A switching median filter with boundary discriminative noise detection for extremely corrupted images.

A novel switching median filter incorporating with a powerful impulse noise detection method, called the boundary discriminative noise detection (BDND), is proposed in this paper for effectively denoising extremely corrupted images. To determine whether the current pixel is corrupted, the proposed BDND algorithm first classifies the pixels of a localized window, centering on the current pixel, into three groups--lower intensity impulse noise, uncorrupted pixels, and higher intensity impulse noise. The center pixel will then be considered as "uncorrupted," provided that it belongs to the "uncorrupted" pixel group, or "corrupted." For that, two boundaries that discriminate these three groups require to be accurately determined for yielding a very high noise detection accuracy--in our case, achieving zero miss-detection rate while maintaining a fairly low false-alarm rate, even up to 70% noise corruption. Four noise models are considered for performance evaluation. Extensive simulation results conducted on both monochrome and color images under a wide range (from 10% to 90%) of noise corruption clearly show that our proposed switching median filter substantially outperforms all existing median-based filters, in terms of suppressing impulse noise while preserving image details, and yet, the proposed BDND is algorithmically simple, suitable for real-time implementation and application.     

A multistage perceptual quality assessment for compressed digitalangiogram images

This paper describes a multistage perceptual quality assessment (MPQA) model for compressed images. The motivation for the development of a perceptual quality assessment is to measure (in)visible differences between original and processed images. The MPQA produces visible distortion maps and quantitative error measures informed by considerations of the human visual system (HVS). Original and decompressed images are decomposed into different spatial frequency bands and orientations modeling the human cortex. Contrast errors are calculated for each frequency and orientation, and masked as a function of contrast sensitivity and background uncertainty. Spatially masked contrast error measurements are then made across frequency bands and orientations to produce a single perceptual distortion visibility map (PDVM). A perceptual quality rating (PQR) is calculated from the PDVM and transformed into a one to five scale, PQR(1-5), for direct comparison with the mean opinion score, generally used in subjective ratings. The proposed MPQA model is based on existing perceptual quality assessment models, while it is differentiated by the inclusion of contrast masking as a function of background uncertainty. A pilot study of clinical experiments on wavelet-compressed digital angiogram has been performed on a sample set of angiogram images to identify diagnostically acceptable reconstruction. Our results show that the PQR(1-5) of diagnostically acceptable lossy image reconstructions have better agreement with cardiologists' responses than objective error measurement methods, such as peak signal-to-noise ratio A Perceptual thresholding and CSF-based Uniform quantization (PCU) method is also proposed using the vision models presented in this paper. The vision models are implemented in the thresholding and quantization stages of a compression algorithm and shown to produce improved compression ratio performance with less visible distortion than that of the embedded zerotrees wavelet (EZWs).     

Border detection on digitized skin tumor images

A radial search technique is presented for detecting skin tumor borders in clinical dermatology images. First, it includes two rounds of radial search based on the same tumor center. The first-round search is independent, and the second-round search is knowledge-based tracking. Then a rescan with a new center is used to solve the blind-spot problem. The algorithm is tested on model images with excellent performance, and on 300 real clinical images with a satisfactory result.     

An efficient multistage switching node architecture for broadband ISDNs

This paper proposes and analyses a new and efficient multistage switching node architecture for high‐speed communication networks such as Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks (BISDNs). The proposed architecture has several superior features as compared to the existing switching nodes based on Banyan architecture. The architecture uses a reduced number of stages in an attempt to reduce the delay. Each switching element has its own input buffer and that reduces the blocking probability. Performance of the proposed architecture has been evaluated using simulation. The performance results are presented in the form of utilization, and delay, with different buffer sizes. The results show that the proposed architecture provides better performance in terms of reduced delay and higher throughput. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Improved discriminative training for generative model

This article proposes a model combination method to enhance the discriminability of the generative model. Generative and discriminative models have different optimization objectives and have their own advantages and drawbacks. The method proposed in this article intends to strike a balance between the two models mentioned above. It extracts the discriminative parameter from the generative model and generates a new model based on a multi-model combination. The weight for combining is determined by the ratio of the inter-variance to the intra-variance of the classes. The higher the ratio is, the greater the weight is, and the more discriminative the model will be. Experiments on speech recognition demonstrate that the performance of the new model outperforms the model trained with the traditional generative method.     

A multistage, optimal active contour model

Energy-minimizing active contour models or snakes can be used in many applications such as edge detection, motion tracking, image matching, computer vision, and three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction. We present a novel snake that is superior both in accuracy and convergence speed over previous snake algorithms. High performance is achieved by using spline representation and dividing the energy-minimization process into multiple stages. The first stage is designed to optimize the convergence speed in order to allow the snake to quickly approach the minimum-energy state. The second stage is devoted to snake refinement and to local minimization of energy, thereby driving the snake to a quasiminimum-energy state. The third stage uses the Bellman (1957) optimality principle to fine-tune the snake to the global minimum-energy state. This three-stage scheme is optimized for both accuracy and speed.     

SAR图像上舰船目标检测的一种新算法

提出了一种改进的KSW算法检测SAR图像上的舰船目标.在该算法中,检测门限被选择以最大化背景与目标灰度熵加权和.由于加权系数的引入,该算法能针对SAR图像上舰船目标检测的实际情况,调整背景与目标灰度熵在准则函数中所占比例.当海杂波较弱时,该算法与传统的KSW算法等价.当海杂波较强时,其较传统的KSW算法有更好的表现.     

A new model-based framework for lung tissue segmentation in three-dimensional thoracic CT images

A new framework for model-based lung tissue segmentation in three-dimensional thoracic CT images is proposed. In the first stage, a parametric model for lung segmenting surface is created using shape representation based on level sets method. This model is constituted by the sum of a mean distance function and a number of weighted eigenshapes. Consequently, unlike the other model-based segmentation methods, there is no need to specify any marker point in this model. In the second stage, the segmenting surface is varied so as to be matched with the binarized input image. For this purpose, a region-based energy function is minimized with respect to the parameters including the weights of eigenshapes and coefficients of a three-dimensional similarity transform. Finally, the resulted segmenting surface is post-processed in order to improve its fitness with the lung borders of the input image. The experimental results demonstrated the outperformance of the proposed framework over its model-based counterparts in model matching stage. Moreover, it performed slightly better in terms of final segmentation results.     

A bio-inspired center-surround model for salience computation in images

A center-surround model inspired by photoreceptor interactions and visual receptive field organization is presented in this paper for salience computation that predicts human eye fixation locations in images. The essence of photoreceptor interactions is implemented considering different nonlinear combinations of responses to stimuli given by values at nearby image pixels. These combinations are then fed to difference of Gaussian filtered outputs operation and Gabor filter based processes simulating visual receptive field organization. The proposed center-surround model is used in Itti et al.’s bio-inspired framework to perform salience computation. Analysis is carried out to present the information-theoretic aspect of the nonlinear combinations. Significance of the proposed center-surround model is shown both qualitatively and quantitatively by comparing its use in salience computation with the use of existing models considering different psychological patterns, and synthetic and real-life images. Quantitative and qualitative performance of salience computation using the novel center-surround model for three well-known datasets of images are also compared to that of relevant existing salience computation approaches to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in generating salience maps closer to human eye fixation density maps.     

Fuzzy adaptive partial parallel multistage detection for MIMO systems

Vertical Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (V-BLAST) detection followed by a full parallel interference cancellation (full PIC) or a constant-weight partial parallel interference cancellation (CW-PPIC) scheme has been proposed. However, its performance degrades when the received power of the antenna is unbalanced and/or the system is heavily loaded. Therefore, V-BLAST is proposed, followed by fuzzy adaptive partial parallel multistage detection for MIMO systems. The simulation results show that the error probability of this proposed method is better than that of V-BLAST followed by full PIC or CW-PPIC schemes     

An adaptive partial parallel multistage detection for MIMO systems

The full parallel multistage detection for multiple-input multiple-output systems has less processing delay and better performance than the vertical Bell Laboratories layered space-time detection scheme. However, due to the disadvantage of full parallel interference cancellation, its performance degrades when the received power of the substreams at one receiving antenna is unbalanced and/or when the system is heavily loaded. Therefore, we introduce adaptive partial weighting coefficients into the parallel multistage detection. The weighting coefficients are evaluated using the average decision correct probabilities in the previous stage. The simulation results show that the uncoded error probability of the proposed method is lower than that of the recently proposed full parallel multistage detection scheme with perfect or imperfect channel estimation.     

一种新的无监督的卫星影像变化检测算法

提出了一种基于主分量分析(PCA)和上下截集模糊Kohonen聚类网络(UDSFKCN)的、无监督的、不同时相的和卫星影像的像素级变化检测新算法.将PCA和UDSFKCN两种方法结合,并将它应用于不同时相的卫星影像的变化检测.该方法结合每个像素的邻域信息,利用PCA,产生每个像素对应的基于邻域信息的特征向量;又将变化区...     

A semisupervised segmentation model for collections of images

In this paper, we consider the problem of segmentation of large collections of images. We propose a semisupervised optimization model that determines an efficient segmentation of many input images. The advantages of the model are twofold. First, the segmentation is highly controllable by the user so that the user can easily specify what he/she wants. This is done by allowing the user to provide, either offline or interactively, some (fully or partially) labeled pixels in images as strong priors for the model. Second, the model requires only minimal tuning of model parameters during the initial stage. Once initial tuning is done, the setup can be used to automatically segment a large collection of images that are distinct but share similar features. We will show the mathematical properties of the model such as existence and uniqueness of solution and establish a maximum/minimum principle for the solution of the model. Extensive experiments on various collections of biological images suggest that the proposed model is effective for segmentation and is computationally efficient.     

一种用于主动式毫米波图像的低复杂度隐匿物品检测方法

主动式毫米波成像(AMWI)技术是检测隐藏在衣服下的危险物体的有效方法.但AMWI获取的图像通常很模糊,而且一些隐匿物体的尺寸较小,因此隐匿物品的自动检测和定位仍然是一个具有挑战性的问题.姚家雄等[1]首先使用卷积神经网络(CNNs)结合穷举滑动窗口方法来检测隐藏物体.做了两点改进:(1)使用上下文(背景)信息抑制干扰,(2)使用两步搜索方法代替穷举搜索来降低计算复杂度.首先在垂直方向上使用一个CNN来过滤干扰,得到隐藏物体的垂直位置,然后用另一个CNN来确定水平位置.为了充分利用上下文信息,使用IoG(交集和真值的比)代替IoU(交并比)来定义训练和测试过程中的正负样本.实验结果表明,该方法将计算时间减小到约30%,同时实现更好的检测性能.     

A methodology for evaluation of boundary detection algorithms onmedical images

Image segmentation is the partition of an image into a set of nonoverlapping regions whose union is the entire image. The image is decomposed into meaningful parts which are uniform with respect to certain characteristics, such as gray level or texture. In this paper, we propose a methodology for evaluating medical image segmentation algorithms wherein the only information available is boundaries outlined by multiple expert observers. In this case, the results of the segmentation algorithm can be evaluated against the multiple observers' outlines. We have derived statistics to enable us to find whether the computer-generated boundaries agree with the observers' hand-outlined boundaries as much as the different observers agree with each other. We illustrate the use of this methodology by evaluating image segmentation algorithms on two different applications in ultrasound imaging. In the first application, we attempt to find the epicardial and endocardial boundaries from cardiac ultrasound images, and in the second application, our goal is to find the fetal skull and abdomen boundaries from prenatal ultrasound images     

A new model for the performance evaluation of synchronous circuitswitched multistage interconnection networks

Patel (1981) proposed a probabilistic approach to analyze the performance of synchronous multistage interconnection networks (MINs) based on a uniform reference model and the assumption of independent requests. Patel's model and analytical results have been widely adopted by numerous researchers as a basis to investigate various aspects of MINs. We study in detail the effects of the independence assumption on the accuracy of system performance and point out the factors which cause an inaccuracy. A new queueing model is then proposed and is shown to be very accurate. Since only six states are needed, independent of the size of MINs, this new model is very efficient computationally     

A novel fingerprinting algorithm with blind detection in DCT domain for images

A novel blind fingerprint detection scheme for images is presented in Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) domain. Anti-Collusion Codes (ACCs) are employed to design the fingerprints, which can accommodate more users than orthogonal modulation based fingerprints with the same amount of signals. The selected DCT coefficients of the original image are quantized according to fingerprints, the standard JPEG quantization table is employed to improve the ability of anti-compression. The fingerprints were extracted without original signal's participation by judging which interval of the DCT coefficients belong to. Besides, the detection threshold is optimized automatically during tracing colluders. Experimental results show that the proposed blind fingerprint detection scheme has larger capacity and is more efficient than the existing algorithms.     

Multiple template detection using impulse restoration and discriminative filters

Recently, Ben-Arie and Rao (1993) have proposed a linear filter that, given a template, maximises the energy concentration in a single sample of its output. A two-dimensional generalisation of this method has also been proposed, formulating template matching as a multivariable optimisation problem. In other work, template detection has been looked at as an impulse restoration problem, and closed-form solutions for it have been proposed. An extension that allows multiple template discrimination is proposed. Simulation results suggest that the proposed method is an effective tool for decision problems and can achieve performances only attainable with sophisticated nonlinear methods.