It is widely believed that to efficiently represent an otherwise smooth object with discontinuities along edges, one must use an adaptive representation that in some sense ‘tracks’ the shape of the discontinuity set. This folk-belief — some would say folk-theorem — is incorrect. At the very least, the possible quantitative advantage of such adaptation is vastly smaller than commonly believed. W...

Obtaining seismic images with good quality in hardrock environments has been challenging. This condition applies to many mineral explorations using seismic methods including our study area where the data quality is strongly affected by soft, near-surface materials and a reflector with low contrast in rock physical properties. Until recently, no effective processing has been applied to the seism...

Human face detection is an indispensable component in face processing applications, including automatic face recognition, security surveillance, facial expression recognition, and the like. This paper presents a profile face detection algorithm based on curvelet features, as curvelet transform offers good directional representation and can capture edge information in human face from different a...

The information from patient’s body is captured as medical images and is used for surgical and diagnostic purposes. Compression of medical images is essential for storage and transmission of patient's data. Due to high impact of details in medical images, lossless compression is preferred. This paper presents colour medical image compression using Curvelet transform with lifting and Huffman cod...

This paper introduces a method for feature extraction from multiresolution representations (wavelet,curvelet) for classification of digital mammograms. The proposed method selects the features according to its capability to distinguish between different classes. The method starts with both performing wavelet and curvelet transform over mammogram images. The resulting coefficients of each image ...

For the ultrasound images accurate segmentation problem, this paper proposes a novel SVM semi-supervised segmentation method based on major features in curvelet domain. Firstly, ultrasound images were decomposed into different directions and frequencies in the curvelet domain, then the cauchy model was used to simulate curvelet coefficients distribution, thus the main distribution of the curvel...

Colour images are being used in many fields of research. One of the major issues of these types of colour images is their poor perception. A new method to enhance the colour image which using the concept of curvelet and multi structure decomposition. The proposed enhancement technique uses DCT (Discrete Curvelet Transform) to decomposed input image into different sub bands. Multi Structure (Mor...

This paper provides a comparative study of the performance of different Transform Domain filters like Wavelet, Contourlet, Bandelet and Curvelet with Firefly Algorithm (FA) applied to despeckle Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Initially the feature enhancement and edge detection of speckled SAR image are integrated with improved gain function by shrinking and stretching the Wavelet Co-eff...

this paper presents a new procedure for automatic extraction of the blood vessels and optic disk (od) in fundus fluorescein angiogram (ffa). in order to extract blood vessel centerlines, the algorithm of vessel extraction starts with the analysis of directional images resulting from sub‑bands of fast discrete curvelet transform (fdct) in the similar directions and different scales. for this pur...

Tracking object from video sequences has become a very popular problem in the field of computer vision. Many algorithms have been proposed to solve this problem. Combined with the energy of curvelet coefficients and Kalman filter method, a new object tracking algorithm is proposed based on fast discrete curvelet transform. Firstly, this algorithm is initialized with the establishment of a movin...