Half-band (HB) filters are of great importance and are often used in multirate digital signal processing systems, filter banks and wavelets. In this paper, a new closed-form expression for the transfer function of the maximally flat (MF) infinite-impulse response (IIR) HB filters is presented. The filter coefficients are directly obtained by solving a linear system of Vandermonde equations that...

Image de-speckling is one of the most challenging issues in multimedia imaging systems. All available speckle noise reduction filters are almost capable but failed to restore subtle features such as low gray level edges and fine details under poor contrast background. This paper presents a two phase ultrasound image framework by utilizing capability non-local mean filtering method for edge pres...

We present the procedure for designing a high speed and low power all-optical analog to digital converter (AO-ADC), by integrating InGaAsP semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) with InP based photonic crystal (PhC) drop filters. The self-phase modulation in the SOA can shift the frequency of the Gaussian input pulse. The two output PhC based drop filters are designed to appropriately code the f...

Researchers have recently found that the finger-knuckle-print (FKP), which refers to the inherent skin patterns of the outer surface around the phalangeal joint of one’s finger, has high discriminability, making it an emerging promising biometric identifier. Effective feature extraction and matching plays a key role in such an FKP based personal authentication system. This paper studies image l...

In this paper we propose new binary pattern-based features for use in the problem of 3D facial action unit (AU) detection. Two representations of 3D facial geometries are employed, the depth map and the Azimuthal Projection Distance Image (APDI). To these the traditional Local Binary Pattern is applied, along with Local Phase Quantisation, Gabor filters andMonogenic filters, followed by the bin...

In this paper we propose a new operator which combines advantages of monogenic scale-space and Gaussian scale-space, of the monogenic signal and the structure tensor. The gradient energy tensor (GET) defined in this paper is based on Gaussian derivatives up to third order using different scales. These filters are commonly available, separable, and have an optimal uncertainty. The response of th...

In recent years, active filters have been considered and developed for elimation of harmonics in power networks. Comparing with passive, they are smaller and have better compensating characteristics and resistance to line distortions. In this paper, a novel idea based on adaptive filter theory in presented to develop an active filter to eliminate the distortions of an arbitrary signal. Using th...

In this paper a new method for the design of a linear phase distributed amplifier in 180nm CMOS technology is presented. The method is based on analogy between transversal filters and distributed amplifiers topologies. In the proposed method the linearity of the phase at frequency range of 0-50 GHz is obtained by using proper weighting factors for each gain stage in cascaded amplifier topology....

In recent years, active filters have been considered and developed for elimation of harmonics in power networks. Comparing with passive, they are smaller and have better compensating characteristics and resistance to line distortions. In this paper, a novel idea based on adaptive filter theory in presented to develop an active filter to eliminate the distortions of an arbitrary signal. Using th...

Double) Low-IF receiver architectures avoid the need for expensive image-reject and channel selection filters and so reduce cost. This approach however introduces the need for an accurate in-phase and quadrature version of the first local oscillator. In this document we present a way to digitally measure amplitude and phase imbalances and compensate for them. Simulations show image-reject value...