Color image demosaicing consists in recovering full resolution color information from color-filter-array (CFA) samples with 66.7% amount of missing data. Most of the existing color demosaicing methods [14, 25, 16, 2, 26] are based on interpolation from inter-channel correlation and local geometry, which are not robust to highly saturated color images with small geometric features. In this paper...

Image inpainting has been widely used in practice to repair damaged/missing pixels of given images. Most of the existing inpainting techniques require knowing beforehand where those damaged pixels are, either given as a priori or detected by some pre-processing. However, in certain applications, such information neither is available nor can be reliably pre-detected, e.g. removing random-valued ...

Since the extension principles of constructing wavelet frames were presented, a lot of symmetric and compactly supported wavelet frames with high vanishing moments have been constructed. However the problem of constructing periodic wavelet frames with the help of extension principles is open. In this paper, we will construct tight periodic wavelet frames using the unitary extension principle an...

experimental tests were performed to study the seismic behavior and performance ofmodified steel chevron braced frame systems, which incorporate a vertical slotted connection(vsc) detail between the top of the braces and the floor beam above. the vsc detail isintended to prevent vertical load transfer to the beam and limit brace forces to thecompressive resistance of the members. full-scale qua...

In this paper, an efficient error resilience scheme aiming to give priority protection to certain area such as region of interest (ROI) in frame based on Wyner-Ziv(WZ) coding for wavelet based video transmission is proposed. By utilizing additional WZ coding, all the corresponding wavelet coefficients related to ROI will be specially protected during transmission on error prone channel and even...

A characterization of multivariate dual wavelet tight frames for any general dilation matrix is presented in this paper. As an application, Lawton’s result on wavelet tight frames in L(IR) is generalized to the n-dimensional case. Two ways of constructing certain dual wavelet tight frames in L(IR) are suggested. Finally examples of smooth wavelet tight frames in L(IR) and H(IR) are provided. In...

In this paper, we propose a new wavelet frame based image restoration model that explicitly treats images as piecewise smooth functions. It estimates both the image to be restored and its singularity set. It can well protect singularities, which are important image features, and provide enough regularization in smooth regions at the same time. This model penalizes the l2norm of the wavelet fram...

Sparsity based regularization methods for image restoration assume that the underlying image has a good sparse approximation under a certain system. Such a system can be a basis, a frame, or a general over-complete dictionary. One widely used class of such systems in image restoration are wavelet tight frames. There have been enduring efforts on seeking wavelet tight frames under which a certai...

In this paper, we propose a new wavelet frame based image restoration model that explicitly treats images as piecewise smooth functions. It estimates both the image to be restored and its singularity set. It can well protect singularities, which are important image features, and provide enough regularization in smooth regions at the same time. This model penalizes the l2norm of the wavelet fram...

In this paper, we analyze the performance of Motion JPEG2000 for wireless applications. This new standard is based on intra-frame wavelet coding. Motion JPEG2000 is offering a number of very compelling advantages when compared to state-of-the-art MPEG-4 video coding. Wavelet coding achieves very high coding efficiency. Furthermore, because frames are intra coded, it is very error-resilient. Fin...