Layout analysis is a key component of an OCR system. In this paper, we present a layout analysis system for extracting text-lines in reading order from Urdu document images. For this purpose, we evaluate an existing s...
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Layout analysis is a key component of an OCR system. In this paper, we present a layout analysis system for extracting text-lines in reading order from Urdu document images. For this purpose, we evaluate an existing system for Roman script text on Urdu documents and describe its methods and the main changes necessary to adapt it to Urdu script. The main changes are: 1) the text-line model for Roman script is modified to adapt to Urdu text, 2) reading order of an Urdu document is defined. The method is applied to a collection of scanned Urdu documents from various books, magazines, and newspapers. The results show high text-line detection accuracy on scanned images of Urdu prose and poetry books and magazines. The algorithm also works reasonably well on newspaper images. We also identify directions for future work which may further improve the accuracy of the system.
Brachytherapy is a minimally invasive interventional surgery used to treat prostate cancer. It is composed of three steps: dose pre-planning, implantation of radioactive seeds, and dose post-planning. In these procedu...
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Brachytherapy is a minimally invasive interventional surgery used to treat prostate cancer. It is composed of three steps: dose pre-planning, implantation of radioactive seeds, and dose post-planning. In these procedures, it is crucial to determine the positions of needles and seeds, measure the volume of the prostate gland. Three-dimensional transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) imaging has been demonstrated to be a useful technique to perform such tasks. Compared to CT, MRI or X-ray imaging, US image suffers from low contrast, image speckle and shadows, making it challenging for segmentation of needles, the prostates and seeds in the 3D TRUS images. In this paper, we reviewed 3D TRUS image segmentation methods used in prostate brachytherapy including the segmentations of the needles, the prostate, as well as the seeds. Furthermore, some experimental results with agar phantom, turkey and chicken phantom, as well as the patient data are reported
In this paper we discuss landmark based absolute localization of tiny autonomous mobile robots in a known environment. Landmark features are naturally occurring as it is not allowed to modify the environment with spec...
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In this paper we discuss landmark based absolute localization of tiny autonomous mobile robots in a known environment. Landmark features are naturally occurring as it is not allowed to modify the environment with special navigational aids. These features are sparse in our application domain and are frequently occluded by other robots. This makes simultaneous acquisition of two or more landmarks difficult. Therefore, we propose a system that requires a single landmark feature. The algorithm is based on range measurement of a single landmark from two arbitrary points whose displacement can be measured using dead-reckoning sensors. Range estimation is done with a stereo vision system. Simulation results show that the robot can localize itself if it can estimates range of the same landmark from two different position and if the displacement between the two position is known.
Based on the statistic and the fuzzy uncertainty information in an image, a new fuzzy information gain method was proposed to measure the distinctness between the object image and the reference image, which provides a...
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Based on the statistic and the fuzzy uncertainty information in an image, a new fuzzy information gain method was proposed to measure the distinctness between the object image and the reference image, which provides a new criterion for image matching or retrieval. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the new method.
A novel Parallel-Based Lifting Algorithm (PBLA) for Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), exploiting the parallelism of arithmetic operations in all lifting steps, is proposed in this paper. It leads to reduce the cri...
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A novel Parallel-Based Lifting Algorithm (PBLA) for Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), exploiting the parallelism of arithmetic operations in all lifting steps, is proposed in this paper. It leads to reduce the critical path latency of computation, and to reduce the complexity of hardware implementation as well. The detailed derivation on the proposed algorithm, as well as the resulting Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) architecture, is introduced, taking the 9/7 DWT as an example but without loss of generality. In comparison with the Conventional Lifting Algorithm Based Implementation (CLABI), the critical path latency of the proposed architecture is reduced by more than half from (4Tm + 8Ta)to Tm + 4Ta, and is competitive to that of Convolution-Based Implementation (CBI), but the new implementation will save significantly in hardware. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed architecture has good performance in both increasing working frequency and reducing area.
This article introduces a new theoretical framework to describe the behavior of the Steinbuch's Lernmatrix. The properties of this old associative memory can be modeled using set theory and order relationships, an...
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This article introduces a new theoretical framework to describe the behavior of the Steinbuch's Lernmatrix. The properties of this old associative memory can be modeled using set theory and order relationships, analogously to morphological associative memories. The obtained results allow the Lernmatrix, four decades before its creation, to be a good alternative for pattern classification and recognition.
This paper presents an approach for speckle reduction and coherence enhancement of ultrasound images based on total variation (TV) minimization. The proposed method can preserve information associated with resolved ob...
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A novel method for segmentation of cardiac structures in temporal echocardiographic sequences based on the snake model is presented. The method is motivated by the observation that the structures of neighboring frames...
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The embedded block coding with optimized truncation (EBCOT) is the state-of-the-art coding technique for image compression, which is the heart of the latest still image compression standard JPEG2000. EBCOT can be part...
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