Configuration of Personal Computers for Studies on Digital Image Processing

Processing Digital Image for Measurement of Crack Dimensions in Concrete

The elements of the concrete structure are most frequently affected by cracking. Crack detection is essential to ensure safety and performance during its service life. Cracks do not have a regular shape, in order to achieve the exact dimensions of the crack; the general mathematical formulae are by no means applicable. The authors have proposed a new method which aims to measure the crack dimen...

Parallel Image Processing System on a Cluster of Personal Computers (Best Student Paper Award: First Prize)

The most demanding image processing applications require real time processing often using special purpose hardware The work herein presented refers to the application of cluster computing for o line image processing where the end user bene ts from the operation of otherwise idle processors in the local LAN The virtual parallel computer is composed by o the shelf personal computers connected by ...

Query Processing on Personal Computers: A Pragmatic Approach (Extended Abstract)

We present a query processing strategy for personal computers that requires at most a single sequential scan of the database for nearly all queries. On personal computers, most queries are ad-hoe, produce little output, and operate on small databases limited by secondary storage. For these queries we can use the relatively large amount of main memory to offset the slow secondary storage accesse...

Adaptive Multiresolution Structures for Image Processing on Parallel Computers

Digital Image Processing Image Processing and Restoration

The purpose of this paper is to explore techniques for image enhancement and recovery, especially as they relate to reversing or minimizing the effects of noise degradation. The specific goal of the paper is to attempt to recover readable characters from a license plate image. I start with a short background on the importance of enhancement and then cover some of the technical approaches and te...