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Time resolved tracking of a sound scatterer in a turbulent flow: non-stationary signal analysis and applications
It is known that ultrasound techniques yield non-intrusive measurements of
hydrodynamic flows. For example, the study of the echoes produced by a large
number of particle insonified by pulsed wavetrains has led to a now standard
velocimetry technique. In this paper, we propose to extend the method to the
continuous tracking of one single particle embedded in a complex flow. This
gives a Lagrangian measurement of the fluid motion, which is of importance in
mixing and turbulence studies. The method relies on the ability to resolve in
time the Doppler shift of the sound scattered by the continuously insonfied
particle.
For this signal processing problem two classes of approaches are used:
time-frequency analysis and parametric high resolution methods. In the first
class we consider the spectrogram and reassigned spectrogram, and we apply it
to detect the motion of a small bead settling in a fluid at rest. In more
non-stationary turbulent flows where methods in the second class are more
robust, we have adapted an Approximated Maximum Likelihood technique coupled
with a generalized Kalman filter.Comment: 16 pages 9 figure
Probabilistc and sequential computation of optical flow using temporal coherence
Caption title. "Revised version of LIDS-P-2122."Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-26).Supported by the Office on Naval Research. N00014-91-J-1004 N00014-91-J-1120 (Random Field in Oceanography ARI) Supported by the National Sceice Foundation. MIP-9195281 Supported by the Army Research Office. DAAL03-86-K-0171Toshio M. Chin, William C. Karl, Alan S. Willsky
Techniques for augmenting the visualisation of dynamic raster surfaces
Despite their aesthetic appeal and condensed nature, dynamic raster surface representations such as a temporal series of a landform and an attribute series of a socio-economic attribute of an area, are often criticised for the lack of an effective information delivery and interactivity.In this work, we readdress some of the earlier raised reasons for these limitations -information-laden quality of surface datasets, lack of spatial and temporal continuity in the original data, and a limited scope for a real-time interactivity. We demonstrate with examples that the use of four techniques namely the re-expression of the surfaces as a framework of morphometric features, spatial generalisation, morphing, graphic lag and brushing can augment the visualisation of dynamic raster surfaces in temporal and attribute series
Investigation related to multispectral imaging systems
A summary of technical progress made during a five year research program directed toward the development of operational information systems based on multispectral sensing and the use of these systems in earth-resource survey applications is presented. Efforts were undertaken during this program to: (1) improve the basic understanding of the many facets of multispectral remote sensing, (2) develop methods for improving the accuracy of information generated by remote sensing systems, (3) improve the efficiency of data processing and information extraction techniques to enhance the cost-effectiveness of remote sensing systems, (4) investigate additional problems having potential remote sensing solutions, and (5) apply the existing and developing technology for specific users and document and transfer that technology to the remote sensing community
An Improved Observation Model for Super-Resolution under Affine Motion
Super-resolution (SR) techniques make use of subpixel shifts between frames
in an image sequence to yield higher-resolution images. We propose an original
observation model devoted to the case of non isometric inter-frame motion as
required, for instance, in the context of airborne imaging sensors. First, we
describe how the main observation models used in the SR literature deal with
motion, and we explain why they are not suited for non isometric motion. Then,
we propose an extension of the observation model by Elad and Feuer adapted to
affine motion. This model is based on a decomposition of affine transforms into
successive shear transforms, each one efficiently implemented by row-by-row or
column-by-column 1-D affine transforms.
We demonstrate on synthetic and real sequences that our observation model
incorporated in a SR reconstruction technique leads to better results in the
case of variable scale motions and it provides equivalent results in the case
of isometric motions
Local ensemble transform Kalman filter, a fast non-stationary control law for adaptive optics on ELTs: theoretical aspects and first simulation results
We propose a new algorithm for an adaptive optics system control law, based
on the Linear Quadratic Gaussian approach and a Kalman Filter adaptation with
localizations. It allows to handle non-stationary behaviors, to obtain
performance close to the optimality defined with the residual phase variance
minimization criterion, and to reduce the computational burden with an
intrinsically parallel implementation on the Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs).Comment: This paper was published in Optics Express and is made available as
an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at
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