Optimum receivers for pattern recognition problems with nonoverlapping target and background noise

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 2633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir H. Fazlollahi
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Clemens ◽  
Nofar Ozeri-Engelhard ◽  
Mala Murthy

AbstractTo faithfully encode complex stimuli, sensory neurons should correct, via adaptation, for stimulus properties that corrupt pattern recognition. Here, we investigate sound intensity adaptation in the Drosophila auditory system, which is largely devoted to processing courtship song. Mechanosensory neurons (JONs) in the antenna are sensitive not only to sound-induced antennal vibrations, but also to wind or gravity, which affect the antenna’s mean position. Song pattern recognition therefore requires adaptation to antennal position (stimulus mean) in addition to sound intensity (stimulus variance). We discover fast variance adaptation in Drosophila JONs, which corrects for background noise over the behaviorally relevant intensity range. We determine where mean and variance adaptation arises and how they interact. A computational model explains our results using a sequence of subtractive and divisive adaptation modules, interleaved by rectification. These results lay the foundation for identifying the molecular and biophysical implementation of adaptation to the statistics of natural sensory stimuli.


2014 ◽  
Vol 602-605 ◽  
pp. 1811-1814
Author(s):  
Hong Zhi Liu ◽  
Yu Chen ◽  
Li Qin Zheng

Spatial distorted target is very hard to be recognized for complexity and variety of targets, which has restricted the development of pattern recognition technology to a great extent. Joint transform correlator is one of the key equipments to detect and recognize distorted targets. The appearance and development of maximum average correlation height (MACH) algorithm is introduced in this paper. Based on the principle the algorithm and experimental analysis, an improved maximum average correlation height algorithm fit for joint transform correlator is proposed, which has powerful capability of suppressing background noise and widening distortion tolerance. Target images with different shapes including scale or angular distortion constitute MACH filter in frequency domain, which is projected to space domain as reference template including varieties of attitude. To show the feasibility of the algorithm, an airplane with angular distortion in sky is processed by MACH filter as an example. Simulation and optical experimental results are given in this paper. The experiments show the angular distortion tolerance can reach up to 15 degrees. The actual effect of the improved MACH filter algorithm is confirmed very well.


Author(s):  
D.R. Ensor ◽  
C.G. Jensen ◽  
J.A. Fillery ◽  
R.J.K. Baker

Because periodicity is a major indicator of structural organisation numerous methods have been devised to demonstrate periodicity masked by background “noise” in the electron microscope image (e.g. photographic image reinforcement, Markham et al, 1964; optical diffraction techniques, Horne, 1977; McIntosh,1974). Computer correlation analysis of a densitometer tracing provides another means of minimising "noise". The correlation process uncovers periodic information by cancelling random elements. The technique is easily executed, the results are readily interpreted and the computer removes tedium, lends accuracy and assists in impartiality.A scanning densitometer was adapted to allow computer control of the scan and to give direct computer storage of the data. A photographic transparency of the image to be scanned is mounted on a stage coupled directly to an accurate screw thread driven by a stepping motor. The stage is moved so that the fixed beam of the densitometer (which is directed normal to the transparency) traces a straight line along the structure of interest in the image.


Author(s):  
G.Y. Fan ◽  
J.M. Cowley

In recent developments, the ASU HB5 has been modified so that the timing, positioning, and scanning of the finely focused electron probe can be entirely controlled by a host computer. This made the asynchronized handshake possible between the HB5 STEM and the image processing system which consists of host computer (PDP 11/34), DeAnza image processor (IP 5000) which is interfaced with a low-light level TV camera, array processor (AP 400) and various peripheral devices. This greatly facilitates the pattern recognition technique initiated by Monosmith and Cowley. Software called NANHB5 is under development which, instead of employing a set of photo-diodes to detect strong spots on a TV screen, uses various software techniques including on-line fast Fourier transform (FFT) to recognize patterns of greater complexity, taking advantage of the sophistication of our image processing system and the flexibility of computer software.


Author(s):  
L. Fei ◽  
P. Fraundorf

Interface structure is of major interest in microscopy. With high resolution transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) and scanning probe microscopes, it is possible to reveal structure of interfaces in unit cells, in some cases with atomic resolution. A. Ourmazd et al. proposed quantifying such observations by using vector pattern recognition to map chemical composition changes across the interface in TEM images with unit cell resolution. The sensitivity of the mapping process, however, is limited by the repeatability of unit cell images of perfect crystal, and hence by the amount of delocalized noise, e.g. due to ion milling or beam radiation damage. Bayesian removal of noise, based on statistical inference, can be used to reduce the amount of non-periodic noise in images after acquisition. The basic principle of Bayesian phase-model background subtraction, according to our previous study, is that the optimum (rms error minimizing strategy) Fourier phases of the noise can be obtained provided the amplitudes of the noise is given, while the noise amplitude can often be estimated from the image itself.


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