Color image edge detection method using VTV denoising and color difference

The traditional Canny edge uses Gaussian filter to suppress the noise, it also smoothes out the image edges. An improved Canny edge detection method for color image is proposed in this paper, the improved method uses fast vectorial total variation (VTV) minimization model to remove noise in color image, and then calculates the color difference and direction in CIELAB color space, which is used for non-maximal suppression. Finally, the improved method extracts the edges by the double-threshold method. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better performance than the traditional Canny edge detector. It can remove noise while preserving the image edges, and effectively detect the image edges.     

Non-equilibrium Green's function approach to the quasiparticle transport and magnetoresistance in hybrid magnetic tunnel junctions

A generalized approach to study quasiparticle transport across hybrid magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) is formulated using the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. This formalism allows for arbitrary thicknesses of the electrodes and the central scattering region comprising of materials with multiple electronic bands, and incorporates the many body interactions present in the electrode regions. While the method can be used to study the transport characteristics of various types of MTJs, we have used it to study the tunneling characteristics and magnetoresistance (MR) of MTJs in which s-f interaction is present at the electrode layers. It is also used to study the transport characteristics of MTJs with hybrid electrodes and double barrier. The magnetic correlation present in the electrodes is found to strongly influence the TMR. Eventhough the magnetic correlation in general suppress the TMR, the TMR is found to be enhanced strongly for certain band occupations of the electrodes. We observe a fall of TMR with increase in the number of layers in the insulating region. Band occupation of the metallic layer present at the middle of the insulating layers in the double barrier MTJ is found to be important in deciding its tunnel characteristics. Origin of the different types of behavior of TMR is analyzed in terms of the spin-dependent tunnel currents.     

The Green's function of the Poisson equation on the non-concentric annular region

In this article the two-dimensional Poisson equation is considered in the region between two non-concentric circular cylinders. Upon introducing bipolar coordinates the corresponding Green's function is found in form of a simple and rapidly converging series which can be formally summarized as a closed-form. Based on this result we additionally provide the Green's function for the conducting cylinder which is oriented parallel to a ground plane as well as for the case of two conducting cylinders.     

基于色彩空间非线性变换的彩色图像边缘检测

为了在边缘检测中有效的利用图像的色彩信息,提出了基于色彩空间非线性变换的彩色图像边缘检测算法。该算法利用了ιαβ空间信道相关性低的优点,采用基于Sobel算子的色度差算子进行边缘检测。实验结果表明:该算法不但可以检测出亮度变化剧烈区域内的物体边缘,而且还可以检测出在光线很暗的区域内不同颜色物体的边缘。因而可以极大的提高图像边缘的检测效果。     

Properties of advanced coupled-cluster Green's function

ABSTRACT

We present an extension of the analysis previously applied to the retarded part of the coupled cluster (CC) Green's function to its advanced part. In analogy to our earlier studies for the retarded part, we demonstrate that the advanced CC Green's function is expressed in terms of connected diagrams only, which is a direct consequence of algebraic form of equations satisfied by CC amplitudes. We also demonstrate that ω-derivatives of the advanced CC Green's function can be calculated analytically and can be expressed in terms of connected diagrams only. We analyse the structure of connected diagrams and the role of intermediate operators which satisfy electron affinity equation-of-motion CC-type conditions.     

The Green's function of confined electrons in an external magnetic field: Analytical formulation

We derive the analytical form of the Green's function of 2-dimensional electrons with lateral confinement in a perpendicular magnetic field. The confinement potentials considered are infinite barriers at radius R (quantum dot) and at r and R (quantum ring).     

Three-dimensional static Green's function for a half space over mixed PEC and dielectric wedges

A pseudo-analytical solution technique is proposed to determine the three-dimensional static Green's function for a half space over mixed perfect electric conductor-dielectric wedges. The governing Poisson's equation is solved, using the Kontorovich–Lebedev and Fourier transforms. The solution, expressed in terms of image contributions, consists of an excitation point source, a set of point images in physical space, and two line images located in complex space for each region of the problem geometry. The validity of the proposed technique is confirmed by comparing our results with the existing analytical solutions and those obtained numerically using the using a finite integration code.     

Exact Green's function for rectangular potentials and its application to quasi-bound states

In this work we calculate the exact Green's function for arbitrary rectangular potentials. Specifically we focus on Green's function for rectangular quantum wells enlarging the knowledge of exact solutions for Green's functions and also generalizing and resuming results in the literature. The exact formula has the form of a sum over paths and always can be cast into a closed analytic expression. From the poles and residues of the Green's function the bound states eigenenergies and eigenfunctions with the correct normalization constant are obtained. In order to show the versatility of the method, an application of the Green's function approach to extract information of quasi-bound states in rectangular barriers, where the standard analysis of quantum amplitudes fail, is presented.     

Single fermion Green's function in the quantum ordered Fermi-system: Analytic solution

An exact self-consistent solution for a finite temperature quantum-ordered state of correlated electron system found previously (8 and 1) is used to derive the fermionic single-particle Green's function. The quantum order parameter (QOP) found in the form of a periodic (elliptic Jacoby) function of the Matsubara's imaginary time (Mukhin, 2009), plays the role of effective scattering potential seen by electrons. The analytic solution for the Green's function demonstrates the following new features: (1) the pseudo-gap behavior of the single-electron density of states (DOS) near the (shifted) Fermi-level;(2) the side-bands of decreasing intensity away from the Fermi-level; (3) scaling of the quasi-particle energies with the QOP amplitude; (4) fermionic quasi-particles in the QOP state are combined from two confined “odd” and “even” fermions that separately would be unstable. The false-color plot of single-fermion DOS in the limit of a periodic kink-like Matsubara time-dependence of QOP is presented and could be used as prediction for the ARPES experiments. The plot of the DOS transfer between different energies at the “fermi-surface” momentum for a given kink-like QOP is also presented. Some possibly observable consequences of the found finger-prints are discussed.     

图像边缘检测方法研究综述

图像的边缘是图像最基本也是最重要的特征之一。边缘检测一直是计算机视觉和图像处理领域的经典研究课题之一。图像分析和理解的第一步常常是边缘检测。边缘检测的目的是去发现图像中关于形状和反射或透射比的信息,是图像处理、图像分析、模式识别、计算机视觉以及人类视觉的基本步骤之一。其结果的正确性和可靠性将直接影响到机器视觉系统对客观世界的理解。对一些传统的边缘检测方法和近年来广泛收到关注的边缘检测算法进行了简单介绍。综述中只涉及到检测方面,而没有讨论滤波、边缘定位、算法的复杂程度和边缘检测器性能的评价。     

Single-channel color image encryption using phase retrieve algorithm in fractional Fourier domain

A single-channel color image encryption is proposed based on a phase retrieve algorithm and a two-coupled logistic map. Firstly, a gray scale image is constituted with three channels of the color image, and then permuted by a sequence of chaotic pairs generated by the two-coupled logistic map. Secondly, the permutation image is decomposed into three new components, where each component is encoded into a phase-only function in the fractional Fourier domain with a phase retrieve algorithm that is proposed based on the iterative fractional Fourier transform. Finally, an interim image is formed by the combination of these phase-only functions and encrypted into the final gray scale ciphertext with stationary white noise distribution by using chaotic diffusion, which has camouflage property to some extent. In the process of encryption and decryption, chaotic permutation and diffusion makes the resultant image nonlinear and disorder both in spatial domain and frequency domain, and the proposed phase iterative algorithm has faster convergent speed. Additionally, the encryption scheme enlarges the key space of the cryptosystem. Simulation results and security analysis verify the feasibility and effectiveness of this method.     

一种基于边缘能量图的物体检测方法

物体的变形、边缘中断等因素通常对物体检测的结果影响很大。为了减小这些因素的影响,提出一种新的基于边缘能量图的物体检测方法。边缘能量图在一定程度上反映了物体的边缘出现的概率,便于计算并具有较好的鲁棒性。计算出图像的边缘图像,在此基础上分别计算出模型和测试图像的边缘能量图。基于多分辨率的滑动窗口,在图像中找出测试图像边缘能量图与模型边缘能量图最相似的区域。基于边缘能量图快速得到目标物体的轮廓。实验结果显示,该方法使用较快的计算速度得到了相对较高的检测率。     

An effusion-evaporation model for image edge detection

A novel quasi-physical edge detection model is presented. The model, referred to as the effusion-evaporation model (EEM), is inspired by the natural phenomenon that the water effusing from the ground evaporates in the sunshine and leaves a wire like water stain on the ground surface, which reflects the physiognomy of the terrain. Based on the simulation of water effusing and evaporating, an EEM regards the complement of gradient magnitude image as a three-dimensional terrain, and the concave regions, which contain the residual water in the evolution final state, are used to determine the edges. Subjective and objective comparisons are performed on the proposed algorithm and two conventional edge detectors, namely Canny and LoG. The comparison results show that the proposed method outperforms Canny and LoG detectors for the real images and the standard test images with Gaussian noise.     

误差分散类彩色半调图的边缘检测算法

针对误差分散类彩色半调图提出一种边缘检测算法.首先应用K－L变换,将(R,G,B)空间转换为具有正交特性的彩色特征空间(I1,I2,I3),构造灰度图I使之包含所有单色图像的边缘信息,最后设计多尺度边缘检测模板以获取图像边缘.实验表明,算法较传统方法抗半调噪音的能力强,能快速、准确地提取彩色半调图像的边缘.     

改进的Zernike矩工业CT图像边缘检测

为提高工业计算机断层扫描(CT)图像亚像素边缘检测的精度和速度,研究了一种改进的Zernike矩边缘检测方法。该方法采用Sobel边缘算子快速检测出图像所有可能的边缘,通过Zernike矩算子对所有可能的边缘进行重新检测,最后,检测出图像的亚像素边缘并计算其精确位置。由于采用Sobel算子检测出可能的边缘使后续Zernike矩算子检测范围缩小,从而减小了运算量,提高了运算速度。对实际CT图像进行的实验结果表明:改进的Zernike矩工业CT图像边缘检测精度绝对误差<0.24 pixel,改进算法的运算速度提高了约70%。     

Low-rank canonical-tensor decomposition of potential energy surfaces: application to grid-based diagrammatic vibrational Green's function theory

ABSTRACT

A new method is proposed for a fast evaluation of high-dimensional integrals of potential energy surfaces (PES) that arise in many areas of quantum dynamics. It decomposes a PES into a canonical low-rank tensor format, reducing its integral into a relatively short sum of products of low-dimensional integrals. The decomposition is achieved by the alternating least squares (ALS) algorithm, requiring only a small number of single-point energy evaluations. Therefore, it eradicates a force-constant evaluation as the hotspot of many quantum dynamics simulations and also possibly lifts the curse of dimensionality. This general method is applied to the anharmonic vibrational zero-point and transition energy calculations of molecules using the second-order diagrammatic vibrational many-body Green's function (XVH2) theory with a harmonic-approximation reference. In this application, high dimensional PES and Green's functions are both subjected to a low-rank decomposition. Evaluating the molecular integrals over a low-rank PES and Green's functions as sums of low-dimensional integrals using the Gauss–Hermite quadrature, this canonical-tensor-decomposition-based XVH2 (CT-XVH2) achieves an accuracy of 0.1 cm^?1 or higher and nearly an order of magnitude speedup as compared with the original algorithm using force constants for water and formaldehyde.     

Quantum Binary and Triplet Distribution Functions of Plasma by using Green's Function

The aim of this paper is to calculate the binary and triplet distribution functions for one and two component Plasmas in terms of Green's function technique. We obtained the triplet distribution function in two form; one of them is based on the Kirkwood Superposition Approximation (KSA) which is consisting of the assumption that the potential in a set of three particles is the sum of the three pair potentials, this is equivalent to assuming that the triplet distribution function is the product of the three binary distribution functions, but the other form is calculated from BBGKY hierarchy. (© 2014 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Green's function approach to the impurity state in the Lieb lattice

Wavefunction of an impurity attached to the Lieb lattice is considered by directly computing the Green's function (GF) for the nearest-neighbor tight-binding model. By replacing the lattice GF with a GF array including all the nine GFs defining on the three-atom unit cell of the Lieb lattice, an accurate and efficient numerical technique is developed. Agreement of both the real and imaginary components of the GF between numerical simulation of the lattice GF and continuum-space Fourier transformation is achieved in the whole resonant-energy range. Both results demonstrate that the wavefunction amplitude decays in a power-law pattern while the resonant energy is small and it decays in a pattern stronger than the power law and weaker than exponentially while the resonant energy is large. The decaying exponents depend on the adatom type and location in the unit cell, which directly modifies the temperature-dependent conductance under the variable-range hopping theory.     

Green's function study of a mixed spin-1 and spin-3/2 Heisenberg ferrimagnetic system

The magnetic properties of a mixed spin-1 and spin-3/2 Heisenberg ferrimagnetic system on a square lattice are investigated by using the double-time temperature-dependent Green's function technique. In order to decouple the higher order Green's functions, Anderson and Callen's decoupling and random phase approximations have been used. The nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor interactions and the single-ion anisotropies are considered and their effects on compensation and critical temperature are studied.     

A novel color image encryption scheme using alternate chaotic mapping structure

This paper proposes an color image encryption algorithm using alternate chaotic mapping structure. Initially, we use the R, G and B components to form a matrix. Then one-dimension logistic and two-dimension logistic mapping is used to generate a chaotic matrix, then iterate two chaotic mappings alternately to permute the matrix. For every iteration, XOR operation is adopted to encrypt plain-image matrix, then make further transformation to diffuse the matrix. At last, the encrypted color image is obtained from the confused matrix. Theoretical analysis and experimental results has proved the cryptosystem is secure and practical, and it is suitable for encrypting color images.