Tagged Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive technique used to examine cardiac deformation in vivo. An Angle Image is a representation of a Tagged MRI which recovers the relative position of the tissue respect to the distorted tags. Thus cardiac deformation can be estimated. This paper describes a new approach to generate Angle Images using a bank of Gabor filters in short axis car...

This study compared the filtering effects on the auditory evoked potential of zero and standard phase shift digital filters (the former was a mathematical approximation of a standard Butterworth filter). Conventional filters were found to decrease the height of the evoked response in the majority of waveforms compared to zero phase shift filters. A 36-dB/octave zero phase shift high pass filter...

This paper investigates a new approach for the automated human identification using 2D ear imaging. We present a completely automated approach for the robust segmentation of curved region of interest using morphological operators and Fourier descriptors. We also investigate new feature extraction approach for ear identification using localized orientation information and also examine local gray...

Complex wavelet transforms offer the opportunity to perform directional and coherent processing based on the local magnitude and phase of signals and images. Although demising, segmentation, and image enhancement are significantly improved using complex wavelets, the redundancy of most current transforms hinders their application in compression and related problems. In this paper we introduce a...

Tensors have become a popular tool for representation of local orientation and can be used also for estimation of velocity. A number of computational approaches have been presented for tensor estimation which, however, are difficult to analyze or compare since there has been no common framework in which analysis or comparisons can be made. In this article we propose such a framework based on se...

The family of FIR digital filters with maximally flat magnitude and group delay response is considered. The filters were proposed by Baher, who furnished them with an analytic procedure for derivation of their transfer function. The contributions of this paper are the following. A simplified formula is presented for the transfer function of the filters. The equivalence of the novel formula with...

Multi-scale manipulations are central to image editing but they are also prone to halos. Achieving artifact-free results requires sophisticated edge-aware techniques and careful parameter tuning. These shortcomings were recently addressed by the local Laplacian filters, which can achieve a broad range of effects using standard Laplacian pyramids. However, these filters are slow to evaluate and ...

In this work we demonstrate the relationship existing between two important issues in vision: multi-scale local spectrum analysis, and log-polar foveatization. We show that, when applying a continuous set of self-similar (rotated and scaled) band-pass filters to estimate the local spectrum at a given point of attention of the image, the inverse Fourier transform of this local spectrum is a log-...

The finite impulse response filters are inherently stable and have linear phase response property. The main drawback of these filters is lies in requirement of higher orders for similar magnitude response compared to Infinite Impulse response filters. Also the amount of computational complexity needed for the implementation of the filter, especially for the filters with narrow transition band i...

Two improved local-region filters, adaptive weighted filter (AWF) and collaborative representation filter (CoRF), are proposed for feature extraction and classification in hyperspectral imagery. The local-region filters generate spatial-spectral features of a hyperspectral pixel by incorporating its surrounding pixels. The work of this paper is an extension of our previously introduced local av...