93 results about "Noise map" patented technology

Frame-by-frame estimation of signal-dependent noise variance involves morphological deletion of pixel values of noise image corresponding with edges of the initial frame. A noise map is computed as a pixel-by-pixel estimation of noise variance of the initial digital image. The noise reduction procedure involves three successive stages: frame-by-frame estimation of signal-dependent noise variance; motion estimation and compensation, flicker-effect estimation and compensation; recursive averaging providing motion compensation artifacts correction.

A method for reducing noise in a computed tomographic (CT) image includes acquiring both a first set of projection views and a second set of projection views, wherein for each projection view in the first set of projection views there is an associated projection view in the second set of projection views representing the same object scanned at substantially the same time from substantially the same position. The method further includes reconstructing the first set of projection views and the associated second set of projection views to obtain a first image and a second image, respectively. Next, the first image and the second image are combined to obtain a noise map and an amount of noise in a product image is estimated utilizing the noise map. The method also includes filtering using the noise map to perform noise reduction.

The invention provides a road traffic noise map updating method based on noise monitoring data. According to the method, noise monitoring and original traffic flow data are utilized, firstly, road section and monitoring point data are organized, and an effective road section set of each monitoring point is constructed; then, local correction is carried out, and the correcting difference value of each road section in the effective road section set of the monitoring points is calculated according to an energy conservation law; next, the local correction result is subjected to interval division; the correction difference value of other uncorrected road sections is determined according to an interval division result; finally, calculation and rendering are carried out, and an updated road traffic noise map is obtained. The road traffic noise map updating method is applied to the updating of the road traffic noise map, the calculation efficiency is high, and the updating effect is good.

The invention provides a method for updating a three-dimensional traffic noise map in conjunction with offline storage and instant calculation. The method comprises the following steps: dividing noise calculation into calculations for noise emission item related to traffic flow and noise degeneration item unrelated to the traffic flow; calculating the noise degeneration item only related to geographic elements in advance and offline storing in a database; while updating the three-dimensional traffic noise map, only calculating the changed noise emission item according to the change in urban road traffic flow state and calculating the final noise value by combining with the offline stored noise emission item, thereby reducing the calculation amount. For increasing the updating speed of the three-dimensional traffic noise map, the manner of computer cluster parallel computing is taken for accelerating the noise calculation and updating of the noise map. The distributed calculation system combined with the method has the characteristics of high load balance, high flexibility and excellent expansibility. The system matched with the optimized noise map updating algorithm can greatly reduce the calculation time and obviously increase the updating efficiency.

The invention discloses a participatory sensing-based noise collection and display system and a participatory sensing-based noise collection and display method. The method comprises the following steps: enabling noise collection applications by all smartphone terminals, collecting noise data of each position at which the corresponding smartphone is located, processing the noise data, and then, sending the processed noise data and positional information to a cloud platform through a wireless network; receiving original noise data sent by all the smartphone terminals through the cloud platform, displaying to the corresponding position in a webpage in real time, meanwhile, storing the original noise data into a text file, processing a period of data to obtain statistical information, and storing into a data base; extracting the corresponding information from the data base by the cloud platform when query operation executed by each smartphone terminal or a user terminal is performed, and sending back the information to the smartphone terminal or displaying to the user terminal through a browser. According to the participatory sensing-based noise collection and display system and the participatory sensing-based noise collection and display method disclosed by the invention, noise collection and display is realized through the participatory sensing system, so that the cost for establishing a noise map is greatly reduced, and the real-time performance and the accuracy of the data are improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of transient electromagnetic signal processing in geophysical exploration, and discloses a transient electromagnetic signal-to-noise separation method based on a variational mode decomposition principle, which is suitable for electromagnetic data filtering in a time domain. The method comprises the following steps: decomposing noisy transient electromagnetic data s(t) into K intrinsic mode functions uk(t); performing Hilbert transform on each intrinsic mode function to obtain a unilateral frequency spectrum; demodulating the frequency spectrum of each intrinsic mode function uk(t) to a corresponding base band according to the unilateral frequency spectrum, calculating a demodulated L2 norm, and calculating the bandwidth of the decomposed intrinsic mode function to obtain a constraint variation model; introducing a secondary penalty factor alpha and a Lagrange multiplication operator lambda, and converting the constraint variation model intoa non-constraint variation form; and calculating an optimal solution in a non-constraint variation form to obtain a series of optimized intrinsic mode components after VMD decomposition. The method solves the problem that transient electromagnetic data collected in geological interpretation is interfered by noise, is simple and convenient, has excellent noise separation and amplitude maintaining performance, can extract noise images, and provides conditions for subsequent noise analysis.

The invention relates to a volume cloud rendering method and device, electronic equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the steps: drawing at least one layer of grid model outwards from an original grid model of volume cloud according to a vertex normal vector; screening pixel points of the grid model based on the noise threshold corresponding to each layer of the grid model to obtaina drawing model; calculating illumination information corresponding to the drawing model according to the illumination parameters; and rendering the drawing model according to the illumination information to obtain a to-be-displayed volume cloud. According to the technical scheme, the shape of the volume cloud is determined based on the grid model instead of the shape of the noise map, and if theshape of the volume cloud needs to be changed, only the number of additionally drawn layers needs to be set and the noise threshold value of the pixel points needs to be screened, and the specific noise map does not need to be selected in advance; therefore, the number of times of adopting the noise map is reduced, the performance overhead of generating the volume cloud is further reduced, and the volume cloud can smoothly run on the mobile terminal equipment.

Provided in the invention is a method and system for diagnosing a circuit fault based on acoustical measurement. With the method and system, phenomenon of virtual connection and loosening of the circuit can be determined accurately. A noise source is determined based on association and matching of a noise frequency and an electrical signal frequency and a circuit connection unit or computer corresponding to the noise source is further determined; and a noise map of the noise source is monitored to monitor an abnormal loosening situation of the corresponding circuit connection unit. On the basis of the technical scheme, whole-course monitoring of the circuit can be realized based on noise signal measurement; and the cost is low. Besides, a database with abundant resources can be formed based on computer collection and comparison and can be used for determining circuit faults accurate in future. And a self-learning capability of the database is also provided, so that the determination time is substantially saved and the system performance is optimized.

The invention relates to a noise map construction method based on a building surface noise model (BSNM). The noise map construction method comprises the steps of acquiring road streetscape data, evaluating noises of spatial points of buildings on two sides of a road, processing the road streetscape data, rendering a road streetscape data map and constructing a noise map. By means of the acquired road noise, noises of the buildings on two sides of the road are evaluated, the BSNM is constructed, a building noise multi-spectrum map is embedded into the surfaces of the corresponding buildings in the noise map, and a visual BSNM is presented. The noise map construction method has the advantages that by means of the noise map construction method, the map capable of representing urban street noises faithfully is constructed for users, and users can experience street noise pollution really.

The invention discloses a user scenario recognition method based on a mobile terminal noise map. The method includes: using a mobile smart phone to acquire sensor data, and performing coarse-grain partition on a scenario that a user acquires noise decibel according to the character that voice data is susceptible to friction and vibration; and acquiring a test data set through a semi-manual annotation manner, calculating a sensor scenario determination threshold according to the characters of different sensors, and recording the acquired decibel data in different scenarios and performing scenario classification through a mobile terminal scenario recognition algorithm. According to the method, the acquisition scenario that the user acquires the decibel data is calculated out and speculated, the quality of visual data of the noise map and a user incentive system can be improved through analysis on the data recording quality, and then more people are encouraged to take part in an environment monitoring task of a community and even a city.

The invention provides a noise automatic monitoring equipment point laying method based on a noise map. The method comprises the steps of determining the total number of road traffic monitoring pointsthrough urban scale and urban road network density, and calculating the number of noise monitoring points of each type of road according to the total length of each type of road in a city; then basedon the equivalent sound level and road length of each road in the noise map, and selecting a specific monitored road; then using a road cell in the noise map as a reference, calculating the equivalent sound level of the road cell according to a calculating result in the noise map, combining adjacent road cells with a sound level difference in a threshold; and selecting the central point of each cell after combination as an area monitoring point. The method is applied to laying of the noise automatic monitoring equipment points, and settles problems of automatic monitoring equipment point laying plan shortage, no consideration for current sound environment quality in an artificial monitoring point, over broad method in a specification, etc.

A system and method for automatic insertion of on-chip decoupling capacitors are provided. With the system and method, an integrated circuit design is partitioned into cells and the noise distribution per cell of an integrated circuit is determined. This noise distribution may be generated using any of a number of different known mechanisms and generally results in a noise-map being generated for the integrated circuit. Thereafter, a mapping function is applied to the noise map for each cell to determine a required capacitance for the cells of the integrated circuit. From this required capacitance per cell, the necessary decoupling capacitors may be identified as well as the location for insertion of these decoupling capacitors. In a similar manner, decoupling capacitors may be removed from cells of the integrated circuit based upon the determined required capacitance per cell.

The invention belongs to the technical field of multimedia information security and particularly relates to a robustness digital watermark method based on chaotic mapping and singular value decomposition. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) a watermark embedding process, including the steps of: using the chaotic mapping for carrying out arrangement scrambling on n*n original images to obtain noise maps; blocking the noise maps subjected to the arrangement scrambling; carrying out singular value decomposition on each block to obtain a diagonal matrix, and embedding the watermark images into the maximum singular value of the corresponding block diagonal matrix one pixel by one pixel to complete the watermark embedding; and (2) a watermark detecting process, including the steps of: carrying out arrangement scrambling on watermark adding images by using the chaotic mapping; blocking the watermark adding images subjected to the arrangement scrambling; and carrying out singular value decomposition on each block to obtain a diagonal matrix, and using the diagonal matrix and a set quantization coefficient to obtain watermark images by calculation. The method provided by the invention has higher safety and better robustness, and the watermark embedded with images has higher robustness performance on image compression, image geometric distortion, image signal processing and the like.

An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a memory storing at least one instruction, and a processor, electrically connected to the memory, configured to, by executing the instruction, obtain, from an input image, a noise map corresponding to the input image; provide the input image to an input layer of a learning network model including a plurality of layers, the learning network model being an artificial intelligence (AI) model that is obtained by learning, through an AI algorithm, a relationship between a plurality of sample images, a respective noise map of each of the plurality of sample images, and an original image corresponding to the plurality of sample images; provide the noise map to at least one intermediate layer among the plurality of layers; and obtain an output image based on a result from providing the input image and the noise map to the learning network model.

The invention provides a noise map updating method combining speed and noise monitoring data, which comprises the following steps of: classifying roads in a static noise map according to road grades,and clustering each class according to road speed; calculating the variation of a noise value of each road caused by speed change by acquiring speed data of the road at an updating moment, and calculating the variation of the noise value of the monitored road caused by density change by combining noise monitoring data of each road; finally, calculating the variation of the noise value of each roadcaused by the density change according to the calculated variation of the noise value of the monitored road caused by the density change, calculating the variation of the noise value of each road relative to the static noise map moment under the current traffic condition according to the results of the two parts, and calculating the noise value of each road relative to the static noise map momentunder the current traffic condition; and finally, updating the whole noise map according to the updating result of the noise source and the noise propagation model.

The present invention is applicable to the technical field of noise maps and provides a method for drawing a noise map and device, the method for drawing a noise map comprises: obtaining an environmental noise uploaded by a terminal, the environmental noise includes a noise value, a time information, and a position information; when the terminal uploads a picture corresponding to the environmental noise, detecting whether the picture is a valid picture or not; when the picture is a valid picture and the position where the picture is taken lies indoor, identifying the environmental noise as an indoor environmental noise; when the picture doesn't exist, identifying the environmental noise as an outdoor environmental noise, or when the picture is invalid, identifying the environmental noise as an outer door environmental noise, or when the picture is a valid picture and the position where the picture is taken lies outdoor, identifying the environmental noise as the outdoor environmental noise; drawing a noise map according to the indoor environmental noise and the outdoor environmental noise. The present invention can not only improve drawing accuracy of the noise map, but also increase reliability of the noise map.

The invention discloses a method for representing a virtual sound of a traffic noise map. The method is an effective supplement for the present traffic noise map display technology. The method specifically comprises the following steps: acquiring noise audio frequency samples for reference distances of different vehicle models at different driving speeds on a practical road in the manner of audio frequency collection; digitally processing the noise audio frequency samples and storing at a background server side of the noise map; acquiring the position information and the noise data of representing points of the virtual sound in a front-end noise map; judging road sections influencing noise values of the representing points of the virtual sound and confirming vehicle model ratio and driving speed information data of the road sections; utilizing a random principle to perform digital audio sound mixing on the noise samples required by the representing points on the background server and converting a digital audio signal into an audio sound mixing file; and calling for and analyzing the audio sound mixing file by the front-end noise map, thereby realizing the virtual representing of the traffic noise. The method used for representing the virtual sound of the traffic noise map can overcome the defect that the traffic noise of the traditional noise map cannot be synchronously displayed.

Methods and apparatus for procedural directional texture generation. A procedural directional texture generation method may, for example, be used to design hair or hairstyles. The method may obtain one or more strokes, one or more optional masks, and one or more optional user maps. One or more interpolated orientation maps may be generated from the input. The orientation maps, possibly along with one or more optional user maps, may be used to compute synthetic low-frequency lighting. A noise map may be generated at one or more frequencies and used, along with the interpolated maps, to generate high-frequency lighting. Alternatively, a flow-guided texture synthesis method may be used to generate high-frequency lighting. The low- and high-frequency lighting may then be combined to generate a desired frequency spectrum. Color may be added to the full structure, or alternatively color may be added at an earlier step.

The invention discloses an image denoising method based on a deep convolutional network. The method comprises the following steps: establishing an image degradation model, and sampling an image into a noise image; forming a training image pair by using the noise map and the original image block; inputting training data into a deep convolutional network for learning, enabling the deep convolutional network to use a convolutional layer and a non-linear activation layer to expand channels and then pass through a plurality of residual blocks, and reducing the number of the channels to the number of output channels through the convolutional layer and the non-linear activation layer; training by using a training algorithm, and learning a mapping function from a noise image to a noise-free image from the training image pair through an optimization method; and optimizing by using a loss function until the parameters of the deep convolutional network converge. The image priori of the data set is mined through training, the recognition capability of the network on the noise intensity is enhanced by receiving the noise level information for multiple times, and the performance of joint demosaicing and denoising is greatly improved.

A noise estimation apparatus and method to prevent texture from being erroneously determined as noise, is provided. To this end, the noise estimation method includes generating an initial noise map for an input image signal, generating at least one noise map based on a temporal change of an image signal continuing from the image signal, calculating a correlation value for each region between the initial noise map and the noise maps, and determining noise of an image according to a temporal change based on the correlation value.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an image denoising method and device based on an information distillation network, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out second-order wavelet transformation of an original noise image, inputting the original noise image and a noise level map into a feature extraction network at the same time, and carrying out the preliminary feature extraction,and obtaining a shallow noise feature map; inputting the shallow noise feature map into an information distillation network for information distillation processing to obtain a deep noise feature map conforming to the noise level of the original noise image; and inputting the deep noise feature map into a compression network to perform color channel compression processing, and then performing second-order wavelet inverse transformation to obtain a noise map for performing image denoising processing on the original noise image. Through the implementation of the invention, the information distillation module is used to obtain rich and more capable features, and the whole network adopts a residual learning mode to improve the learning speed, thereby effectively improving the network capability, and ensuring the efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility of image denoising.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of face alignment, and provides a face feature point generation method, a face data network training method and a related device, and theface feature point generation method comprises the steps: obtaining an original image and a noise map of the original image; fusing the original image and the noise map to generate a first fused image; inputting the first fusion image to a pre-trained generative adversarial GAN network to generate a second fusion image, and fusing the second fusion image with the original image and the face heatmap of the original image; and processing the second fusion image to obtain a plurality of face feature points corresponding to the original image. According to the embodiment of the invention, the method solves a problem that the manual marking of the face feature points is low in efficiency through the automatic generation of the face feature points.

Methods and devices for seismic data processing deblend seismic data gathered using simultaneous source acquisition by applying two different deblending techniques. The second deblending technique is applied to residual data obtained after applying the first deblending technique. At least one of these first and second deblending techniques uses a signal-to-noise map.

The invention provides a three-dimensional volume cloud rendering method and system based on a three-dimensional noise map, and the method comprises the steps: S1, constructing a three-dimensional noise texture space, and constructing a three-dimensional volume cloud in the three-dimensional noise texture space; s2, constructing a real three-dimensional space, and mapping the three-dimensional volume cloud to the real three-dimensional space; s3, obtaining the sight line direction of the pixel points, determining the overall density of the three-dimensional volume cloud in the sight line direction, and determining the transparency of the pixel point rendering cloud based on the overall density; and S4, obtaining the position, the illumination intensity and the preset color of the sun, anddetermining the color of the pixel point rendering cloud in combination with the overall density and the sight line direction. According to the three-dimensional volume cloud rendering method based onthe three-dimensional noise map, only two groups of three-dimensional noise texture maps are needed, the storage space is reduced, layer clouds, accumulated clouds and layer accumulated clouds can berendered, and the real lighting effect of the clouds is displayed after rendering.

A method and device for dithering video from a decoder. The method and device provide: selecting a segment of video frames from the video; computing a noise map for the segment of the video, the noise map computed from differences among pixels selected from spatially-distributed sampling patterns in the segment; determining contours of quantization artifacts within the video frame based on the noise map and a histogram of pixel values in the video frame; computing a gradient measurement of pixel values along the contours; identifying regions along the contours of quantization artifacts to apply dithering based on the noise map and the gradient measurement; determining a dithering strength based on the noise map and the gradient measurement; and applying dithering noise to the identified regions at the determined dithering strength.

The invention discloses a noise map drawing method based on mobile perception in the technical field of noise monitoring, and aims to solve the problem that noise data of each corner are difficult tomonitor due to fixed-point layout of noise monitoring stations in the prior art. And when the scattered sparse noise is rendered by using an interpolation method, the technical problem that the influence of the space environment on noise propagation is not considered is solved. The method comprises the following steps of collecting and obtaining noise data in a target monitoring area through mobile noise measurement equipment, the noise data comprise noise value data and longitude and latitude corresponding to the noise value data, and the mobile noise measurement equipment comprises a smart phone; and rendering the noise data by using an inverse distance weighted interpolation method to obtain a noise map of the target monitoring area.

The invention discloses an image noise estimation method based on a deep convolutional neural network. The method is used for solving the technical problem that an existing image noise estimation method is poor in practicability. According to the technical scheme, a loss function is constructed by combining a noise error and a noise level error to train a deep convolutional neural network; the trained deep convolutional neural network obtains a noise map with accurate numerical distribution and accurate statistical mean square error from the noise pollution image; a deep convolutional neural network is adopted; convolutional kernel expansion values are firstly multiplied layer by layer and then symmetrically decreased layer by layer in an equal proportion mode, the extraction capacity of the deep convolutional neural network for random noise is improved, the number of convolutional kernels of each convolutional layer is large, a distribution model and the level of noise used in training are completely random, and the generalization capacity of the deep convolutional neural network for random noise is improved. According to the method, the noise image is extracted from the noise pollution image, the flexibility of modeling and analyzing the noise in subsequent operation is improved, and the practicability is good.

Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method or device for coding source video. The method or device may provide for a segment of video frames from the source video, computing a noise map for the segment of the source video where the noise map is computed from differences among pixels selected from spatially-distributed sampling patterns in the segment, computing control parameter adjustments based on the noise map, and coding the selected segment of source video according to control parameters generated from a default coding policy and the control parameter adjustments, where the default coding policy includes default control parameters of the encoder.

A remote monitoring system for building a noise map comprises a solar noise remote monitor for implementing distributed multipoint monitoring at each monitoring points, and a noise monitoring box; thesolar noise remote monitor is connected with a communication network by a communication module of a networked controller, and then connected with the network by a wireless or wired method to upload the data of a noise sensor, the video of a camera, and the audio frequency of a sound pickup to a network cloud server; the data of the noise sensor, the video of the camera, and the audio frequency ofthe sound pickup also can be stored in a local digital video recorder to be managed and controlled by a platform software; the noise of each monitoring point is monitored in real time by the noise monitoring box in the laboratory; the video and audio data of each excessive playback noise warning point is monitored by the noise monitoring box; and, the solar power supply can be switched into commercial power supply. A Beidou positioning chip (or a GPS Global Position System positioning chip) is embedded in the networked controller; the geographic position of the solar noise remote monitor canbe checked in the system software (or the longitude and the latitude of the device are directly inputted in the software); and thus, the noise map is built.

The method includes acquisition of an original image; low-frequency filtering of the original image to obtain an estimated image; a noise image development as a difference between the original and estimated images by morphologic filtering elimination of noise image pixels corresponding to sharp changes in the original image; dividing an intensity range of the estimated image into intervals, wherein each pixel of the estimated image relates to an appropriate interval; accumulating some noise image pixels corresponding to estimated image pixels; calculating interval estimations of noise dispersion using accumulated noise image pixels; improving interval estimations by removing noise pixels according to σ3 criteria, approximating interval estimations of noise dispersion resulting in tabular function of noise vs. signal intensity; calculating the base of estimated image and obtaining tabular function of the dependence of noise on signal intensity the noise map as a pixel-by-pixel noise dispersion estimation of the digital original image.