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Toward reduction of artifacts in fused images
Most fusion satellite image methodologies at pixel-level introduce false spatial details, i.e.artifacts, in the resulting fusedimages. In many cases, these artifacts appears because image fusion methods do not consider the differences in roughness or textural characteristics between different land covers. They only consider the digital values associated with single pixels. This effect increases as the spatial resolution image increases. To minimize this problem, we propose a new paradigm based on local measurements of the fractal dimension (FD). Fractal dimension maps (FDMs) are generated for each of the source images (panchromatic and each band of the multi-spectral images) with the box-counting algorithm and by applying a windowing process. The average of source image FDMs, previously indexed between 0 and 1, has been used for discrimination of different land covers present in satellite images. This paradigm has been applied through the fusion methodology based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), using the à trous algorithm (WAT). Two different scenes registered by optical sensors on board FORMOSAT-2 and IKONOS satellites were used to study the behaviour of the proposed methodology. The implementation of this approach, using the WAT method, allows adapting the fusion process to the roughness and shape of the regions present in the image to be fused. This improves the quality of the fusedimages and their classification results when compared with the original WAT metho
Fractal geometry of nature (bone) may inspire medical devices shape
Medical devices, as orthopaedics prostheses and dental implants, have been designed over years on the strength of mechanical, clinical and biological indications. This sequence is the commonly accepted cognitive and research process: adapting the device to the surrounding environment (host tissue). Inverting this traditional logical approach, we started from bone microarchitecture analysis. Here we show that a unique geometric rule seems to underlie different morphologic and functional aspects of human jaw bone tissue: fractal properties of white trabeculae in low quality bone are similar to fractal properties of black spaces in high quality bone and vice versa. These data inspired the fractal bone quality classification and they were the starting point for reverse engineering to design specific dental implants threads. We introduce a new philosophy: bone decoding and with these data devices encoding. In the future, the method will be implemented for the analysis of other human or animal tissues in order to project medical devices and biomaterials with a microarchitecture driven by nature
Simulating city growth by using the cellular automata algorithm
The objective of this thesis is to develop and implement a Cellular Automata
(CA) algorithm to simulate urban growth process. It attempts to satisfy the
need to predict the future shape of a city, the way land uses sprawl in the
surroundings of that city and its population. Salonica city in Greece is
selected as a case study to simulate its urban growth. Cellular automaton
(CA) based models are increasingly used to investigate cities and urban
systems. Sprawling cities may be considered as complex adaptive systems,
and this warrants use of methodology that can accommodate the space-time
dynamics of many interacting entities. Automata tools are well-suited for
representation of such systems. By means of illustrating this point, the
development of a model for simulating the sprawl of land uses such as
commercial and residential and calculating the population who will reside in
the city is discussed
Multiscaling properties on sequences of turbulent plumes images
A multifractal analysis on a finite-range-scale of the plume concentration images at different experimental conditions (the height of the source Ho), where the measure is the grey value of the image (from 0 to 255), was applied to study its structure through time. The multifractal spectrum showed the characteristic inverse U-shape and a similar evolution in all Ho. The variation of the Hölder exponent (¿a) presented different amplitudes at different moments and increased with time. The symmetry of the spectrum (¿f) decreased with time achieving negative values (from left hand asymmetry evolving to right asymmetry). We show the different behaviour of axial velocity (W) with ¿a and ¿f. There is a linear relation of entrainment coefficient (ae) and the entropy dimension (a1). Therefore, the multifractal spectrum and the derived parameters can be used as markers of plume evolution as well as to study the effect of experimental conditions.Postprint (published version
Progressive refinement rendering of implicit surfaces
The visualisation of implicit surfaces can be an inefficient task when such surfaces are complex and highly detailed. Visualising a surface by first converting it to a
polygon mesh may lead to an excessive polygon count. Visualising a surface by direct ray casting is often a slow procedure. In this paper we present a progressive refinement renderer for implicit surfaces that are Lipschitz continuous. The renderer first displays a low resolution estimate of what the final image is going to be and, as the computation progresses, increases the quality of this estimate at an interactive frame rate. This renderer provides a quick previewing facility that significantly reduces the design cycle of a new and complex implicit surface. The renderer is also capable of completing an image faster than a conventional implicit surface rendering algorithm based on ray casting
Evolved Art with Transparent, Overlapping, and Geometric Shapes
In this work, an evolutionary art project is presented where images are
approximated by transparent, overlapping and geometric shapes of different
types, e.g., polygons, circles, lines. Genotypes representing features and
order of the geometric shapes are evolved with a fitness function that has the
corresponding pixels of an input image as a target goal. A
genotype-to-phenotype mapping is therefore applied to render images, as the
chosen genetic representation is indirect, i.e., genotypes do not include
pixels but a combination of shapes with their properties. Different
combinations of shapes, quantity of shapes, mutation types and populations are
tested. The goal of the work herein is twofold: (1) to approximate images as
precisely as possible with evolved indirect encodings, (2) to produce visually
appealing results and novel artistic styles.Comment: Proceedings of the Norwegian AI Symposium 2019 (NAIS 2019),
Trondheim, Norwa
Optical reconfiguration and polarization control in semi-continuous gold films close to the percolation threshold
Controlling and confining light by exciting plasmons in resonant metallic
nanostructures is an essential aspect of many new emerging optical
technologies. Here we explore the possibility of controllably reconfiguring the
intrinsic optical properties of semi-continuous gold films, by inducing
permanent morphological changes with a femtosecond (fs)-pulsed laser above a
critical power. Optical transmission spectroscopy measurements show a
correlation between the spectra of the morphologically modified films and the
wavelength, polarization, and the intensity of the laser used for alteration.
In order to understand the modifications induced by the laser writing, we
explore the near-field properties of these films with electron energy-loss
spectroscopy (EELS). A comparison between our experimental data and full-wave
simulations on the exact film morphologies hints toward a restructuring of the
intrinsic plasmonic eigenmodes of the metallic film by photothermal effects. We
explain these optical changes with a simple model and demonstrate
experimentally that laser writing can be used to controllably modify the
optical properties of these semi-continuous films. These metal films offer an
easy-to-fabricate and scalable platform for technological applications such as
molecular sensing and ultra-dense data storage.Comment: Supplementary materials available upon request ([email protected]
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