Arctic-wide operational sea ice drift from enhanced-resolution QuikScat/SeaWinds scatterometry and its validation

The near-real-time enhanced-resolution QuikScat/SeaWinds (QS) scatterometry composite data are used for daily automatic 48-h sea ice tracking by maximum cross-correlation over the entire Arctic. A correlation window of 61 /spl times/ 61 pixels is used for best performance. Both QS polarizations, vertical (VV) and horizontal (HH), are used independently, which permits to filter the final results for erroneous vectors by comparing the two drift vectors, u/spl I.oarr//sub VV/ and u/spl I.oarr//sub HH/, respectively. Additional filtering is performed by setting a minimum correlation coefficient and by considering the spatial consistency of the motion field. The algorithm has been validated with winter 2002/2003 buoy data from the International Arctic Buoy Program showing error standard deviations in the 48-h displacement of 3.1 and 3.2 km in the latitude and longitude direction, respectively. This corresponds to an error standard deviation in ice drift speed of just 2.6 cm/s. Errors are largest in dynamic regions with lower ice concentrations as for example the southern Fram Strait. The enhanced-resolution data improve previous drift results by about 25%, but are still blurred by the necessary 36-h period to produce the composites.     

FPGA在边缘检测中的应用

主要探讨FPGA在边缘检测中的运用,分析两种不同边缘检测算子对图像处理的效果。由于FPGA算法硬件处理速度快、可编程、可重配置等特性,使其在图像处理方面占有很大的优势。为此文章提出了运用FPGA实现边缘检测的方法,并且根据FPGA的并行流水线性,对Sobel、Prewitt边缘检测算子分别进行了FPGA设计与实现以及仿真,并且对两种边缘检测算子对图像处理的效果进行了比较。通过仿真分析得出,Sobel和Prewitt边缘检测算子都有平滑噪声的作用,Sobel边缘检测算子可以提供较为准确的边缘方向信息,Prewitt边缘检测算子,其边缘性较Sobel边缘检测算子完整,但它们的边缘定位精度有待提高,仿真中通过改变程序中的阈值可以得到不同的处理效果,这也是利用FPGA的优点,方便容易、速度也得到了提高,并且可编程、可重配置,使得FPGA在数字图像处理方面显得非常优越。     

数据融合技术在图像边缘检测中的应用

提出了一种基于数据融合的图像边缘检测算法。此种方法对初始图像分别采用“Rob-erts”算子和“sobel”算子及小波变换三种方法进行边缘提取,再将三种算法结果通过数据融合的手段获得一幅新的边缘图像。实验结果表明,该方案所得到的边缘图像的效果优于单独采用“Sobel”或“Roberts”算子所获得的边缘图像,是一种行之有效的图像边缘提取算法。     

On the utility of SeaWinds/QuikSCAT data for the estimation of the thermodynamic state of first-year sea ice

The thermodynamic state of sea ice is important to accurately and remotely monitor in order to provide improved geophysical variable parameterizations in sea ice thermodynamic models. Operationally, monitoring the thermodynamic state of sea ice can facilitate eased ship navigation routing. SeaWinds/QuikSCAT (QuikSCAT) dual-polarization [i.e., horizontal (HH) and vertical (VV)] active microwave data are available at a sufficiently large spatial scale and high temporal resolution to provide estimates of sea ice thermodynamics. This analysis evaluated the temporal evolution of the backscatter coefficient (/spl sigma//spl deg/) and VV/HH copolarization ratio from QuikSCAT for estimating sea ice thermodynamics. QuikSCAT estimates were compared against RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery and the Canadian Ice Service (CIS) prototype operational ice strength algorithm. In situ data from the Collaborative Interdisciplinary Cryospheric Experiment (C-ICE) for 2000, 2001, and 2002 were used as validation. Results indicate that the temporal evolution of /spl sigma//spl deg/ from QuikSCAT is analogous to RADARSAT-1. The QuikSCAT /spl sigma//spl deg/ temporal evolution has the ability to identify winter, snow melt, and ponding thermodynamic states. Moreover, the copolarization VV/HH ratio of QuikSCAT could provide a second estimate of the ponding state in addition to identifying the drainage state that is difficult to detect by single-polarization SAR. QuikSCAT detected thermodynamic states that were found to be in reasonable agreement to that of in situ observations at the C-ICE camp for all years. Operational implications of this analysis suggest QuikSCAT is a more effective and efficient medium for monitoring ice decay compared to RADARSAT-1 and can be utilized to provide more robust modeled ice strength thresholds.     

基于边缘检测和像素分类的可逆数据隐藏

为了提高嵌入算法的整体性能,提出一种基于边缘检测和像素分类的灰度图像可逆数据隐藏算法。算法按嵌入容量优先原则自适应地选择最佳阈值提取图像边缘,并根据边缘信息和指定的图像质量控制因子将像素分为平滑、弱边缘和强边缘像素3类。对平滑像素,通过增加嵌入强度的方法提高嵌入容量,预测误差直方图平移2位;对弱边缘像素,像素值最大修改量为1,从而保证图像含密质量;强边缘像素的像素值保持不变,进一步提高含密图像质量。实验结果表明,本文算法在保证图像质量的同时有效提高嵌入容量,算法的整体性能优于其它同类算法。     

Tradeoffs in the design of a spaceborne scanning pencil beamscatterometer: application to SeaWinds

SeaWinds is a spaceborne wind scatterometer to be flown on the second Japanese Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS-II) in 1999. An important international element of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS), SeaWinds is an advanced follow-on to the NASA scatterometer (NSCAT) on the first ADEOS platform. Unlike previous operational spaceborne scatterometer systems. SeaWinds employs a scanning “pencil-beam” antenna rather than a “fan-beam” antenna, making the instrument more compact and yielding greater ocean coverage. The goals of this paper are twofold. First, the overall SeaWinds functional design and backscatter measurement approach are described, and the relative advantages of the pencil-beam technique are outlined. Second, the unique aspects of measurement accuracy optimization and signal processing for the SeaWinds instrument are discussed. Applying the results of a separate companion paper, ibid., 1997, a technique to significantly improve measurement accuracy by modulating the transmit pulse is described. Trade-offs to optimize the transmit modulation bandwidth are presented     

Automatic cardiac LV boundary detection and tracking using hybrid fuzzy temporal and fuzzy multiscale edge detection

This paper describes a new fully automatic fuzzy multiresolution-based algorithm for cardiac left ventricular (LV) epicardial and endocardial boundary detection and tracking on a sequence of short axis (SA) echocardiographic images of a complete cardiac cycle. This is a necessary step for automatic quantification of cardiac function using echo images. The proposed method is a "center-based" approach in which epicardial and endocardial boundary edge points are searched for on radial lines emanating from the LV center point. The central point of the LV cavity is estimated using a fuzzy-based technique in which the "uncertain" spatial, morphological, and intensity information of the image are represented as fuzzy sets and then combined by fuzzy operators. Edge-detection stage uses multiscale spatial and temporal information in a fuzzy multiresolution framework to identify a single moving edge point for each one of the epicardial and endocardial boundaries over the M radii in the N frames of a complete cardiac cycle. The raw extracted edge points are then processed in the wavelet domain to reduce the effects of noise from the boundaries and papillary muscles from the endocardial boundary extraction process. Finally, a uniform cubic B-spline approximation method is used to define the closed LV boundaries. Experiments with simulated and real echocardiographic images are presented.     

小波变换在图像边缘检测中的应用

目前,被广泛使用的经典边缘检测算子有Sobel算子,Prewitt算子,Roberts算子,Log算子,Canny算子等等。这些算子的核心思想是图像的边缘点是相对应于图像灰度值梯度的局部极大值点。然而,当图像中含有噪声时这些算子对噪声都比较敏感,使得将噪声作为边缘点。由于噪声的干扰,不能检测出真正的边缘。一个拥有良好属性的的边缘检测算法是每个研究者的追求。利用小波交换的特点,设计了三次B样条平滑滤波算子。通过利用这个算子,对利用小波变换来检测图像的边缘进行了一定的研究和理解。     

Automatic detection and segmentation of lymph nodes from CT data

Lymph nodes are assessed routinely in clinical practice and their size is followed throughout radiation or chemotherapy to monitor the effectiveness of cancer treatment. This paper presents a robust learning-based method for automatic detection and segmentation of solid lymph nodes from CT data, with the following contributions. First, it presents a learning based approach to solid lymph node detection that relies on marginal space learning to achieve great speedup with virtually no loss in accuracy. Second, it presents a computationally efficient segmentation method for solid lymph nodes (LN). Third, it introduces two new sets of features that are effective for LN detection, one that self-aligns to high gradients and another set obtained from the segmentation result. The method is evaluated for axillary LN detection on 131 volumes containing 371 LN, yielding a 83.0% detection rate with 1.0 false positive per volume. It is further evaluated for pelvic and abdominal LN detection on 54 volumes containing 569 LN, yielding a 80.0% detection rate with 3.2 false positives per volume. The running time is 5-20 s per volume for axillary areas and 15-40 s for pelvic. An added benefit of the method is the capability to detect and segment conglomerated lymph nodes.     

Automatic detection of brain contours in MRI data sets

A software procedure is presented for fully automated detection of brain contours from single-echo 3-D MRI data, developed initially for scans with coronal orientation. The procedure detects structures in a head data volume in a hierarchical fashion. Automatic detection starts with a histogram-based thresholding step, whenever necessary preceded by an image intensity correction procedure. This step is followed by a morphological procedure which refines the binary threshold mask images. Anatomical knowledge, essential for the discrimination between desired and undesired structures, is implemented in this step through a sequence of conventional and novel morphological operations, using 2-D and 3-D operations. A final step of the procedure performs overlap tests on candidate brain regions of interest in neighboring slice images to propagate coherent 2-D brain masks through the third dimension. Results are presented for test runs of the procedure on 23 coronal whole-brain data sets, and one sagittal whole-brain data set. Finally, the potential of the technique for generalization to other problems is discussed, as well as limitations of the technique     

Design of an image edge detection filter using the Sobel operator

The architecture of the edge detector presented is highly pipeline to perform the computations of gradient magnitude and direction for the output image samples. The chip design is based on a 2-μm, double-metal, CMOS technology and was implemented using a silicon compiler system in less than 2 man-months. It is designed to operate with a 10-MHz two-phase clock, and it performs approximately 200×10⁶ additions/s to provide the required magnitude and direction outputs every clock cycle. The function of the chip has been demonstrated with a prototype system that is performing image edge detection in real time     

Developing nonstationary noise estimation for application in edge and corner detection.

Accurate estimation of noise and signal power is of fundamental interest in a wide variety of vision applications as it is critical to thresholding and decision processes. This paper proposes two methods for the estimation of nonstationary noise based upon models of image structure which locally separate signal from noise. The resulting algorithms are noniterative and thereby fast. The accuracy of the proposed and existing methods is compared, first separately and then in application to two common image processing tasks: edge and corner detection. It is demonstrated that the proposed model can be used to improve the stability of both, in the presence of contrast change and nonstationary noise.     

A modified nonlinear diffusion model and its application to image smoothing and edge detection

A modified version of the Cotte. Lions, Morel and Coll theory for image selective smoothing and edge detection is proposed. Comparing with their model, the most important advantage of this modification is that the convolution with Gaussian processes in the filtering process is replaced by solving an initial-boundary value problem for the heat equation, which simplifies the numerical scheme to some extent. Numerical experiments on natural images are presented for this model.     

EPMDA: an efficient privacy-preserving multi-dimensional data aggregation scheme for edge computing-based IoT system

In order to perform multi-dimensional data aggregation operations efficiently in edge computing-based Internet of things (IoT) systems, a new efficient privacy-preserving multi-dimensional data aggregation (EPMDA) scheme is proposed in this paper. EPMDA scheme is characterized by employing the homomorphic Paillier encryption and SM9 signature algorithm. To improve the computation efficiency of the Paillier encryption operation, EPMDA scheme generates a pre-computed modular exponentiation table of each dimensional data,and the Paillier encryption operation can be implemented by using only several modular multiplications. For the multi-dimensional data, the scheme concatenates zeros between two adjacent dimensional data to avoid data overflow in the sum operation of ciphertexts. To enhance security, EPMDA scheme sets random number at the high address of the exponent. Moreover, the scheme utilizes SM9 signature scheme to guarantee device authentication and data integrity. The performance evaluation and comparison show that EPMDA scheme is more efficient than the existing multi-dimensional data aggregation schemes.     

LabVIEW与数传技术在机车检测方面的应用

针对目前的机车信号库内检测系统综合性强、要求精度高、检测项目繁琐且检测量大等影响,传统的人工方法难以适应现代科技发展的需要,为了提高检测质量必须采用一种自动化数据处理方式,本设计提出了一种无线数传电台的无线数据通信方式,结合LabVIEW虚拟仪器的简单易用、灵活、测控精度高等优势,此LabVIEW与无线数传系统简单实用,性能稳定可靠,用于机车信号库内检测主控计算机与机车车载之间的通信线路上,达到有效替代或有限延长通讯线路的作用,在铁路机务段机车信号检测设备方面有良好的应用。     

ADC0832在真空度数据检测中的应用

真空系统的真空度是与其相关的各种应用设备的重要工艺与技术参数。针对离心式水泵入口真空度检测的目的,采用在检测程序中加入数字滤波的方法,通过对基于ADC0832与AT89s52搭建的真空度检测系统的试验,成功实现了对真空度数据的检测及控制。     

Data fusion: color edge detection and surface reconstructionthrough regularization

Data fusion provides tools for solving problems which are characterized by distributed and diverse information sources. In this paper, the authors focus on the problem of extracting features such as image discontinuities from both synthetic and real images. Since edge detection and surface reconstruction are ill-posed problems in the sense of Hadamard, Tikhonov's regularization paradigm is proposed as the basic tool for solving this inversion problem and restoring well-posedness. The proposed framework includes: (1) a systematic view of oneand two-dimensional regularization; (2) extension of the standard Tikhonov regularization method by allowing space-variant regularization parameters; and (3) further extension of the regularization paradigm by adding multiple data sources to allow for data fusion. The theoretical approach is complemented by developing a series of algorithms, then solving the early vision problems of color edge detection and surface reconstruction. An evaluation of these methods reveals that this new analytical data fusion technique output is consistently better than each of the individual RGB edge maps, and noisy corrupted images are reconstructed into smooth noiseless surfaces     

Weighted local variance-based edge detection and its application to vascular segmentation in magnetic resonance angiography

Accurate detection of vessel boundaries is particularly important for a precise extraction of vasculatures in magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). In this paper, we propose the use of weighted local variance (WLV)-based edge detection scheme for vessel boundary detection in MRA. The proposed method is robust against changes of intensity contrast of edges and capable of giving high detection responses on low contrast edges. These robustness and capabilities are essential for detecting the boundaries of vessels in low contrast regions of images, which can contain intensity inhomogeneity, such as bias field, interferences induced from other tissues, or fluctuation of the speed related vessel intensity. The performance of the WLV-based edge detection scheme is studied and shown to be able to return strong and consistent detection responses on low contrast edges in the experiments. The proposed edge detection scheme can be embedded naturally in the active contour models for vascular segmentation. The WLV-based vascular segmentation method is tested using MRA image volumes. It is experimentally shown that the WLV-based edge detection approach can achieve high-quality segmentation of vasculatures in MRA images.     

Adaptive multiscale edge detection based on vision feature of edge and wavelet transform

A new rnultiscale edge detection method is presented, which is based on an effective edge measure. The effective edge measure, used to adaptively adjust the scales of wavelet transform, is defined using the novel features of image edge obtained from human being vision characteristics. Finally, two experiments show that the proposed algorithm appears to work well.     

移动边缘计算发展与应用研究

对MEC的概念、体系架构、产业发展方向等内容进行了介绍,讨论了云边协同一些典型的应用场景,并对MEC技术发展存在的问题和未来的推进策略进行了阐述。