been designed based on a 1317 by 1035 pixel, full frame, CCD which offers the large area, high density sampling but with the options of programmable sub-area scanning and multiple independent x an...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819414689
A digital camera has been designed based on a 1317 by 1035 pixel, full frame, CCD which offers the large area, high density sampling but with the options of programmable sub-area scanning and multiple independent x and y binning and programmable gain and offset. The sub-area scanning and binning can be used to increase the effective frame rate of the device for such applications as fast focusing and object location. The binning also provides greater sensitivity at the cost of spatial resolution, but is ideal in low light level applications such as fluorescence microscopy. The programmability of this camera permits the switching between the various clocking modes within a single frame time. Hence, the image can be auto-focused in sub-area scanning mode and then within a single frame time the full frame image can be acquired. The programmable clocking modes make this device ideal for quantitative imaging applications requiring a high throughput and the programmable gain and offset allow the user to fine tune the device for his specific needs. A description of the programmable microimager design and some initial measurements of noise, linearity, frequency response, and stability are presented.
We study the general problem of oblique projections in discrete shift-invariant spaces of l2 and we give error bounds on the approximation. We define the concept of discrete multiresolutions and wavelet spaces and sho...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819416274
We study the general problem of oblique projections in discrete shift-invariant spaces of l2 and we give error bounds on the approximation. We define the concept of discrete multiresolutions and wavelet spaces and show that the oblique projections on certain subclasses of discrete multiresolutions and their associated wavelet spaces can be obtained using perfect reconstruction filter banks. Therefore we obtain a discrete analog of the Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau results on biorthogonal wavelets.
We have designed a 4-channel 10x10 nonseparable orthogonal linear phase perfect reconstruction filter bank (PRFB), hereafter NSEP, and examined its performance in image compression applications. It is shown that, in a...
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The guiding principle of this study is to find an optimum way to simplify the contours produced by a second generation coding scheme based on morphological segmentation. For this purpose, evaluations of existing metho...
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ISBN:
(纸本)081941638X
The guiding principle of this study is to find an optimum way to simplify the contours produced by a second generation coding scheme based on morphological segmentation. For this purpose, evaluations of existing methods for contour simplification are carried out first. Based on the human visual phenomenon, a new nonlinear filter by means of majority operation is designed to simplify the contours in order to obtain an optimum compromise between the cost for contour coding and visual quality. applications for region-based still image coding and video coding are demonstrated. Experimental results have shown an average of 20% reduction of bits for contour coding while keeping good visual quality.
Over the last four years, Essex Corporation has been developing an image reconstruction system (ImSynTM) for a variety of applications, including synthetic aperture radar, magnetic resonance imaging, and other sensors...
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ISBN:
(纸本)081941544X
Over the last four years, Essex Corporation has been developing an image reconstruction system (ImSynTM) for a variety of applications, including synthetic aperture radar, magnetic resonance imaging, and other sensors. Each of these formats encompasses its own set of requirements for image quality, image size, and throughput. The ImSyn system has been designed to provide image dynamic range of up to 100 dB, arbitrary image sizes, and throughputs of 30 images per second to satisfy the various requirements. Recent efforts to enhance the ImSyn breadboard version has required the development of modeling techniques to measure system performance and identify sources of error and artifacts. The modeling approach, application of the measurements to determine and improve system performance, and the resulting imagery achieved with the ImSyn breadboard are presented.
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