... Applications of Blind and Semi-Blind Signal
Processing 23
1.2.1 Biomedical SignalProcessing 24
1.2.2 Blind Separation of Electrocardiographic Signals of
Fetus and Mother 25
1.2.3 Enhancement and Decomposition ... HDTV, etc. As demand for high quality
and reliability in recording and visualization systems increases, signalprocessing has an
even more important role to play.
Blind SignalProcessing (BSP) ... difficult and even impossible to treat be-
cause we have (m + n) unknown source signals (n sources and m noise signals, see Fig.1.8).
Various signalprocessing methods have been developed for noise...
... Introduction
Thischapterprovidesabriefintroductiontothetheoryofmorphologicalsignalprocessingandits
applicationstoimageanalysisandnonlinearfiltering.By“morphologicalsignalprocessing”wemean
abroadandcoherentcollectionoftheoreticalconcepts,mathematicaltoolsforsignalanalysis,non-
linearsignaloperators,designmethodologies,andapplicationssystemsthatarebasedonorrelated
tomathematicalmorphology(MM),aset-andlattice-theoreticmethodologyforimageanalysis.MM
aimsatquantitativelydescribingthegeometricalstructureofimageobjects.Itsmathematicalorigins
stemfromsettheory,latticealgebra,convexanalysis,andintegralandstochasticgeometry.Itwas
initiatedmainlybyMatheron[42]andSerra[58]inthe1960s.Someofitsearlysignaloperationsare
alsofoundintheworkofotherresearcherswhousedcellularautomataandBoolean/thresholdlogic
toanalyzebinaryimagedatainthe1950sand1960s,assurveyedin[49,54].MMhasformalized
theseearlieroperationsandhasalsoaddednumerousnewconceptsandimageoperations.Inthe
1970sitwasextendedtogray-levelimages[22,45,58,62].OriginallyMMwasappliedtoanalyzing
c
1999byCRCPressLLC
defined) ... operations of the Boolean type. For example, given a
sampled
1
binary imagesignal f[x] with values 1 for the image foreground and 0 for the background,
typical signal transformations involving a neighborhood ... make
morphological signalprocessingarigorous andefficientframework tostudyandsolve manyproblems
in image analysis and nonlinear filtering.
74.2 Morphological Operators for Sets and Signals
74.2.1 Boolean...
... discussed further in an example in Chapter 10.
1.6. Fusion in signalandimageprocessingand fusion in other fields
Fusion in signalandimageprocessing has specific features that need to be taken
into ... between information known beforehand and new information. Here, we
will be considering dynamic processes among others (particularly robotics), and it
seems important for us to include revision and ... 20
1.6. Fusion in signalandimageprocessingand fusion in other fields . . . . 22
1.7.Bibliography 23
Chapter 2. Fusion in SignalProcessing 25
Jean-Pierre L
E CADRE, Vincent NIMIER and Roger REYNAUD
2.1....
... Fundamental SignalandImageProcessing Concepts 1
1 Architecture of the Basic Physiologic Recorder 3
Jason Ng and Jeffrey J. Goldberger
2 Analog and Digital Signals 9
Jason Ng and Jeffrey ... 379
Indranil Sen-Gupta and Jason Ng
Index 391
xii Contents
vii
Preface
Signal processing is the means and methodology of handling, manipulating, and convert-
ing signals for the purposes of recording, ... would the understanding of signalandimageprocessing be important for a
clinician, nurse, or technician in cardiology? Electrocardiograms, for example, can be
practically performed with a touch...
... handbook on imageprocessingfor scientiÞc and technical applications / Berne Jèahne.— 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8493-1900-5 (alk. paper)
1. Imageprocessing Digital ... Sensors 197
5.5.2 Standard Video Signals; Timing andSignal Forms 199
5.5.3 Color Video Signals 201
5.5.4 Cameras and Connectors 204
5.5.5 Further References 205
6 Digitalization and Quantization ... example for a systematic error is a calibration error.
With respect to image processing, we can conclude that it is important to under-
stand all the processes that form the imageand to understand...
... individual and biological factors, but on the social and cul-
tural environment within which we live, work and interact. Different
cultures and sub-cultures have their own understanding of health and
5
This ... transcribed and synthesized over one year,
edited, and then formatted and designed. A tremendous amount of work
has gone into this process. Linda King, coordinator of the monitoring
and information ... for the provision for the redaction of the still-
birth-rate and of infant mortality andfor healthy development of a
child; the improvement of all aspects of environmental and industrial
hygiene;...
... meaning of a word
by understanding its root and its prefixes and suffixes. Similarly we understand the
sentences by understanding the words. and the whole story by first understanding its
sentences. ... flair for abstract thinking and have a tolerance for theory (Intuitive); and (c) who
like to live life in a planned, orderly, and organized way (Judging).”
xiv Preface
observing all of them and ... words with and without
their corresponding nonverbal mental images (1.1.3). When one learns vocabulary
lists in a foreign language, one needs some sort of meaning -image to attach to each
foreign...
... (above) and low attachment (below) for
Example 1.
Table 3 shows queries and mutual informa-
tion values for Example 1. The highest values
are 12.2 for high attachment (mechanism) and
3 for low ... Moffat, and T imothy C.
Bell. 1999. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing
and Indexing Documents and Images. Morgan
Kaufman.
Alexander S. Yeh and Marc B. Vilain. 1998. Some
properties of preposition and ... techniques and wordnet hierarchies. In
4th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolu-
tion Colloquium.
Kristina Toutanova, Christopher D. Manning, and
Andrew Y. Ng. 2004. Learning random walk
models for...
... Opportunities for Research and Technology Development in In-Situ Mining, 36
3-4 Opportunities for Research and Development in Mineral Processing, 46
4-1 Recommendations for Research and Development ... groundwater.
Processing
Mineral processing encompasses unit processes for siz-
ing, separating andprocessing minerals, including commi-
nution, sizing, separation, dewatering, and hydrometallur-
gical ... (e.g., new blasting
and ore-handling schemes) and selectively liberate and size
minerals. Areas for research include fine-particle technolo-
gies, from improved production methods for the ultra-fine
grinding...
... credit lines and new products; (2) expanding
the eligibility criteria for providing credit and insurance to small- and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs); (3) focusing lending activities and outreach ... Congress appropriated $2.5 million for the OIG, and it authorized a limit of $58 million for the Bank’s
credit and insurance programs and a limit of $83.88 million for its administrative expenses ... U.S. foreign
policy and development objectives.
• Congress could examine and revise the Bank’s policies related to domestic and
foreign content, cargo preference requirements, the economic and...
... processes and chemistry dictate the quantity and rate at
which chemical substances leach from soil into groundwater and freshwater
ecosystems. The critical load formulations for terrestrial and freshwater ... legislation and the National Emission Ceilings Directive with a
view to reaching long-term environmental objectives; and (3) develops better
systems for gathering information, modelling and forecasting ... levels and maintenance measures
• For power plants, use of high-efficiency dedusters for all existing and new boilers using solid fuels and
good-housekeeping measures on oil-fired boilers (for...
...
Digital ImageProcessing – Part II
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Morphological Image Processing
(a)
(c)
(d)
(b)
Digital ImageProcessing – Part II
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Image Segmentation
(a) (b)
(c)
(a)
(b)
Digital ImageProcessing ... compartments
(a)
(b)
Digital ImageProcessing – Part II
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Colour Image Processing
(b)
Figure 5 Illustration of intensity slicing and colour assignment.
Digital ImageProcessing – Part II
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Colour Image ... connected to the image border.
(a)
(c)
(d)
(b)
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Image Segmentation
3.9 Object-oriented image segmentation
The challenge of understanding images is not...
... text Image
Processingand Computer Vision (Parker, 1996). A recent text Computer Vision and Image
Processing (Umbaugh, 1998) takes an applications-oriented approach to computer vision
and image processing, ... oriented, like ImageProcessingand Advanced Imaging.
These provide more general articles, and are often a good source of information about new
computer vision products. For example, ImageProcessing ... maximum
for x=1:cols %address all columns
for y=1:rows %address all rows
inverted(y,x)=maxi -image( y,x);
end
end
Code 1.7 Matlab function (invert.m) to invert an image
6 Feature Extraction andImage Processing
(a)...