The cloud-detection procedure developed by McNally and Watts(MW03) was added to the Weather Research and Forecasting Data Assimilation System. To provide some guidelines for setting up cloud-detection schemes, this st...The cloud-detection procedure developed by McNally and Watts(MW03) was added to the Weather Research and Forecasting Data Assimilation System. To provide some guidelines for setting up cloud-detection schemes, this study compares the MW03 scheme to the Multivariate and Minimum Residual(MMR) scheme for both simulated and real Advanced Infrared Sounder(AIRS) radiances. Results show that there is a high level of consistency between the results from simulated and real AIRS data. As expected, both cloud-detection schemes perform well in finding the cloud-contaminated channels based on the channels' peak levels. The clouddetection results from MW03 are sensitive to the prescribed brightness temperature innovation threshold and brightness temperature gradient threshold. When increasing the brightness temperature innovation threshold for MW03 to roughly eight times the default threshold, the two cloud-detection schemes produce consistent data rejection distributions overall for high channels. MMR generally retains more data for long-wave channels. For both cloud-detection schemes, there is a high level of consistency between the cloud-free pixels and the visible/near-IR(Vis/NIR) cloud mask.展开更多
One of the methods for biometric identification is facial features detection, and eye is an important facial feature in the face. In the recent years, automatically detecting eye with different image conditions is att...One of the methods for biometric identification is facial features detection, and eye is an important facial feature in the face. In the recent years, automatically detecting eye with different image conditions is attended. This paper proposes a method which can automatically detect eye in extensive range of images with different conditions. In the proposed method, first an image is enhanced by morphological operations then region of face is detected by hybrid projection function. To identify window of eye, vertical edge dominance map is used. The authors' method uses elliptical mask on eye image to detect center of pupil. The mask scans eye image to find minimum gray level because pupil is darkest part in eye image compared with 3 well-known methods. The accuracy of 99.53% on this This method has implemented on JAFFE face database and database confirms efficiency of the proposed method.展开更多
This paper proposes an image segmentation method based on the combination of the wavelet multi-scale edge detection and the entropy iterative threshold selection.Image for segmentation is divided into two parts by hig...This paper proposes an image segmentation method based on the combination of the wavelet multi-scale edge detection and the entropy iterative threshold selection.Image for segmentation is divided into two parts by high- and low-frequency.In the high-frequency part the wavelet multiscale was used for the edge detection,and the low-frequency part conducted on segmentation using the entropy iterative threshold selection method.Through the consideration of the image edge and region,a CT image of the thorax was chosen to test the proposed method for the segmentation of the lungs.Experimental results show that the method is efficient to segment the interesting region of an image compared with conventional methods.展开更多
基金sponsored by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, 2013CB430102)the Program of Scientific Innovation Research of College Graduate in Jiangsu Province (Grant Nos. CXZZ12-0490 and CXZZ11-0606)The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation
文摘The cloud-detection procedure developed by McNally and Watts(MW03) was added to the Weather Research and Forecasting Data Assimilation System. To provide some guidelines for setting up cloud-detection schemes, this study compares the MW03 scheme to the Multivariate and Minimum Residual(MMR) scheme for both simulated and real Advanced Infrared Sounder(AIRS) radiances. Results show that there is a high level of consistency between the results from simulated and real AIRS data. As expected, both cloud-detection schemes perform well in finding the cloud-contaminated channels based on the channels' peak levels. The clouddetection results from MW03 are sensitive to the prescribed brightness temperature innovation threshold and brightness temperature gradient threshold. When increasing the brightness temperature innovation threshold for MW03 to roughly eight times the default threshold, the two cloud-detection schemes produce consistent data rejection distributions overall for high channels. MMR generally retains more data for long-wave channels. For both cloud-detection schemes, there is a high level of consistency between the cloud-free pixels and the visible/near-IR(Vis/NIR) cloud mask.
文摘One of the methods for biometric identification is facial features detection, and eye is an important facial feature in the face. In the recent years, automatically detecting eye with different image conditions is attended. This paper proposes a method which can automatically detect eye in extensive range of images with different conditions. In the proposed method, first an image is enhanced by morphological operations then region of face is detected by hybrid projection function. To identify window of eye, vertical edge dominance map is used. The authors' method uses elliptical mask on eye image to detect center of pupil. The mask scans eye image to find minimum gray level because pupil is darkest part in eye image compared with 3 well-known methods. The accuracy of 99.53% on this This method has implemented on JAFFE face database and database confirms efficiency of the proposed method.
基金Science Research Foundation of Yunnan Fundamental Research Foundation of Applicationgrant number:2009ZC049M+1 种基金Science Research Foundation for the Overseas Chinese Scholars,State Education Ministrygrant number:2010-1561
文摘This paper proposes an image segmentation method based on the combination of the wavelet multi-scale edge detection and the entropy iterative threshold selection.Image for segmentation is divided into two parts by high- and low-frequency.In the high-frequency part the wavelet multiscale was used for the edge detection,and the low-frequency part conducted on segmentation using the entropy iterative threshold selection method.Through the consideration of the image edge and region,a CT image of the thorax was chosen to test the proposed method for the segmentation of the lungs.Experimental results show that the method is efficient to segment the interesting region of an image compared with conventional methods.