Loading...
Search for: singular-value-decomposition
0.006 seconds
Total 46 records

    RISM: Single-Modal Image Registration via Rank-Induced Similarity Measure

    , Article IEEE Transactions on Image Processing ; Volume 24, Issue 12 , 2015 , Pages 5567-5580 ; 10577149 (ISSN) Ghaffari, A ; Fatemizadeh, E ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    Similarity measure is an important block in image registration. Most traditional intensity-based similarity measures (e.g., sum-of-squared-difference, correlation coefficient, and mutual information) assume a stationary image and pixel-by-pixel independence. These similarity measures ignore the correlation between pixel intensities; hence, perfect image registration cannot be achieved, especially in the presence of spatially varying intensity distortions. Here, we assume that spatially varying intensity distortion (such as bias field) is a low-rank matrix. Based on this assumption, we formulate the image registration problem as a nonlinear and low-rank matrix decomposition (NLLRMD).... 

    Universal image steganalysis using singular values of DCT coefficients

    , Article 2013 10th International ISC Conference on Information Security and Cryptology ; 2013 Heidari, M ; Gaemmaghami, S ; Sharif University of Technology
    IEEE Computer Society  2013
    Abstract
    We propose a blind image steganalysis method based on the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients that are revisited in this work. We compute geometric mean, mean of log values, and statistical moments (mean, variance and skewness) of the SVDs of the DCT sub-blocks that are averaged over the whole image to construct a 480-element feature vector for steganalysis. These features are fed to a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier to discriminate between stego and cover images. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms most powerful steganalyzers when applied to some well-known steganography algorithms  

    Image steganalysis based on SVD and noise estimation: Improve sensitivity to spatial LSB embedding families

    , Article IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON, 21 November 2011 through 24 November 2011, Bali ; 2011 , Pages 1266-1270 ; 9781457702556 (ISBN) Diyanat, A ; Farhat, F ; Ghaemmaghami, S ; Sharif University of Technology
    2011
    Abstract
    We propose a novel image steganalysis method, based on singular value decomposition and noise estimation, for the spatial domain LSB embedding families. We first define a content independence parameter, DS, that is calculated for each LSB embedding rate. Next, we estimate the DS curve and use noise estimation to improve the curve approximation accuracy. It is shown that the proposed approach gives an estimate of the LSB embedding rate, as well as information about the existence of the embedded message (if any). The proposed method can effectively be applied to a wide range of the image LSB steganography families in spatial domain. To evaluate the proposed scheme, we applied the method to a... 

    Image adaptive semi-fragile watermarking scheme based on RDWT-SVD

    , Article 2008 International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2008, Al Ain, 16 December 2008 through 18 December 2008 ; February , 2008 , Pages 130-134 ; 9781424433971 (ISBN) Kourkchi, H ; Ghaemmaghami, S ; Sharif University of Technology
    2008
    Abstract
    One of the main properties of semi-fragile image watermarking methods is robustness against lossy compressions, e.g. JPEG conversion. In this paper, robustness of a semi-fragile watermarking scheme based on DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform), coupled with SVD (Singular Value Decomposition), is improved. To achieve this goal a traditional, critically sampled wavelet transform is replaced by a redundant wavelet transform. The proposed approach is compared to the DWT-SVD based watermarking, introduced earlier, and significantly greater robustness under the JPEG compression is presented. ©2008 IEEE  

    Hierarchical co-clustering for web queries and selected URLs

    , Article 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2007, Nancy, 3 December 2007 through 7 December 2007 ; Volume 4831 LNCS , 2007 , Pages 653-662 ; 03029743 (ISSN); 9783540769927 (ISBN) Hosseini, M ; Abolhassani, H ; Sharif University of Technology
    Springer Verlag  2007
    Abstract
    Recently query log mining is extensively used by web information systems. In this paper a new hierarchical co-clustering for queries and URLs of a search engine log is introduced. In this method, firstly we construct a bipartite graph for queries and visited URLs, and then to discover noiseless clusters, all queries and related URLs are projected in a reduced dimensional space by applying singular value decomposition. Finally, all queries and URLs are iteratively clustered for constructing hierarchical categorization. The method has been evaluated using a real world data set and shows promising results. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007  

    Application of Error Potential in Brain-Computer Interface Systems

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Sakhavi, Siavash (Author) ; Shamsollahi, Mohammad Bagher (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Brain computer interfaces (BCI) are systems designed to understand the brain function from activation patterns and dynamics recorded from the brain activity and use this knowledge to give disabled people the ability to communicate with their surroundings. Features are extracted from recorded signals from the brain while occupied in a mental task and classified into categories related to the task given. These classifiers are then used for the estimation of user anticipation. Usually, the tasks defined are meant to evoke or induce a potential in the pattern of the brain. Awareness of error responses is one of the cognitive functions of the brain which occurs when a response is in conflict with... 

    Analysis of Sensitivity of Features to Data Embedding in Blind Image Steganalysis

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Heidari, Mortaza (Author) ; Ghaemmaghami, Shahrokh (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Steganalysis is the science of detecting covert communication. It is called blind (universal) if designed to detect stego images steganographied by a wide range of embedding methods. In this method, statistical properties of the image are explored, regardless the embedding procedure employed. The main problem for image steganalysis is to find sensitive features and characteristics of the image which make a statistically significant difference between the clean and stego images. In this thesis we propose a blind image steganalysis method based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients that are revisited in this work in order to enhance the... 

    Some Applications of Singular Values Decomposition in Image Processing

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Ghobadi Ghadikalaei, Vahideh (Author) ; Mahdavi Amiri, Nezamoddin (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    The field of digital image processing refers to processing digital images by means of a digital computer. One of the principal applications used in digital image processing is image compression. Image compression is the problem of reducing the amount of data required to represent a digital image. The basis of the reduction process is the removal of redundant data. One of the other principal applications of image processing is noise reduction (filtering) of images corrupted with additive noise. Filtering techniques are oriented toward modeling the degradation and applying the inverse process in order to recover the original image. Image watermarking is another application of image processing.... 

    Decoding the long term memory using weighted thresholding union subspaces based classification on magnetoencephalogram

    , Article Communications in Computer and Information Science ; Vol. 427, issue , 2014 , p. 164-171 ; ISSN: 18650929 ; ISBN: 9783319108483 Tavakoli, S ; Fatemizadeh, E ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    In this paper Long Term Memory (LTM) process during leftward and rightward orientation recalling have been analyzed using Magnetoencephalogram (MEG) signals. This paper presents a novel criterion for decision making using union subspace based classifier. The proposed method involves the Eigenvalues from Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of each subspace not only to select basis for each subspace but also to weight the decision making criterion to discriminate two classes. The proposed method has provided orientation detection from recalling signal with 6.75 percent increase in classification accuracy compared to better results on this data  

    Learning overcomplete dictionaries based on parallel atom-updating

    , Article IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP ; 2013 ; 21610363 (ISSN) ; 9781479911806 (ISBN) Sadeghi, M ; Babaie-Zadeh, M ; Jutten, C ; IEEE Signal Processing Society ; Sharif University of Technology
    2013
    Abstract
    In this paper we propose a fast and efficient algorithm for learning overcomplete dictionaries. The proposed algorithm is indeed an alternative to the well-known K-Singular Value Decomposition (K-SVD) algorithm. The main drawback of K-SVD is its high computational load especially in high-dimensional problems. This is due to the fact that in the dictionary update stage of this algorithm an SVD is performed to update each column of the dictionary. Our proposed algorithm avoids performing SVD and instead uses a special form of alternating minimization. In this way, as our simulations on both synthetic and real data show, our algorithm outperforms K-SVD in both computational load and the quality... 

    SVD analysis of dynamic properties for fatigue loaded intervertebral disc

    , Article 2011 1st Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2011, 21 February 2011 through 24 February 2011, Sharjah ; 2011 , Pages 32-36 ; 9781424470006 (ISBN) Rozana, F ; Malik, A. S ; Wang, J. L ; Parnianpour, M ; Sharif University of Technology
    2011
    Abstract
    This paper uses singular value decomposition (SVD) for studying the dynamic properties of fatigue-loaded intervertebral disc. Previously, this problem had been addressed using mathematical models of using mass, spring and damper or based on poroelastic theory. This paper utilizes the signal processing approach and attempts to describe SVD based feature that can be an indicator for change in behavioral performance of the intervertebral disc warning the occurrence of temporary or permanent change in the structure or abnormality in behavior. The results are encouraging; however, further validation is required with more data  

    Towards higher detection accuracy in blind steganalysis of JPEG images

    , Article 24th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEE 2016, 10 May 2016 through 12 May 2016 ; 2016 , Pages 1860-1864 ; 9781467387897 (ISBN) Zohourian, M ; Heidari, M ; Ghaemmaghami, S ; Gholampour, I ; Sharif University of Technology
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc  2016
    Abstract
    A new steganalysis system for JPG-based image data hiding is proposed in this paper. We use features extracted from both wavelet and DCT domains that are refined later in the sense of utmost discrimination between the clear and stego images in the classification system. Statistical properties of the SVD of wavelet sub-bands are combined with the extended DCT-Markov features, and the features that are most sensitive to the data embedding are chosen through a SVM-RFE based selection algorithm. Experimental results show significant improvement over baseline methods, especially for steganalysis of Perturbed Quantization (PQ), which is known to be one of most secure JPG-based steganography... 

    Median filtering forensics in compressed video

    , Article IEEE Signal Processing Letters ; Volume 26, Issue 2 , 2019 , Pages 287-291 ; 10709908 (ISSN) Amanipour, V ; Ghaemmaghami, S ; Sharif University of Technology
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc  2019
    Abstract
    Median filtering has received extensive attention from forensics analyzers, as a common content-preserving, smoothing, and denoising manipulation. We propose a detection scheme for median filtering of video sequences in compressed domain based on the singular value decomposition of the process matrix, which approximates the median filtering. Projection over some of the eigenspaces of the process matrix gives a set of features of small dimension, even as small as three, making the proposed scheme a fast and suitable detector for video median filtering. The experimental evaluations show that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art detectors of median filtering, and its edge... 

    Face recognition using the combination of weighted sparse representation-based classification and singular value decomposition face

    , Article Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences ; Volume 82 , 2020 , Pages 91-97 Khosravi, H ; Vahidi, J ; Ghaffari, A ; Motameni, H ; Sharif University of Technology
    Indian Pharmaceutical Association  2020
    Abstract
    Given the increasing need for the creation and development of automated systems, the problem of detecting and identifying the faces of people in the images has been considered by the researchers. In recent years, the sparse representation based classification has been of great interest to researchers. The goal of this investigation is to provide a quick and effective way to identify faces based on the sparse representation. Since the basis of sparse representation is to calculate it through L1-norm optimization for high dimensional dictionary with high computational volume, a smoothed L0-norm optimization-based method was introduced. At the time of obtaining the sparse representation using... 

    A method for eye detection based on SVD transforms

    , Article International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology ; Volume 16, Issue 5 , 2006 , Pages 222-229 ; 08999457 (ISSN) Danafar, S ; Taghavi Sheikh, L ; Tavakoli Targhi, A. R ; Sharif University of Technology
    2006
    Abstract
    A set of transforms (SVD transforms) were introduced in (Shahshahani and Tavakoli Targhi) for understanding images. These transforms have been applied to some problems in computer vision including segmentation, detection of objects in a texture environment, classification of textures, detection of cracks or other imperfections, etc. This technique is shown to be applicable to determination of the location of eyes in a facial image. This method makes no use of color cues, prior geometric knowledge or other assumptions and does not require training. It is also insensitive to local perturbations in lighting, change of orientation and pose, scaling, and complexity of the background including... 

    A hierarchical approach to SVD-based fragile watermarking for image authentication

    , Article 2005 Fifth International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, Bangkok, 6 December 2005 through 9 December 2005 ; Volume 2005 , 2005 , Pages 870-876 ; 0780392833 (ISBN); 9780780392830 (ISBN) Taheri, S ; Ghaemmaghami, S ; Sharif University of Technology
    2005
    Abstract
    One of the main properties of fragile watermarking schemes is to indicate the location of changes made to the image, i.e. tamper localization, In addition to detection of watermarked image modifications. In this paper, the localization property Is added to the SVD(Singular Value Decomposition) based fragile watermarking scheme proposed by Byun et al. To do this, a hierarchical watermarking structure is used, where the Image is partitioned into blocks In a multilevel hierarchy, and then the SVD-based algorithm Is employed at each level to Insert authenticating data In sub-blocks. In the verification process, blocks at the lowest hierarchical level can detect modifications made to the... 

    An optimal SVD-based watermarking framework through linear programming

    , Article IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, EuroIMSA 2005, Grindelwald, 21 February 2005 through 23 February 2005 ; 2005 , Pages 271-274 ; 0889864861 (ISBN) Haghighi, M. S ; Ghaemmaghami, S ; Hamza M. H ; Sharif University of Technology
    2005
    Abstract
    Transparent, robust watermarking schemes tend to insert invisible watermarks with the highest possible energy. Singular values, in singular value decomposition (SVD), are shown to be robust to intentional and unintentional attacks. However, none of the algorithms proposed in the literature considered the visual imperceptibility constraint imposed by the human visual models. In this paper, we introduce an optimal SVD-based embedding framework, based on the well-known linear programming concept. Given a binary sequence of the mark, we show how to insert the message with the highest possible magnitude, without outlawing the just noticeable thresholds driven by the human visual system models in... 

    Watermarking of still images using multiresolution singular value decomposition

    , Article 2005 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ISPACS 2005, Hong Kong, 13 December 2005 through 16 December 2005 ; Volume 2005 , 2005 , Pages 325-328 ; 0780392663 (ISBN); 9780780392663 (ISBN) Akhbari, B ; Ghaemmaghami, S ; Sharif University of Technology
    IEEE Computer Society  2005
    Abstract
    A novel robust image-adaptive digital watermarking algorithm using Multi-Resolution Singular value Decomposition (MR-SVD) is proposed in this paper. The proposed method strengthens the watermark based on the concept of entropy masking, while meeting the mark imperceptibility requirement. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves watermarking performance over watermarking methods in wavelet domain transform, in terms of both invisibility and robustness. © 2005 IEEE  

    Reactive power control of permanent-magnet synchronous wind generator with matrix converter

    , Article IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery ; Volume 28, Issue 2 , 2013 , Pages 575-584 ; 08858977 (ISSN) Hojabri, H ; Mokhtari, H ; Chang, L ; Sharif University of Technology
    2013
    Abstract
    In this paper, the reactive power control of a variable-speed permanent-magnet synchronous wind generator with a matrix converter at the grid side is improved. A generalized modulation technique based on singular value decomposition of the modulation matrix is used to model different modulation techniques and investigate their corresponding input reactive power capability. Based on this modulation technique, a new control method is proposed for the matrix converter which uses active and reactive parts of the generator current to increase the control capability of the grid-side reactive current compared to conventional modulation methods. A new control structure is also proposed which can... 

    A generalized technique of modeling, analysis, and control of a matrix converter using SVD

    , Article IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics ; Volume 58, Issue 3 , 2011 , Pages 949-959 ; 02780046 (ISSN) Hojabri, H ; Mokhtari, H ; Chang, L ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    In this paper, a new simple and complete technique of modeling and analysis of a matrix converter is presented based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) of modulation matrix. The proposed modeling method yields a new limitation between the matrix converter gain and its input power factor, which is more relaxed as compared to the limits reported so far in the literature. The SVD of the modulation matrix leads to a unified modulation technique which achieves the full capability of a matrix converter. It is shown that this approach is general and all other modulation methods established for a matrix converter are specific cases of this technique. The proposed modulation method can be used...