Adaptive Median Filtering Algorithm Based on Divide and Conquer and Its Application in CAPTCHA Recognition

As the first barrier to protect cyberspace,the CAPTCHA has made significant contributions to maintaining Internet security and preventing malicious attacks.By researching the CAPTCHA,we can find its vulnerability and improve the security of CAPTCHA.Recently,many studies have shown that improving the image preprocessing effect of the CAPTCHA,which can achieve a better recognition rate by the state-of-theart machine learning algorithms.There are many kinds of noise and distortion in the CAPTCHA images of this experiment.We propose an adaptive median filtering algorithm based on divide and conquer in this paper.Firstly,the filtering window data quickly sorted by the data correlation,which can greatly improve the filtering efficiency.Secondly,the size of the filtering window is adaptively adjusted according to the noise density.As demonstrated in the experimental results,the proposed scheme can achieve superior performance compared with the conventional median filter.The algorithm can not only effectively detect the noise and remove it,but also has a good effect in preservation details.Therefore,this algorithm can be one of the most strong tools for various CAPTCHA image recognition and related applications.

ADAPTIVE FEED-FORWARD COMPENSATOR FOR HARMONIC CANCELLATION IN ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC SERVO SYSTEM

Since the dead zone phenomenon occurs in electro-hydraulic servo system, the output of the system corresponding to a sinusoidal input contains higher harmonic besides the fundamental input, which causes harmonic distortion of the output signal. The method for harmonic cancellation based on adaptive filter is proposed. The task is accomplished by generating reference signals with frequency that should be eliminated from the output. The reference inputs are weighted by the adaptive filter in such a way that it closely matches the harmonic. The output of the adaptive filter is a harmonic replica and is injected to the fundamental signal such that the output harmonic is cancelled leaving the desired signal alone, and the total harmonic distortion （THD） is greatly reduced. The weights of filter are adjusted on-line according to the control error by using least-mean-square （LMS） algorithm. Simulation results performed with a hydraulic system demonstrate the efficiency and validity of the proposed adaptive feed-forward compensator （AFC） control scheme

An algorithm of adaptive step size factor in adaptive filtering

In this paper a model of transversal filter is presented to study the adaptive match of the time variant channel. The least mean square error filtering method is used to obtain the weighting coefficients of the filter. With the purpose of speeding up the convergence of the iteration equation of adaptive filtering, an adaptive factor of the iteration step size μa is derived in this paper. The result of computer simulation shows that in the case of using adaptive μa, the convergence speed of the iteration equation is increased 2 times approximately in comparison with constant μ1. The study suggests that the adaptive filter with adaptive μa have the performance to follow the change of time-variant characteristics of the channel.

Research on Anti-noise Processing Method of Production Signal Based on Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition(EEMD)

The grain production prediction is one of the most important links in precision agriculture. In the process of grain production prediction, mechanical noise caused by the factors of difference in field topography and mechanical vibration will be mixed in the original signal, which undoubtedly will affect the prediction accuracy. Therefore, in order to reduce the influence of vibration noise on the prediction accuracy, an adaptive Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition(EEMD) threshold filtering algorithm was applied to the original signal in this paper: the output signal was decomposed into a finite number of Intrinsic Mode Functions(IMF) from high frequency to low frequency by using the Empirical Mode Decomposition(EMD) algorithm which could effectively restrain the mode mixing phenomenon; then the demarcation point of high and low frequency IMF components were determined by Continuous Mean Square Error criterion(CMSE), the high frequency IMF components were denoised by wavelet threshold algorithm, and finally the signal was reconstructed. The algorithm was an improved algorithm based on the commonly used wavelet threshold. The two algorithms were used to denoise the original production signal respectively, the adaptive EEMD threshold filtering algorithm had significant advantages in three denoising performance indexes of signal denoising ratio, root mean square error and smoothness. The five field verification tests showed that the average error of field experiment was 1.994% and the maximum relative error was less than 3%. According to the test results, the relative error of the predicted yield per hectare was 2.97%, which was relative to the actual yield. The test results showed that the algorithm could effectively resist noise and improve the accuracy of prediction.

A method for aircraft magnetic interference compensation based on small signal model and LMS algorithm

Aeromagnetic interference could not be compensated effectively if the precision of parameters which are solved by the aircraft magnetic field model is low. In order to improve the compensation effect under this condition, a method based on small signal model and least mean square（LMS） algorithm is proposed. According to the method, the initial values of adaptive filter＇s weight vector are calculated with the solved model parameters through small signal model at first,then the small amount of direction cosine and its derivative are set as the input of the filter, and the small amount of the interference is set as the filter＇s expected vector. After that, the aircraft magnetic interference is compensated by LMS algorithm. Finally, the method is verified by simulation and experiment. The result shows that the compensation effect can be improved obviously by the LMS algorithm when original solved parameters have low precision. The method can further improve the compensation effect even if the solved parameters have high precision.