压缩域内的视频图像处理算法

介绍了一些在压缩域内处理已压缩视频流的算法，主要关注如何对DCT系数直接进行处理的算法，对于带有运动估计的压缩系统(如MPEG视频压缩码)介绍了一些解码算法及相应压缩域内的重构操作，这些算法也应用于视频转码。     

MPEG-2压缩域中鲁棒性摄像机运动估计算法的研究

在视频检索的很多应用中,比如对象轨迹追踪,都需要首先分离摄像机运动。现提出一种MPEG-2压缩域中鲁棒性摄像机运动估计——自适应尺度残差一致性ASRC（Adaptive-Scale Residual Consensus）算法,只使用P帧的运动向量,并对多重结构噪声可达到80%的击穿点,使MPEG矢量场中奇异值的影响降到最小。对比经典LMedS估计,提出的ASRC具有更好的鲁棒性和击穿点。实验结果显示出令人满意的效果。     

A fast parameter estimation algorithm for polyphase coded CW signals

A fast parameter estimation algorithm is discussed for a polyphase coded Continuous Waveform (CW) signal in Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN). The proposed estimator is based on the sum of the modulus square of the ambiguity function at the different Doppler shifts. An iterative refinement stage is proposed to avoid the effect of the spurious peaks that arise when the summation length of the estimator exceeds the subcode duration. The theoretical variance of the subcode rate estimate is derived. The Monte-Carlo simulation results show that the proposed estimator is highly accurate and effective at moderate Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR).     

自适应的混合域音频水印新算法

本文结合小波包变换和离散余弦变换，提出了一种基于听觉模型的混合域自适应音频盲水印算法，在不引入听觉失真的前提下，实现了自适应的水印嵌入。算法首先对音频信号进行小波包分解，使得分解后的子带更接近人耳临界频带。其次对每个子带的小波包系数进行离散余弦变换，计算出子带掩蔽阈值。根据子带掩蔽阈值自适应的选取噪声敏感度小的音频段作为水印嵌入段，选取功率值低于掩蔽阈值的频域系数作为水印嵌入位置，同时采用噪声掩蔽比调整水印嵌入强度。二值水印图像通过量化索引调制的方法嵌入到音频信号的中低频系数中，提取水印时不需要原始音频载体。本算法在水印容量、不可感知性和鲁棒性之间达到了很好的平衡，水印容量在576.7bps到689.5bps之间，算法对添加噪声、重新量化、重新采样、低通滤波和MP3压缩均具有很好的鲁棒性。      

数域处理的二相编码信号旁瓣抑制技术研究

该文从二相编码信号的频谱结构分析入手,采用频域数字处理方法,研究了二相编码长码雷达信号距离旁瓣频域抑制加权技术,提出一种适用于各种码长不同码序列的编码信号旁瓣抑制滤波器(SSF)频域设计方法。并以127位二相编码信号为例,对SSF处理的性能进行仿真分析和实验测试。当fd=0时,仿真与实测结果的主副比分别达到50dB和43dB。这表明采用这种方法所设计的二相码信号SSF可以应用于现代雷达系统,并得到满意的性能指标。     

Recursive nearest neighbor search in a sparse and multiscale domain for comparing audio signals

We investigate recursive nearest neighbor search in a sparse domain at the scale of audio signals. Essentially, to approximate the cosine distance between the signals we make pairwise comparisons between the elements of localized sparse models built from large and redundant multiscale dictionaries of time-frequency atoms. Theoretically, error bounds on these approximations provide efficient means for quickly reducing the search space to the nearest neighborhood of a given data; but we demonstrate here that the best bound defined thus far involving a probabilistic assumption does not provide a practical approach for comparing audio signals with respect to this distance measure. Our experiments show, however, that regardless of these non-discriminative bounds, we only need to make a few atom pair comparisons to reveal, e.g., the origin of an excerpted signal, or melodies with similar time-frequency structures.     

性能优越的混合域数字音频盲水印算法

提出了一种性能优越的自适应混合域数字音频水印嵌入算法,首先将原始数字音频划分成音频数据段;然后选取巴克码作为同步码,并在时域内将同步码嵌入到音频段的前部分;最后对音频段后部分实施DWT和DCT,并采用量化调制策略将水印信息嵌入到频域系数中。实验结果表明,该算法对常规信号处理与去同步攻击均具有较好的顽健性。     

压缩域宽带跳频信号跳变时刻估计算法

为了在非协作情况下,对跳频信号的频率跳变时刻进行精确快速估计,提出一种基于压缩采样值的跳频信号跳变时刻快速估计算法。该算法首先通过压缩感知技术以远低于奈奎斯特采样定理要求的速率对跳频信号进行整周期滑动采样,然后根据不同时刻相邻两跳信号窗函数的特点,重构信号在傅里叶正交基上的2个权值最大的稀疏系数,并由此对前后两跳持续时间进行判断,从而对跳频信号的跳变时刻进行参数估计。仿真结果显示,该算法能有效地估计跳频信号的跳频转换时刻,且实时性优于现有时频估计类算法。     

Power analysis of embedded software: a first step towards softwarepower minimization

Embedded computer systems are characterized by the presence of a dedicated processor and the software that runs on it. Power constraints are increasingly becoming the critical component of the design specification of these systems. At present, however, power analysis tools can only be applied at the lower levels of the design-the circuit or gate level. It is either impractical or impossible to use the lower level tools to estimate the power cost of the software component of the system. This paper describes the first systematic attempt to model this power cost. A power analysis technique is developed that has been applied to two commercial microprocessors-Intel 486DX2 and Fujitsu SPARClite 934. This technique can be employed to evaluate the power cost of embedded software. This can help in verifying if a design meets its specified power constraints. Further, it can also be used to search the design space in software power optimization. Examples with power reduction of up to 40%, obtained by rewriting code using the information provided by the instruction level power model, illustrate the potential of this idea     

一种基于chirp信号的空间域鲁棒性水印算法

选取两个chirp信号作为水印信息,嵌入到图像空间域中与该信号有相同数字特征的像素点处,使用两个嵌入位置矩阵作为算法密钥的同时,还根据chirp信号在分数傅立叶变换域呈现冲激的特征来检测水印信号。仿真实验结果表明,该数字水印算法具有良好的不可见性和安全性,算法不仅能抵抗很强的JPEG压缩、加噪、滤波等常用的信号处理操作,对旋转、平移、剪切等几何攻击也有很强的鲁棒性。     

一种新的基于H.264压缩域的运动对象分割算法

提出了一种在H.264压缩域下进行运动对象分割的新算法。算法主要利用H.264码流中的运动矢量信息来进行对象分割,为了提高运动矢量信息的鲁棒性,首先利用I帧中的帧内预测模式和预测残差能量进行区域划分;在P帧中,利用帧间预测残差能量来更新区域划分结果,对部分区域的运动矢量进行归零化处理。再根据P帧中的分块模式,采用不同的滤波器对运动矢量进行滤波;最后利用滤波后的运动矢量信息建立对应的Gibbs势能函数,采用迭代条件模式方法求解最大后验概率,得到可靠的运动对象标记。实验结果表明,该运动对象分割算法可以获得有效并可靠的分割结果。     

A segmentation scheme for head-shoulder video in MPEG compressed domain

More attention has been paid to the study of video object segmentation in compressed domain these years, which has already led to some practical technology. In this paper, a scheme is put forward for segmentation of head-shoulder video in MPEG （Motion Picture Experts Group） compressed domain. The conception of DCT （Discrete Cosine Transform） feature plane is defined. In the suggested scheme, firstly, the face region is detected by clustering skin-tone DCT feature points in the DCT feature plane. Secondly, the region of head-shoulder is approximately regarded as combination of the head rectangle and shoulder rectangle, and head rectangle is confirmed by double template matching. Thirdly, Canny operator and morphological operation are applied to the region of head-shoulder in feature plane to get the object mask and the region of object mask is rectified by correlation of DCT blocks to get high-quality segmentation.     

基于均值量化的小波域自同步数字音频水印算法研究

文中提出了一种基于均值量化的小波域自同步数字音频水印算法。该算法是一种盲水印算法,水印提取不需要原始音频信号的参与。算法设计中运用了均值量化的策略,音频信号小波分解后,在低频系数中隐藏水印信息;引入了同步信号的思想,利用同步信号定位水印隐藏位置。实验表明,该算法具有较强的鲁棒性、抗攻击性、抗裁剪性。     

伪随机二相码码元选取及信号处理算法研究

相位编码信号是低截获概率雷达信号的主要形式之一,能够提高雷达的生存能力。本文阐述了随机二相码的选取原则,在通过计算机仿真选取了适合条件的一组码元的基础上,对数字正交、频域脉冲压缩、旁瓣抑制滤波器设计等信号处理算法及静止和运动目标情况下旁瓣的抑制效果进行了研究和仿真。仿真结果证明了文中分析的正确性。     

ACTS: The first step toward a switchboard in the sky

The Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS), now under development and scheduled for launch in May 1992, is presently the main focus of NASA's communications program. Key technologies for ACTS include electronically hopping spot beam antennas, on-board processing and circuit switching, and Ka-band transmission.     

Saliency detection in the compressed domain for adaptive image retargeting

Saliency detection plays important roles in many image processing applications, such as regions of interest extraction and image resizing. Existing saliency detection models are built in the uncompressed domain. Since most images over Internet are typically stored in the compressed domain such as joint photographic experts group (JPEG), we propose a novel saliency detection model in the compressed domain in this paper. The intensity, color, and texture features of the image are extracted from discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients in the JPEG bit-stream. Saliency value of each DCT block is obtained based on the Hausdorff distance calculation and feature map fusion. Based on the proposed saliency detection model, we further design an adaptive image retargeting algorithm in the compressed domain. The proposed image retargeting algorithm utilizes multioperator operation comprised of the block-based seam carving and the image scaling to resize images. A new definition of texture homogeneity is given to determine the amount of removal block-based seams. Thanks to the directly derived accurate saliency information from the compressed domain, the proposed image retargeting algorithm effectively preserves the visually important regions for images, efficiently removes the less crucial regions, and therefore significantly outperforms the relevant state-of-the-art algorithms, as demonstrated with the in-depth analysis in the extensive experiments.     

MPEG-4: a multimedia standard for the third millennium. 1

MPEG-4 (formally ISO/IEC international standard 14496) defines a multimedia system for the interoperable communication of complex scenes containing audio, video, synthetic audio and graphics material. In this article, we provide a comprehensive overview of the technical elements of the Moving Pictures Expert Group's MPEG-4 multimedia system specification     

G.722: a new CCITT coding standard for digital transmission ofwideband audio signals

CCITT Study Group XVIII recognized the need for a new international coding standard on high-quality audio to allow interconnection of diverse switching, transmission, and terminal equipment and organized an expert group in 1983 to recommend an appropriate coding technique. A tutorial discussion is provided of the adaptive differential PCM (pulse-code modulation) coding method recommended by the group. The discussion covers the subjective performance tests performed, mode initialization and mode switching, data-speed multiplexing, and communication between narrowband and wideband terminals     

A simple circuit using FETs for fading audio signals in and out exponentially in time

This letter describes a simple fading circuit for low frequencies, using the FET as a control element. The logarithm of the output voltage is a linear function of time. Distortion is considerably reduced through a linearization circuit. The fading process can be interrupted at any moment and the rate of attenuation for each signal is maintained without change for several minutes.