Mathematical morphology, developed in the early 1960's for
single-component signals, has been applied to a number of image
processing applications. This investigation examines the systematic
extension of mathematical morphology to multi-variate signals.
Two approaches are considered. The first approach, the
extension of the theory of single-component morphological filters to
multi-variate...
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,...
The noise problem in air conditioning systems is receiving ever
increasing attention because of the importance of noise on a comfortable
human environment. Some work has been done on the solutions
to the noise problem by an investigation of a few system elements.
The acourstical characteristics of dampers become more...
Nonionic surfactants are commonly used to stabilize proteins during upstream and downstream processing and drug formulation. Surfactants stabilize the proteins through two major mechanisms: (i) their preferential location at nearby interfaces, in this way precluding protein adsorption; and/or (ii) their association with protein into "complexes" that prevent proteins from interacting...
The purpose of this research was to study the impact
phenomena of a tennis ball striking a hard surface.
Stroboscopic photography was used to collect the ball's
impact images from seven angles of incidence, ranging from
-23 degrees to -70 degrees with zero, top and back initial
spin respectively.
Through...