We present a technique for coarsely extracting the regions of natural color images which contain directional detail, e.g.. edges, texture, etc.. and smooth color regions. which we then use for image database indexing....
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We present a technique for coarsely extracting the regions of natural color images which contain directional detail, e.g.. edges, texture, etc.. and smooth color regions. which we then use for image database indexing. As a measure of color activity, we use a perceptually modified distance measure based on the sum-of-Angles criterion. We then apply histogram thresholding techniques to separate the image into smooth color regions and busy regions where edge, texture and color activity exists. Color segmentation is performed on the smooth areas using HSV histogram techniques, to obtain image regions with one dominant average color. Database indices are then created from the busy regions using the directional detail histogram technique along with the color vectors representing the segmented smooth areas. Image retrieval is then performed using the histogram intersection method for the detailed areas and color vector distance measures are utilized for retrieval of the smooth color regions.
NASA's Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE) is planning to launch the Earth Observing System (EOS) starting in 1998. The large number of planned remote sensing satellites will bring 500 Gigabytes of information per day....
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NASA's Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE) is planning to launch the Earth Observing System (EOS) starting in 1998. The large number of planned remote sensing satellites will bring 500 Gigabytes of information per day. The EOS Data and Information System (EOSDIS) is responsible for ingesting and archiving this data. One important component of the EOSDIS system is the data operation, which involves extracting the packets and reconstructing and archiving the original remotely sensed data products. Due to transmission errors, the way data is sampled from the different sensors encoded, packets typically arrive out of order and perhaps with some of them missing or repeated. Many special hardware solutions have been proposed to solve this real-time problem. In this paper, we demonstrate a commercial off the shelf (COTS) solution. The hardware capitalizes on the progress made in the area of network of workstations (NOW), particularly PC-clusters. The software and algorithm exploit the data characteristics and parallelism in the telemetry stream to make use of load balancing and efficient parallelprocessing. It is shown that this solution can provide high-performance to cost and programmability.
Presents the formulation of the dimension reduction problem using subset selection as a matrix approximation problem. A heuristic algorithm to solve this problem is presented. Numerical results using LANDSAT and AVIRI...
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Presents the formulation of the dimension reduction problem using subset selection as a matrix approximation problem. A heuristic algorithm to solve this problem is presented. Numerical results using LANDSAT and AVIRIS images show that the selected bands are contained in a space that is almost aligned with the first few principal components.
An approach for parsing MPEG compressed video into shots and sub-shots based only on the macroblock (MB) and motion vector (MV) information is presented. The system follows a two-pass scheme and has a hybrid rule-base...
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An approach for parsing MPEG compressed video into shots and sub-shots based only on the macroblock (MB) and motion vector (MV) information is presented. The system follows a two-pass scheme and has a hybrid rule-based/neural structure. A rough scan over the P frames locates the potential shot boundaries and the solution is then refined by a precise scan over the B frames of the respective neighborhoods. The "simpler" boundaries are recognized by the rule-based module, while the decisions for the "complex" ones are refined by the neural part. The latter is also used to distinguish dissolves from object and camera motions and to break the shots into sub-shots. The experiments demonstrate high speed and accuracy in shot detection and their characterization.
With small device features in submicron technologies, interconnection delays play a dominant part in cycle time. Hence, it is important to consider the impact of physical design during high level synthesis. In compari...
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With small device features in submicron technologies, interconnection delays play a dominant part in cycle time. Hence, it is important to consider the impact of physical design during high level synthesis. In comparison to a traditional approach which separates high-level synthesis from physical design, an algorithm which is able to make these stages interact very closely, would result in solutions with lower latency and area. However, such an approach could result in increased runtimes. parallelprocessing is an attractive way of reducing the runtimes. In this paper, two parallel algorithms for simultaneous scheduling, binding and floorplanning algorithm are presented. A detailed hardware model is considered, taking into account multiplexor and register areas and delays. Experimental results are reported on an IBM SP-2 multicomputer, with close to linear speedups for a set of benchmark circuits.
We propose an adjusted digital filtering method to overcome the Nyquist limitation of the iterative algorithm used to eliminate the twin image and demonstrate its advantages over existing algorithms. We also have appl...
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We propose an adjusted digital filtering method to overcome the Nyquist limitation of the iterative algorithm used to eliminate the twin image and demonstrate its advantages over existing algorithms. We also have applied and tested an electronic multiplexing method to eliminate the twin image noise in optical scanning holography.
Presents a novel approach to the problem of computer aided analysis of digital mammograms for breast cancer detection: namely, the development of algorithms to recognize unequivocally normal mammograms. First, the aut...
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Presents a novel approach to the problem of computer aided analysis of digital mammograms for breast cancer detection: namely, the development of algorithms to recognize unequivocally normal mammograms. First, the authors eliminate amorphous "clouds" or "blobs" in mammograms produced by normal glandular tissue of varying density using local average subtraction. Then the authors identify and remove normal connective tissue markings based on a set of specially designed line detectors. Any abnormality that may exist in the mammogram is therefore enhanced in the residual image, which makes the decision regarding the normality of the mammogram, much easier.
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.
An object-based stereo image coding algorithm is proposed. The algorithm relies on modeling of the object structure using 3-D wire-frame models and motion estimation using globally rigid and locally deformable motion ...
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An object-based stereo image coding algorithm is proposed. The algorithm relies on modeling of the object structure using 3-D wire-frame models and motion estimation using globally rigid and locally deformable motion models. Algorithms for the estimation of motion and structure parameters from stereo images are described. Motion parameters are used to construct predicted images by mapping the image texture on the object surface. Coding of object parameters, appearing background regions, and prediction errors are investigated, and experimental results with standard stereo image sequences depicting general scenes are presented. The proposed algorithm is seen to be very efficient for applications such as stereoscopic video transmission. Furthermore, it is especially well suited to advanced applications such as generation and transmission of intermediate views for multiview receiver systems and applications in which object-wise editing of the bit stream is required. The latter include video production using preanalyzed scenes and virtual reality applications.
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