This paper proposes a novel fast architecture for a 2D discrete wavelet transform by using a lifting scheme, Parallel and embedded decimation techniques are employed to optimize the architecture, which is mainly compo...
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(纸本)078038511X
This paper proposes a novel fast architecture for a 2D discrete wavelet transform by using a lifting scheme, Parallel and embedded decimation techniques are employed to optimize the architecture, which is mainly composed of two horizontal filter modules and one vertical filter module, working in parallel and pipeline fashion with 100% hardware utilization. The architecture is designed to generate two outputs in one working clock cycle, with every two subbands coefficients alternately. The total time for computing J levels of decomposition for an N/spl times/N image is approximately 2N/sup 2/(1-4/sup -J/)/3 clock cycles. In comparison with the other devices reported in previous literature, the design has many advantages including lower hardware complexity and area and power efficiency. The design is also fast, regular and simple, as well as well suited for VLSI implementation.
Microscopic halftone imagerecognition and analysis can provide quantitative evidence for printing quality control and fault diagnosis of printing devices, while halftone image segmentation is one of the significant s...
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Microscopic halftone imagerecognition and analysis can provide quantitative evidence for printing quality control and fault diagnosis of printing devices, while halftone image segmentation is one of the significant steps during the procedure. Automatic segmentation on microscopic dots by the aid of the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) method that takes account of the fuzziness of halftone image and utilizes its color information adequately is realized. Then some examples show the technique effective and simple with better performance of noise immunity than some usual methods. In addition, the segmentation results obtained by the FCM in different color spaces are compared, which indicates that the method using the FCM in the f1f2f3 color space is superior to the rest.
Vertical Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (V-BLAST) is a promising system that realizes the enormous capacity of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications. We present an extension of V-BLAST, and propos...
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(纸本)0780375890
Vertical Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (V-BLAST) is a promising system that realizes the enormous capacity of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications. We present an extension of V-BLAST, and propose an effective transmit power allocation scheme for the extended system. The proposed transmit power allocation scheme minimizes the bit error rate (BER) averaged over all detection stages, and requires small feedback overhead from the receiver to the transmitter. Simulation results show that the extended V-BLAST system with the proposed transmit power allocation scheme provides a significant reduction in the BER compared to the conventional V-BLAST system. When the minimum mean square error (MMSE) nulling is adopted, the extended V-BLAST system is found to achieve the BER performance comparable to that of the maximum likelihood (ML) detection for the conventional V-BLAST architecture.
Correct segmentation of handwritten Chinese characters is crucial to the successful recognition. However, because of the many difficulties involved, little work has been done in this area. In this paper, a two-stage a...
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(纸本)0769512631
Correct segmentation of handwritten Chinese characters is crucial to the successful recognition. However, because of the many difficulties involved, little work has been done in this area. In this paper, a two-stage approach is addressed to segment unconstrained handwritten Chinese character strings. A string is first coarsely segmented according to the background skeleton and vertical projection after a proper image preprocessing. At the fine segmentation stage that follows, the strokes that may contain segmentation points are first identified. The feature points are then extracted from candidate strokes and taken as segmentation point candidates through each of which a segmentation path may be formed. Geometric features are extracted and fuzzy decision rules learned from examples are used to evaluate the segmentation paths. By using this two-stage segmentation approach, we can achieve both good performance and efficiency in segmenting unconstrained handwritten Chinese characters.
We study the problem of representing images within a multimedia Database Management System (DBMS), in order to support fast retrieval operations without compromising storage efficiency. To achieve this goal, we propos...
We study the problem of representing images within a multimedia Database Management System (DBMS), in order to support fast retrieval operations without compromising storage efficiency. To achieve this goal, we propose new image coding techniques which combine a wavelet representation, embedded coding of the wavelet coefficients, and segmentation of image-domain regions in the wavelet domain. A bitstream is generated in which each image region is encoded independently of other regions, without having to explicitly store information describing the regions. Simulation results show that our proposed algorithms achieve coding performance which compares favorably, both perceptually and objectively, to that achieved using state-of-the-art image/video coding techniques while additionally providing region-based support.
The relationship between the recognition rate of handwritten numerals and the normality of the distribution of their features has been investigated experimentally with a large amount of data in various combinations of...
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The relationship between the recognition rate of handwritten numerals and the normality of the distribution of their features has been investigated experimentally with a large amount of data in various combinations of quantized orientations and regions. The recognition method is based on the histogram of local orientation of contours of each numeral. To obtain a more accurate orientation quantization, the effectiveness of the orientation quantization using the gray-scale gradient has also been investigated. The results show that: (1) to increase the dimensionality of features, it is better to increase the number of quantized orientations, keeping the number of regions small (e.g., 4 x 4 or 5 x 5);(2) in the same dimensionality, the better the normality of a feature distribution, the higher the recognition rate;(3) a quantization of orientations using gray scales is effective for normalizing a feature distribution;and (4) the filter processing in reduction of the number of quantization scales improves the normality and recognition rate. The recognition of handwritten numerals collected from actual posts were carried out by using the gray-scale local-orientation histogram (400 dimensions). A correct recognition rate of 99.18 percent (mean value) has been obtained.
A method of object recognition is proposed based on Dempster-Shafer theory (DS theory), which can treat the ambiguity of image data. A model based object recognition technique based on an aspect imaging method will al...
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A method of object recognition is proposed based on Dempster-Shafer theory (DS theory), which can treat the ambiguity of image data. A model based object recognition technique based on an aspect imaging method will also be proposed. The aspect imaging method recognizes a similar aspect object by comparing an input image with an aspect image of the model database. Our proposed method calculates the degree of similarity based on the DS theory instead of Bayes theory, represents an uncertainty factor of similarity as a basic probability of DS theory, and assigns a basic probability of information to be decided. The experimental results show that the proposed method is both more robust and more reliable.
In this article a multimedia computer-assisted learning (MCAL) system is presented. The major objective of this work was to investigate the potential of using such systems as tools for transferring instructional cours...
In this article a multimedia computer-assisted learning (MCAL) system is presented. The major objective of this work was to investigate the potential of using such systems as tools for transferring instructional course information through various types of computer media as opposed to the classic CAL systems. The philosophy and techniques employed to design the system are investigated. Usage of the implemented system and its merits have been illustrated through its application to teach engineering students and technicians the theory and concepts of marine radar. System design, implementation, test, and revision phases are presented and discussed.
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