An alignment-free fingerprint bio-cryptosystem based on modified Voronoi neighbor structures

Bio-cryptography is an emerging security technology which combines cryptography with biometrics. A good bio-cryptosystem is required to protect the privacy of the relevant biometric data as well as achieving high recognition accuracy. Fingerprints have been widely used in bio-cryptosystem design. However, fingerprint uncertainty caused by distortion and rotation during the image capturing process makes it difficult to achieve a high recognition rate in most bio-cryptographic systems. Moreover, most existing bio-cryptosystems rely on the accurate detection of singular points for fingerprint image pre-alignment, which is very hard to achieve, and the image rotation transformation during the alignment process can cause significant singular point deviation and minutiae changes. In this paper, by taking full advantage of local Voronoi neighbor structures (VNSs), e.g. local structural stability and distortion insensitivity, we propose an alignment-free bio-cryptosystem based on fixed-length bit-string representations extracted from modified VNSs, which are rotation- and translation-invariant and distortion robust. The proposed alignment-free bio-cryptosystem is able to provide strong security while achieving good recognition performance. Experimental results in comparison with most existing alignment-free bio-cryptosystems using the publicly-available databases show the validity of the proposed scheme.     

3D fingerprint reconstruction system using feature correspondences and prior estimated finger model

The paper studies a 3D fingerprint reconstruction technique based on multi-view touchless fingerprint images. This technique offers a solution for 3D fingerprint image generation and application when only multi-view 2D images are available. However, the difficulties and stresses of 3D fingerprint reconstruction are the establishment of feature correspondences based on 2D touchless fingerprint images and the estimation of the finger shape model. In this paper, several popular used features, such as scale invariant feature transformation (SIFT) feature, ridge feature and minutiae, are employed for correspondences establishment. To extract these fingerprint features accurately, an improved fingerprint enhancement method has been proposed by polishing orientation and ridge frequency maps according to the characteristics of 2D touchless fingerprint images. Therefore, correspondences can be established by adopting hierarchical fingerprint matching approaches. Through an analysis of 440 3D point cloud finger data (220 fingers, 2 pictures each) collected by a 3D scanning technique, i.e., the structured light illumination (SLI) method, the finger shape model is estimated. It is found that the binary quadratic function is more suitable for the finger shape model than the other mixed model tested in this paper. In our experiments, the reconstruction accuracy is illustrated by constructing a cylinder. Furthermore, results obtained from different fingerprint feature correspondences are analyzed and compared to show which features are more suitable for 3D fingerprint images generation.     

提高30m~3聚合釜生产能力

介绍了提高聚合釜生产能力的措施,改变聚合水油比,由原来的1.77降低到1.70,增加投料系数0.16;采用新助剂和密闭投料等新工艺,缩短聚合反应周期2.7h。使30m3聚合釜生产能力从5kt/a提高到6.5kt/a。     

高效节能换热器在氮肥工业中的应用

描述了新型折流杆换热器的强化传热和降低壳层压力降的原理 ,它与传统折流板换热器相比 ,传热效率高 ,材料及能耗小。介绍了这种新型换热器在合成氨变换工段和尿素装置中的应用情况及所起的节能降耗作用 ,指出该高效节能换热器在设计和生产中的关键技术。     

物理场强化溶液结晶应用研究进展

结晶是食品和化工分离中的一个重要单元操作。文章阐述了溶液结晶的原理，综述了超声场、微波场、静电场、磁场等物理场在溶液结晶中的应用，分析和探讨了它们对溶液结晶的影响机理，并且对今后的发展进行了展望。     

图像增强技术在安防监控系统中的应用

数字化的图像处理技术里面对于各个综合知识的跨度是相当大的,对于各个知识面的要求也是十分高的。那么图像处理技术在实际的生活应用中也是被广泛运用。随着科技时代的到来,人们对于图像的画质要求更高,所以对于图像处理技术的研发已经是整个行业必须解决的问题。那么在这样一个要求越来越高的情形下,在视频监控行业里面图像处理技术起到了那些作用？是怎么样去应用到安防监控行业里面的？本文针对这些问题作出了一些简单的讨论和研究。     

A minimum variance distortionless response filter based on the bifrequency spectrum for single-channel noise reduction

This paper deals with the problem of single-channel noise reduction in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. Many algorithms have been developed to solve this important problem, most of which generally assume that the STFT coefficients in different frequency bands are uncorrelated, so the noise reduction is achieved by applying a gain function to the STFT of the noisy speech in each frequency band. However, this assumption is not accurate and the STFT coefficients of speech signals between neighboring frequency bands are correlated in practice due to the use of small lengths of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) and overlap add/save techniques in implementation. This paper formulates the noise reduction problem by taking into account the interband correlation using the so-called bifrequency spectrum. Based on this formulation, a single-channel minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) filter is derived, which is shown to be able to significantly improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and meanwhile maintain the desired speech not much distorted. Simulations are presented to justify the claimed merits of the developed MVDR filter.     

视频图像增强关键技术研究

随着社会的飞速发展,采集保存视频/图像已经成为人类日常生活的一部分。视频图像的质量高低,对人类识别图像对象起着非常重要的作用。为了改善图像的视觉效果,有目的地强调图像的某些特征,增加图像的可读性与可识别性,提出采取融合增强术来提高视频图像的对比度与清晰度,提高图像增强质量。     

Ultrasonic defouling of reverse osmosis membranes used to treat wastewater effluents

On-line ultrasonic cleaning was used to remove fouling from a commercially important polyamide based reverse osmosis membrane during cross-flow filtration of CaSO₄, Fe³⁺ and carboxyl cellulose solutions. In each case, the permeate flux of the membrane increased significantly, with virtually no decrease in rejection in the presence of ultrasonication. Membrane surface characterization via scanning electron microscopy (SEM) confirmed the beneficial effect of ultrasonication on the membrane permeate flux. These studies suggest that ultrasonic defouling may be a very useful approach for the future development of reverse membranes, especially as far as fouling with organic materials is concerned.     

Preparation of V doped lanthanum silicate electrolyte ceramics by combustion method and study on conductance mechanism

Vanadium doped La_9.33Si_6−xV_xO_26+0.5x (x = 0.5, 1.0, 1.5) (LSVO) electrolyte powder was prepared by combustion method at 600°C for 5-7 min. The powder was sintered at 1500°C for 3 hours to prepare LSVO ceramics. XPS, IR, XRD, and EIS analysis show that V⁵⁺ doping replaces Si⁴⁺ in [SiO₄] to form [Si(V)O₄] tetrahedron. With the increase in x, the lattice volume increase. When x = 2.0, the LaVO₄ phase was formed, indicating that the limit doping amount of V⁵⁺ replacing Si⁴⁺ is x ≤ 1.5. The conductivity of LSVO increases significantly with the increase in x (x ≤ 1.0), which attributed to the defect reaction caused by V⁵⁺ doping. The addition of the interstitial oxygen Oi* in 6₃ channels and the increase of lattice volume leads to increased conductivity. When x = 1.0, the highest conductivity is 1.46 × 10⁻² S·cm⁻¹ (800°C). The doping enhancement conductivity mechanism is the Interstitial oxygen defect-Lattice volume composite enhancement mechanism.