The specific objectives of this project are to compare the
Sequent and the transputer to determine the speed of both
and find out which is easiest for programming in parallel.
The results are graphs showing relative and real time
speedup versus number of processors and conclusions based
on those graphs....
Morphological filters have shown good performance in various image processing applications. Furthermore, their algorithms are easy to implement in special architectures, with the exception that linear filtering cannot be implemented in many of these cases. In this study, a new architecture and corresponding algorithm, capable of realizing linear shiftinvariant filters,...
This thesis discusses the hardware implementations of
certain linear and non-linear color space transforms thought
to be useful in the analysis of wood surfaces for defect
detection.
The developmental system's color image digitizer
contains 5 bits per color while the input signal contains
considerably greater resolution. This often degrades the...
A recorded image is a degraded version of an original image.
The process of removing the degradations is called restoration. Two
types of degradations are considered in this thesis: namely, linear
motion and defocused lens blurrings. Using the direct deconvolution
technique to restore blurred images is impossible if the blurring...
Product quality control is the back bone for an efficient process control system. By monitoring the size of the board cut in a sawmill, performance of the production system can be controlled. Feedback from the quality control system is used to evaluate the status of the production system and also...
The problem of the restoration of quadratically
distorted images is considered in this investigation, based
upon the fact that images formed by partially coherent
illuminations are related quadratically to the amplitude of
the object. Two of the most important problems in image
restoration are: 1) determining the degradation
characteristics of...
Machine Vision has been extensively applied in industry.
This thesis project, which originated with a local food
processor, applies a vision system to inspection of packages
for cosmetric errors. The basic elements and theory of the
machine vision system are introduced, and some image
processing techniques, such as histogram analysis,...
Most of the existing research on mathematical morphology is
restricted to the deterministic case. This thesis addresses the void
in the results on the stochastic properties of morphological filters.
The primary results include analysis of the stochastic
properties of morphological operations, such as dilation, erosion,
closing and opening. Two unbiased...
Algorithms for analyzing laser interferometry
signals were developed and adopted to the computer based
processing of small displacement measurements. These
methods, matrix operation approach and fixed parameters
approach, are based on signal phase calculation and are
able to replace complex fringe counting electronic
circuits. The matrix operation provides an approach...