This paper presents a comparative study of two approaches that address the problem of compression of arbitrary object boundaries resulting from image segmentation. The first approach uses multiresolution based techniq...
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This paper introduces a class of synthetic electrocardiograms (ECG) for the purpose of testing the sensitivity and robustness of heart-monitoring techniques in controlled and reproducible simulations. These ECG surrog...
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This paper evaluates the outlier sensitivity of five independent component analysis (ICA) algorithms (FastICA, Extended-Infomax, JADE, Radical-ICA, and β-divergence) using (i) the Amari separation performance index, ...
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This paper presents the implementation aspects pertinent to the computation of the multifractal singularity spectrum through wavelets, and the methods of overcoming them. Multifractals are mixtures of monofractals, an...
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Summary form only given. We study the source coding problem on a simple two-hop network with side information on the middle and end nodes. For the degraded case, where the side information at the end node is weaker th...
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Summary form only given. We study the source coding problem on a simple two-hop network with side information on the middle and end nodes. For the degraded case, where the side information at the end node is weaker than the side information at the middle node, a complete characterization of the rate-distortion region is derived
It is shown that achieving an arbitrary rate-point in the achievable region of the M-source Slepian-Wolf (Ref.1) problem may be reduced via a practical source-splitting transformation to achieving a corner point in a ...
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It is shown that achieving an arbitrary rate-point in the achievable region of the M-source Slepian-Wolf (Ref.1) problem may be reduced via a practical source-splitting transformation to achieving a corner point in a 2M-1 source Slepian-Wolf problem. Moreover, each source must be split at most once. This approach extends the ideas introduced in (B. Rimoldi et al., 1997) to a practical setting: it does not require common randomness shared between splitters and the decoders, the cardinality of each source split is strictly smaller than the original, and practical iterative decoding methods can achieve rates near the theoretical bound
Transmission and printing of sensitive information requires both data security, and protection against random and burst errors. This paper describes a technique that achieves two objectives: secure and reliable transm...
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Transmission and printing of sensitive information requires both data security, and protection against random and burst errors. This paper describes a technique that achieves two objectives: secure and reliable transmission of information; and integrity of the original information printed on paper. Information printed on paper is prone to burst and random errors. Resilience of the information to such errors is obtained by introducing redundancy into the original data using forward error correcting codes. We have selected a concatenation of a Reed-Solomon (RS) code, interleaved with a self-orthogonal majority decodable convolutional code. To measure the performance of the concatenated code, the bit error rate against signal to noise ratio of the code is compared with codes of equivalent rate (e.g., RS code alone) and with the unencoded data. Security of the printed data can be achieved through encryption. We have selected a probabilistic encryption scheme of messages to achieve an increased security against reverse engineering of the printed pattern. A new document signature extraction scheme based on fractal signal processing is described. Such a signature is then included with the document in the security pattern.
This paper presents a new approach in processing nonstationary signals-such as speech signals and images-through singularity characterization. In this approach, we associate a singular measure /spl mu//sub f(t/) (r) w...
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This paper presents a new approach in processing nonstationary signals-such as speech signals and images-through singularity characterization. In this approach, we associate a singular measure /spl mu//sub f(t/) (r) with a transient at time t of a signal f(t) (where a real number r>0 is a time perturbation around t) and use the singularity behaviour of the measure for the characterization of the signal nonstationarity. The approach is capable of characterizing isolated transients through Holder exponents (or singularity strength), as well as mixture transients (e.g. singularity everywhere) through the concept of fractality and multifractality. The paper discusses the concept and the practicality of applying this approach to signals. The paper also shows that this approach can provide a unifying framework for previously published work on applying nonlinear, chaotic, fractal, and multifractal analysis to signals. We show that the main conceptual issue in applying fractality and multifractality to signals using this framework is the proper selection of signal measures.
This paper describes modelling of the coefficient domain in wavelet subbands of wideband audio signals for low-bit rate and high-quality compression. The purpose is to develop models of the perception of wideband audi...
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This paper describes modelling of the coefficient domain in wavelet subbands of wideband audio signals for low-bit rate and high-quality compression. The purpose is to develop models of the perception of wideband audio signals in the wavelet domain. The coefficients in the wavelet subbands are quantized using a scheme that adapts to the subband signal by setting the quantization step size for a particular subband to a size that is inversely proportional to the subband energy, and then, within a subband, by modifying the energy determined step size as inversely proportional to the amplitude probability density of the coefficient. The amplitude probability density of the coefficients in each subband is modelled using learned vector/scalar quantization employing frequency sensitive competitive learning. The source data consists of 1-channel, 16-bit linear data sampled at 44.1 kHz from a CD containing major classical and pop music. Preliminary results show a bit-rate of 150 kbps, rather than 705.6 kbps, with no perceptual loss in quality. The wavelet transform provides better results for representing multifractal signals, such as wide band audio, than do other standard transforms, such as the Fourier transform.
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