AN EFFICIENT, SELECTIVE, PERCEPTUAL-BASED SUPER-RESOLUTION ESTIMATOR
2008 15TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5
Authors: Ferzli, Rony; Ivanovski, Zoran A.; Karam, Lina J.
Abstract
In this paper, a SELective Perceptual-based (SELP) scheme is presented to reduce the complexity of popular super-resolution (SR) algorithms while maintaining the desired quality of the enhanced images/video. A perceptual Human Visual System (HVS) model is proposed to compute the contrast sensitivity threshold for a given background intensity. The obtained thresholds are used to select which pixels are super-resolved based on the perceived visibility of local edges. This is accomplished by estimating the contrast sensitivity threshold locally over a block. Next, the absolute difference between each pixel and its neighbors is computed and compared to the threshold upon which a decision is made to include the pixel in the SR estimator for the next iteration or not. The perceptual model is integrated into a MAP-based SR algorithm as well as a fast ML estimator. Simulation results show up to 47% reduction on average in computational complexity with comparable SNR gains and visual quality.
Silk-elastinlike protein polymer hydrogels: Influence of monomer sequence on physicochemical properties
POLYMER
Authors: Dandu, Ramesh; Von Cresce, Arthur; Briber, Robert; Dowell, Paul; Cappello, Joseph; Ghandehari, Hamidreza
Abstract
Silk-elastinlike protein polymer, SELP-815K, with eight silk and fifteen elastin units and a lysine (K) modified elastin, was genetically engineered with longer silk and elastin units compared to existing hydrogel forming analogs (SELP-415K and SELP-47K). Hydrogels of the three SELPs (with similar MWs) were investigated for their structure-function relationships. Results indicate that equilibrium swelling ratio in these hydrogels is a function of polymer structure, concentration, cure time and ionic strength of media. Swelling was not influenced by the changes in pH. Storage moduli observed by dynamic mechanical analysis and the Debye-Bueche correlation length obtained from small-angle neutron scattering provided structural insight that suggests the cross-linking densities in these hydrogels follow the order SELP-47K > SELP-815K > SELP-415K. These results allude to the importance of the length of elastin blocks in governing the spacing of the cross-linked hydrogel network and that of silk in governing the stiffness of their 3-dimensional structures. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.