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ISVC
2009
Springer
14 years 2 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 11 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 8 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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13 years 2 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 7 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