{"title":"Widely linear MMSE equalizer for MIMO linear time-dispersive channel","authors":"D. Mattera, L. Paura, F. Sterle","doi":"10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296501","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with transmission over multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems where, due to the large demand of high bit-rate telecommunication services, is required to take into account the time-dispersion of the channel. Recently, widely linear processing, which can be considered as a generalization of linear processing, has been proposed for single-input/single-output (SISO) and MIMO zero-memory equalizer. In this paper, widely linear processing has been extended to the general case of minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalizer for both finite impulse response (FIR) and recursive structures. Simulation results (with reference to recursive structure) show that the proposed equalizer significantly outperforms the linear MMSE equalizer and decision feedback one in operative conditions of practical interest where the conditions of joint circularity of input and output signals are not satisfied (e.g., DS/WCDMA employing BPSK scheme).","PeriodicalId":218932,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2003. ISPA 2003. Proceedings of the","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129639074","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":"Scalable reduced dimension object segmentation based adaptive progressive color-image coding","authors":"Lei Zhang, Guofang Tu","doi":"10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296904","url":null,"abstract":"A fast and efficient wavelet image-coding algorithm based on scalable reduced dimension object segmentation (SRDOS) introduced by L. Zhang et al. (2003) is presented in this paper. The object is segmented with the lifting scheme right after wavelet transform. It is the reduced dimension space of the transform domain in which SRDOS algorithm is applied to detect and segment the object with lower complexity and more sufficient accuracy. Due to the characteristics of multi-scale segmentation and higher performance/complexity, SRDOS adapts to object-oriented adaptive progressive wavelet color-image coding. For higher compression ratio, coding algorithm takes advantage of the relationship of the same spatial location at the same scale to remove spatial redundancy of the landscape orientation and applies context-based arithmetic coding algorithm to reduce spatial redundancy of the vertical orientation. For keeping important information, object and non-object have different quantizers and priorities respectively. The experiments show that SRDOS based coding algorithm gains higher subject visual quality and image peak signal to noise ratio (ISNR).","PeriodicalId":218932,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2003. ISPA 2003. Proceedings of the","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130906441","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":"Combined speech and video scalable coding: a UMTS case study","authors":"G. Iacovoni, J. Mancinelli, G.L. Persia, S. Morsa","doi":"10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296497","url":null,"abstract":"All-IP UMTS cell capacity evaluation, considering two real-time services: telephony and video telephony is considered in this paper. For each service, we introduce two levels of quality: standard and premium. This differentiation is achieved by using the two-layers SNR scalability featured by H.263 video coder and two different bit-rate modes for adaptive multirate (AMR) speech coder. First, we show how to map the above services into the radio bearers of the UMTS terrestrial radio access (UTRA). Then, we describe a methodology to evaluate the uplink channel capacity of the cell when loaded with the above services. To this end for both services, and for each quality level within each service, we define a target QoS through subjective and objective quality assessments. These QoS are met by squeezing out the available CDMA resources of the cell. Results are given in terms of admission regions for different scenarios.","PeriodicalId":218932,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2003. ISPA 2003. Proceedings of the","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132199051","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":"Progressive near-lossless coding of medical images","authors":"A. Krivoulets","doi":"10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296894","url":null,"abstract":"We propose an algorithm intended for compression of medical images, which allows for embedded coding in L/sub /spl infin// sense, i.e., progressive near-lossless as well as lossless image compression. The method is based on a lossy plus near-lossless layered compression scheme and embedded quantization of the difference signal. We show, that this technique allows for a better image quality and compression performance for large tolerance values than algorithms based on predictive coding. The lossy plus near-lossless scheme also allows for image reconstruction with a minimum mean square error (MSE) criterion, while providing a strict control of the maximum absolute difference error. This property is impossible in predictive coding algorithms.","PeriodicalId":218932,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2003. ISPA 2003. Proceedings of the","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133170953","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":"Ultra low bit-rate image coding algorithm based on fractal image coding","authors":"M. Takezawa, M. Haseyama, H. Kitajima","doi":"10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296433","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a low bit-rate fractal image coding algorithm for wireless communication. The fractal image coding is well known for its high compression performance. This performance is useful for future wireless communications with narrow-band. However, in order to become a powerful image coding technique for wireless communications, its reconstructed image quality must be improved. Therefore, to achieve further quality improvement, a novel fractal image coding algorithm is proposed. Some simulation results verify that the proposed method can reconstruct images with 1.4 dB higher quality than JPEG at low bit-rates below 0.12 bits pixel and also higher quality than JPEG2000 at very low bit-rates below 0.035-0.05 bits pixel.","PeriodicalId":218932,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2003. ISPA 2003. Proceedings of the","volume":"268 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116050372","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":"Automatic landmark detection on chromosomes' images for feature extraction purposes","authors":"Mehdi Moradi, S. Setarehdan, S. Ghaffari","doi":"10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296960","url":null,"abstract":"Valuable medical information can be achieved by analysing shape and appearance of human chromosomes. Karyotype, an image of collection of all 23 pairs of human chromosomes, is usually used for this purpose. Making a Karyotype is hard and time consuming, encouraging experts in the image processing and machine vision field to work towards an automatic Karyotyping method. The first step in automation of this process is to define the geometric (morphologic) and intensity based features of the chromosome originating mostly from its banding pattern. As part of a complete project, which is defined to develop a new knowledge based classification technique for chromosomes, a number of new features in addition to the commonly used geometric and intensity based features, are introduced in this paper. Some of the features are computed using the so-called medial axis transform (MAT). For an accurate determination of most of these features it is necessary, however, to identify some key points or landmarks in the image (mostly over the MAT). This paper describes novel algorithms developed to locate such landmarks as centromere, end points of chromosome and two points defined as branching points on the chromosome axis. The algorithms have been tested on the real images supplied by the cytogenetic laboratory of Cancer Institute, University of Tehran. The automatically defined positions of the landmarks have been compared to those manually identified by an expert. In most of the cases the results were in complete agreement.","PeriodicalId":218932,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2003. ISPA 2003. Proceedings of the","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128270255","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}
A. Mora, J. Fonseca, J. Martins, A. Steiger-Garção
{"title":"LIBS chemical image analysis for fatigue estimation in industrial materials","authors":"A. Mora, J. Fonseca, J. Martins, A. Steiger-Garção","doi":"10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296920","url":null,"abstract":"The extreme conditions industrial materials are usually exposed induce metallurgical modifications which can lead to a premature fatigue causing cracks. In this paper, we present a set of methodologies for the automation of an in-situ fatigue estimation system. The modifications considered are detectable at the material's surface through a spatial chemical analysis process that in this system is performed by laser spectroscopy (LIBS). For the chemical analysis automation a set of signal processing techniques for the LIBS spectrum analysis is presented. The result of the chemical analysis in different points is displayed on a set of images. The estimation process is based on the application of digital image processing techniques and artificial intelligence techniques on the obtained image. This system was developed in the framework of the EC project - LIBSGrain which designed, built and tested the equipment on a chemical plant. The results obtained with the system are also presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":218932,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2003. ISPA 2003. Proceedings of the","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134197812","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}
C. Strouthopoulos, N. Papamarkos, A. Atsalakis, C. Chamzas
{"title":"Text identification in color documents","authors":"C. Strouthopoulos, N. Papamarkos, A. Atsalakis, C. Chamzas","doi":"10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296366","url":null,"abstract":"In complex color documents, text, drawings and graphics are appeared with millions of different colors. In many cases, text regions are overlaid onto drawings or graphics. In this paper, a new method is proposed to automatically detect and extract text in mixed type color documents. The proposed method is based on a combination of an adaptive color reduction (ACR) technique and a page layout analysis (PLA) approach. The ACR technique is used to obtain the optimal number of colors. Then, image is split to separable binary images, each one corresponding to every principal color. The PLA technique is applied independently to each one of the color plains and identifies the text regions. A merging procedure is applied in the final stage to merge the text regions derived from the color plains and to produce the final document.","PeriodicalId":218932,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2003. ISPA 2003. Proceedings of the","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128092429","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 new approach for the blind deconvolution of nonlinear systems based on a high-order statistical criterium","authors":"J. Destro-Filho","doi":"10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296472","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, blind deconvolution is analysed in the context of high-order statistics, supposing that the transmitted signal is iid. A new statistical criterium defining the optimal deconvolution is proposed. This result is used to define the structure of the optimal equalizer for some specific communication systems, wherein predistortion is used in the transmitter. Comparative simulations point out that the criterium leads to new insights and more efficient techniques for coping with channel nonlinearities.","PeriodicalId":218932,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2003. ISPA 2003. Proceedings of the","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116180913","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":"Exact image reconstruction using a limited number of projection samples","authors":"A. Kesidis, Nikolaos Papamarkos","doi":"10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPA.2003.1296942","url":null,"abstract":"A new method for the exact reconstruction of any grayscale image from a limited number of projection samples is proposed. The original image is projected into certain projection angles using a proper projection angle step and a proper number of ray samples on the projection axis. If these conditions are fulfilled the proposed method ensures that for each image pixel a characteristic sample exists which allows the determination of the pixel's grayscale value during the reconstruction phase. Thus, instead of calculating all the projection samples of the image on several projection angles, in the proposed method only a specific number of samples is required that equals the number of pixels in the original image. During the reconstruction procedure the characteristic samples are examined consequently starting from those corresponding to pixels further from the origin and continuing with the closer image pixels. This approach leads to significant reduction of memory and processing time requirements since a simple sequence of samples is used instead of all the data from the image projections.","PeriodicalId":218932,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2003. ISPA 2003. Proceedings of the","volume":"36 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116409381","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}