... Applications of Blind and Semi-Blind Signal Processing 231.2.1 Biomedical SignalProcessing 241.2.2 Blind Separation of Electrocardiographic Signals ofFetus and Mother 251.2.3 Enhancement and Decomposition ... HDTV, etc. As demand for high quality and reliability in recording and visualization systems increases, signalprocessing has aneven more important role to play.Blind SignalProcessing (BSP) ... 2987.10 (a) Eight ECG signals are separated into: Four maternalsignals, two fetal signals and two noise signals. (b) Detailedplots of extracted fetal ECG signals. The mixed signalswere obtained...
... IntroductionThischapterprovidesabriefintroductiontothetheoryofmorphologicalsignalprocessinganditsapplicationstoimageanalysisandnonlinearfiltering.By“morphologicalsignalprocessing”wemeanabroadandcoherentcollectionoftheoreticalconcepts,mathematicaltoolsforsignalanalysis,non-linearsignaloperators,designmethodologies,andapplicationssystemsthatarebasedonorrelatedtomathematicalmorphology(MM),aset-andlattice-theoreticmethodologyforimageanalysis.MMaimsatquantitativelydescribingthegeometricalstructureofimageobjects.Itsmathematicaloriginsstemfromsettheory,latticealgebra,convexanalysis,andintegralandstochasticgeometry.ItwasinitiatedmainlybyMatheron[42]andSerra[58]inthe1960s.SomeofitsearlysignaloperationsarealsofoundintheworkofotherresearcherswhousedcellularautomataandBoolean/thresholdlogictoanalyzebinaryimagedatainthe1950sand1960s,assurveyedin[49,54].MMhasformalizedtheseearlieroperationsandhasalsoaddednumerousnewconceptsandimageoperations.Inthe1970sitwasextendedtogray-levelimages[22,45,58,62].OriginallyMMwasappliedtoanalyzingc1999byCRCPressLLCdefined) ... operations of the Boolean type. For example, given asampled1binary imagesignal f[x] with values 1 for the image foreground and 0 for the background,typical signal transformations involving a neighborhood ... makemorphological signalprocessingarigorous andefficientframework tostudyandsolve manyproblemsin image analysis and nonlinear filtering.74.2 Morphological Operators for Sets and Signals74.2.1 Boolean...
... discussed further in an example in Chapter 10.1.6. Fusion in signalandimageprocessingand fusion in other fieldsFusion in signalandimageprocessing has specific features that need to be takeninto ... between information known beforehand and new information. Here, wewill be considering dynamic processes among others (particularly robotics), and itseems important for us to include revision and ... 201.6. Fusion in signalandimageprocessingand fusion in other fields . . . . 221.7.Bibliography 23Chapter 2. Fusion in SignalProcessing 25Jean-Pierre LE CADRE, Vincent NIMIER and Roger REYNAUD2.1....
... MATERIAL AND METHODMATERIAL AND METHOD1.Material:Sampling:Tracatfishrangingfrom 50,300 d 600 ll t d300 and 600gwerecollected.Compounded pellet feed were used for feeding only and routinely ... on 3 timesper day. Tra catfish previously starved for 12hours before digestive tract removed and dissected into stomach, intestine,liver and pancreas•12/24/200861 2 31 2 31 2 3 1 2 32.2. ... stomach and intestine at a sizes of fish and alpha amylase is highest activity in the liver (128.43UI/ml)3.3.alpha amylase activity in liver and pancreas range from 26.65 – 128.43UI/ml and increase...
... Volume), pages 13–16,Columbus, June 2008.c2008 Association for Computational LinguisticsDemonstration of the UAM CorpusTool for text andimage annotation Mick O’Donnell Escuela Politécnica ... This paper introduced the main features of the UAM CorpusTool, software for human and semi-automatic annotation of text and images. The demonstration will show how to set up an annotation project, ... stored using stand-off XML, one file per source text and layer. See Figure 4 for a sample. The software does not currently input from or export to any of the various text encoding standards, but...
... annota-tions. XML is used as a uniform way of represent-ing and keeping all results of the various processing components and to support a transparent softwareinfrastructure for LT-based applications. ... type which expands to a feature structureused in parsing. We exploit such a type interface for coupling shallow and deep processing. The classesof named entities delivered by shallow processing are ... information, while the multi-levelchart contains positional and abstraction-based in-formation, e.g., feature structures representing NLPentities in a uniform, linguistically motivated form.Applications...
... Plan for Meat and Poultry Processing Facilities 11 In addition to ensuring general inside security, processing security, and storage security, a Food Security Plan for meat and poultry processing ... etc. Model Food Security Plan for Meat and Poultry Processing Facilities 7 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Model Food Security Plan for Meat and Poultry Processing Facilities 12 Appendix ... development and implementation of food security plans for meat and poultry processing facilities. 2.0 Why Develop a Model Plan? FSIS believes that the security of meat and poultry processing...
... in a forward-looking economy. But, these results are converse for the case ofsmall-scale shocks that induce a ZIP for a few periods. For small-scale shocks, the ZIP is4 For example, Amato and ... Reifschneider and Williams (2000), Eggertsson and Woodford (2003a, b), and Jung, Teranishi and Watanabe (2005), outline the characteristics of desirable mone-tary policies.2Reifschneider and Williams ... classification: E52, E58 * Researchand Statistics Department, Bank of Japan (E-mail: tomohiro.sugou @boj.or.jp) **Associate Director, Institutefor Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of...
... text Image Processingand Computer Vision (Parker, 1996). A recent text Computer Vision and Image Processing (Umbaugh, 1998) takes an applications-oriented approach to computer vision and image processing, ... description and has been the target of considerable research in computer vision andimage processing. It isused here more as a vehicle for the material that precedes it, such as the Fourier transform and ... oriented, like ImageProcessingand Advanced Imaging.These provide more general articles, and are often a good source of information about newcomputer vision products. For example, Image Processing...