软门限去噪法在X射线能谱分析中的应用

从函数空间的剖分和理想滤波器组的角度分析了多分辨率信号的分解与重构，提出了一种X射线能谱去噪的方法，即应用Mallat算法对谱信号进行小波分解，然后应用一个非线性软门限函数在小波域内将噪声抑制和消除，最后重构得到去噪后的能谱。该方法明显改善了能谱定量分析的结果。     

ThrEEBoost: Thresholded Boosting for Variable Selection and Prediction via Estimating Equations

Most variable selection techniques for high-dimensional models are designed to be used in settings, where observations are independent and completely observed. At the same time, there is a rich literature on approaches to estimation of low-dimensional parameters in the presence of correlation, missingness, measurement error, selection bias, and other characteristics of real data. In this article, we present ThrEEBoost (Thresholded EEBoost), a general-purpose variable selection technique which can accommodate such problem characteristics by replacing the gradient of the loss by an estimating function. ThrEEBoost generalizes the previously proposed EEBoost algorithm (Wolfson 2011 Wolfson, J. (2011), “EEBoost: A General Method for Prediction and Variable Selection Based on Estimating Equations,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106, 296–305.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) by allowing the number of regression coefficients updated at each step to be controlled by a thresholding parameter. Different thresholding parameter values yield different variable selection paths, greatly diversifying the set of models that can be explored; the optimal degree of thresholding can be chosen by cross-validation. ThrEEBoost was evaluated using simulation studies to assess the effects of different threshold values on prediction error, sensitivity, specificity, and the number of iterations to identify minimum prediction error under both sparse and nonsparse true models with correlated continuous outcomes. We show that when the true model is sparse, ThrEEBoost achieves similar prediction error to EEBoost while requiring fewer iterations to locate the set of coefficients yielding the minimum error. When the true model is less sparse, ThrEEBoost has lower prediction error than EEBoost and also finds the point yielding the minimum error more quickly. The technique is illustrated by applying it to the problem of identifying predictors of weight change in a longitudinal nutrition study. Supplementary materials are available online.     

Compactly supported shearlets are optimally sparse

Cartoon-like images, i.e., C² functions which are smooth apart from a C² discontinuity curve, have by now become a standard model for measuring sparse (nonlinear) approximation properties of directional representation systems. It was already shown that curvelets, contourlets, as well as shearlets do exhibit sparse approximations within this model, which are optimal up to a log-factor. However, all those results are only applicable to band-limited generators, whereas, in particular, spatially compactly supported generators are of uttermost importance for applications.In this paper, we present the first complete proof of optimally sparse approximations of cartoon-like images by using a particular class of directional representation systems, which indeed consists of compactly supported elements. This class will be chosen as a subset of (non-tight) shearlet frames with shearlet generators having compact support and satisfying some weak directional vanishing moment conditions.     

Thresholding methods to estimate copula density

This paper deals with the problem of multivariate copula density estimation. Using wavelet methods we provide two shrinkage procedures based on thresholding rules for which knowledge of the regularity of the copula density to be estimated is not necessary. These methods, said to be adaptive, have proved to be very effective when adopting the minimax and the maxiset approaches. Moreover we show that these procedures can be discriminated in the maxiset sense. We provide an estimation algorithm and evaluate its properties using simulation. Finally, we propose a real life application for financial data.     

一种海空背景下红外小目标检测新算法

针对海空背景下红外小目标图像信噪比低、难以检测的情况以及传统检测方法需要图像帧数多、实时性差等缺点,基于Donoho的小波变换阈值化方法,提出了一种更加适合海空背景下红外小目标检测的新算法.该算法采用一种新的阈值求取方法以及更加简单的硬阈值化函数对图像进行处理.通过仿真实验将新算法与传统检测算法进行比较,实验结果表明,无论在处理效果还是实时性上,新算法都优于传统算法.     

光电图像光照不均蜕化的校正及阈值分割方法*

分析了CCD获取的图像光照不均蜕化产生原因.针对光照不均蜕化的印刷电路板图像的具体情况,用同态滤波器在频域空间进行滤波而增强图像,从而改善图像的目标与背景对比度.讨论了最大类间方差法,给出了其优点.为了更好的分割图像,在此基础上,考虑两类间距与各类内聚性对图像分割的不同影响,提出了一种改进的最大类间方差法.最后对光照不均蜕化的PCB光电图像用不同方法进行了实验,结果表明改进方法能更好地分割图像.     

基于小波包变换和数学形态学结合的光谱去噪方法研究

对反射光谱数据进行去噪是提高光谱信息准确度的前提。传统时域平滑和频域去噪方法存在诸多缺点,本文首次将广义形态滤波方法用于可见近红外光谱的去噪处理,并提出基于小波包变换和数学形态学结合的光谱去噪方法。使用USGS光谱库中的植被光谱进行实验,采用信噪比(SNR)、均方误差根(RMSE)、波形相似度(NCC)和平滑度(SR)四个指标来评估去噪效果。结果表明,小波包最佳基阈值法和广义形态滤波法都能较好地保持波形和平滑度,广义形态滤波法能较好地消除幅值较大的随机噪声,但其对连续随机噪声中幅值较小的噪声成分不能有效消除; 而小波包最佳基阈值法不能有效消除幅值较大的噪声成分; 二者结合的方法组合了这两者的优点,使得幅值较大、较小的噪声成分都能较好地消除,同时还提高了相似度和平滑度指标,充分表明小波包最佳基阈值与广义形态滤波结合的方法是一种更好的可见光近红外光谱去噪方法。     

On rank awareness,thresholding, and MUSIC for joint sparse recovery

This letter establishes sufficient conditions for the sparse multiple measurement vector (MMV) or row-sparse matrix approximation problem for the Rank Aware Row Thresholding (RART) algorithm. Using the rank aware selection operator to define RART results in discrete MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) from array signal processing. When the sensing matrix is drawn from the random Gaussian matrix ensemble, we establish that the rank of the row-sparse measurement matrix in the noiseless row-sparse recovery problem allows RART (MUSIC) to reduce the effect of the $\log (n)$ penalty term that is present in traditional compressed sensing results and simultaneously provides a row-rank deficient recovery result for MUSIC. Empirical evidence shows that Thresholding closely matches RART in successful row-sparse approximation. The theoretical and empirical evidence provides further support for the conjecture that the thresholding operator in more sophisticated greedy algorithms is the source of their observed rank awareness.     

利用模拟退火遗传算法实现图像阈值分割

本文提出了一种利用模拟退火算法和遗传算法相结合的图像阈值分割算法,试验结果表明该算法增强了算法的全局收敛性,加快了算法的收敛速度,提高了图像阈值分割的效率.     

Cross-validated wavelet shrinkage

Cross-validation has been successfully used in various areas of statistics. However, it has not been used much in wavelet shrinkage estimation because fast wavelet methods cannot be applied to deleted data. In this paper, we show this problem can be avoided by using a fast imputation of data. This allows level-dependent cross- validation which is attractive to data with different sparseness. The proposed methods can be easily extended to higher dimensional problem such as image. Results from simulation and examples demonstrate the promising empirical properties of the procedure. In particular, the methods proposed in this work provide outstanding results for non-Gaussian noises because cross-validation is not based on normality assumptions.