Reduced reference image quality assessment (RRIQA) methods aim to assess the quality of a perceived image with only a reduced cue from its original version, called ”reference image”. The powerful advantage of RR methods is their ”General-purpose”. However, most introduced RR methods are built upon a non-adaptive transform models. This can limit the scope of RR methods to a small number of disto...

The Equivalent Effect Function (EEF) is defined as having the identical integral values on the control points of the original time series data; the EEF can be obtained from the derivative of the spline function passing through the integral values on the control points. By choosing control points with different criteria, the EEF can be used to find the intrinsic mode function(IMF, fluctuation) a...

quantification of arterial elasticity and its dependency to age is considered in this paper. we use radiofrequency (rf) signals fromcarotid artery ultasonography to evaluate this dependency. blood pressure, blood flow, and tethering to surrounding tissue are the maincauses of the motion of the carotid wall. tracking carotid artery wall motion from a series of ultrasound b‑mode images is challen...

Strawson’s case in favor of panpsychism is at heart an updated version of a venerable form of argument I’ll call the ‘intrinsic nature’ argument. It is an extremely interesting argument which deploys all sorts of high caliber metaphysical weaponry (despite the ‘down home’ appeals to common sense which Strawson frequently makes). The argument is also subtle and intricate. So let’s spend some tim...

Adaptive decomposition of complex data is realized and intrinsic mode function (IMF) components that reflect different scales information are gained through empirical mode decomposition (EMD) of partial discharge (PD) signals. The gained intrinsic mode function components are reconstructed after the wavelet threshold processing to reduce the interference of noise. This partial discharge signals...

A novel noise filtering algorithm based on averaging Intrinsic Mode Function (aIMF), which is a derivation of Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), is proposed to remove white-Gaussian noise of foreign currency exchange rates that are nonlinear nonstationary times series signals. Noise patterns with different amplitudes and frequencies were randomly mixed into the five exchange rates. A number of...