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With the development of displaying techniques, free viewpoint video (FVV) system shows its potential to provide immersive perceptual feeling by changing viewpoints. To provide this luxury, a large number of high quality views have to be synthesised from limited number of viewpoints. However, in this process, a portion of the background is occluded by the foreground object in the generated synthesised...
Color and texture have been proven to be very discriminant attributes in image analysis across many works. This paper proposes a color texture analysis method based on the graph theory, in which we convert the texture in question into an undirected weighted graph and explore the shortest paths between four pairs of pixels according to different scales and orientations of the image. Basically, we extend...
This paper proposed robust color constancy method for changing illuminant by using local chromaticity distribution and analysis of illuminant influence for each hue angle. First, changing in chromaticity distribution direction for each color with respect to various illuminant is analyzed using principal component analysis. Next, change in standard deviation of chromaticity distribution with respect...
The steganography is the art of hidden; its main aim is to pass unnoticed data in another data. There are many types of data that used in steganography, such as message, image, and video. In this work, we are interested in hiding a message inside an image. Our work focuses on the study of three approaches based on least significant bit (LSB) techniques that mean put the bits of the message in the...
We show that walls, and other obstructions with edges, can be exploited as naturally-occurring “cameras” that reveal the hidden scenes beyond them. In particular, we demonstrate methods for using the subtle spatio-temporal radiance variations that arise on the ground at the base of a wall's edge to construct a one-dimensional video of the hidden scene behind the wall. The resulting technique can be...
The Wireless Automated Urine Analyzer (WAUA) is an alternative to the current convention on medical diagnosis from urinalysis. The WAUA is automated, cost-efficient, and can possibly provide additional coverage to healthcare, especially in rural areas. If implemented, this can conduct urinalysis on hard-to-reach areas where implementing standard routine urinalysis is economically challenging. It's...
The problem of automation of the product traceability processes within the technological process has now become of major importance. The most common traceability method is based on optical identification implemented by various markings application to the product surface. Such markings can contain a wide variety of information that allows one to determine the parameters of the raw materials, the manufacturer,...
Health is always used to describe a person's conditions. To stay healthy, regular in monitoring physiological parameters are unavoidable. In this study, non-contact video imaging techniques are proposed for blood pressure measurements whereas commercial oscillometric device is used for results verifications. Besides, the proposed techniques also able to obtain the pulse rate simultaneously. From the...
The classification and identification of the bird species from the visual image is complex compared by using audio song. The knowledge of the features species type is very important as to ensure it is classified to the correct species. Color-based feature extraction is one of the procedure in extracting the color properties from the bird which to represent the species of the bird. However, it is a...
In this paper, an image steganography approach is presented dividing the cover image into 2×2 non-overlapping pixel blocks. The upper-left pixel of that block embeds a certain number of bits of the secret bit stream. Whereas, the remaining pixels of the same block embed the secret data using a modified version of the pixel-value-differencing (PVD) method that considers embedding secret data into both...
Lung cancer is a disease that caused by uncontrolled cell growth in lung. Lung cancer is still the first worldwide killer. CT Scan Thorax is a method for early detection of lung cancer patients. However, cancer detection in lung CT-Scan image still done manually. In this paper, the segmentation of lung image is proposed. Cancer segmentation will process the lung CT-Scan as an image input with watershed...
An improved real-time method for smoke detection based on motion and color analysis is presented. Smoke detection in video surveillance is very important for early fire detection. In general, it is assumed that smoke is a low frequency signal, which may smooth the background. However, these conditions can be met by some pure-color objects, and smoke also produces high frequency signal on the edges...
An image can be basically defined as an object that represents visual observation, which can be created and stored in the electronic form, produced from an optical device. When we take a photograph, there can be many problems associated with that particular image. Among them, one of the main issue is the blur of the image. Blur can be defined as something which will become vague or less distinct....
Nowadays, QR (quick-response) codes have become part of our daily life. In many applications, QR codes are posted (i.e. pasted or printed) on cylinders. Then, the QR image as captured by a camera would be distorted. In this paper, we try to tackle the decoding of QR codes in such a situation. It is based on perspective projection (PP), which is specified by a camera matrix (cM), with the assistance...
Cucumber downy mildew is a kind of disease which spreads very fast and isdangerous, in order to prevent the disease, peoplealways spray plenty of pesticides indiscriminately. Accurate assessment of the level of cucumber downy mildew is very important to the disease prevention and control. In a cucumber growing season, this paper collected the typical cucumber downy mildew leaf samples, and developed...
Nature has surrounded us with lot of plants having medicinal values. But most of the time, we don't realize the importance and benefits of the plant and we just ignore it. In other cases, though we know names of the plants with medicinal values, it becomes difficult to identify the plant even if it is naturally grown in our backyard. And hence, a system is developed which would provide a solution...
Recent developments in the standardisation of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) have shown that the block-wise activation/deactivation of a colour transform can significantly improve the compression performance. This coding tool is based on a fixed colour space which is either YCgCo in lossy compression mode or YCgCo-R in the lossless mode. The proposed method shows that the performance can be increased...
In this work, we explore the problem of generating fantastic special-effects for the typography. It is quite challenging due to the model diversities to illustrate varied text effects for different characters. To address this issue, our key idea is to exploit the analytics on the high regularity of the spatial distribution for text effects to guide the synthesis process. Specifically, we characterize...
We present Fast Fourier Color Constancy (FFCC), a color constancy algorithm which solves illuminant estimation by reducing it to a spatial localization task on a torus. By operating in the frequency domain, FFCC produces lower error rates than the previous state-of-the-art by 13–20% while being 250-3000 times faster. This unconventional approach introduces challenges regarding aliasing,...
Colorization is an ambiguous problem, with multiple viable colorizations for a single grey-level image. However, previous methods only produce the single most probable colorization. Our goal is to model the diversity intrinsic to the problem of colorization and produce multiple colorizations that display long-scale spatial co-ordination. We learn a low dimensional embedding of color fields using a...
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