This paper presents a novel algorithm that uses CCA and phase analysis to detect the disparity in stereo images. The algorithm adapts filters in each local neighbourhood of the image in a way which maximizes the correlation between the filtered images. The adapted filters are then analysed to find the disparity. This is done by a simple phase analysis of the scalar product of the filters. The a...

Measures of the local phase of potential fields can be a useful aid to their interpretation. There are several variations in use, such as the tilt angle, tilt derivative and the Theta map. This paper compares the results of these filters, and introduces some new phase-based filters which show improved performance as edge detectors in different ways. The filters are demonstrated on synthetic gra...

We present an automated method for tracking 3D motion in planar tagged MRI. First, displacement between successive 2D image frames is estimated from their local phase, also known as HARP. The displacement estimates then drive a 3D finite element model which tracks systolic motion. The 3D model allows for 1) estimating 3D motion from niultiple 2D tagged images and 2) for regularizing the phase e...

Quadrature filters are a well known method of low-level computer vision for estimating certain properties of the signal, as there are local amplitude and local phase. However, 2D quadrature filters suffer from being not rotation invariant. Furthermore, they do not allow to detect truly 2D features as corners and junctions unless they are combined to form the structure tensor. The present paper ...

As the title implies a fast filter network is a structure of filters, designed for efficient computation of a set of multi-dimensional filters. The efficiency is due to decomposition of multi-dimensional filter sets into a structure of smaller sparse filters called sub-filters. The structure used, forms a directed acyclic graph which allows the sub-filters to contribute to several output nodes ...

There are two types of digital filters including Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) and Finite Impulse Response (FIR). IIR filters attract more attention as they can decrease the filter order significantly compared to FIR filters. Owing to multi-modal error surface, simple powerful optimization techniques should be utilized in designing IIR digital filters to avoid local minimum. Imperialist compe...

Background: Cigarette butts have been shown to release numerous kinds of chemicals such as heavy metals in water and may be a continual source of aquatic environments contamination after discarding. The objective of the present study was to determine the concentration of Cd and Pb in cigarette filters of different Iranian and non-Iranian brands in smoked and non-smoked samples. Methods: Ten d...