We present a no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) algorithm that is inspired by the representation of visual scenes in the primary visual cortex of the human visual system. Specifically, we use the sparse ...
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Block compressed sensing (BCS) has great potential in image coding application for its low storage requirement and low computational complexity. However, in order to improve the reconstructed-image quality by eliminat...
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(纸本)9781509053162
Block compressed sensing (BCS) has great potential in image coding application for its low storage requirement and low computational complexity. However, in order to improve the reconstructed-image quality by eliminating block effect, joint reconstruction is used in the existing BCS algorithms. Thus, the computational complexity of those algorithms at decoder side is still high. To achieve a low complexity at both encoder and decoder sides while simultaneously improve the reconstructed-image quality, a novel BCS strategy with matrix permutation is introduced and investigated, in which matrix permutation is used prior to sampling to reduce the maximum block sparsity level of the 2D signal. Simulation results show that the novel matrix-permutation-based BCS approach gets a significant gain of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of the reconstructed-images compared with the existing BCS approaches.
Tetrolet transform has a better directionality of the structure and can express texture features of image precisely in dealing with high-dimensional signal. This paper introduces tetrolet transform into infrared and v...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783662498316
ISBN:
(纸本)9783662498316;9783662498293
Tetrolet transform has a better directionality of the structure and can express texture features of image precisely in dealing with high-dimensional signal. This paper introduces tetrolet transform into infrared and visible images for fusion to obtain a greater amount of information. First, the tetrolet transform was performed on the images which are fused to obtain high-pass and low-pass subbands on different scales. Then, a method based on local region gradient information was applied to low-pass subbands to get the low-pass fusion coefficients. Finally, the inverse tetrolet transform was utilized to obtain fused image. Using a variety of images to perform fusion experiment, all the results have shown that the fused image has more abundant features and more amount of information by using tetrolet transform. Compared with the traditional fusion algorithms, the fusion algorithm presented in this paper provides better subjective visual effect, and the standard deviation and entropy value would be somewhat increased.
The multiscale block compressed sensing algorithm gives an unreasonable resource distribution. This is because it deploys the same subrate within each decomposition level of a wavelet transform of an image. A novel ad...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783662498316
ISBN:
(纸本)9783662498316;9783662498293
The multiscale block compressed sensing algorithm gives an unreasonable resource distribution. This is because it deploys the same subrate within each decomposition level of a wavelet transform of an image. A novel adaptive sampling method applying the prior information is proposed to ameliorate the algorithm performance. Taking the importance differences of the wavelet coefficients of each decomposition level into account, texture information and directionality obtained by low frequency coefficients are combined. They are used to deploy the subrate adaptively into each image block of each subband of each level, realizing adaptive multiscale block compressed sensing. Experimental results reveal that, at each total subrate, the proposed algorithm significantly improves both the reconstruction quality and the visual effect with the maximum PSNR gain up to 1.38 dB.
A Light field image contains shear amount of data as it keeps the full spatio-angular information of the real scene. In this paper we propose a light field image coding scheme based on the latest JEM coding technologi...
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(纸本)9781509053162
A Light field image contains shear amount of data as it keeps the full spatio-angular information of the real scene. In this paper we propose a light field image coding scheme based on the latest JEM coding technologies. We propose a novel hybrid scan order to rearrange subaperture images into an image sequence and verify its importance to coding performance of light field image format. The experiment on EPEE light field image dataset demonstrates that our scheme achieves 7.06 dB gain compared with directly encoding the image by the JPEG standard. With the QP set to 50, our scheme achieves an average compression ratio of 7107, and still provides larger PSNRs and better viewing experience than JPEG at a compression ratio of 100.
In this paper, we present a novel text-based augmented reality system that performs optical character recognition on natural images and replaces the recognized texts with other informative contents. For the goal, we i...
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(纸本)9781509053162
In this paper, we present a novel text-based augmented reality system that performs optical character recognition on natural images and replaces the recognized texts with other informative contents. For the goal, we implement text detection and recognition functions, and develop an image augmentation algorithm for the realistic contents replacement. To be precise, we reconstruct background with a linear interpolation method and insert new contents to the reconstructed backgrounds. Finally, we get natural results by applying proper geometric distortions to them. In order to reduce visual artifacts caused by noisy boundaries, we also develop an optimal path selection method based on dynamic programming. Experimental results show that our method provides very natural results and runs in real-time even in mobile devices.
In this paper, we propose a reduced-reference scheme for evaluating the quality of blurred images under the theory of free-energy principle. Specifically, the free-energy principle indicates that the brain tries to ac...
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(纸本)9781509053162
In this paper, we propose a reduced-reference scheme for evaluating the quality of blurred images under the theory of free-energy principle. Specifically, the free-energy principle indicates that the brain tries to account for the input image with an internal generative model and the discrepancy between the image and its model-explained version, which can be measured by free energy, is related to the image's perceptual quality. Accordingly, we define a visual distance between the blurred image and its original image in free energy to evaluate the quality of the blurred image. Therefore, the proposed quality scheme belongs to reduced-reference methods, which needs some information from the original image for quality assessment. Experimental results on public databases, LIVE, TID2013 and C-SIQ, demonstrate the proposed method works in high consistency with subjective assessment results and outperforms representative image quality assessment approaches.
To avoid distortion in sky regions and make the sky and white objects clear, in this paper we propose a new image and video dehazing method utilizing the view-based cluster segmentation. Firstly, GMM (Gaussian Mixture...
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(纸本)9781509053162
To avoid distortion in sky regions and make the sky and white objects clear, in this paper we propose a new image and video dehazing method utilizing the view-based cluster segmentation. Firstly, GMM (Gaussian Mixture Model)is utilized to cluster the depth map based on the distant view to estimate the sky region and then the transmission estimation is modified to reduce distortion. Secondly, we present to use GMM based on Color Attenuation Prior to divide a single hazy image into K classifications, so that the atmospheric light estimation is refined to improve global contrast. Finally, online GMM cluster is applied to video dehazing. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can have superior haze removing and color balancing capabilities.
In this paper, a full reference stereoscopic image quality assessment (FR-SIQA) method is proposed based on independent component analysis (ICA) and binocular combination. image features that reflect the responds of s...
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(纸本)9781509053162
In this paper, a full reference stereoscopic image quality assessment (FR-SIQA) method is proposed based on independent component analysis (ICA) and binocular combination. image features that reflect the responds of simple cells in the cortex are extracted by ICA-based algorithm. Both image feature similarity (IFS) and local luminance consistency (LLC) are calculated to measure the structure and brightness distortions, respectively. To simulate the binocular fusion properties, the energy of image features and the global relative luminance information are selected as the basic of binocular combination to fuse the right-left IFS and LLC into a final index. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves high consistency with subjective assessment on two public available 3D image quality assessment databases.
In this paper, we propose an effective no-reference image quality assessment (IQA) method based on local region statistics (NRLRS). The proposed method is built on the hypothesis that image distortions may alter the l...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509053162
In this paper, we propose an effective no-reference image quality assessment (IQA) method based on local region statistics (NRLRS). The proposed method is built on the hypothesis that image distortions may alter the local region statistics which can be well characterized by the inter-pixel relationship. Hence, by extracting perceptual features that describe the inter-pixel patterns of a distorted image, we can effectively quantify the impact of image degradation. For this purpose, the perceptual gray-level differences between neighboring pixels are extracted and a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) codebook is constructed as the generative model of extracted features. The Fisher vector representation is then derived to describe image as their derivations from the GMM model. Finally, partial least square regression is used to map the Fisher encodings to quality scores. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method achieves better performance in quality prediction as compared to relevant full-reference and no-reference IQA methods.
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