In this paper we propose a new post-processing algorithm to reduce the blocking artifacts in block based video coding, while maintaining a low computational complexity. This algorithm is mainly based on an adaptive conditional two-dimensional filter, derived from the combination in horizontal and vertical directions of a simple two-mode conditional 1-D filter. By taking into account spatial pix...

This paper examines the estimation of the state of an object moving in the horizontal plane using two, two-axis accelerometers and no rate gyro. Second order approximations are developed for estimating the state noise covariance in the inertial reference frame from the known measurement covariance of the sensors. These approximations can be integrated with position and heading measurements into...

This paper presents a robust lane marking detection algorithm suited for a large variety of traffic scenarios, under various lighting conditions. The algorithm detects dark-light-dark transitions using an improved method for horizontal gradient computation, which accounts for the expected marking width and for the perspective effect by means of a variable size filter. The computation of the var...

In this paper we consider the filter design problem for very high dimensional systems. Assuming the hypothesis on separability of the vertical and horizontal structure for the error covariance, the number of unknown elements in the error covariance is reduced drastically and are estimated from generated error samples. A low-cost filtering algorithm is thus determined and parameterized up to som...

Visual latency difference was determined directly in normal volunteers, using the rotating Pulfrich technique described by Nickalls [Vision Research, 26, 367-372 (1986)]. Subjects fixated a black vertical rod rotating clockwise on a horizontal turntable turning with constant angular velocity (16.6,33.3 or 44.7 revs/min) with a neutral density filter (OD 0.7 or 1.5) in front of the right eye. Fo...

This paper presents a region-adaptive clutter rejection method for small target detection in sea-based infrared search and track. In the real world, clutter normally generates many false detections that impede the deployment of such detection systems. Incoming targets (missiles, boats, etc.) can be located in the sky, horizon and sea regions, which have different types of clutters, such as clou...

In time-distance helioseismology, the time signals (Doppler shifts) at two points on the solar surface, separated by a fixed angular distance are crosscorrelated, and this leads to a wave packet signal. Accurately measuring the travel times of these wave packets is crucial for inferring the sub-surface properties in the Sun. The observed signal is quite noisy, and to improve the signal-tonoise ...

It is well known that common subexpression elimination techniques minimize the two main cost metrics namely logic operators and logic depths in realizing finite impulse response (FIR) filters. Two classes of common subexpressions occur in the canonic signed digit representation of filter coefficients, called the horizontal and the vertical subexpressions. Previous works have not addressed the t...