Since the advent of television obtaining high perceived quality using a limited bandwidth has been an important issue. This thesis proposes methods inspired and based on the human visual system for exploitation of temporal and perceptual redundancy in image sequences to achieve lower coding rate and/or higher visual quality. Particularly relevant in the present context are the indications that ...

a field experiment was conducted to investigate the spatial distribution of weeds at the sari agricultural sciences and natural resources university in 2011. field was divided into 42 grids (1.5×1.5 feet) then all samples were taken from grids intersection points before corn planting, after harvesting and ear emergence stage. weed maps and semi variance analysis carried out using rw99 and gs+ s...

OBJECTIVE Sensorimotor rhythms (SMRs) are 8-30 Hz oscillations in the electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded from the scalp over sensorimotor cortex that change with movement and/or movement imagery. Many brain-computer interface (BCI) studies have shown that people can learn to control SMR amplitudes and can use that control to move cursors and other objects in one, two or three dimensions. At th...

the mel frequency cepstral coefficients are the most widely used feature in speech recognition but they are very sensitive to noise. in this paper to achieve a satisfactorily performance in automatic speech recognition (asr) applications we introduce a noise robust new set of mfcc vector estimated through following steps. first, spectral mean normalization is a pre-processing which applies to t...

Vein pattern recognition is one of the recent methods for human identification which have advantages over other biometrics (i.e. fingerprint, face, and iris). However; due to vein image capturing methods, vein row images usually carry distortions. Preprocessing is needed to enhancing the raw captured vein images. In this paper, we examine six recent vein image enhancement techniques; we coded t...

We provide a comprehensive analysis of the time-varying modified DFT (MDFT) filter bank based on the general time-varying filter bank theories (Wang, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009) in both the time domain and frequency domain. We give firstly the description of the time-invariant MDFT filter bank including its perfect reconstruction (PR) condition, its mechanism of aliasing error cancellation and the ...

A new approach to the non-expansive two band decomposition of finite length signals is introduced. The technique is based on the time-varying perfect reconstruction filter banks concept. In this approach the main analysis filter bank is instantaneously switched, at the signal boundaries, to a shorter filter bank: the D1 or Haar filter bank. The technique can be applied to all types of two band ...

In this paper, a new approach for the design of non-uniform frequency spacing filter bank using Simulated Annealing has been presented. The filter bank structure is obtained by merging the relevant bands of a uniformly shifted filter bank with integer sampling factors. The design problem is formulated as a single objective unconstrained optimization problem for reducing the amplitude distortion...

In this paper, we present a new structure for linear−phase filter banks without redundancy, which have unequal−length filters at each subband. First, we extend the simplified lattice structure of the linear−phase filter bank to the unequal−length linear−phase paraunitary filter bank. In general, the unequal−length linear−phase paraunitary filter bank has equal−length filters at both the analysi...