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Impact Of Human Visual Perception Of Color On Very Low Bit-Rate Image Coding, Sarah A. Rajala Sep 1994

Impact Of Human Visual Perception Of Color On Very Low Bit-Rate Image Coding, Sarah A. Rajala

Sarah A. Rajala

One of the keys to obtaining acceptable quality imagery/video encoded at very low bit rates is to transmit only that information which is critical to human perception. To successfully achieve this goal, one must not only understand the human visual system, but be able to utilize this information in the design of their codec. This paper will present an overview of the properties associated with color science and human visual perception, and how they could make an impact on very low bit-rate image coding.


Reducing Respiratory Artifacts In Chest Mr Images Through Hybrid Space Motion Tracking And Postprocessing, John N. Campbell, Wesley E. Snyder, Peter Santago Ii, Sarah A. Rajala, Craig A. Hamilton May 1994

Reducing Respiratory Artifacts In Chest Mr Images Through Hybrid Space Motion Tracking And Postprocessing, John N. Campbell, Wesley E. Snyder, Peter Santago Ii, Sarah A. Rajala, Craig A. Hamilton

Sarah A. Rajala

A new postprocessing method of correcting for respiratory motion induced artifacts in MRI is presented. The motion of the chest during respiration is modeled as a combination of translation and dilation. Displacements of the chest wall are tracked via a thin, MR-sensitive plate placed on the patient's chest during a scan. Scanning with phase encoding left/right (L/R) and frequency encoding anterior/posterior (A/P) causes the motion artifacts to be repeated in the L/R direction, thus not overlapping on the plate. By performing the inverse A/P Fourier transform, the resulting hybrid space data has A/P spatial data and L/R spatial frequency data, …


Use Of Extrapolation In Computing Color Look-Up Tables, Sarah A. Rajala, H. Joel Trussell, Atish P. Kakodkar Apr 1994

Use Of Extrapolation In Computing Color Look-Up Tables, Sarah A. Rajala, H. Joel Trussell, Atish P. Kakodkar

Sarah A. Rajala

Colorimetric reproduction requires calibrated color output devices. One way to characterize a color output device is with a 3D look-up table which maps the tristimulus values, t, to the control values, c of the output device. The functional form of the output device can be written in vector notation as t equals F(c). The purpose of calibration is to define an inverse mapping from tristimulus values to control values. Since the function F((DOT)) has no closed form, it is defined by interpolation from a table of values. Given a set of control values ]ci[ on a regular grid and the …


Analysis Of Eddy‐Current Interaction With A Surface‐Breaking Crack, Nicola Harfield, John R. Bowler Jan 1994

Analysis Of Eddy‐Current Interaction With A Surface‐Breaking Crack, Nicola Harfield, John R. Bowler

Nicola Bowler

The change in electromagnetic impedance of a conductor due to the presence of a long, perpendicular surface‐breaking crack in a normally incident, uniform electric field is calculated in closed form in the high‐frequency limit. At high frequencies, where the skin depth is much smaller than the depth of the crack, the fields near the edge and corners of the crack are effectively decoupled. This means that the solution may be formulated as the sum of contributions from the corners, faces, and edge of the crack. Simple analytical expressions for the electric field are found and used to calculate the impedance …


Eddy Current Interaction With An Ideal Crack, Part I: The Forward Problem, John R. Bowler Jan 1994

Eddy Current Interaction With An Ideal Crack, Part I: The Forward Problem, John R. Bowler

John R. Bowler

The impedance of an eddy-current probe changes when the current it induces in an electrical conductor is perturbed by a flaw such as a crack. In predicting the probe signals, it is expedient to introduce idealizations about the nature of the flaw. Eddy-current interaction is considered with an ideal crack having a negligible opening and acting as a impenetrable barrier to electric current. The barrier gives rise to a discontinuity in the electromagnetic field that has been calculated by finding an equivalent electrical source distribution that produces the same effect. The choice of source is between a current dipole layer …


Eddy-Current Interaction With An Ideal Crack. Ii. The Inverse Problem, John R. Bowler, David Harrison, Steve Norton Jan 1994

Eddy-Current Interaction With An Ideal Crack. Ii. The Inverse Problem, John R. Bowler, David Harrison, Steve Norton

John R. Bowler

Eddy-current inversion is the process whereby the geometry of a flaw in a metal is derived from electromagnetic probe measurements. An inversion scheme is described for finding the shape and size of cracks from eddy-current probe impedance measurements. The approach is based on an optimization scheme that seeks to minimize a global error function quantifying the difference between predicted and observed probe impedances. The error minimum is sought using a standard descent algorithm that requires a knowledge of the gradient of the error with respect to a variation of the flaw geometry. Computation of the gradient is based on a …