Lapped transform‐based codec for frame‐memory reduction in super‐quality LCD overdrive

Abstract— Overdrive is commonly used to reduce the liquid‐crystal response time and motion blur in liquid‐crystal displays (LCDs). However, overdrive requires a large frame memory in order to store the previous frame for reference. In this paper, a lapped transform‐based codec (LTC) is proposed to reduce the frame memory needed for LCD overdrive. In the latest literature, a directional prediction‐based codec (DPC) employs eight directional predictions, which takes up a large percentage of the computational complexity of the codec and does not consider the de‐correlation of the inter‐blocks. Therefore, the LTC first uses the lapped transform to decompose the correlation of the inter‐blocks in the YUV color space. A hadamard transform is then used for energy compaction. The reordered coefficients are pre‐quantized and encoded using the proposed adaptive bit‐plane coding (ABPC) method for a simple hardware implementation. The simulation results show that the proposed LTC significantly improves the DPC in both subjective and objective performance and outperforms the block truncation coding (BTC) and adaptive multi‐level BTC (AM‐BTC), which have been described in the literature.     

基于图像先验知识的量化噪声盲估计算法

经过离散余弦变换的图像在DCT域系数的分布近似符合一个用参数λ描述的拉普拉斯分布。利用该参数以及图像在JPEG压缩中使用的DCT域量化系数,可以实现对图像量化噪声的估计。提出一种基于图像先验知识的分布参数估计方法,可以在没有未压缩的原始图像作为参考时实现对λ值的估计,进而计算压缩图像的峰值信噪比。     

一种基于EZW改进算法的图像压缩方法研究

针对原EZW算法未能很好利用图像小波系数特点及按照频率特性量化小波系数的不足,提出了对图像小波系数进行信噪分离、阈值化处理以及对低、高频图像信息进行分阈值量化的改进算法,并给出了在保证复原图像质量情况下扫描终止的判别条件,以节省压缩时间,在实时传输中能有效地提高图像压缩效率。仿真实验结果表明,改进算法无论在扫描相同次数下的信噪比,还是相近信噪比下的压缩比都获得了较大改善,为小波变换下的图像压缩方法提供了新的思路。     

基于QFD和TRIZ理论相结合的产品质量的评估方法研究

现代社会消费者对产品的评价指标是衡量产品质量优劣的标准,如何对消费者的需求进行科学的评估成为提升产品质量,推动企业进步的一项重要因素。文章结合QFD和TRIZ理论的研究方式,将顾客的感性需求进行量化分析,为产品质量评估提供了量化的理论与方法,并通过实例进行合理的分析论证。     

基于奇偶量化的彩色图像盲水印算法

提出一种基于奇偶量化的彩色图像小波域的数字水印算法。首先对水印图像进行置乱处理,然后对图像进行翻转,最后利用混沌系统产生的混沌序列对水印进行加密。水印嵌入时,采用小波变换并利用奇偶量化规则将加密后的水印嵌入到载体图像蓝色分量最深层的四个子带中。水印提取时,不需要原始图像的参与,实现了盲提取。仿真实验和性能分析表明,该算法有很好的不可见性和鲁棒性,可以有效地抵抗JPEG压缩、噪声、剪切等攻击。     

Rolling element bearing fault diagnosis using wavelet transform

This paper is focused on fault diagnosis of ball bearings having localized defects (spalls) on the various bearing components using wavelet-based feature extraction. The statistical features required for the training and testing of artificial intelligence techniques are calculated by the implementation of a wavelet based methodology developed using Minimum Shannon Entropy Criterion. Seven different base wavelets are considered for the study and Complex Morlet wavelet is selected based on minimum Shannon Entropy Criterion to extract statistical features from wavelet coefficients of raw vibration signals. In the methodology, firstly a wavelet theory based feature extraction methodology is developed that demonstrates the information of fault from the raw signals and then the potential of various artificial intelligence techniques to predict the type of defect in bearings is investigated. Three artificial intelligence techniques are used for faults classifications, out of which two are supervised machine learning techniques i.e. support vector machine, learning vector quantization and other one is an unsupervised machine learning technique i.e. self-organizing maps. The fault classification results show that the support vector machine identified the fault categories of rolling element bearing more accurately and has a better diagnosis performance as compared to the learning vector quantization and self-organizing maps.     

Combining stationary wavelet transform and self-organizing maps for brain MR image segmentation

This study presents an image segmentation system that automatically segments and labels T1-weighted brain magnetic resonance (MR) images. The method is based on a combination of unsupervised learning algorithm of the self-organizing maps (SOM) and supervised learning vector quantization (LVQ) methods. Stationary wavelet transform (SWT) is applied to the images to obtain multiresolution information for distinguishing different tissues. Statistical information of the different tissues is extracted by applying spatial filtering to the coefficients of SWT. A multidimensional feature vector is formed by combining SWT coefficients and their statistical features. This feature vector is used as input to the SOM. SOM is used to segment images in a competitive unsupervised approach and an LVQ system is used for fine-tuning. Results are evaluated using Tanimoto similarity index and are compared with manually segmented images. Quantitative comparisons of our system with the other methods on real brain MR images using Tanimoto similarity index demonstrate that our system shows better segmentation performance for the gray matter while it gives average results for white matter.     

基于计算听觉场景分析和语者模型信息的语音识别鲁棒前端研究

传统抗噪算法无法解决人声背景下语音识别(Automatic speech recognition, ASR)系统的鲁棒性问题. 本文提出了一种基于计算听觉场景分析(Computational auditory scene analysis, CASA)和语者模型信息的混合语音分离系统. 该系统在CASA框架下, 利用语者模型信息和因子最大矢量量化(Factorial-max vector quantization, MAXVQ)方法进行实值掩码估计, 实现了两语者混合语音中有效地分离出目标说话人语音的目标, 从而为ASR系统提供了鲁棒的识别前端. 在语音分离挑战(Speech separation challenge, SSC)数据集上的评估表明, 相比基线系统, 本文所提出的系统的语音识别正确率提高了15.68%. 相关的实验结果也验证了本文提出的多语者识别和实值掩码估计的有效性.     

Fast, automatic and fine-grained tampered JPEG image detection via DCT coefficient analysis

The quick advance in image/video editing techniques has enabled people to synthesize realistic images/videos conveniently. Some legal issues may arise when a tampered image cannot be distinguished from a real one by visual examination. In this paper, we focus on JPEG images and propose detecting tampered images by examining the double quantization effect hidden among the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients. To our knowledge, our approach is the only one to date that can automatically locate the tampered region, while it has several additional advantages: fine-grained detection at the scale of 8×8 DCT blocks, insensitivity to different kinds of forgery methods (such as alpha matting and inpainting, in addition to simple image cut/paste), the ability to work without fully decompressing the JPEG images, and the fast speed. Experimental results on JPEG images are promising.     

An improved lossless data hiding scheme based on image VQ-index residual value coding

Copyright protection and information security have become serious problems due to the ever growing amount of digital data over the Internet. Reversible data hiding is a special type of data hiding technique that guarantees not only the secret data but also the cover media can be reconstructed without any distortion. Traditional schemes are based on spatial, discrete cosine transformation (DCT) and discrete wavelet transformation (DWT) domains. Recently, some vector quantization (VQ) based reversible data hiding schemes have been proposed. This paper proposes an improved reversible data hiding scheme based on VQ-index residual value coding. Experimental results show that our scheme outperforms two recently proposed schemes, namely side-match vector quantization (SMVQ)-based data hiding and modified fast correlation vector quantization (MFCVQ)-based data hiding.