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Mitigating the effects of atmospheric distortion using DT-CWT fusion
This paper describes a new method for mitigating the effects of atmospheric distortion on observed images, particularly airborne turbulence which degrades a region of interest (ROI). In order to provide accurate detail from objects behind the dis-torting layer, a simple and efficient frame selection method is proposed to pick informative ROIs from only good-quality frames. We solve the space-variant distortion problem using region-based fusion based on the Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT). We also propose an object alignment method for pre-processing the ROI since this can exhibit sig-nificant offsets and distortions between frames. Simple haze removal is used as the final step. The proposed method per-forms very well with atmospherically distorted videos and outperforms other existing methods. Index Terms — Image restoration, fusion, DT-CWT 1
Atmospheric turbulence mitigation for sequences with moving objects using recursive image fusion
This paper describes a new method for mitigating the effects of atmospheric
distortion on observed sequences that include large moving objects. In order to
provide accurate detail from objects behind the distorting layer, we solve the
space-variant distortion problem using recursive image fusion based on the Dual
Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT). The moving objects are detected and
tracked using the improved Gaussian mixture models (GMM) and Kalman filtering.
New fusion rules are introduced which work on the magnitudes and angles of the
DT-CWT coefficients independently to achieve a sharp image and to reduce
atmospheric distortion, respectively. The subjective results show that the
proposed method achieves better video quality than other existing methods with
competitive speed.Comment: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 201
Self-Organization Scheme for Balanced Routing in Large-Scale Multi-Hop Networks
We propose a self-organization scheme for cost-effective and load-balanced
routing in multi-hop networks. To avoid overloading nodes that provide
favourable routing conditions, we assign each node with a cost function that
penalizes high loads. Thus, finding routes to sink nodes is formulated as an
optimization problem in which the global objective function strikes a balance
between route costs and node loads. We apply belief propagation (its min-sum
version) to solve the network optimization problem and obtain a distributed
algorithm whereby the nodes collectively discover globally optimal routes by
performing low-complexity computations and exchanging messages with their
neighbours. We prove that the proposed method converges to the global optimum
after a finite number of local exchanges of messages. Finally, we demonstrate
numerically our framework's efficacy in balancing the node loads and study the
trade-off between load reduction and total cost minimization
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