This paper appeared in the proceedings of ICASSP'95 bases can approximate it with only a few non-zero coefficients. It then becomes necessary to adaptively se-ABSTRACT lect an appropriate "best basis" which provides the best We propose a Best Basis Algorithm for Signal Enhance-signal estimate by discarding (thresholding) the noisy ment in white gaussian noise. We base our search of coefficients...

We propose an accelerated path-following iterative shrinkage thresholding algorithm (APISTA) for solving high dimensional sparse nonconvex learning problems. The main difference between APISTA and the path-following iterative shrinkage thresholding algorithm (PISTA) is that APISTA exploits an additional coordinate descent subroutine to boost the computational performance. Such a modification, t...

In order to detect targets upon sea surface or near it, marine radars should be capable of distinguishing signals of target reflections from the sea clutter. Our proposed method in this paper relates to detection of dissimilar marine targets in an inhomogeneous environment with clutter and non-stationary noises, and is based on adaptive thresholding determination methods. The variance and t...

We propose a fast pairwise nearest neighbor (PNN)based O(N log N) time algorithm for multilevel nonparametric thresholding, where N denotes the size of the image histogram. The proposed PNN-based multilevel thresholding algorithm is considerably faster than optimal thresholding. On a set of 8 to 16 bits-per-pixel real images, experimental results also reveal that the proposed method provides be...

For the structural characteristics of Chinese NvShu character, by combining the basic idea in LLT local threshold algorithm and introducing the maximal betweenclass variance algorithm into local windows, an improved character segmentation algorithm based on local adaptive thresholding technique for Chinese NvShu documents was presented in this paper. Because of designing the corresponding corre...