This paper analyzed the implementational aspects of the contourlet filter bank (or the pyramidal directional filter bank (PDFB)), and considered its application in image coding. First, details of the binary tree-structured directional filter bank (DFB) are presented, including a modification to minimize the phase delay factor and necessary steps for handling rectangular images. The PDFB is view...

This paper presents the realization of a pseudoQuadrature Mirror Filter (QMF) cosinemodulated filter bank with low amplitude distortion at the frequencies around ω=0 or ω=π, and high but controlled aliasing in specific bands. We obtain the analysis and synthesis filters as Spectral Factorization Approach, but the prototype is different because is a symmetric linear-phase filter. This filter ban...

In this paper we present a non-uniform filter bank (NUFB) matched to a given signal. To obtain matched Mchannel NUFB, first, we choose the decimation set having M-down sampling/decimation factors for which perfect reconstruction NUFB exist and then using novel approach proposed in this paper, M-channel signal matched analysis bank is estimated. The outputs of all filters at the analysis side of...

In three experiments, we measured recognition as a function of exposure duration for three kinds of images of common objects: component images containing mainly low-spatial-frequency information, components containing mainly high-spatial-frequency information, and compound images created by summing the components. Our data were well fit by a model with a linear first stage in which the sums of ...

The studies were carried out on 12 brains derived from adult representatives of two mammalian orders, Insectivora and Rodentia. The neostriatum was compared in the common shrew (Sorex araneus) and bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus). Three main types of striatal neuron were distinguished in the common shrew and five types of neurons in the bank vole. The fifth type of bank vole neurons was addi...

This paper presents a systematic analysis of Gabor filter banks for detection of facial landmarks (pupils and philtrum). Sensitivity is assessed using the statistic, a non-parametric estimate of sensitivity independent of bias commonly used in the psychophysical literature. We find that current Gabor filter bank systems are overly complex. Performance can be greatly improved by reducing the num...

Currently there are design barriers inhibiting the implementation of high-precision digital signal processing (DSP) objects with field programmable logic (FPL) devices. This paper explores overcoming these barriers by fusing together the popular distributed arithmetic (DA) method with the residue number system (RNS) for use in FPL-centric designs. The new design paradigm is studied in the conte...

We present a new model for seed banks, where direct ancestors of individuals may have lived in the near as well as the very far past. The classical Wright-Fisher model, as well as a seed bank model with bounded age distribution considered by Kaj, Krone and Lascoux (2001) are special cases of our model. We discern three parameter regimes of the seed bank age distribution, which lead to substanti...

A new approach to implement computationally efficient reconfigurable filter banks for software defined radio receivers is presented in this paper. If the coefficients of a finite impulse response (FIR) filter are decimated by M, i.e., if every M-th coefficient of the filter is kept unchanged and remaining coefficients are replaced by zeros, a multi-band frequency response will be obtained. The ...