Rate filters are used to estimate the mean event rate of many biomedical signals that can be modeled as point processes. Historically these filters have been designed using principles from two distinct fields. Signal ...
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Rate filters are used to estimate the mean event rate of many biomedical signals that can be modeled as point processes. Historically these filters have been designed using principles from two distinct fields. Signal processing principles are used to optimize the filter's frequency response. Kernel estimation principles are typically used to optimize the asymptotic statistical properties. This paper describes a design methodology that combines these principles from both fields to optimize the frequency response subject to constraints on the filter's order, symmetry, time-domain ripple, DC gain, and minimum impulse response. Initial results suggest that time-domain ripple and a negative impulse response are necessary to design a filter with a reasonable frequency response. This suggests that some of the common assumptions about the properties of rate filters should be reconsidered
A new technique for solving jigsaw puzzles is proposed, which takes advantage of both geometrical and color features. It is considered that an image is being divided into a number of pieces (sub-images). The proposed ...
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A new technique for solving jigsaw puzzles is proposed, which takes advantage of both geometrical and color features. It is considered that an image is being divided into a number of pieces (sub-images). The proposed technique is based on extraction of a set of boundary characteristic points and on a Kohonen self-organized feature map (KSOFM) color reduction technique. For each characteristic point a set of color and geometrical features are extracted. The technique compares these sets of features and decides whether two sub-images match or not. When a matching pair has been found, a corrective procedure is applied in order for these sub-images to fit exactly. Next, the proposed technique creates a new sub-image, which consists of the two matched sub-images. The whole matching procedure is being repeated until only one sub-image remains or no more matching sub-images can be found.
Shape from focus (SFF) method determines the degree of focus in a sequence of observations to estimate the shape of a 3-D object. Existing SFF algorithms use an ad hoc interpolation strategy to account for the error d...
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Shape from focus (SFF) method determines the degree of focus in a sequence of observations to estimate the shape of a 3-D object. Existing SFF algorithms use an ad hoc interpolation strategy to account for the error due to the finite step-size by which the translational table is moved while capturing the images. We propose an improved SFF method that uses relative defocus blur derived from actual image data to arrive at the final estimates of the shape of the object. A space-variant image restoration scheme is also proposed to obtain a focused image of the 3-D object. The shape estimates as well as the quality of the restored image using the proposed method are superior to that of traditional SFF
Several path-planning algorithms for mobile robots have been introduced. Proper architectures for mobile robots to implement the path-planning algorithms are also of interest. If the mobile robots are to perform compl...
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Several path-planning algorithms for mobile robots have been introduced. Proper architectures for mobile robots to implement the path-planning algorithms are also of interest. If the mobile robots are to perform complicated tasks including complex sensing and planning operations and have accepted performance, must be autonomous: capable of acquiring information and performing tasks without programmatic intervention. In this paper we employ a layered architecture for mobile robots to perform our previously introduced cellular automata based path planning technique. It employs an abstraction approach which makes the complexity manageable. The architecture has an important feature which is its internal artifacts; it has some beliefs about the world and these beliefs are represented in artifacts and most actions are planned and performed with respect to these artifacts
A new method for hand gesture recognition is proposed which is based on an innovative self-growing and self-organized neural gas (SGONG) network. Initially, the region of the hand is detected by using a color segmenta...
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A new method for hand gesture recognition is proposed which is based on an innovative self-growing and self-organized neural gas (SGONG) network. Initially, the region of the hand is detected by using a color segmentation technique that depends on a skin-color distribution map. Then, the SGONG network is applied on the segmented hand so as to approach its topology. Based on the output grid of neurons, palm geometric characteristics are obtained which in accordance with powerful finger features allow the identification of the raised fingers. Finally, the hand gesture recognition is accomplished through a probability-based classification method.
This paper presents a new methodology for the modeling and simulation of active sensor imaging systems using a hardware-in-the-loop technique based on TI6713 digital signal processor (DSP) units. The methodology cente...
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This paper presents a new methodology for the modeling and simulation of active sensor imaging systems using a hardware-in-the-loop technique based on TI6713 digital signal processor (DSP) units. The methodology centers on procedures to enhance the degree of automation in the modeling and simulation processes by taking the following actions: (1) improving the automated development of algorithms to compute the two dimensional (2D) discrete Fourier transform (DFT), (2) enhancing the use of 2D DFT algorithms in implementing active sensor image formation operations, and (3) estimating the ambiguity function as the impulse response function of active imaging systems using principles of time-frequency signal representation theory. These actions have produced significant results such as a 30% to 90% improvement in 2D DFT implementations over conventional techniques, enhancement on scalable techniques for computing the ambiguity function, fast implementation techniques for computing image formation operations using the 2D fast Fourier transform (FFT), and integrated MATLABcopy user's interfaces for the overall modeling and simulation processes.
We present automatic target recognition (ATR) model based on principles of biological vision systems. The model employs reinforcement learning (RL) through Dual Heuristic Programming (DHP). The performance of the repo...
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We present automatic target recognition (ATR) model based on principles of biological vision systems. The model employs reinforcement learning (RL) through Dual Heuristic Programming (DHP). The performance of the reported ATR model is compared to that of our previously reported ATR model, based on Heuristic Dynamic Programming (HDP). The HDP and DHP, known as the Adaptive Critic Designs (ACD), are neural network based implementation of Dynamic Programming (DP). The simulation shows promising results for both HDP and DHP based ATR model in presence of resolution distortion in incoming images and confirms that the DHP model is faster and more robust for our ATR system than the HDP.
This paper addresses the problem of face recognition in the presence of facial deformations caused by expressions. An isometric mapping between surfaces is assumed, which allows preservation of geodesic distance betwe...
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Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) employs a set of subcarriers for the information symbol transmission in parallel via the multipath fading channels. Due to its spectral efficiency and robustness over ...
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Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) employs a set of subcarriers for the information symbol transmission in parallel via the multipath fading channels. Due to its spectral efficiency and robustness over multipath channels, OFDM has been adopted for broadband communications. However, for high-speed mobility, the time-varying channels pose a performance limitation to the wireless OFDM systems. In this paper, we investigate the OFDM system performance in the time-varying channels where the intercarrier interference (ICI) occurs;we study the impacts of the time-varying multipath fadings together with the multiple Doppler spreads. According to our analysis and simulation results, the maximum OFDM symbol normalized Doppler frequency must be less than 0.04 to achieve the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR)=20dB or larger. As the maximum OFDM symbol normalized Doppler frequency increases, the OFDM system performance degrades dramatically. Different irreducible symbol error rate (SER) floors about 10{sup}(-2) for QPSK-OFDM schemes and 10{sup}(-1) for 16QAM-OFDM schemes would arise in case that the maximum OFDM symbol normalized Doppler frequency is fixed at 0.06.
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