A framework for blind signal correction using optimized polyspectra-based cost functions

Abstract

"Blind" inversion of the effects of a given operator on a signal is an extremely difficult task that has no easy solutions. However,. Dr. Hany Farid has published several works that each individua:lly appear to achieve exactly this seemingly impossible result. In this work, we contribute a comprehensive overview of the published applications of blind process inversion, as well as provide the generalized form of the algorithms and requirements that are found in each of these applications, thereby formulating and explaining a general framework for blind process inversion using Farid's Algorithm.

Additionally, we explain the knowledge required to derive the ROSA-based cost function on which Farid's Algorithm depends. As our primary contribution, we analyze the algorithmic complexity of this cost function based on the way it is currently, naively calculated, and derive a new algorithm to compute this cost function that has greatly reduced algorithmic complexity. Finally, we suggest an additional application of Farid's Algorithm to the problem of blindly estimating true camera response functions from a single image.

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Thesis Completion

2009

Semester

Fall

Advisor

Hughes, Charles E.

Degree

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Degree Program

Computer Science

Subjects

Dissertations, Academic -- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science;Electrical Engineering and Computer Science -- Dissertations, Academic

Format

Print

Identifier

DP0022350

Language

English

Access Status

Open Access

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Document Type

Honors in the Major Thesis

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