{"title":"Multiframe super resolution with JPEG2000 compressed images","authors":"B. Narayanan, R. Hardie","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443032","url":null,"abstract":"Historically, Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000 (JPEG2000) image compression and multiframe Super Resolution (SR) image processing techniques have evolved separately. We focus on the adaptive Wiener filter (AWF) method of SR and study its performance as JPEG2000 is incorporated in three different ways. In particular, we perform compression prior to SR using independent and difference frame methods. We also consider performing compression after SR. We find that the effects of compression can be reduced by decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the correlation model for the AWF SR method, providing a novel approach to treat the compression artifacts. This SNR modification can be done globally or locally. The experimental results include the use of simulated imagery for quantitative analysis. We also include real video results for subjective analysis.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126178685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michel McLaughlin, Samuel Grieggs, Soundararajan Ezekiel, M. Ferris, Erik Blasch, M. Alford, Maria Cornacchia, A. Bubalo
{"title":"Bandelet denoising in image processing","authors":"Michel McLaughlin, Samuel Grieggs, Soundararajan Ezekiel, M. Ferris, Erik Blasch, M. Alford, Maria Cornacchia, A. Bubalo","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443035","url":null,"abstract":"As digital media and internet use grow, imagery and video are prevalent in many areas of life. Many sensing methods such as Full Motion Video (FMV), Hyperspectral Imagery (HSI), and medical imaging have been developed to accumulate data for diagnostics. Analyzing imagery data to detect and identify specific objects is an essential phase of comprehending visual imagery. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is a contemporary development in the field of computer vision. Currently, edge detection filters create undesirable noise for CBIR that leads to difficulties in object detection algorithms. Bandelets have been shown to decrease the noise in signals and images by their use of geometric regularity to compute polynomial approximations in localized regions. In this paper, we use both the bandelet and the discrete wavelet transform to decrease noise within an image. By using Wavelet Exploitation of Bandelet Coefficients (WEBC) to decrease noise we can enhance object detection for CBIR. WEBC raised the peak signal to noise ratio from noised to the denoised images by 19 percent on average, while the structural similarity index measure actually increased by 80 percent on average.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125246039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extraction and classification of moving targets in multi-sensory MAMI-1 data collection","authors":"R. Ilin, Scott Clouse","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443102","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we consider the problem of extraction and classification of moving targets in wide area imagery. We use the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) airborne multi-sensor dataset, MAMI-1, for testing, wherein moving targets mostly consist of people and vehicles. The movers are extracted using a novel sparse and low-rank matrix decomposition technique. We further compare the classification performance based on SIFT, Dense SIFT, and a superpixel based feature extraction. The results show the superpixel approach as the most advantageous.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116774292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation of IR spectral target sensing algorithm in synthesizable logic","authors":"Woo-Yong Jang, M. Vakil, J. Vella, M. Noyola","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443086","url":null,"abstract":"We report the implementation of an adaptive spectral sensing algorithm in hardware description language for IR target classification. The synthesized logic performs computation in digital domain between IR test input and a set of prescribed algorithmic weights to extract desired spectral information from targets as well as identifying its class.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116908192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ryan Wu, Anna Deng, Yu Chen, Erik Blasch, Bingwei Liu
{"title":"Cloud technology applications for area surveillance","authors":"Ryan Wu, Anna Deng, Yu Chen, Erik Blasch, Bingwei Liu","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443044","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient area surveillance in the Big Data era requires the capability of quickly abstracting useful information from the overwhelmingly increasing amount of data. Real-time information fusion is imperative and challenging to mission critical surveillance tasks for variant applications. Cloud computing has been recognized as an ideal candidate for Big Data because of many attractive features including high elasticity, good scalability, supporting pay-as-you-go service models, and capability of overcoming the constraints in both software parallelism and hardware capacities. In this work, we demonstrate that container-based virtualization outperforms the hypervisor-based Cloud Computing platforms. Taking WAMI (Wide-Area Motion Imagery), FMV (Full Motion Video), and text data as case studies, our experimental studies validate the advantages of container-based Cloud for area surveillance applications.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131270606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detecting anomalous behavior in microcontrollers using unintentional radio frequency emissions","authors":"J. Wylie, Samuel J. Stone","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443058","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a process of utilizing Correlation-Based Anomaly Detection (CBAD) on Unintentional RF (Radio Frequency) Emissions (URE) as a method of detecting anomalous behavior in microcontrollers. The number of counterfeit devices and malicious code being found in military systems is increasing. Therefore, an effective method of detecting anomalous behavior is required to determine whether the device is functioning properly. This may be accomplished by comparing the current operations of a device against a pre-established baseline.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134320949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Ferris, Michel McLaughlin, Samuel Grieggs, Soundararajan Ezekiel, Erik Blasch, M. Alford, Maria Cornacchia, A. Bubalo
{"title":"Using ROC curves and AUC to evaluate performance of no-reference image fusion metrics","authors":"M. Ferris, Michel McLaughlin, Samuel Grieggs, Soundararajan Ezekiel, Erik Blasch, M. Alford, Maria Cornacchia, A. Bubalo","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443034","url":null,"abstract":"Image fusion has many applications in which a reference image is not always available including image registration, medical imaging, and fusion between visible and infrared imagery. For these no-reference applications, it is important that there are objective and efficient methods for validating fusion performance, as subjective image fusion evaluation is time consuming and non-scalable. There have been multiple no-reference objective metrics created in the past. These include mutual information, spatial frequency, and structural similarity index measure (SSIM). However, it is important to consider justification of a given evaluation metric as appropriate for a given type of image fusion method. We seek to ensure that if a given metric scores one image higher than another, then the image with the higher metric score is subjectively preferred. This pilot study investigates the applications of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves and the Area Under the Curve (AUC) as a method of validation for fusion metrics used for evaluating image fusion methods. The results from the pilot study indicate that ROC curves and AUC provide a discriminating form of validation for image fusion metrics to support image fusion applications evaluation.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134416495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Vella, J. Goldsmith, N. Limberopoulos, V. Vasilyev
{"title":"Near-and mid-infrared fluorescence enhancement in terbium-yttrium polytantalate","authors":"J. Vella, J. Goldsmith, N. Limberopoulos, V. Vasilyev","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443048","url":null,"abstract":"Devices incorporating localized surface plasmon polariton-enhanced fluorescence have the potential to be more sensitive, effective and smaller than their traditional counterparts. A unique study examining the fluorescence enhancement of Tb3+ doped yttrium polytantalate, Tb<sub>0.15</sub>Y<sub>0.85</sub>Ta<sub>7</sub>O<sub>19</sub>, in the 1000-5000 nm region will be described. After sputtering onto films of plasmonic gold nanoparticles, thickness dependent, infrared fluorescence enhancement factors were found to be 0.64-6-fold relative to the same thickness film without gold particles. The large Tb<sub>0.15</sub>Y<sub>0.85</sub>Ta<sub>7</sub>O<sub>19</sub> film thickness dependence on the fluorescence enhancement factor will be described within the context of electromagnetic theory.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117270870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A modified collaborative adaptive wiener filter for multi-frame super-resolutionaper","authors":"K. M. Mohamed, R. Hardie","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443031","url":null,"abstract":"During acquisition, digital images are invariably degraded by a number of phenomena that limit image resolution and utility. Aliasing from undersampling, blur from optics, and sensor noise are some factors which can affect the image resolution. Multi-frame super-resolution (SR) is a technique that takes several low-resolution (LR) frames of a particular scene and processes them together to produce one or more high-resolution (HR) images. The HR images have higher spatial frequency content, and less noise and blur, than any of the LR frames. A collaborative adaptive Wiener filter (CAWF) for multi-frame SR, proposed by the current authors, is one of the very recent effective multi-frame SR algorithms. In this paper, we modify the original CAWF SR method by employing a spatially varying signal variance estimate. Instead of using a global signal variance estimate as an external input to the original CAWF SR algorithm, we estimate the desired signal variance in each processing window and incorporate it to estimate the HR pixels. The modified CAWF SR is presented and demonstrated. In addition, performance comparisons between the original and the modified CAWF SR are conducted. The modified CAWF SR outperforms the original CAWF SR, particularly in low signal-to-noise ratio images.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121944058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memristor crossbar based unsupervised training","authors":"Raqibul Hasan, T. Taha","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443091","url":null,"abstract":"Several big data applications are particularly focused on classification and clustering tasks. Robustness of such system depends on how well it can extract important features from the raw data. For big data processing we are interested for a generic feature extraction mechanism for different applications. Autoencoder is a popular unsupervised training algorithm for dimensionality reduction and feature extraction. In this work we have examined memristor crossbar based implementation of autoencoder which will consume very low power. We have designed on-chip training circuitry for the unsupervised training scheme.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122473295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}