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Image Similarity Index Based On Moment Invariants Of Approximation Level Of Discrete Wavelet Transform, Prashan Premaratne, Malin Premaratne Jan 2013

Image Similarity Index Based On Moment Invariants Of Approximation Level Of Discrete Wavelet Transform, Prashan Premaratne, Malin Premaratne

Dr Prashan Premaratne

Subjective quality measures based on the human visual system for images do not agree well with well-known metrics such as mean squared error and peak signal-to-noise ratio. Recently, the structural similarity measure (SSIM) has received acclaim owing to its ability to produce results on a par with the human visual system. However, experimental results indicate that noise and blur seriously degrade the performance of the SSIM metric. Furthermore, despite the SSIM's popularity, it does not provide adequate insight into how it handles the 'structural similarity' of images. Proposed is a new structural similarity measure based on the approximation level of …


A Transient Index For Reporting Power Quality Surveys, Victor J. Gosbell, Sarath Perera, D A. Robinson, Chandana Herath Dec 2012

A Transient Index For Reporting Power Quality Surveys, Victor J. Gosbell, Sarath Perera, D A. Robinson, Chandana Herath

Dr Duane Robinson

Impulsive transients are often blamed for the destruction of customer appliances. Advances in Power Quality (PQ) monitors will soon make it feasible to incorporate impulsive transients into routine power quality surveys. This paper considers how the transient events captured over a period at many sites may be reported in a simple but useful manner. The paper first summarizes a recent publication by some of the authors, which attempt to give a complete framework for the analysis of utility PQ data. This framework provides a basis for evaluating existing transient characterization practices as well as for the proposed new transient index …


Vulnerability Assessment Of A Large Sized Power System Considering A New Index Based On Power System Loss, Ahmed M. Haidar, Azah Mohamed, Aini Hussain Dec 2012

Vulnerability Assessment Of A Large Sized Power System Considering A New Index Based On Power System Loss, Ahmed M. Haidar, Azah Mohamed, Aini Hussain

Dr Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Haidar

The concept of power system vulnerability assessment combines information on the level of system security as well as information on a wide range of situations, events and contingencies with regards to which a system is vulnerable. This paper attempts to investigate and evaluate the effect of line outage, generation outage and amount of load disconnected on the power transmission network losses of a large size power system. These effects will be investigated and evaluated using new proposed method based on vulnerability index of power system loss. The objectives of this work is to evaluate and compare the efficiency of the …


A Transient Index For Reporting Power Quality Surveys, Victor J. Gosbell, Sarath Perera, D A. Robinson, Chandana Herath Nov 2012

A Transient Index For Reporting Power Quality Surveys, Victor J. Gosbell, Sarath Perera, D A. Robinson, Chandana Herath

Associate Professor Sarath Perera

Impulsive transients are often blamed for the destruction of customer appliances. Advances in Power Quality (PQ) monitors will soon make it feasible to incorporate impulsive transients into routine power quality surveys. This paper considers how the transient events captured over a period at many sites may be reported in a simple but useful manner. The paper first summarizes a recent publication by some of the authors, which attempt to give a complete framework for the analysis of utility PQ data. This framework provides a basis for evaluating existing transient characterization practices as well as for the proposed new transient index …


Index-Compressed Vector Quantisation Based On Index Mapping, Jamshid Shanbehzadeh, Philip Ogunbona Sep 2012

Index-Compressed Vector Quantisation Based On Index Mapping, Jamshid Shanbehzadeh, Philip Ogunbona

Professor Philip Ogunbona

The authors introduce a novel coding technique which significantly improves the performance of the traditional vector quantisation (VQ) schemes at low bit rates. High interblock correlation in natural images results in a high probability that neighbouring image blocks are mapped to small subsets of the VQ codebook, which contains highly correlated codevectors. If, instead of the whole VQ codebook, a small subset is considered for the purpose of encoding neighbouring blocks, it is possible to improve the performance of traditional VQ schemes significantly. The performance improvement obtained with the new method is about 3dB on average when compared with traditional …


Index Factorised Image Adaptive Vector Quantisation, Jamshid Shanbehzadeh, Philip Ogunbona Sep 2012

Index Factorised Image Adaptive Vector Quantisation, Jamshid Shanbehzadeh, Philip Ogunbona

Professor Philip Ogunbona

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Index Compressed Tree-Structured Vector Quantisation, Jamshid Shanbehzadeh, Philip Ogunbona Sep 2012

Index Compressed Tree-Structured Vector Quantisation, Jamshid Shanbehzadeh, Philip Ogunbona

Professor Philip Ogunbona

This paper introduces a novel coding scheme based on Tree-Structured Vector Quantisation (TSVQ) scheme for image compression. The genealogical relationship among the indices of the neighbouring blocks generated from vector quantisation is exploited to improve the coding performance of TSVQ. The proposed coding scheme provides about 3.5 dB improvement over the basic TSVQ scheme and outperforms VQ schemes with memory and JPEG coding standard at low bit-rates. In addition its performance is comparable with address VQ but with much less complexity.


Index Compressed Image Adaptive Vector Quantisation, Jamshid Shanbehzadeh, Philip Ogunbona Sep 2012

Index Compressed Image Adaptive Vector Quantisation, Jamshid Shanbehzadeh, Philip Ogunbona

Professor Philip Ogunbona

This paper introduces an improved image adaptive vector quantisation technique - index compressed image adaptive vector quantisation (IC-IAVQ). Despite its advantage over the universal codebook VQ, basic image adaptive VQ (IAVQ) is still suboptimum; it neglects the correlation among block indices in the encoded image. The new technique, IC-IAVQ, overcomes this suboptimality through a pre-processing and lossless compression of block indices. Simulation results using several images show that IC-IAVQ outperforms IAVQ and entropy coded IAVQ, especially at low bit-rates by about 2dB on average.