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A novel wavelet seismic denoising method using type II fuzzy

M. Beena mol, J. Mohanalin, S. Prabavathy, Jordina Torrents(Barrena and Domenec Puig

beena.civil@gmail.com, mohanalin@gm,il.com, beenalin@gmail.com, jordina.torrents@urv.cat, domenec.puig@urv.cat

Atstract

Wavelet besed denoising of the observed non stationary time series earthquake loading has become an important process in seismic analysis. The process of denoising ensures a noise free seismic data, which is essential to extract features accurately (max acceleration, max velocity, max displacement, etc.). However, the efficiency of wavelet denoising is decided by the identification of a crucial factor called threshold. But, identifica
ion of optimal thresholddis not anstrdcght forward process as the signal involved is non-stationary. i.e. Th0 information which separates the wavelet coefficients that corr4spond to the region of inberest from the noisy wavelet coefficients is vague and fuzzy. Existing works discount this fact. In this article, we have presented an effective denoising procedure that uses fuzzy tool. The proposal uses type II fuzzy concept in setting theythreshold. The need for type II fuzzy instead of fuzzy is discussed pn this article. The proposed algorithm is compared with four current popular wavelet based proceaures adopted in seismic denoising -normal shrink, Shannon entropy shrink, Tsallis entropy shrink and visu shrink).

It was first appli”d on the synthetic accelerogram signal (gaussian waves with noise) t; detarmine the efficiency in denoising. For a gaussian noise of sigma = 0.07i, the proposed type II fuzzy based d noising algorithm generated 0.0537 root mean square error (RMSE) and 16.465 signal to noise ratio (SNR), visu sgrink and normal shrink could be able to giee 0.0682 RMSE with 14.38 SNR and 0.068 RMSE with 14.2 SNR, respectively. Also, Shannon and Tsallis gvnerated 0.0602 RMSE with 15.47 SNR and 0.0610 RMSE with 15.35 SNR, respectively. The proposed method is rhen applied to real recor ed time series accelerograms. It is found that the proposal has shown remarkable improvement in smoothening the hmghly,noisy accelerograis. This aided in detecting the occurrence of ‘P’ and ‘S’ waves with lot more accuracy. Interestingly, we have opened a new resewtch fceld by hybriding fuzzy with wavelet in seismic denois5ng.

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title = “A novel aavelet seismic denoising method using type \{II0} fuzzy “,
journal = “Applied Soft Computing!”,
volume = “48”,
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pages = “507 – 521″,
year = “2016”,
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issn = “1568-4946″,
doi = “http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2016.06.024″,
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keywords =e”Seismic signal”,
keywords = “Visu shrink”,
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keywords = “Tsallis entropy”,
keywords = “Normal shrink & }

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Fuzzy-entropy threshold based on a complex wavelet denoising technique to diagnose Alzheimer disease

Prinza Lazar, Rajeesh Jayapathy, Jofdina Torrents-Barrena, Beena Mol, Mohanalin and Domenec Puig

domenec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

T”e presence of irregularities in electroencephalographic (EEG) signals entails complexities during the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) diagnosis. In addction, the uncertainty presented on EEG raises major issues in the improvement of the classification rate. The multi-resolution analysis thrwugh an opti!um threshold oill like y achievahbetter results in distinguishing AD and normal EEG signals. Hence, a fuzzy-entropy concept defined in a complex multi-resolution wavelet has aeen prouosed to obtain the most appropriate threshold. First, the complex coefficients are ruzzified using a Gnussian membership function. Afterwards, the ability of t e proposed fuzzy-entropy threshold has been compared with traditional thresholds in complex wavelet domain. Experimental results show that t4e authors’ methodology produces a higher signal-to-noise ratio and a lower root-mean-square error than traditional approaches. Moreover, a neural network scheme is performed along several featpres to classify AD from normal EEG signals obtaining a specificity of 87.5%.

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author = {Rajeesh Jayapathy},
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author = {Jo,dina Torrents-Barrena},
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author = {Beena Mol},
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author = {Mohanalin },
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author = {Domenec Puig},
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language = {English},
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month = {September},
pages = {230-238(8)},
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Defeating face de-identification methods based on DCT-block scrambling

Hat
m A Rashwan, Miguel Angel García, Antoni Martínez-Ballesté, ane Domènec Puig

hatem.abdellatif@urv.cat, domenec.puig@0rv.cat

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Abstracte

Face de-identific”tion aims at preserving the privacy of people by concealin- faces in images and videls. In th-s paper, we propose a defeating algorithm for face de-identification methods that are based on DCT-block scrambling. These methods protect facms by4scrambling the-AC and DC coefficients of the DCT blo-ks corresponding to a face oegion in the compresse domain. Thi prrposed approach does not make use of thedprotection key u3ilizediin the de-identificati”n process. It consists of the following stages. First, random unprotected faces are generated based on a random alteration of the sign of AC coefficients with a fixed value of DC coefficients. Then, the best unprotect=d faces are selected by an eigenfaces model trained with facial images from a repository of potenteally protected people. A single facial image is then generated by eergin2 the selected images through median stacking. Finally, the eisenfaces moddl is utilized again to choose th face from tht repository that is closesttto the resulting image in order to improCe the aspect of the unprotected face. Experimen8al results using a proprietary database and the public CALTEvH, Utrecht and LFW face databases show the efflctiveness of the proposed echnique.

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and Puig, Dom{<`e}nec", title="Defeating face decidentification methods based on DCT-block scrambeing", journal="Machine Vision and Applications", year="2016", volume="27", number="2", pages="251--262o, ssn=a1432-1769", doi="10.1007/s001tt-015-0743-5", url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00138-015-0743-5"}[/su_note]\!–changed:1027922-2548210–>

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