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ISVC
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Novel Method for Enhanced Needle Localization Using Ultrasound-Guidance
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a novel and fast method to localize and track needles during image-guided interventions. Our proposed method is comprised of framework of needle...
Bin Dong, Eric Savitsky, Stanley Osher
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Enhancement of uneven lighting text image using line-based Empirical Mode Decomposition
Non-uniform light distribution problems often arise in the text images taken by digital camera. In this paper, we propose a novel technique for text image uneven lighting removal ...
Soo-Chang Pei, Mary Tzeng, Yu-Zhe Hsiao
WCE
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Image Enhancement Using Particle Swarm Optimization
Abstract—Applications of the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to solve image processing problem with a reference to a new automatic enhancement technique based on real-coded par...
Malik Braik, Alaa F. Sheta, Aladdin Ayesh
JCIT
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Enhanced Block Motion Estimation Based on Threshold-Aware Two-Path Search Method
For stationary or quasi-stationary frames of a video sequence, traditional block matching algorithms (BMA) will easily lead the search to be trapped into a local minimum. In this ...
Wei-Chih Hsu, Tsan-Ying Yu, Jan-Lie Guo
SIGPRO
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Adaptive bilateral filtering of image signals using local phase characteristics
This paper presents a novel perceptually based method for noise reduction of image signals characterized by low signal to noise ratios. The proposed method exploits the local phas...
Alexander Wong