Development of Some Novel Nonlinear and Adaptive Digital Image Filters for Efficient Noise Suppression

Some nonlinear and adaptive digital image filtering algorithms have been developed in this thesis to suppress additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), bipolar fixed-valued impulse, also called salt and pepper noise (SPN), random-valued impulse noise (RVIN) and their combinations quite effectively. The present state-of-art technology offers high quality sensors, cameras, electronic circuitry: application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), system on chip (SOC), etc., and high quality communication channels. Therefore, the noise level in images has been reduced drastically. In literature, many efficient nonlinear image filters are found that perform well under high noise conditions. But their performance is not so good under low noise conditions as compared to the extremely high computational complexity involved therein. Thus, it is felt that there is sufficient scope to investigate and develop quite efficient but simple algorithms to suppress low-power noise in an image. When..

Geotomografia eletromagnética: algoritmo tomográfico, filtro bidimensional adaptativo e algoritmo de segmentação de imagens /

Tese (Doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológic

River bed sediment surface characterisation using wavelet transform-based methods.

The primary purpose of this work was to study the morphological change of river-bedsediment surfaces over time using wavelet transform analysis techniques. The wavelettransform is a rapidly developing area of applied mathematics in both science andengineering. As it allows for interrogation of the spectral made up of local signalfeatures, it has superior performance compared to the traditionally used Fouriertransform which provides only signal averaged spectral information. The main study ofthis thesis includes the analysis of both synthetically generated sediment surfaces andlaboratory experimental sediment bed-surface data. This was undertaken usingtwo-dimensional wavelet transform techniques based on both the discrete and thestationary wavelet transforms.A comprehensive data-base of surface scans from experimental river-bed sedimentsurfaces topographies were included in the study. A novel wavelet-basedcharacterisation measure - the form size distribution ifsd) - was developed to quantifythe global characteristics of the sediment data. The fsd is based on the distribution ofwavelet-based scale-dependent energies. It is argued that this measure will potentiallybe more useful than the traditionally used particle size distribution (psd), as it is themorphology of the surface rather than the individual particle sizes that affects the nearbed flow regime and hence bed friction characteristics.Amplitude and scale dependent thresholding techniques were then studied. It was foundthat these thresholding techniques could be used to: (1) extract the overall surfacestructure, and (2) enhance dominant grains and formations of dominant grains withinthe surfaces. It is shown that assessment of the surface data-sets post-thresholding mayallow for the detection of structural changes over time