This paper reports three experiments that attempted to answer questions about the conditions under which brightness assimilation and brightness contrast are obtained. Brightness assimilation was found only under circumstances in which the gray portion of the visual display-the gray portion being compared with some other standard gray--was not the focus of attention. When attention was focused o...

We develop a local image-correspondence algorithm which performs well near occluding boundaries. Unlike traditional robust methods, our method can find correspondences when the only contrast present is the occluding boundary itself and when the sign of contrast along the boundary is possibly reversed. We define a new image transform which characterizes local image homogeneity, defined as an att...

Wavelet transform has many good characteristics, used extensively in image fusion. In recent years, many algorithms have been developed, but there exist some inherent defects such as image blur, burr phenomenon, zigzag boundaries and image discontinuity. In this theory, without considering disadvantages of HVS, especially fused image should preserve brightness and texture features which are the...

This paper reviews the brightness and coherence properties of radiation from storage rings and free electron lasers (FELs). Starting from the statistical optics and using mutual coherence function of the radiation field, we define the transverse and temporal coherence and modes. Spectral brightness can be represented in radiation phase-space via the Wigner function which is the Fourier transfor...

We investigate anisotropy in 1.4-GHz brightness induced by a field corn vegetation canopy. We find that both polarizations of brightness are isotropic in azimuth during most of the growing season. When the canopy is senescent, the brightness is a strong function of row direction. On the other hand, the 1.4-GHz brightness is anisotropic in elevation: an isotropic zero-order radiative transfer mo...

This paper introduces a new fractional variational optical flow model, which combines the fractional derivative with the variational optical flow method, for motion estimation. In the model, the data term is a weighted least-squares fit of local brightness constraint function and the prior term is a fractional derivative penalty function. So the proposed model can be seen as generalizations of ...

A Bruker model IFS 125HR Fourier transform interferometer has been installed and its performance tested using high-brightness, far-infrared synchrotron radiation. Results of absorption measurements for the rotational modes of water vapor demonstrate a nearly 10-fold improvement in signal-to-noise when compared with the instrument’s internal high-pressure Hg arc lamp source. 2008 Published by El...

The thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) image has nonuniform brightness, which is a major difficulty in finding the Mura defect region. To facilitate Mura segmentation, globally widely varying background signal must be flattened and then Mura signal must be enhanced. In this paper, Mura signal enhancement and background-signalflattening methods using wavelet coefficient proces...