Digital watermarking has been proposed as a method for discouraging illicit copying and distribution of copyrighted material. Now, there are many watermarking schemes for still color images, we present an approach for...
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(纸本)0780374908
Digital watermarking has been proposed as a method for discouraging illicit copying and distribution of copyrighted material. Now, there are many watermarking schemes for still color images, we present an approach for embedding digital watermarking information into color channels DCT (Discrete cosine transforms) domains of the image. We observe that the correlation value between the color channels DCT coefficients is satisfied with-some kind of statistical regular, by,means of this statistical regular, we can modify. the selected sets of DCT coefficients to make the correlation values Show specific distribution, so that we can embed a binary string into the image. Specifically, the embedded watermarking is extracted without resorting to original image and any other data sets. Experimental results demonstrate that the watermark is robust to most of the image and signal processing techniques, and also our schemes are shown to provide very good results both in terms of image transparency and robustness.
In this paper we discuss the application of a joint source-channel decoding approach to image transmission over wireless channels. In addition to channel codes, also the implicit residual redundancy after source encod...
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(纸本)0780374029
In this paper we discuss the application of a joint source-channel decoding approach to image transmission over wireless channels. In addition to channel codes, also the implicit residual redundancy after source encoding in both horizontal and vertical direction is utilized for error protection. At the decoder we use an iterative ("turbo") source-channel decoder which can be obtained in the same manner as for serially concatenated channel codes. As a new result we show that this iterative decoding scheme in combination with a novel simplified joint source and channel coding rate allocation at the encoder can be successfully employed for protecting the image data, especially when the channel is highly corrupted. Furthermore, when the source correlations are approximated with a large training set at the decoder, only a small loss in performance is observed.
We present a functional model of V4 area in visual cortex based on predictive coding scheme, in which the prediction is compared with three kinds of images corresponding to three kinds of image representations which a...
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(纸本)9810475241
We present a functional model of V4 area in visual cortex based on predictive coding scheme, in which the prediction is compared with three kinds of images corresponding to three kinds of image representations which are projected through the filters with three different sizes of spatial resolutions. The prediction is represented as a combination of elemental figures. These representations are generated by the response property of main neurons in VI and V4 areas that the main neurons respond selectively to a limited band of frequencies of spatial brightness distribution. We propose the functional role of elemental figures in invariant perception of object form in visual cortex.
There exists an enormous gap between low-level visual features and high-level semantic information and accuracy of content-based image classification. Retrieval depends largely on the description of low-level visual f...
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The application of information technology in the field of Cultural Heritage content, is now widely diffused, and many different aspects are subject to a deep investigation. Among these this paper will in particular an...
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Unequal error protection is one of the key tools in video communication systems operating over error-prone networks. In order to allow unequal protection of a video bit-stream, codewords have to be categorized accordi...
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This paper introduces a method for smoothing complex, noisy surfaces, while preserving (and enhancing) sharp, geometric features. It has two main advantages over previous approaches to feature preserving surface smoot...
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(纸本)0780374983
This paper introduces a method for smoothing complex, noisy surfaces, while preserving (and enhancing) sharp, geometric features. It has two main advantages over previous approaches to feature preserving surface smoothing. First is the use of level set surface models, which allows us to process very complex shapes of arbitrary and changing topology. This generality makes it well suited for processing surfaces that are derived directly from measured data. The second advantage is that the proposed method derives from a well-founded formulation, which is a natural generalization of anisotropic diffusion, as used in imageprocessing. This formulation is based on the proposition that the generalization of image filtering entails filtering the normals of the surface, rather than processing the positions of points on a mesh.
This paper investigates effect of dithering in improving the visual quality of an image subband coder. A subband coder with scalar quantization of lowest frequency subband and pyramid vector quantization of high frequ...
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This paper investigates effect of dithering in improving the visual quality of an image subband coder. A subband coder with scalar quantization of lowest frequency subband and pyramid vector quantization of high frequency subbands was simulated, For subband quantizer both types of subtractive and non-subtractive dither were examined, and the coder performance was compared with the non-modified coder by subjective and objective tests. In a series of pair comparison subjective tests, coder with subtractive dither gained a total average score of 0.32 (in the scaled range of [-1,1 ]), and the coder with non-subtractive dither gained an average score of 0.24 compared to non-dithered coder. As an objective measure the correlation between reconstruction error and original image was calculated, which shows that dithering will result an average of 10 percent reduction in case of non-subtractive dither and 12 percent reduction for subtractive dither.
A human-like robust image recognition system inspired by a psychological brain model [1] has been developed aiming at direct implementation in the VLSI hardware. The Principal Axis Projection (PAP) technique [2] has b...
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(纸本)0780374029
A human-like robust image recognition system inspired by a psychological brain model [1] has been developed aiming at direct implementation in the VLSI hardware. The Principal Axis Projection (PAP) technique [2] has been employed for feature vector generation, which very well represents the human-perception of similarity in images while substantially reducing the dimensionality. In this study, we have introduced the concept of multi resolution and PAP kernel scanning in the PAP based vector matching algorithm As a result, very robust image recognition has been demonstrated in gray scale images as well as in binary images. Interestingly, a large digit pattern formed as an aggregation of miniature digits like that shown in Fig. I can also be successfully recognized not only in the constituent small digits but also in the entire feature. Although the present algorithm is computationally very expensive, it has been designed fully compatible to execution on VLSI chips which we have developed for vector matching [3-5] and PAP vector generation.
Assuming that the photoreceptor response of the human visual system is adaptive and non-linear, we can derive mathematical properties that can account for both color discrimination and chromatic adaptation. This could...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0892082399
Assuming that the photoreceptor response of the human visual system is adaptive and non-linear, we can derive mathematical properties that can account for both color discrimination and chromatic adaptation. This could be due to the photoreceptors' response to illumination, which is non-linear and varies according to the adaptation state. Assuming the Naka-Rushton non-linear function and an automatic gain control function, we can derive color discrimination and chromatic adaptation data. We extend the discussion to a three-layer model of retinal color processing, and show how we could predict corresponding color data.
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