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An effect of a grinding method, that is ball mill and high pressure grinding rolls (HPGR), on the particle size, specific surface area and particle shape of an iron ore concentrate was studied. The particle size distribution was meticulously examined by sieve, laser and image analyses. To measure the specific surface area of particles, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) and Blaine methods were used. It was found that for samples having equal Blaine specific surface areas numbers, the amount of fine particles produced in HPGR was higher than that produced in a ball mill. A higher surface area was observed from HPGR treatment in comparison to ball mill grinding, provided by a higher porosity,... 

Different types of visual features provide multi-modal representation for images in the annotation task. Conventional graph-based image annotation methods integrate various features into a single descriptor and consider one node for each descriptor on the learning graph. However, this graph does not capture the information of individual features, making it unsuitable for propagating the labels of annotated images. In this paper, we address this issue by proposing an approach for fusing the visual features such that a specific subgraph is constructed for each visual modality and then subgraphs are connected to form a supergraph. As the size of supergraph grows linearly with the number of... 

This paper introduces a new dimension reduction (DR) method, called minimum change rate deviation (MCRD), which is applicable to the DR of remote sensing images. As the main shortcoming of the well-known principal component analysis (PCA) method is that it does not consider the spatial relation among image points, our proposed approach takes into account the spatial relation among neighboring image pixels while preserving all useful properties of PCA. These include uncorrelatedness property in resulted components and the decrease of error with the increasing of the number of selected components. Our proposed method can be considered as a generalization of PCA and, under certain conditions,... 

Capillary pressure curves, which have been employed for a long period of time by researchers interested in pore size distribution, are commonly obtained from experimental measurements. The dynamic capillary pressure that influences the flow is affected by many factors including the pore size characteristics and pore scale dynamics. Hence, it is important to investigate the variation of the estimated pore size distribution with capillary number. In this study, a glass type micromodel is considered as the porous media sample. A parametric probability density function is proposed to express the pore size distribution of the porous model, which is also measured using an image analysis technique.... 

Block motion estimation is an important field of video processing. This paper presents a new scheme to reach in faster block motion estimation based on motion prediction. The scheme exploits an adaptive filter to predict the block motion from its spatio-temporal motion compensated adjacent blocks, the predicted motion determines the initial candidate block for search methods with biased search center, in special case of partial distortion search, this strategy reduces search time by preventing from complete distortion calculation for more loser candidates, after comparison of three conventional adaptive filters, a normalized least mean square filter with convergence monitoring is recommended... 

This paper presents a new algorithm for detecting user-selected objects in a sequence of images based on adaptively lifted wavelet transforms. In our algorithm, we first select a set of object features in the wavelet transform domain and then build a new transform by using the selected features. The new wavelet transform is constructed based on adaptive prediction in a lifting scheme structure. Adaptive prediction is performed such that, the large coefficients in the high-pass component of the old transform, vanish in the high-pass component of the new transform. Finally, both of the old and new transforms are applied to a given test image and the transform domain coefficients are compared... 

Bubble splitting in 2D gas-solid freely bubbling fluidized beds is experimentally investigated using digital image analysis. The quantitative results can be applied for the development of a new breakage model for bubbly fluidized beds, especially discrete bubble models. The variation of splitting frequency with bubble diameter, new resulting bubble volumes, positions, and also the assumptions of mass and momentum conservation for bubbles after breakage are studied in detail. Small bubbles are found to be more stable than large ones and nearly all mother bubbles split into two almost equally sized daughter bubbles. The momentum of gas bubbles in the vertical direction remains approximately... 

Auto-Exposure detection is a key feature in digital cameras and smart-phones. The image information can be used to detect scene over and under exposure passively. This paper introduces an effective optimal exposure detection function based on joint probability density function of the pixels in the scene  

In this study the effect of HPGR operational parameters on the dimensional properties of pellet feed was examined and optimized using factorial methodology. The operational parameters considered include feed moisture, specific pressure and roll speed. For this study, size and shape of particles with Blaine number in the range 1800–2200 cm2 g−1 was thoroughly investigated. It was deduced that increasing the specific pressure and decreasing the roll speed would result in reduction of D80 but would increase the Blaine number. The circularity, aspect ratio and roughness descriptors of the particles were measured by SEM micrographs and image analysis software. It was observed that particles... 

In this study the effect of HPGR operational parameters on the dimensional properties of pellet feed was examined and optimized using factorial methodology. The operational parameters considered include feed moisture, specific pressure and roll speed. For this study, size and shape of particles with Blaine number in the range 1800–2200 cm2g−1 was thoroughly investigated. It was deduced that increasing the specific pressure and decreasing the roll speed would result in reduction of D80 but would increase the Blaine number. The circularity, aspect ratio and roughness descriptors of the particles were measured by SEM micrographs and image analysis software. It was observed that particles tended... 

In the present study, an annular electromagnetic stirrer was used to fabricate the semi-solid slurry of AZ91 magnesium alloy under various conditions of electromagnetic intensities and times. The fabricated semi-solid slurry was injected into a step-die cavity, using a hydraulic jack with ram speed of 1 m/s. The effects of electromagnetic intensity, stirring time and step thicknesses on the microstructure evolution, shape factor, globules equivalent diameter, solid fraction and microhardness of samples were investigated. The experimental results showed that obtained optimal parameters of electromagnetic stirring were 55 (A) stirring current and 30 (s) stirring time. In this conditions, the... 

The accurate measurement of surface roughness is essential in ensuring the desired quality of machined parts. The most common method of measuring the surface roughness of machined parts is using a surface profile-meter with a contact stylus, which can provide direct measurements of surface profiles. This method has its own disadvantageous such as workpiece surface damage due to mechanical contact between the stylus and the surface, In this paper we proposed a eontactless method using image processing and artificial neural network as a pattern classifier. Having trained the network for any specific workpiece with 10 sample patterns, the system would learn how to approximate the actual surface... 

This paper presents a feature-based license plate localization algorithm that copes with multi-object problem in different image capturing conditions. The proposed algorithm is robust against illumination, shadow, scale, rotation, and weather condition. It extracts license plate candidates using edge statistics and morphological operations and removes the incorrect candidates according to the determined features of license plates. We have formed a rather complete database of 269 images in different conditions. The proposed algorithm successfully detecteds the accurate location of the license plates in 96.5% cases, which outperforms the other available approaches in the literature. © 2006... 

An invisible image watermarking scheme tends to insert the mark in a transparent manner, with the highest possible energy. Several watermarking algorithms use human visual models as perceptual masks to maximize the power of watermark. We take advantage of inhibitory and excitatory characteristics of eye receptors which yield an extra capacity, for amplifying watermark power, while still satisfying imperceptibility constraint. Spatial-domain image entropy is used as a measure of strength of inhibitory effect. The principle of our idea is based on the decomposition of mark sequence into two parts, corresponding to two complementary sets of pixels in spatial-domain. These sets are determined... 

A new robust image adaptive digital watermarking algorithm in wavelet transform domain is proposed in this paper. The proposed method exploits Human Visual System (HVS) characteristics and entropy masking concept to determine image adaptive thresholds for selection of perceptually significant coefficients. The mark is embedded in the coefficients of all subbands including the LL subband. Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly improves watermarking performance over conventional methods, in the terms of invisibility and robustness  

This work concerns experimentally quantifying finger behavior during miscible displacements in fractured porous media. A series of miscible tests were performed on five-spot fractured micromodels which were initially saturated with heavy crude oil, and the developed finger patterns were quantified using an image analysis technique. The results revealed that the numbers of macro fingers formed is well correlated with the square root of dimensionless time, while the rate of finger initiation is independent of fracture characteristics. The level of bypassed oil linearly decreases with dimensionless distance traveled by front precisely. The transient fractal dimension behavior experiences a... 

Optical separation, which is a contactless and accurate technique, has been mostly used to manipulate single particles. This work mainly aims to present an effective technique for optical propulsion and separation of a group of microscopic particles that are suspended in liquids. An experimental study is conducted to assess the effect of radiation pressure of a high-power laser on a dilute dispersion of microparticles in water using microscopic image analysis. Results of separation experiments indicate that the manipulation mechanism is capable of sorting the microscopic particles in two size classes. Compared to common optical separators, this configuration has a benefit of separating many...