This master’s thesis investigates the possibilities of quality assessment of sharpened images. Reliable assessment of these images is crucial for comparing the performance of particular sharpening techniques and also for finding the optimal amount of sharpening. In the thesis, fundamentals of edge detection, sharpness perception, and sharpening algorithms are given. Four of the algorithms are d...

Recent research demonstrates the advantage of designing electro-optical imaging systems by jointly optimizing the optical and digital subsystems. The optical systems designed using this joint approach intentionally introduce large and often space-varying optical aberrations that produce blurry optical images. Digital sharpening restores reduced contrast due to these intentional optical aberrati...

Thought experiments, models, diagrams, computer simulations, and metaphors can all be understood as tools of the imagination. While these devices are usually treated separately in philosophy science, this paper provides a unified account according to which imagination epistemically good insofar they improve scientific imaginings. Improving imagining is characterized terms epistemological conseq...

This work describes three diffuse-interface methods for the simulation of immiscible, compressible multiphase fluid flows and elastic-plastic deformation in solids. The first method is localized-artificial-diffusivity approach Cook [1], Subramaniam et al. [2], Adler Lele [3], which artificial diffusion terms are added to individual phase mass fraction transport equations coupled with other cons...

More detailed information about the s t ructure of Sperner families can be obtained by considering their level sequences. The level sequence of a family 4 , f ( ~ ) = {fi(Y)}, has f i (~) equal to the number of members of ~ with exac t ly ' / e l emen t s . Sperner 's theorem asserts tha t ~fi(2~)<_ ([~j) . A stronger restriction on the level i sequence was proved independent ly by Lubell, Yama...

F sharpened tungsten needles are essential tools required for the manipulation of small particles (1, 2, 3). They can be purchased commercially from Fine Science Tools at a cost of roughly $100 for a set of ten needles. Tungsten needles can easily become damaged during routine use, and accidentally bumping the sharpened end of a tungsten needle immediately renders it useless. For laboratories t...

Transmission electron microscopy has been combined with time-resolved reflectivity and ion channeling to study the effects of carbon doping on solid-phase epitaxial regrowth �SPER� of strained 2000 Å, Si0.88Ge0.12Si alloy layers grown by molecular-beam epitaxy �MBE�. Relative to the undoped layers, carbon incorporation in the MBE grown SiGe layers prior to regrowth at moderate temperatures �500...