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This paper suggests an improved segmentation of remote sensing images based on watershed algorithm to reduce the over-segmentation of the watershed transform. Taking into the characteristics of remote sensing, remote sensing images were filtered using a fast peer group filtering (PGF). Then do watershed transform on the multi-scale morphological gradient image and merge regions by grey similarity...
In view of the Kirsch edge detection algorithm's shortage, a method of improved Kirsch human face edge detection was proposed. First, this method smoothed the original image with Gaussian filter, calculated its gradient image. Then, this method calculated the gradient image using the improved Kirsch algorithm, and extract edge according T1 and T2 two. Computer simulation experiments indicated that...
Currently the market and the academic community have required applications of image and video processing with several real-time constraints. In order to seek an alternative design that allows the rapid development of real time image processing systems this paper proposes an unified hardware architecture for some image filtering algorithms in space domain, such as windowing-based operations, which...
Recently, Template matching approach has been widely used to locate faces with various pose, illumination and clutter background. Normalized Cross-correlation (NCC) is an effective and simple measurement method to compute the similarity matching between the stored faces templates and the rectangular blocks of the input image to locate the face position. However, localization error occurs very often...
Ultrasound imaging is a widely used and safe medical diagnostic technique, due to its noninvasive nature, low cost, real time imaging. However the usefulness of ultrasound imaging is degraded by the presence of signal depended noise known as speckle.. The speckle pattern depends on the structure of the image tissue and various imaging parameters. There are two main purposes for speckle reduction in...
This paper presents a design methodology for hardware/software (HW/SW) architecture design using ESL tools (Electronic System Level). From C++ descriptions, our design flow is able to generate hardware blocks running with a software part and all necessary codes to prototype the HW/SW system on Xilinx FPGAs. Therefore we use assistance of high level synthesis tools (Catapult C Synthesis), logic synthesis...
The ocular fundus image can provide information on pathological changes caused by local ocular diseases and early signs of certain systemic diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension. Automated analysis and interpretation of fundus images has become a necessary and important diagnostic procedure in ophthalmology. The extraction of blood vessels from retinal images is an important and challenging...
In this paper we are proposing to detect the localization and recognition of an indoor stairway. This is a fundamental step in the implementing of autonomous stair climbing navigation, as well as the implementing of passive alarm systems intended for the blind and visually impaired. Both of these systems must be able to recognize parameters that can describe stairways in unknown environments. This...
Fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory can be interesting tools for engineers when solving image processing problems. They provide a mathematical model for approximate reasoning, which mimics human reasoning and therefore can be very powerfull. In this paper we review the basic concepts of fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory, and use these tools for the construction of a filter for random impulse noise removal...
Regarding internal memory size, we proposed a new scan method for block-based structure to provide an efficient parametric structure for two Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform (2-D DWT). The main challenge in 2-D DWT structure is the amount of internal memory required to produce wavelet coefficients. The previous structures need fixed memory size depend on input frame size, but in proposed architecture,...
This paper addresses the evaluation of motion compensated inverse filtering (MCIF) for LCD motion de-blurring. Using a novel analysis method, it can be shown that MCIF improves motion portrayal by a factor of almost two.
To solve the contradiction between the noise-reducing effect and the time complexity of the standard median filter algorithm, the paper proposed an improved median filter algorithm combined with average filtering. According to the correlation of the image, the algorithm adaptively resizes the filter mask according to noise levels of the mask. According to the sorting results of the selected pixel...
Filtering of LIDAR points cloud is the key of obtaining precise DEM and it has become a studying focus. Determination of the filtering parameters affects the results directly. Within this paper, it is proposed that making use of pixel position and grey information in distance image to guide determination of the filtering parameters like the block size and the threshold value. And the method is validated...
Currently, depth sequences generated by automatic depth estimation suffer from the temporal inconsistency problem. Estimated depth values of some objects vary in adjacent frames, whereas the objects actually remain on the same depth planes. These temporal depth errors significantly impair the visual quality of the synthesized virtual view as well as the coding efficiency of the depth sequences. Since...
JPEG standard is commonly used for the still image compression. However, the DCT-based coding of JPEG is one of the lossy compression tools and introduces most artifacts in the decompressed image such as blocking and ringing artifacts. In this paper, our proposed method focuses on how to efficiently detect the blocks which cause ringing artifacts. Moreover, these ringing blocks will be further filtered...
Rasterization algorithms fall into two main categories, point-sampling and area-sampling. Point-sampling techniques allow for high quality reconstruction, but suffer from aliasing artifacts, time-costly to attenuate. On the other side, area-sampling, popularized by Edwin C. Catmull's Unweighted Area Sampling or UAS, is equivalent to point-sampling at an infinite rate, but reconstruction is restricted...
Road detection is the most fundamental part of autonomous vehicles. Noises caused by shadows and vehicles on the road have a great negative impact on the road detection. Our method improves the performance under the noisy environment by taking advantage of color information to determine the road curvature. A novel geometrical method is proposed in this paper to select the most matched curvature. A...
Filtering is an essential step to image processing, at present, a lot of filtering algorithm will damage the detail information of an image when they were used to remove noise that distribute over the image, in such circumstances, attaining an ideal effect is very difficult. The improved filtering algorithm based on gray correlation degree makes use of gray correlation analysis to find out random...
This paper proposes a image enhancement and segmentation method for mammographic images, which is based on the pixel intensity transformation, spatial filtering, edge detection, and region growing techniques. This method consists of two approaches. The first approach is applying intensity transformation, logarithmic transformation, contrast stretching, histogram equalization and spatial filtering...
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