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PLENARY: Blind Image Quality Assessment is Not Impossible

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMA1
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Bovik, Alan C
• In this talk I will discuss our recent efforts on blind or “no reference” image quality assessment problems, including machine learning approaches and the looming ...

Application-Driven Spectral Image Quality Assessment and Prediction

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMA2
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Kerekes, John P
• The assignment of a quantitative spectral image quality metric is discussed with an approach proposed. Quality is divided into fidelity and utility components, with utility studied in...

Nonlinear Image Representation: Lessons from Biology

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMB1
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Simoncelli, Eero
• Article not availalbe.

Sparse Reconstructions Using Simple Transforms: Tessellating the State-of-the-Art in Image Reconstruction

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMB2
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Guleryuz, Onur
• Article not availalbe.

Dictionary-Based Optical Filter Selection for Multi-Application Spectral Signature Classification

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMB3
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Ke, Jun; Berkner, Kathrin; Robinson, Dirk; Stork, David G
• We describe a method for selecting filter sets for simultaneously optimizing the classification rates in two separate spectral signature classification problems. Our system's...

Continuum Fusion: A New Beginning for Non-Bayesian Detection Algorithms

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMB4
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Schaum, Alan
• A new methodology is described for addressing composite hypothesis testing problems. Continuum Fusion integrates an infinity of optimal methods, when the correct choice is unknown. An...

Image Priors and Blind Deconvolution

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMC1
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Freeman, William
• "Blind deconvolution" is a beautiful, ill-posed problem: given an image that has been blurred by some unknown convolution kernel, estimate the image before it was it blurred. Lurking...

Object Dependent Manifold Priors for Image Deconvolution

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMC2
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Ni, Jie; Turaga, Pavan; M Patel, Vishal; Chellappa, Rama
• In this paper we propose a manifold based deconvolution algorithm by estimating a manifold from a set of natural images that exploits the availability of the sample class data for...

Wide Angle Ir Detection through a Conical Mirror: Some Preliminary Results

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMC3
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Slack, Thomas B; Reynolds, Robert K; Iftekharuddin, Khan
• 360° planar viewing is achieved by placing a polished aluminum cone in front of a long-wave IR camera. Objects are extracted from the circular reflected image for means of detection...

Iterative Exposure Bracketing

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMC4
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Hirakawa, Keigo
• High dynamic range (HDR) imaging requires bracketing---low dynamic range images with varying exposures---and postprocessing to blend appropriately exposed portions together. We analyze...

Discrete Filters and Transforms to Localize Signal Transitions

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMC5
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Sundaram, Ramakrishnan
• Band-pass filters and block-based transforms are developed to retrieve signal discontinuities in sampled data. The filter coefficients are determined from the space or...

Image-Based Measurement of Phase Transfer Function

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMD1
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Bhakta, Vikrant R; Somayaji, Manjunath; Christensen, Marc P
• A method for measuring the Phase Transfer Function (PTF) from a high-contrast edge image is proposed and the advantages of utilizing the knowledge of PTF in computational, sparse...

A Probabilistic Model for Stratospheric Soil-Independent Dust Aerosol Detection

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMD4
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Rivas-Perea, Pablo; Rosiles, Jose G
• We present a simple probabilistic model for dust aerosol detection, analysing MODIS 11.3µm and 12.02µm thermal emissive bands. We introduce a dust aerosol probabilistic visualization,...

Neural Network for the Digital Cleaning of an Oil Painting

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMD5
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Palomero, Cherry May; Soriano, Maricor
• We demonstrate that a neural network can be trained to learn the transformation from dirty to clean segments of a painting and used it to digitally clean an image of Amorsolo’s...

Multispectral Images Segmentation of Ancient Documents with Lattice Memories

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DMD6
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Valdiviezo-Navarro, Juan C; Urcid-S , Gonzalo
• This manuscript introduces a method for the autonomous segmentation of ancient documents multispectral images. The procedure uses lattice associative memories to determine the purest...

PLENARY: What Can Digital Processing Do for 3-D Super-Resolution Microscopy?

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DTuA1
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Piestun, Rafael
• Novel three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy techniques enable diffraction unlimited imaging. Resolution is limited by the photon count and the underlying noise. I discuss the role...

3-D Reconstruction of Fluorescence Microscopy Image Intensities Using Multiple Depth-Variant Point-Spread Functions

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DTuA2
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Myneni, Vimeetha; Preza, Chrysanthe
• We show that the use of multiple depth-variant point-spread functions in 3-D fluorescence intensity reconstruction provides improved optical sectioning over deconvolution methods by...

Performance Tradeoffs in a Model Breast Tomosynthesis System

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DTuA3
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Young, Stefano; Bakic, Predrag; Myers, Kyle J; Park, Subok
• Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) researchers need accurate, inexpensive, task-based assessment tools for optimizing multivariate DBT systems. With improved object statistics and...

PLENARY: Title to Be Announced

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DTuB1
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• O'Sullivan, Joseph
• Article not availalbe.

Comparative Study of Feature Measures for Histopathological Images of the Lung

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• Digital Image Processing and Analysis (DIPA) 2010 paper: DTuB2
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Samala, Ravi K; Potunuru, Venkata S; Zhang, Jianying; Cabrera, Sergio D; Qian, Wei
• Texture features of histopathological images of lung carcinoma have been evaluated using gray level co-occurrence matrices and multiwavelets. The investigation is done from a...