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    Wearable sensors system for an improved analysis of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease using electromyography and inertial signals

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    We propose a wearable sensor system for automatic, continuous and ubiquitous analysis of Freezing of Gait (FOG), in patients affected by Parkinson's disease. FOG is an unpredictable gait disorder with different clinical manifestations, as the trembling and the shuffling-like phenotypes, whose underlying pathophysiology is not fully understood yet. Typical trembling-like subtype features are lack of postural adaptation and abrupt trunk inclination, which in general can increase the fall probability. The targets of this work are detecting the FOG episodes, distinguishing the phenotype and analyzing the muscle activity during and outside FOG, toward a deeper insight in the disorder pathophysiology and the assessment of the fall risk associated to the FOG subtype. To this aim, gyroscopes and surface electromyography integrated in wearable devices sense simultaneously movements and action potentials of antagonist leg muscles. Dedicated algorithms allow the timely detection of the FOG episode and, for the first time, the automatic distinction of the FOG phenotypes, which can enable associating a fall risk to the subtype. Thanks to the possibility of detecting muscles contractions and stretching exactly during FOG, a deeper insight into the pathophysiological underpinnings of the different phenotypes can be achieved, which is an innovative approach with respect to the state of art

    Real-time Defogging of Single Image of IoTs-based Surveillance Video Based on MAP

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    Due to the atmospheric scattering phenomenon in fog weather, the current monitoring video image defogging method cannot estimate the fog density of the image. This paper proposes a real-time defogging algorithm for single images of IoTs surveillance video based on maximum a posteriori (MAP). Under the condition of single image sequence, the posterior probability of the high-resolution single image is set to the maximum, which improves the MAP design super-resolution image reconstruction. This paper introduces fuzzy classification to calculate atmospheric light intensity, and obtains a single image of IoTs surveillance video by the atmospheric dissipation function. The improved algorithm has the largest signal-to-noise ratio after defogging, and the maximum value is as high as 40.99 dB. The average time for defogging of 7 experimental surveillance video images is only 2.22 s, and the real-time performance is better. It can be concluded that the proposed algorithm has excellent defogging performance and strong applicability

    Development and Implementation of Software for Multi-Algorithm Image Quality Enhancement

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    Different image defogging methods should be adopted for different degrees of low contrast and sharpness of images caused by different weather conditions. This paper builds a MATLAB-based image quality improvement and evaluation software that combines the global RGB histogram equalization algorithm, the global HSV histogram equalization algorithm, the restricted contrast adaptive histogram equalization algorithm, the single-scale Retinex algorithm, the multi-scale Retinex algorithm, the Multi-Scale Retinex with Color Restoration, and the dark channel a priori algorithms and their optimization algorithms for image quality improvement and evaluation software. Outdoor images of hazy days, rainy days and snowy days are selected and the best algorithms for different weather conditions are obtained through extensive experimental simulations, software processing and analysis

    Does Dehazing Model Preserve Color Information?

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    International audience—Image dehazing aims at estimating the image information lost caused by the presence of fog, haze and smoke in the scene during acquisition. Degradation causes a loss in contrast and color information, thus enhancement becomes an inevitable task in imaging applications and consumer photography. Color information has been mostly evaluated perceptually along with quality, but no work addresses specifically this aspect. We demonstrate how dehazing model affects color information on simulated and real images. We use a convergence model from perception of transparency to simulate haze on images. We evaluate color loss in terms of angle of hue in IPT color space, saturation in CIE LUV color space and perceived color difference in CIE LAB color space. Results indicate that saturation is critically changed and hue is changed for achromatic colors and blue/yellow colors, where usual image processing space are not showing constant hue lines. we suggest that a correction model based on color transparency perception could help to retrieve color information as an additive layer on dehazing algorithms

    Deraining and Desnowing Algorithm on Adaptive Tolerance and Dual-tree Complex Wavelet Fusion

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    Severe weather conditions such as rain and snow often reduce the visual perception quality of the video image system, the traditional methods of deraining and desnowing usually rarely consider adaptive parameters. In order to enhance the effect of video deraining and desnowing, this paper proposes a video deraining and desnowing algorithm based on adaptive tolerance and dual-tree complex wavelet. This algorithm can be widely used in security surveillance, military defense, biological monitoring, remote sensing and other fields. First, this paper introduces the main work of the adaptive tolerance method for the video of dynamic scenes. Second, the algorithm of dual-tree complex wavelet fusion is analyzed and introduced. Using principal component analysis fusion rules to process low-frequency sub-bands, the fusion rule of local energy matching is used to process the high-frequency sub-bands. Finally, this paper used various rain and snow videos to verify the validity and superiority of image reconstruction. Experimental results show that the algorithm has achieved good results in improving the image clarity and restoring the image details obscured by raindrops and snows
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