We propose two methods for avoiding the checkerboard distortion which is caused by finite word length error. The first method is deriving a bit length of filter taps required for avoiding the checkerboard distortion under a certain word length. In the second method, the checkerboard distortion can be avoided by using the cascade structure which consist of zero-hold kernel and a time-invariant f...

A signal su ers from nonlinear, linear, and additive distortion when transmitted through a channel. Linear equalizers are commonly used in receivers to compensate for linear channel distortion. As an alternative, nonlinear equalizers have the potential to compensate for all three sources of channel distortion. Previous authors have shown that nonlinear feedforward equalizers based on either mul...

This paper presents a Rate-Distortion based optimization procedure for video coding that explicitly incorporates a perceptual distortion measure. A flexible MINMAX (minimizing the maximum distortion) optimization procedure based on Linear Programming (LP) is used to minimize the variation in distortion across frames. The distortion measure utilizes a multi-channel human vision model to generate...

Large non-linear distortion in a finger mark, introduced at the time when a latent print was left in crime scenes, is one main difficulty in forensic fingerprint matching [1] compared to plain or rolled fingerprint matching. It is significant and desirable that AFIS systems in forensic applications have much higher distortion tolerance compared to those systems for civil purposes. Moreover, rec...

This paper presents a rate-distortion analysis for a simple horizon edge image model. A quadtree with anisotropy and rotation is performed in this kind of image, giving a toy model for a non-linear adaptive coding technique, and its rate-distortion behavior is studied. The effect of refining the quadtree decomposition in the Rate-Distortion decay is also studied.

In this paper, an optimized quantization of wavelet transform coefficients and low complex distortion control system for image compression is proposed. Distortion control is an important issue in maintaining the desired quality in the retrieved signal of compressed data. We construct a linear relationship between the distortion and quantization scale, which is crucial for efficient quality main...

We model a degraded image as an original image that has been subject to linear frequency distortion and additive noise injection. Since the psychovisual effects of frequency distortion and noise injection are independent, we decouple these two sources of degradation and measure their effect on the human visual system. We develop a distortion measure (DM) of the effect of frequency distortion, a...

In this paper, a least distortion data hiding approach is proposed for halftone image watermarking. The impacts of distortion and tonality problems in halftoning are analyzed. An iterative linear gain model is developed to optimize perceptual quality of watermarking halftone images. An optimum linear gain for data hiding error diffusion is derived and mapped into a standard linear gain model, w...