287 research outputs found
Exploiting Image Local And Nonlocal Consistency For Mixed Gaussian-Impulse Noise Removal
Most existing image denoising algorithms can only deal with a single type of
noise, which violates the fact that the noisy observed images in practice are
often suffered from more than one type of noise during the process of
acquisition and transmission. In this paper, we propose a new variational
algorithm for mixed Gaussian-impulse noise removal by exploiting image local
consistency and nonlocal consistency simultaneously. Specifically, the local
consistency is measured by a hyper-Laplace prior, enforcing the local
smoothness of images, while the nonlocal consistency is measured by
three-dimensional sparsity of similar blocks, enforcing the nonlocal
self-similarity of natural images. Moreover, a Split-Bregman based technique is
developed to solve the above optimization problem efficiently. Extensive
experiments for mixed Gaussian plus impulse noise show that significant
performance improvements over the current state-of-the-art schemes have been
achieved, which substantiates the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, to be published at IEEE Int. Conf. on
Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 201
Image Super-Resolution via Dual-Dictionary Learning And Sparse Representation
Learning-based image super-resolution aims to reconstruct high-frequency (HF)
details from the prior model trained by a set of high- and low-resolution image
patches. In this paper, HF to be estimated is considered as a combination of
two components: main high-frequency (MHF) and residual high-frequency (RHF),
and we propose a novel image super-resolution method via dual-dictionary
learning and sparse representation, which consists of the main dictionary
learning and the residual dictionary learning, to recover MHF and RHF
respectively. Extensive experimental results on test images validate that by
employing the proposed two-layer progressive scheme, more image details can be
recovered and much better results can be achieved than the state-of-the-art
algorithms in terms of both PSNR and visual perception.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, to be published at IEEE Int. Symposium
of Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 201
Image Restoration Using Joint Statistical Modeling in Space-Transform Domain
This paper presents a novel strategy for high-fidelity image restoration by
characterizing both local smoothness and nonlocal self-similarity of natural
images in a unified statistical manner. The main contributions are three-folds.
First, from the perspective of image statistics, a joint statistical modeling
(JSM) in an adaptive hybrid space-transform domain is established, which offers
a powerful mechanism of combining local smoothness and nonlocal self-similarity
simultaneously to ensure a more reliable and robust estimation. Second, a new
form of minimization functional for solving image inverse problem is formulated
using JSM under regularization-based framework. Finally, in order to make JSM
tractable and robust, a new Split-Bregman based algorithm is developed to
efficiently solve the above severely underdetermined inverse problem associated
with theoretical proof of convergence. Extensive experiments on image
inpainting, image deblurring and mixed Gaussian plus salt-and-pepper noise
removal applications verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.Comment: 14 pages, 18 figures, 7 Tables, to be published in IEEE Transactions
on Circuits System and Video Technology (TCSVT). High resolution pdf version
and Code can be found at: http://idm.pku.edu.cn/staff/zhangjian/IRJSM
Improved Total Variation based Image Compressive Sensing Recovery by Nonlocal Regularization
Recently, total variation (TV) based minimization algorithms have achieved
great success in compressive sensing (CS) recovery for natural images due to
its virtue of preserving edges. However, the use of TV is not able to recover
the fine details and textures, and often suffers from undesirable staircase
artifact. To reduce these effects, this letter presents an improved TV based
image CS recovery algorithm by introducing a new nonlocal regularization
constraint into CS optimization problem. The nonlocal regularization is built
on the well known nonlocal means (NLM) filtering and takes advantage of
self-similarity in images, which helps to suppress the staircase effect and
restore the fine details. Furthermore, an efficient augmented Lagrangian based
algorithm is developed to solve the above combined TV and nonlocal
regularization constrained problem. Experimental results demonstrate that the
proposed algorithm achieves significant performance improvements over the
state-of-the-art TV based algorithm in both PSNR and visual perception.Comment: 4 Pages, 1 figures, 3 tables, to be published at IEEE Int. Symposium
of Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 201
High Quality Image Interpolation via Local Autoregressive and Nonlocal 3-D Sparse Regularization
In this paper, we propose a novel image interpolation algorithm, which is
formulated via combining both the local autoregressive (AR) model and the
nonlocal adaptive 3-D sparse model as regularized constraints under the
regularization framework. Estimating the high-resolution image by the local AR
regularization is different from these conventional AR models, which weighted
calculates the interpolation coefficients without considering the rough
structural similarity between the low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR)
images. Then the nonlocal adaptive 3-D sparse model is formulated to regularize
the interpolated HR image, which provides a way to modify these pixels with the
problem of numerical stability caused by AR model. In addition, a new
Split-Bregman based iterative algorithm is developed to solve the above
optimization problem iteratively. Experiment results demonstrate that the
proposed algorithm achieves significant performance improvements over the
traditional algorithms in terms of both objective quality and visual perceptionComment: 4 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, to be published at IEEE Visual
Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) 201
XCon: Learning with Experts for Fine-grained Category Discovery
We address the problem of generalized category discovery (GCD) in this paper,
i.e. clustering the unlabeled images leveraging the information from a set of
seen classes, where the unlabeled images could contain both seen classes and
unseen classes. The seen classes can be seen as an implicit criterion of
classes, which makes this setting different from unsupervised clustering where
the cluster criteria may be ambiguous. We mainly concern the problem of
discovering categories within a fine-grained dataset since it is one of the
most direct applications of category discovery, i.e. helping experts discover
novel concepts within an unlabeled dataset using the implicit criterion set
forth by the seen classes. State-of-the-art methods for generalized category
discovery leverage contrastive learning to learn the representations, but the
large inter-class similarity and intra-class variance pose a challenge for the
methods because the negative examples may contain irrelevant cues for
recognizing a category so the algorithms may converge to a local-minima. We
present a novel method called Expert-Contrastive Learning (XCon) to help the
model to mine useful information from the images by first partitioning the
dataset into sub-datasets using k-means clustering and then performing
contrastive learning on each of the sub-datasets to learn fine-grained
discriminative features. Experiments on fine-grained datasets show a clear
improved performance over the previous best methods, indicating the
effectiveness of our method
Polarizing intestinal epithelial cells electrically through Ror2
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Modeling correlation noise statistics at decoder for multi-view distributed video coding
Recently, multi-view distributed video coding (MDVC) receives more and more attention, as its low-complexity encoder and high-complexity decoder coding paradigm suits for many applications such as sensor networks, in which several view sequences are required to be coded by a few power-constraint encoders. Modeling the correlation noises between original frame and side information frame is a hot research issue in distributed video coding (DVC), since it is a vital factor affecting the coding efficiency. This paper firstly proposes a novel method to model the correlation noises in MDVC. And an algorithm to online estimate the model at decoder using the knowledge of adjacent views is also presented. Experiment results show that the proposed correlation model can significantly improve coding efficiency. ?2009 IEEE.EI
Effects of laser fluence on silicon modification by four-beam laser interference
This paper discusses the effects of laser fluence on silicon modification by four-beam laser interference. In this work, four-beam laser interference was used to pattern single crystal silicon wafers for the fabrication of surface structures, and the number of laser pulses was applied to the process in air. By controlling the parameters of laser irradiation, different shapes of silicon structures were fabricated. The results were obtained with the single laser fluence of 354 mJ/cm, 495 mJ/cm, and 637 mJ/cm, the pulse repetition rate of 10 Hz, the laser exposure pulses of 30, 100, and 300, the laser wavelength of 1064 nm, and the pulse duration of 7-9 ns. The effects of the heat transfer and the radiation of laser interference plasma on silicon wafer surfaces were investigated. The equations of heat flow and radiation effects of laser plasma of interfering patterns in a four-beam laser interference distribution were proposed to describe their impacts on silicon wafer surfaces. The experimental results have shown that the laser fluence has to be properly selected for the fabrication of well-defined surface structures in a four-beam laser interference process. Laser interference patterns can directly fabricate different shape structures for their corresponding applications
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