Imaging sonar devices generate sonar images by receiving echoes from objects,which are often accompanied by severe speckle noise,resulting in image distortion and information loss.Common optical denoising methods do n...Imaging sonar devices generate sonar images by receiving echoes from objects,which are often accompanied by severe speckle noise,resulting in image distortion and information loss.Common optical denoising methods do not work well in removing speckle noise from sonar images and may even reduce their visual quality.To address this issue,a sonar image denoising method based on fuzzy clustering and the undecimated dual-tree complex wavelet transform is proposed.This method provides a perfect translation invariance and an improved directional selectivity during image decomposition,leading to richer representation of noise and edges in high frequency coefficients.Fuzzy clustering can separate noise from useful information according to the amplitude characteristics of speckle noise,preserving the latter and achieving the goal of noise removal.Additionally,the low frequency coefficients are smoothed using bilateral filtering to improve the visual quality of the image.To verify the effectiveness of the algorithm,multiple groups of ablation experiments were conducted,and speckle sonar images with different variances were evaluated and compared with existing speckle removal methods in the transform domain.The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve image quality,especially in cases of severe noise,where it still achieves a good denoising performance.展开更多
In order to enhance the contrast of low-light images and reduce noise in them, we propose an image enhancement method based on Retinex theory and dual-tree complex wavelet transform(DT-CWT). The method first converts ...In order to enhance the contrast of low-light images and reduce noise in them, we propose an image enhancement method based on Retinex theory and dual-tree complex wavelet transform(DT-CWT). The method first converts an image from the RGB color space to the HSV color space and decomposes the V-channel by dual-tree complex wavelet transform. Next, an improved local adaptive tone mapping method is applied to process the low frequency components of the image, and a soft threshold denoising algorithm is used to denoise the high frequency components of the image. Then, the V-channel is rebuilt and the contrast is adjusted using white balance method. Finally, the processed image is converted back into the RGB color space as the enhanced result. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the performance in terms of contrast enhancement, noise reduction and color reproduction.展开更多
The visual analysis of common neurological disorders such as epileptic seizures in electroencephalography(EEG) is an oversensitive operation and prone to errors,which has motivated the researchers to develop effective...The visual analysis of common neurological disorders such as epileptic seizures in electroencephalography(EEG) is an oversensitive operation and prone to errors,which has motivated the researchers to develop effective automated seizure detection methods.This paper proposes a robust automatic seizure detection method that can establish a veritable diagnosis of these diseases.The proposed method consists of three steps:(i) remove artifact from EEG data using Savitzky-Golay filter and multi-scale principal component analysis(MSPCA),(ii) extract features from EEG signals using signal decomposition representations based on empirical mode decomposition(EMD),discrete wavelet transform(DWT),and dual-tree complex wavelet transform(DTCWT) allowing to overcome the non-linearity and non-stationary of EEG signals,and(iii) allocate the feature vector to the relevant class(i.e.,seizure class "ictal" or free seizure class "interictal") using machine learning techniques such as support vector machine(SVM),k-nearest neighbor(k-NN),and linear discriminant analysis(LDA).The experimental results were based on two EEG datasets generated from the CHB-MIT database with and without overlapping process.The results obtained have shown the effectiveness of the proposed method that allows achieving a higher classification accuracy rate up to 100% and also outperforms similar state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
Image enhancement is a monumental task in the field of computer vision and image processing.Existing methods are insufficient for preserving naturalness and minimizing noise in images.This article discusses a techniqu...Image enhancement is a monumental task in the field of computer vision and image processing.Existing methods are insufficient for preserving naturalness and minimizing noise in images.This article discusses a technique that is based on wavelets for optimizing images taken in low-light.First,the V channel is created by mapping an image’s RGB channel to the HSV color space.Second,the acquired V channel is decomposed using the dual-tree complex wavelet transform(DT-CWT)in order to recover the concentrated information within its high and low-frequency subbands.Thirdly,an adaptive illumination boost technique is used to enhance the visibility of a low-frequency component.Simultaneously,anisotropic diffusion is used to mitigate the high-frequency component’s noise impact.To improve the results,the image is reconstructed using an inverse DT-CWT and then converted to RGB space using the newly calculated V.Additionally,images are white-balanced to remove color casts.Experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach significantly improves outcomes and outperforms previously reported methods in general.展开更多
Structural health monitoring(SHM)in-service is very important for wind turbine system.Because the central wavelength of a fiber Bragg grating(FBG)sensor changes linearly with strain or temperature,FBG-based sensors ar...Structural health monitoring(SHM)in-service is very important for wind turbine system.Because the central wavelength of a fiber Bragg grating(FBG)sensor changes linearly with strain or temperature,FBG-based sensors are easily applied to structural tests.Therefore,the monitoring of wind turbine blades by FBG sensors is proposed.The method is experimentally proved to be feasible.Five FBG sensors were set along the blade length in order to measure distributed strain.However,environmental or measurement noise may cover the structural signals.Dual-tree complex wavelet transform(DT-CWT)is suggested to wipe off the noise.The experimental studies indicate that the tested strain fluctuate distinctly as one of the blades is broken.The rotation period is about 1 s at the given working condition.However,the period is about 0.3 s if all the wind blades are in good conditions.Therefore,strain monitoring by FBG sensors could predict damage of a wind turbine blade system.Moreover,the studies indicate that monitoring of one blade is adequate to diagnose the status of a wind generator.展开更多
The dual-tree complex wavelet transform is a useful tool in signal and image process- ing. In this paper, we propose a dual-tree complex wavelet transform （CWT） based algorithm for image inpalnting problem. Our appr...The dual-tree complex wavelet transform is a useful tool in signal and image process- ing. In this paper, we propose a dual-tree complex wavelet transform （CWT） based algorithm for image inpalnting problem. Our approach is based on Cai, Chan, Shen and Shen＇s framelet-based algorithm. The complex wavelet transform outperforms the standard real wavelet transform in the sense of shift-invariance, directionality and anti-aliasing. Numerical results illustrate the good performance of our algorithm.展开更多
Textile-reinforced composites,due to their excellent highstrength-to-low-mass ratio, provide promising alternatives to conventional structural materials in many high-tech sectors. 3D braided composites are a kind of a...Textile-reinforced composites,due to their excellent highstrength-to-low-mass ratio, provide promising alternatives to conventional structural materials in many high-tech sectors. 3D braided composites are a kind of advanced composites reinforced with 3D braided fabrics; the complex nature of 3D braided composites makes the evaluation of the quality of the product very difficult. In this investigation,a defect recognition platform for 3D braided composites evaluation was constructed based on dual-tree complex wavelet packet transform( DT-CWPT) and backpropagation( BP) neural networks. The defects in 3D braided composite materials were probed and detected by an ultrasonic sensing system. DT-CWPT method was used to analyze the ultrasonic scanning pulse signals,and the feature vectors of these signals were extracted into the BP neural networks as samples. The type of defects was identified and recognized with the characteristic ultrasonic wave spectra. The position of defects for the test samples can be determined at the same time. This method would have great potential to evaluate the quality of 3D braided composites.展开更多
We tried to apply the dual-tree complex wavelet packet transform in seismic signal analysis. The complex wavelet packet transform (CWPT) combine the merits of real wavelet packet transform with that of complex contin...We tried to apply the dual-tree complex wavelet packet transform in seismic signal analysis. The complex wavelet packet transform (CWPT) combine the merits of real wavelet packet transform with that of complex continuous wavelet transform (CCWT). It can not only pick up the phase information of signal, but also produce better ″focal- izing″ function if it matches the phase spectrum of signals analyzed. We here described the dual-tree CWPT algo- rithm, and gave the examples of simulation and actual seismic signals analysis. As shown by our results, the dual-tree CWPT is a very effective method in analyzing seismic signals with non-linear phase.展开更多
Because the extract of the weak failure information is always the difficulty and focus of fault detection.Aiming for specific statistical properties of complex wavelet coefficients of gearbox vibration signals,a new s...Because the extract of the weak failure information is always the difficulty and focus of fault detection.Aiming for specific statistical properties of complex wavelet coefficients of gearbox vibration signals,a new signal-denoising method which uses local adaptive algorithm based on dual-tree complex wavelet transform(DT-CWT)is introduced to extract weak failure information in gear,especially to extract impulse components.By taking into account the non-Gaussian probability distribution and the statistical dependencies among wavelet coefficients of some signals,and by taking the advantage of near shift-invariance of DT-CWT,the higher signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)than common wavelet denoising methods can be obtained.Experiments of extracting periodic impulses in gearbox vibration signals indicate that the method can extract incipient fault feature and hidden information from heavy noise,and it has an excellent effect on identifying weak feature signals in gearbox vibration signals.展开更多
A novel face recognition method based on fusion of spatial and frequency features was presented to improve recognition accuracy. Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform derives desirable facial features to cope with the v...A novel face recognition method based on fusion of spatial and frequency features was presented to improve recognition accuracy. Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform derives desirable facial features to cope with the variation due to the illumination and facial expression changes. By adopting spectral regression and complex fusion technologies respectively, two improved neighborhood preserving discriminant analysis feature extraction methods were proposed to capture the face manifold structures and locality discriminatory information. Extensive experiments have been made to compare the recognition performance of the proposed method with some popular dimensionality reduction methods on ORL and Yale face databases. The results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
Improved local tangent space alignment (ILTSA) is a recent nonlinear dimensionality reduction method which can efficiently recover the geometrical structure of sparse or non-uniformly distributed data manifold. In thi...Improved local tangent space alignment (ILTSA) is a recent nonlinear dimensionality reduction method which can efficiently recover the geometrical structure of sparse or non-uniformly distributed data manifold. In this paper, based on combination of modified maximum margin criterion and ILTSA, a novel feature extraction method named orthogonal discriminant improved local tangent space alignment (ODILTSA) is proposed. ODILTSA can preserve local geometry structure and maximize the margin between different classes simultaneously. Based on ODILTSA, a novel face recognition method which combines augmented complex wavelet features and original image features is developed. Experimental results on Yale, AR and PIE face databases demonstrate the effectiveness of ODILTSA and the feature fusion method.展开更多
A group activity recognition algorithm is proposed to improve the recognition accuracy in video surveillance by using complex wavelet domain based Cayley-Klein metric learning.Non-sampled dual-tree complex wavelet pac...A group activity recognition algorithm is proposed to improve the recognition accuracy in video surveillance by using complex wavelet domain based Cayley-Klein metric learning.Non-sampled dual-tree complex wavelet packet transform(NS-DTCWPT)is used to decompose the human images in videos into multi-scale and multi-resolution.An improved local binary pattern(ILBP)and an inner-distance shape context(IDSC)combined with bag-of-words model is adopted to extract the decomposed high and low frequency coefficient features.The extracted coefficient features of the training samples are used to optimize Cayley-Klein metric matrix by solving a nonlinear optimization problem.The group activities in videos are recognized by using the method of feature extraction and Cayley-Klein metric learning.Experimental results on behave video set,group activity video set,and self-built video set show that the proposed algorithm has higher recognition accuracy than the existing algorithms.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62065001)the Yunnan Young and Middle-aged Academic and Technical Leaders Reserve Talent Project(No.202205AC160001)+1 种基金the Science and Technology Programs of Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department(No.202101BA070001-054)the Special Basic Cooperative Research Programs of Yunnan Provincial Undergraduate Universities Association(No.2019FH001(-066))。
文摘Imaging sonar devices generate sonar images by receiving echoes from objects,which are often accompanied by severe speckle noise,resulting in image distortion and information loss.Common optical denoising methods do not work well in removing speckle noise from sonar images and may even reduce their visual quality.To address this issue,a sonar image denoising method based on fuzzy clustering and the undecimated dual-tree complex wavelet transform is proposed.This method provides a perfect translation invariance and an improved directional selectivity during image decomposition,leading to richer representation of noise and edges in high frequency coefficients.Fuzzy clustering can separate noise from useful information according to the amplitude characteristics of speckle noise,preserving the latter and achieving the goal of noise removal.Additionally,the low frequency coefficients are smoothed using bilateral filtering to improve the visual quality of the image.To verify the effectiveness of the algorithm,multiple groups of ablation experiments were conducted,and speckle sonar images with different variances were evaluated and compared with existing speckle removal methods in the transform domain.The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve image quality,especially in cases of severe noise,where it still achieves a good denoising performance.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61602257 and 61501260)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20160904)+2 种基金the Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(No.KYCX17_0776)the Natural Science Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province(No.16KJB520035)the NUPTSF(Nos.NY214039 and NY215033)
文摘In order to enhance the contrast of low-light images and reduce noise in them, we propose an image enhancement method based on Retinex theory and dual-tree complex wavelet transform(DT-CWT). The method first converts an image from the RGB color space to the HSV color space and decomposes the V-channel by dual-tree complex wavelet transform. Next, an improved local adaptive tone mapping method is applied to process the low frequency components of the image, and a soft threshold denoising algorithm is used to denoise the high frequency components of the image. Then, the V-channel is rebuilt and the contrast is adjusted using white balance method. Finally, the processed image is converted back into the RGB color space as the enhanced result. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the performance in terms of contrast enhancement, noise reduction and color reproduction.
文摘The visual analysis of common neurological disorders such as epileptic seizures in electroencephalography(EEG) is an oversensitive operation and prone to errors,which has motivated the researchers to develop effective automated seizure detection methods.This paper proposes a robust automatic seizure detection method that can establish a veritable diagnosis of these diseases.The proposed method consists of three steps:(i) remove artifact from EEG data using Savitzky-Golay filter and multi-scale principal component analysis(MSPCA),(ii) extract features from EEG signals using signal decomposition representations based on empirical mode decomposition(EMD),discrete wavelet transform(DWT),and dual-tree complex wavelet transform(DTCWT) allowing to overcome the non-linearity and non-stationary of EEG signals,and(iii) allocate the feature vector to the relevant class(i.e.,seizure class "ictal" or free seizure class "interictal") using machine learning techniques such as support vector machine(SVM),k-nearest neighbor(k-NN),and linear discriminant analysis(LDA).The experimental results were based on two EEG datasets generated from the CHB-MIT database with and without overlapping process.The results obtained have shown the effectiveness of the proposed method that allows achieving a higher classification accuracy rate up to 100% and also outperforms similar state-of-the-art methods.
基金Supported by Teaching Team Project of Hubei Provincial Department of Education(203201929203)the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(2021CFB316)+1 种基金New Generation Information Technology Innovation Project Ministry of Education(20202020ITA05022)Hundreds of Schools Unite with Hundreds of Counties-University Serving Rural Revitalization Science and Technology Support Action Plan(BXLBX0847)。
文摘Image enhancement is a monumental task in the field of computer vision and image processing.Existing methods are insufficient for preserving naturalness and minimizing noise in images.This article discusses a technique that is based on wavelets for optimizing images taken in low-light.First,the V channel is created by mapping an image’s RGB channel to the HSV color space.Second,the acquired V channel is decomposed using the dual-tree complex wavelet transform(DT-CWT)in order to recover the concentrated information within its high and low-frequency subbands.Thirdly,an adaptive illumination boost technique is used to enhance the visibility of a low-frequency component.Simultaneously,anisotropic diffusion is used to mitigate the high-frequency component’s noise impact.To improve the results,the image is reconstructed using an inverse DT-CWT and then converted to RGB space using the newly calculated V.Additionally,images are white-balanced to remove color casts.Experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach significantly improves outcomes and outperforms previously reported methods in general.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11402112)the National Key Technology Support Program (No.2012BAA01B02)。
文摘Structural health monitoring(SHM)in-service is very important for wind turbine system.Because the central wavelength of a fiber Bragg grating(FBG)sensor changes linearly with strain or temperature,FBG-based sensors are easily applied to structural tests.Therefore,the monitoring of wind turbine blades by FBG sensors is proposed.The method is experimentally proved to be feasible.Five FBG sensors were set along the blade length in order to measure distributed strain.However,environmental or measurement noise may cover the structural signals.Dual-tree complex wavelet transform(DT-CWT)is suggested to wipe off the noise.The experimental studies indicate that the tested strain fluctuate distinctly as one of the blades is broken.The rotation period is about 1 s at the given working condition.However,the period is about 0.3 s if all the wind blades are in good conditions.Therefore,strain monitoring by FBG sensors could predict damage of a wind turbine blade system.Moreover,the studies indicate that monitoring of one blade is adequate to diagnose the status of a wind generator.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10971189, 11001247)the Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation of China (Y6090091)
文摘The dual-tree complex wavelet transform is a useful tool in signal and image process- ing. In this paper, we propose a dual-tree complex wavelet transform （CWT） based algorithm for image inpalnting problem. Our approach is based on Cai, Chan, Shen and Shen＇s framelet-based algorithm. The complex wavelet transform outperforms the standard real wavelet transform in the sense of shift-invariance, directionality and anti-aliasing. Numerical results illustrate the good performance of our algorithm.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51303131)
文摘Textile-reinforced composites,due to their excellent highstrength-to-low-mass ratio, provide promising alternatives to conventional structural materials in many high-tech sectors. 3D braided composites are a kind of advanced composites reinforced with 3D braided fabrics; the complex nature of 3D braided composites makes the evaluation of the quality of the product very difficult. In this investigation,a defect recognition platform for 3D braided composites evaluation was constructed based on dual-tree complex wavelet packet transform( DT-CWPT) and backpropagation( BP) neural networks. The defects in 3D braided composite materials were probed and detected by an ultrasonic sensing system. DT-CWPT method was used to analyze the ultrasonic scanning pulse signals,and the feature vectors of these signals were extracted into the BP neural networks as samples. The type of defects was identified and recognized with the characteristic ultrasonic wave spectra. The position of defects for the test samples can be determined at the same time. This method would have great potential to evaluate the quality of 3D braided composites.
基金CulturalHeritage Protection Program of State Administration of CulturalHeritage (200001).
文摘We tried to apply the dual-tree complex wavelet packet transform in seismic signal analysis. The complex wavelet packet transform (CWPT) combine the merits of real wavelet packet transform with that of complex continuous wavelet transform (CCWT). It can not only pick up the phase information of signal, but also produce better ″focal- izing″ function if it matches the phase spectrum of signals analyzed. We here described the dual-tree CWPT algo- rithm, and gave the examples of simulation and actual seismic signals analysis. As shown by our results, the dual-tree CWPT is a very effective method in analyzing seismic signals with non-linear phase.
基金Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation of China(No.3062012).
文摘Because the extract of the weak failure information is always the difficulty and focus of fault detection.Aiming for specific statistical properties of complex wavelet coefficients of gearbox vibration signals,a new signal-denoising method which uses local adaptive algorithm based on dual-tree complex wavelet transform(DT-CWT)is introduced to extract weak failure information in gear,especially to extract impulse components.By taking into account the non-Gaussian probability distribution and the statistical dependencies among wavelet coefficients of some signals,and by taking the advantage of near shift-invariance of DT-CWT,the higher signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)than common wavelet denoising methods can be obtained.Experiments of extracting periodic impulses in gearbox vibration signals indicate that the method can extract incipient fault feature and hidden information from heavy noise,and it has an excellent effect on identifying weak feature signals in gearbox vibration signals.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61004088)Key Basic Research Foundation of Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission,China(No.09JC1408000)
文摘A novel face recognition method based on fusion of spatial and frequency features was presented to improve recognition accuracy. Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform derives desirable facial features to cope with the variation due to the illumination and facial expression changes. By adopting spectral regression and complex fusion technologies respectively, two improved neighborhood preserving discriminant analysis feature extraction methods were proposed to capture the face manifold structures and locality discriminatory information. Extensive experiments have been made to compare the recognition performance of the proposed method with some popular dimensionality reduction methods on ORL and Yale face databases. The results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61004088)the Key Basic Research Foundation of Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission(No.09JC1408000)
文摘Improved local tangent space alignment (ILTSA) is a recent nonlinear dimensionality reduction method which can efficiently recover the geometrical structure of sparse or non-uniformly distributed data manifold. In this paper, based on combination of modified maximum margin criterion and ILTSA, a novel feature extraction method named orthogonal discriminant improved local tangent space alignment (ODILTSA) is proposed. ODILTSA can preserve local geometry structure and maximize the margin between different classes simultaneously. Based on ODILTSA, a novel face recognition method which combines augmented complex wavelet features and original image features is developed. Experimental results on Yale, AR and PIE face databases demonstrate the effectiveness of ODILTSA and the feature fusion method.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61672032,61401001)the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province(1408085MF121)the Opening Foundation of Anhui Key Laboratory of Polarization Imaging Detection Technology(2016-KFKT-003)
文摘A group activity recognition algorithm is proposed to improve the recognition accuracy in video surveillance by using complex wavelet domain based Cayley-Klein metric learning.Non-sampled dual-tree complex wavelet packet transform(NS-DTCWPT)is used to decompose the human images in videos into multi-scale and multi-resolution.An improved local binary pattern(ILBP)and an inner-distance shape context(IDSC)combined with bag-of-words model is adopted to extract the decomposed high and low frequency coefficient features.The extracted coefficient features of the training samples are used to optimize Cayley-Klein metric matrix by solving a nonlinear optimization problem.The group activities in videos are recognized by using the method of feature extraction and Cayley-Klein metric learning.Experimental results on behave video set,group activity video set,and self-built video set show that the proposed algorithm has higher recognition accuracy than the existing algorithms.
