Digital equalizer compensation to low resolution image acquired by radio imaging method (RIM) for medical application

Author(s):  
I. Hieda
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1956
Author(s):  
Jingyu Cong ◽  
Xianpeng Wang ◽  
Xiang Lan ◽  
Mengxing Huang ◽  
Liangtian Wan

The traditional frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar two-dimensional (2D) super-resolution (SR) estimation algorithm for target localization has high computational complexity, which runs counter to the increasing demand for real-time radar imaging. In this paper, a fast joint direction-of-arrival (DOA) and range estimation framework for target localization is proposed; it utilizes a very deep super-resolution (VDSR) neural network (NN) framework to accelerate the imaging process while ensuring estimation accuracy. Firstly, we propose a fast low-resolution imaging algorithm based on the Nystrom method. The approximate signal subspace matrix is obtained from partial data, and low-resolution imaging is performed on a low-density grid. Then, the bicubic interpolation algorithm is used to expand the low-resolution image to the desired dimensions. Next, the deep SR network is used to obtain the high-resolution image, and the final joint DOA and range estimation is achieved based on the reconstructed image. Simulations and experiments were carried out to validate the computational efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed framework.


Author(s):  
R. S. Hansen ◽  
D. W. Waldram ◽  
T. Q. Thai ◽  
R. B. Berke

Abstract Background High-resolution Digital Image Correlation (DIC) measurements have previously been produced by stitching of neighboring images, which often requires short working distances. Separately, the image processing community has developed super resolution (SR) imaging techniques, which improve resolution by combining multiple overlapping images. Objective This work investigates the novel pairing of super resolution with digital image correlation, as an alternative method to produce high-resolution full-field strain measurements. Methods First, an image reconstruction test is performed, comparing the ability of three previously published SR algorithms to replicate a high-resolution image. Second, an applied translation is compared against DIC measurement using both low- and super-resolution images. Third, a ring sample is mechanically deformed and DIC strain measurements from low- and super-resolution images are compared. Results SR measurements show improvements compared to low-resolution images, although they do not perfectly replicate the high-resolution image. SR-DIC demonstrates reduced error and improved confidence in measuring rigid body translation when compared to low resolution alternatives, and it also shows improvement in spatial resolution for strain measurements of ring deformation. Conclusions Super resolution imaging can be effectively paired with Digital Image Correlation, offering improved spatial resolution, reduced error, and increased measurement confidence.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huan Zhang ◽  
Zhao Zhang ◽  
Haijun Zhang ◽  
Yi Yang ◽  
Shuicheng Yan ◽  
...  

<div>Deep learning based image inpainting methods have improved the performance greatly due to powerful representation ability of deep learning. However, current deep inpainting methods still tend to produce unreasonable structure and blurry texture, implying that image inpainting is still a challenging topic due to the ill-posed property of the task. To address these issues, we propose a novel deep multi-resolution learning-based progressive image inpainting method, termed MR-InpaintNet, which takes the damaged images of different resolutions as input and then fuses the multi-resolution features for repairing the damaged images. The idea is motivated by the fact that images of different resolutions can provide different levels of feature information. Specifically, the low-resolution image provides strong semantic information and the high-resolution image offers detailed texture information. The middle-resolution image can be used to reduce the gap between low-resolution and high-resolution images, which can further refine the inpainting result. To fuse and improve the multi-resolution features, a novel multi-resolution feature learning (MRFL) process is designed, which is consisted of a multi-resolution feature fusion (MRFF) module, an adaptive feature enhancement (AFE) module and a memory enhanced mechanism (MEM) module for information preservation. Then, the refined multi-resolution features contain both rich semantic information and detailed texture information from multiple resolutions. We further handle the refined multiresolution features by the decoder to obtain the recovered image. Extensive experiments on the Paris Street View, Places2 and CelebA-HQ datasets demonstrate that our proposed MRInpaintNet can effectively recover the textures and structures, and performs favorably against state-of-the-art methods.</div>


Author(s):  
Darakhshan R. Khan

Region filling which has another name inpainting, is an approach to find the values of missing pixels from data available in the remaining portion of the image. The missing information must be recalculated in a distinctly convincing manner, such that, image look seamless. This research work has built a methodology for completely automating patch priority based region filling process. To reduce the computational time, low resolution image is constructed from input image. Based on texel of an image, patch size is determined. Several low resolution image with missing region filled is generated using region filling algorithm. Pixel information from these low resolution images is consolidated to produce single low resolution region filled image. Finally, super resolution algorithm is applied to enhance the quality of image and regain all specifics of image. This methodology of identifying patch size based on input fed has an advantage over filling algorithms which in true sense automate the process of region filling, to deal with sensitivity in region filling, algorithm different parameter settings are used and functioning with coarse version of image will notably reduce the computational time.


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