{"title":"Efficient, ‘greedy’ rate allocation for JPEG2000","authors":"S. Ramamurthy","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6708006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6708006","url":null,"abstract":"We describe an efficient algorithm for rate control in JPEG2000 or similar sub-band based visual compression schemes. Operating in tandem with the compression process, our method initially predicts “Distortion-Rate” (RD) slopes for all code-blocks' coding data, based on empirical statistics of coefficients and subsequently uses a greedy approach. We use an optimized doubly-linked tree structure, which is initially constructed using predicted slopes as the key. The tree is subsequently updated with actual slopes to proceed with our rate allocation method. Our algorithm allows for fine-grain targeting of bitrates. A good balance of complexity and quality is observed in this scheme vis-à-vis the full effort Post Compression Rate Distortion (PCRD) optimization. Quality is optimized across a multitude of code-blocks competing for their constituent coding passes to be embedded into the bitstream, with good `dispersion' of distortion.","PeriodicalId":440373,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114418936","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":"Improving spatial resolution for EIT reconstructed images through measurement strategies","authors":"R. Chin, T. York","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6707968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6707968","url":null,"abstract":"Reconstructed images produced using Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) are notorious for their poor spatial resolution. This is largely due to the ill-posed nature of the EIT problem. Much effort has been made in order to improve on spatial resolution of reconstructed images. One of the more direct approaches is by improving the amount of information obtainable. With the development and transition from 2D to 3D tomography, more measurements can be obtained to better inform the inversion problem through expanding the number of electrodes or through measurement strategies. This paper delves into the latter method, providing a comparison study using sensitivity analysis, stability of measurement analysis and spatial resolution analysis, with the aim of providing a better understanding of the influence of varying different parameters on the quality of reconstructed images, before more unconventional methods of increasing information through unconventional measurement strategies are devised.","PeriodicalId":440373,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125641712","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 spatio-temporal inpainting method for Kinect depth video","authors":"Dongdong Zhang, Ye Yao, D. Zang, Yanyu Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6707979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6707979","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a spatio-temporal inpainting method to recover depth images generated by Kinect. Based on the assumption that neighbouring pixels similar in color are likely to have similar depth values, for the first depth image and the sub-images including the motion bodies extracted from the following depth frames, we use color segmentation maps of the corresponding color video frames to guide the depth filling. Considering that some dark regions without valid depth value could lead to the fail of color-segmentation based depth filling, we design a dark region detection method and further refine hole-filling of the unfilled regions with the valid depth values of the same dark region. For the static areas of Kinect depth video, the recovered depth at the same position of previous frame is used to recover the lost depth in the current depth frame. Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly improves depth quality by successfully filling the holes so that we can use it for better 3D rendering.","PeriodicalId":440373,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130514079","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 DCT-domain JND model based on visual attention for image","authors":"Dongdong Zhang, Lijing Gao, D. Zang, Yaoru Sun","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6707967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6707967","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the traditional JND models in DCT domain compute the JND threshold by incorporating the spatial contrast sensitivity function, the luminance adaptation effect and the contrast masking effect. How to integrate visual attention effect into the traditional JND models is still an open problem. In this paper, we proposed a new DCT-domain JND profile, in which a combined modulation function is built, based on the image saliency and textural characteristic to describe the visual attention effect and contrast masking effect on JND Threshold in DCT domain. Experimental results show that the proposed model can tolerate more distortion with the same perceptual quality, compared with the latest DCT-domain JND model. In terms of PSNR, the improvement of tolerated distortion is 0.54dB on average.","PeriodicalId":440373,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123891860","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":"Initial experimental results of real-time variant pose face detection and tracking system","authors":"Nur Baiti Zahir, R. Samad, M. Mustafa","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6708015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6708015","url":null,"abstract":"A face detection system is a computer application for automatically detecting a human face from digital image or video frame. This paper presents a face detection system that used web camera to detect and track a face in real-time. To detect a face in the image, a simple method of skin color detection is used. By using color detection method in this project, the face can be segmented easily from the complex background. However, to detect a face in real-time is quite challenging especially when a face is moving and the real-time environment has uneven illumination. This paper presents the preliminary result of face detection and tracking system, which is the system, detects a face that has different poses in a real-time situation, where the light condition is uneven. Here, to complete the detection process, contour detection method is added so that the detection is more accurate. This system can be applied in many applications such as banking system to reduce the number of forgery, security system, and human-computer interaction (HCI).","PeriodicalId":440373,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126838487","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}
Nor Rashidah Md Juremi, M. A. Zulkifley, A. Hussain
{"title":"Smoothing the artificial SSVEP response using double exponential smoothing method","authors":"Nor Rashidah Md Juremi, M. A. Zulkifley, A. Hussain","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6708019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6708019","url":null,"abstract":"Steady state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) is one of the BCI responses that is elicited from the external stimulus. SSVEP is a noisy signal that requires signal smoothing before any further processing can be performed. In this paper, we implement double exponential smoothing (DES) to minimize the ripple of SSVEP response in the frequency domain. The input signal was generated artificially by using trigonometric function (sine wave). Three fundamental frequencies were analyzed, which are 30, 15 and 7.5 Hz that are based on refresh rate of the stimulator. Euclidean distance (ED) technique is used as the evaluation metric to calculate the error between the results and ground truth. The results show that the smoothed signal by DES technique achieved a lower value of ED compared to the original signal.","PeriodicalId":440373,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"3 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131957109","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}
Alfian Abdul Halin, N. Sharef, A. Jantan, L. N. Abdullah
{"title":"License plate localization using a Naïve Bayes classifier","authors":"Alfian Abdul Halin, N. Sharef, A. Jantan, L. N. Abdullah","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6707971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6707971","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a probabilistic technique to localize license plates regions for cars adhering to the standard set by the Malaysian Road Transport Department. Images of the front/rear-view of cars displaying their license plates are firstly preprocessed, followed by features extraction generated from connected components analysis. These features are then used to train a Naïve Bayes classifier for the final task of license plates localization. Experimental results conducted on 144 images have shown that considering two candidates with the highest posterior probabilities better guarantees license plates regions are properly localized, with a recall of 0.98.","PeriodicalId":440373,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114857798","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 low cost medical image digitization setup for enhancement and analyzing of conventional X-ray images","authors":"H. Korkmaz, S. Alsan","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6707984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6707984","url":null,"abstract":"In medical industry, studies about storing, processing, analyzing and re-accessing the patient's information and images are intensively continuing. Both printed and digital medical images take more spaces than the others. In this paper, a mechanism which transfers easily the printed X-ray images to the digital environment enabling radiological assessment and archiving is set and a software is developed to help the analysis of those images. It is aimed to digitize the conventional images with a minimum loss while keeping the image quality. The setup which is in a closed box consists of a light source, a camera for image transfer and lenses. The software provides applying the image processing algorithms on digitized images and archiving them in DICOM format.","PeriodicalId":440373,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124085042","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":"Optimal accuracy and runtime trade-off in wavelet based single-trial P300 detection","authors":"F. Motlagh, S. Tang, O. Motlagh","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6708030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6708030","url":null,"abstract":"Single-trail detection of P300 from EEG signals is the main challenge of diagnostic purposes and research applications. In this article, Wavelet Transform is used for feature extraction from EEG signals. The goal is to prove the capability of wavelet transform in P300 feature extraction. A number of established wavelet feature extraction methods were evaluated from accuracy and computation speed perspectives. To conduct uniform evaluation, Support Vector Machine (SVM) was used for classification of all methods. The results show that DWT can be fast in computing signal features with lower accuracy, while a combination of DWT and T-CWT is proven to be more accurate when real-time computation is concerned.","PeriodicalId":440373,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126272297","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":"Fuzzy image enhancement for low contrast and non-uniform illumination images","authors":"K. Hasikin, N. Isa","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6708017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6708017","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the fuzzy image enhancement for low contrast and non-uniform illumination images. A new fuzzy intensity measure is proposed to distinguish between the dark and bright regions. This measure is computed by considering the average intensity and deviation of the intensity distribution of the image. The input image is enhanced using a power-law transformation. Implementation of the proposed algorithm on the non-uniform illumination and low contrast images show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the other enhancement techniques. The proposed algorithm produces more even illumination with improvement in the details and contrasts. In addition, the proposed algorithm is computationally fast to be implemented in real time application.","PeriodicalId":440373,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132881884","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}