A novel modified cepstral based technique for blind estimation of motion blur

In the problem of blind image deconvolution, estimation of blurring kernel is the first and foremost important step. Quality of restored image highly depends upon the accuracy of this estimation. In this paper we propose a modified cepstrum domain approach combined with bit-plane slicing method to estimate uniform motion blur parameters, which improves the accuracy without any manual intervention. A single motion blurred image under spatial invariance condition is considered. It is noted that the fourth bit plane of the modified cepstrum carries an important cue for estimating the blur direction. With the exploration of this bit plane no other post processing is required to estimate blur direction. The experimental evaluation is carried out on both real-blurred photographs and synthetically blurred standard test images such as Berkeley segmentation dataset and USC-SIPI texture image database. The experimental results show that the proposed method is capable of estimating blur parameters more accurately than the existing methods.     

水下对空中声源的运动参数估计

为了解决传统的交互式多模型目标跟踪算法中马尔可夫概率转移矩阵固定不变,造成的模型切换缓慢、跟踪精度不高的问题,提出了一种基于后验信息修正的时变转移概率自适应交互式多模型跟踪算法。算法定义了一种新的修正因子,利用后验信息对概率转移矩阵进行实时修正,提高匹配模型的概率,减小非匹配模型的影响,使得系统模型能够及时、准确地切换到匹配模型。蒙特卡洛仿真实验表明,该自适应交互式多模型算法能够应用于水下目标跟踪中,相比传统交互式多模型算法,模型匹配度更高,滤波效果也更好。     

Bootstrap generation and evaluation of an fMRI simulation database

Computer simulations have played a critical role in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research, notably in the validation of new data analysis methods. Many approaches have been used to generate fMRI simulations, but there is currently no generic framework to assess how realistic each one of these approaches may be. In this article, a statistical technique called parametric bootstrap was used to generate a simulation database that mimicked the parameters found in a real database, which comprised 40 subjects and five tasks. The simulations were evaluated by comparing the distributions of a battery of statistical measures between the real and simulated databases. Two popular simulation models were evaluated for the first time by applying the bootstrap framework. The first model was an additive mixture of multiple components and the second one implemented a non-linear motion process. In both models, the simulated components included the following brain dynamics: a baseline, physiological noise, neural activation and random noise. These models were found to successfully reproduce the relative variance of the components and the temporal autocorrelation of the fMRI time series. By contrast, the level of spatial autocorrelation was found to be drastically low using the additive model. Interestingly, the motion process in the second model intrisically generated some slow time drifts and increased the level of spatial autocorrelations. These experiments demonstrated that the bootstrap framework is a powerful new tool that can pinpoint the respective strengths and limitations of simulation models.     

基于特征点匹配的电子稳像技术

为获得高质量视频输出序列,电子稳像技术常被用来去除成像设备所摄取的图像序列中的随机抖动。本文首先介绍了电子稳像的国内外发展现状。然后,从电子稳像技术中的运动估计模块出发,描述了国内外近年来出现的直接求取运动估计算法以及各种基于特征点匹配的运动估计方法,并对运动校正和运动补偿模块的算法进行了评述。最后综合分析了稳像算法的难点以及未来发展趋势,提出基于特征匹配的电子稳像技术的发展方向。     

基于运动方向估计的管道滤波算法

管道滤波算法提出了从时域角度解决弱小目标检测问题的思路,对于红外强起伏天空背景中弱点目标的检测问题,管道内强噪音的干扰以及低信噪比的条件会导致检测概率降低的情况出现.本文提出了一种运动方向估计的管道滤波算法,分析了红外弱点目标的运动特性,依据弱点目标在相邻帧间位置具有连贯性的特征,建立了弱点目标的运动方向估计模型.在模型中利用弱点目标逐帧检测的先验位置信息,估计弱点目标的运动方向和轨迹,根据估计结果去除管道内噪音对弱点目标的干扰.仿真结果表明,该方法能够很好地抑制管道内噪音的影响,提高弱点目标的检测概率,增强弱点目标抗管道内噪音干扰的能力.     

一种深度学习的立体阵波达方向估计方法

针对常规波束形成主瓣宽且目标分辨能力低的问题,提出一种基于深度卷积神经网络的波达方向估计方法。算法使用常规波束形成计算二维空间功率谱,将预处理后的空间功率谱图输入深度卷积神经网络。该文利用神经网络学习解卷积映射关系,输出主瓣宽度更窄的空间功率谱图,从而实现高分辨率二维波达方向估计。该算法对阵列结构没有限制,适用于立体阵。仿真结果表明该文方法在不同目标个数、快拍数及信噪比参数下均能准确估计目标方向。该文方法目标分辨能力优于常规波束形成方法。在低快拍情况下,目标方向估计误差低于自适应波束形成方法。     

Improving motion estimation by accounting for local image distortion

Cardiac elastography is a useful diagnostic technique for detection of heart function abnormalities, based on analysis of echocardiograms. The analysis of the regional heart motion allows assessing the extent of myocardial ischemia and infarction. In this paper, a new two-stage algorithm for cardiac motion estimation is proposed, where the data is taken from a sequence of 2D echocardiograms. The method combines the advantages of block-matching and optical flow techniques. The first stage employs a standard block-matching algorithm (sum of absolute differences) to provide a displacement estimate with accuracy of up to one pixel. At the second stage, this estimate is corrected by estimating the parameters of a local image transform within a test window. The parameters of the image transform are estimated in the least-square sense. In order to account for typical heart motions, like contraction/expansion, translation and rotation, a local affine model is assumed within the test window. The accuracy of the new algorithm is evaluated using a sequence of 500 grayscale B-mode images, which are generated as distorted, but known copies of an original ROI, taken from a real echocardiogram. The accuracy of the motion estimation is expressed in terms of errors: maximum absolute error, root-mean-square error, average error and standard deviation. The errors of the proposed algorithm are compared with these of the known block-matching technique with cross-correlation and interpolation in the sub-pixel space. Statistical analysis of the errors shows that the proposed algorithm provides more accurate estimates of the heart motion than the cross-correlation technique with interpolation in the sub-pixel space.     

利用拖线阵运动特性的阵形估计方法

有效估计阵形是提高机动条件下拖线阵声呐探测性能的关键,流体力学类阵形估计方法稳定性和可靠性欠佳,导致其难以应用于工程实际,该文针对此问题提出一种基于拖线阵运动特性的阵形估计方法。利用稳态振荡响应公式计算拖船回转机动时拖线阵稳态阵形特性,将转向机动过程中阵上各点运动状态划分为若干阶段,进而依据偏微分方程特征线理论计算各阶段的分界时刻,探究阵上相邻两点的沿阵切线方向差变化规律,最后通过计算当前阵上各点的沿阵方向实现阵形估计。计算机仿真和海上实验数据验证表明算法可行且有效,与传统的流体力学类阵形估计方法相比具有更高的稳定性和更好的工程应用前景。     

不同模糊尺度下运动模糊方向的鉴别

为了有效减弱高动态环境对图像采集的干扰,利用模糊图像的频谱特性,提出了一种适合不同模糊尺度的运动模糊方向估计方法。该方法对比不同模糊尺度图像频谱中心亮条纹边缘特征的差别,通过计算其曲率半径实现不同模糊尺度图像的量化鉴别,在确定图像模糊尺度的大小之后,分别利用倒频谱、二次傅氏变换对模糊图像频谱中心亮线特征进行提取,考虑图像高宽比、中心十字亮线的不利影响,在二值化处理的基础上剔除十字亮线,通过亮线特征点直线拟合完成模糊方向估计。实验结果表明,该算法能够有效鉴别不同模糊尺度的运动模糊方向,估计精度较其他同类算法更高,相对误差率均小于0.02。     

Compressed sensing MR image reconstruction using a motion-compensated reference

Compressed sensing (CS)-based methods have been proposed for image reconstruction from undersampled magnetic resonance data. Recently, CS-based schemes using reference images have also been proposed to further reduce the sampling requirement. In this study, we propose a new reference-constrained CS reconstruction method that accounts for the misalignment between the reference and the target image to be reconstructed. The proposed method uses a new image model that represents the target image as a linear combination of a motion-dependent reference image and a sparse difference image. We then use an efficient iterative algorithm to jointly estimate the motion parameters and the difference image from sparsely sampled data. Simulation results from a numerical phantom data set and an in vivo data set show that the proposed method can accurately compensate the motion effects between the reference and the target images and improve reconstruction quality. The proposed method should prove useful for several applications such as interventional imaging, longitudinal imaging studies and dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging.     

Transverse oscillations for tissue motion estimation

This paper gives an overview of the methods developed for tissue motion estimation using transverse oscillation images (TO). TO images are specific radiofrequency ultrasound images featuring oscillations in both spatial directions. The initial studies on TO were published in the late 1990s. This paper reviews the main ideas and applications behind this motion estimation approach. First the origin and motivation of TO is briefly reviewed. Then the beamforming methods that lead to TO images are given, detailing the receive-only approach and the transmit-and-receive approach using synthetic aperture data. The different medical applications where TO has been used are discussed (blood flow, elastography and echocardiography), showing how it can improve motion estimation. Finally, the future perspectives of TO are outlined.     

一种基于自适应补偿的快速帧速率上转换算法

提出一种基于自适应补偿的快速帧速率上转换算法.算法在塔型结构数据上进行运动估计并利用相邻块运动矢量对上层传递矢量进行修正,减少计算量的同时获得了平滑的运动矢量场.在匹配搜索过程中采用动态调整搜索窗策略,避免了过搜索和搜索不足的问题.运动补偿克服了传统的补偿算法仅采用一种插值方法的不足,根据运动矢量的可靠性分别采用了3种不同的插值方法.为了减少块边缘的失真,采用了重叠块运动补偿的插值方法.在遮挡区域,设计了加权多候选运动矢量插值方法,对前后两帧补偿结果分别赋予不同的权值以减少失真.实验结果表明,该算法与传统算法相比不仅可以大幅度降低计算量,且插值图像的质量有所提高.     

基于运动补偿和码率预分配的干涉多光谱图像压缩算法

提出了一种基于运动补偿的三维小波变换和基于码块预测的码率预分配的图像压缩算法.利用干涉多光谱图像成像推扫平移特性,在小波变换中使用运动补偿来减少帧间相关性,并对图像组中各个图像小波变换和量化后EBCOT编码码块的有效比特平面进行独立的熵估计.以图像估计熵总和指导整个图像组码率预分配,以解决平均分配码率对重建图像质量带来的影响.实验结果表明:该算法在8倍压缩时,图像序列的平均峰值信噪比比3D-SPIHT提高了0.85～1.25 dB,比单帧JPEG2000提高了1.91～4.25 dB, 算法复杂度低,易于硬件实现.     

A robust and accurate center-frequency estimation (RACE) algorithm for improving motion estimation performance of SinMod on tagged cardiac MR images without known tagging parameters

A robust and accurate center-frequency (CF) estimation (RACE) algorithm for improving the performance of the local sine-wave modeling (SinMod) method, which is a good motion estimation method for tagged cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images, is proposed in this study. The RACE algorithm can automatically, effectively and efficiently produce a very appropriate CF estimate for the SinMod method, under the circumstance that the specified tagging parameters are unknown, on account of the following two key techniques: (1) the well-known mean-shift algorithm, which can provide accurate and rapid CF estimation; and (2) an original two-direction-combination strategy, which can further enhance the accuracy and robustness of CF estimation. Some other available CF estimation algorithms are brought out for comparison. Several validation approaches that can work on the real data without ground truths are specially designed. Experimental results on human body in vivo cardiac data demonstrate the significance of accurate CF estimation for SinMod, and validate the effectiveness of RACE in facilitating the motion estimation performance of SinMod.     

On fast estimation of direction of arrival for underwater acoustic target based on sparse Bayesian learning

The Direction of Arrival(DOA) estimation methods for underwater acoustic target using Temporally Multiple Sparse Bayesian Learning(TMSBL) as the reconstructing algorithm have the disadvantage of slow computing speed.To solve this problem,a fast underwater acoustic target direction of arrival estimation was proposed.Analyzing the model characteristics of block-sparse Bayesian learning framework for DOA estimation,an algorithm was proposed to obtain the value of core hyper-parameter through MacKay's fixed-point method to estimate the DOA.By this process,it will spend less time for computation and provide more superior recovery performance than TMSBL algorithm.Simulation results verified the feasibiUty and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.     

The application of improved block-matching method and block search method for the image motion estimation

Image block matching is one of the motion estimation methods for video inter-frame coding and digital image stabilization. The methods used for matching and searching will greatly affect the accuracy and speed of block matching. The block matching method based on the oblique vectors is suggested in this paper where matching parameters contain both horizontal and vertical vectors in the image blocks at the same time. Improved matching information can be obtained after making correlative calculations in the oblique direction. A novel search method of matching block based on the idea of simulated annealing is presented in this paper to improve the searching speed, accuracy and robustness in the fast operation of the block-matching motion estimation. The simulated annealing algorithm can easily escape from the trap of local minima effectively. With the two methods the block matching can be used for motion estimation at the real-time image processing system and high estimation accuracy can be achieved. An image stabilization system based on DSP (Digital Signal Processing) system is developed to verify this algorithm. Results show that both the matching accuracy and the search speed are improved with the methods presented.     

一种快速稀疏贝叶斯学习的水声目标方位估计方法研究

针对以具有时序结构的稀疏贝叶斯学习(Temporally multiple sparse Bayesian learning,TMSBL)为重构算法的水声目标DOA (Direction-of-arrival)估计方法存在运算速度慢的问题,结合块稀疏贝叶斯学习(Block-spare Bayesian learning,BSBL)理论框架下DOA估计模型与特点,采用MacKay提出的定点方法(Fixed-point method)对TMSBL算法中的核心超参量进行求解,提出一种快速的水声目标方位估计稀疏贝叶斯学习的方法,该方法具有运算速度快,重构概率高的特点,并通过实验仿真从运算时间、失败率和均方根误差等方面与TMSBL算法进行比较,验证了该方法的可行性与有效性。      

Doppler ultrasound detection of shear waves remotely induced in tissue phantoms and tissue in vitro

In shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI), mechanical excitation within the tissue is remotely generated using radiation force of focused ultrasound. The induced shear strain is subsequently detected to estimate visco-elastic properties of tissue and thus aid diagnostics. In this paper, the mechanical response of tissue to radiation force was detected using a modified ultrasound Doppler technique. The experiments were performed on tissue mimicking and tissue containing phantoms using a commercial diagnostic scanner. This scanner was modified to control both the pushing and probing beams. The pushing beam was fired repetitively along a single direction while interlaced probing beams swept the surrounding region of interest to detect the induced motion. The detectability of inhomogeneous inclusions using ultrasonic Doppler SWEI method has been demonstrated in this study. The displacement fields measured in elastic phantoms clearly reveal the oscillatory nature of the mechanical relaxation processes in response to impulsive load due to the boundary effects. This relaxation dynamics was also present in cooked muscle tissue, but was not detected in more viscous and less elastic phantom and raw muscles. Presence of a local heterogeneity in the vicinity of the focal region of the pushing beam results in generation of a standing wave field pattern which is manifested in the oscillatory response of the excited region of the tissue. There has been made an assumption that dynamic characteristics of the relaxation process may be used for visualization of inhomogeneities.     

一种新的运动模糊图像超分辨力盲复原算法

研究了具有深度运动模糊效果的图像的复原算法.采用对运动模糊图像的傅里叶频谱进行Radon变换来估计运动模糊方向,在此方向上计算运动模糊图像的自相关来估计运动模糊长度,再以运动模糊方向和运动模糊长度为参量结合超分辨力图像复原处理算法对比较严重的运动模糊图像进行复原.结果表明,该综合性算法能够较为精确地估算出运动模糊图像的模糊参量并取得较好的复原效果.     

实时运动结构重建在自主导航系统中的应用

实时运动结构重建是自主车辆、机器人导航、空间探测器自主降落、智能监控等领域中的重要研究课题。目前实时运动结构重建主要存在着特征匹配困难、鲁棒性差、系统无法自动获取初始参数和需要大量人工干预等诸多问题。利用高速CMOS摄像机与惯性传感数据融合提高了运动结构重建算法的精度及其鲁棒性。该算法在扩展卡尔曼滤波框架下是通过融合惯性与视觉传感器的数据来进行运动估计的。对场景中的每一个待估计结构的特征点建立对应的卡尔曼滤波器,以估计其空间三维结构信息。运动估计模块与结构估计模块交替运行,减小了系统运算的复杂度,提高了实时性能。通过对真实场景图像序列的实验验证结果表明,惯性传感器的额外信息能够有效地提高运动结构估计的精度,能够增强算法的鲁棒性。