Human visual system detects details in coloured images better. Sometimes interpretation of details in gray scale ultrasound images becomes harder. So in this work pseudocoloring of ultrasound images using empirical mo...
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(纸本)9781509064946
Human visual system detects details in coloured images better. Sometimes interpretation of details in gray scale ultrasound images becomes harder. So in this work pseudocoloring of ultrasound images using empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is proposed. EMD doesn't use base function so it has more advantages than Fourier and wavelet transforms. The proposed method pseudocolored image by assigning two dimensional images to red, green and blue color channels. The images obtained by the proposed method are more preferred when compared with the results in the literature.
In this article, a new DWT-SVD and DCT with Arnold Cat Map encryption based robust and blind watermarking scheme is proposed for copyright protection. The proposed scheme solves the most frequently occurring watermark...
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In this article, a new DWT-SVD and DCT with Arnold Cat Map encryption based robust and blind watermarking scheme is proposed for copyright protection. The proposed scheme solves the most frequently occurring watermarking security problems in Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) based schemes which are unauthorized reading and false-positive detection. This scheme also optimizes fidelity and robustness characteristics. The grey image watermark splits into two parts using four bits MSBs and four bits LSBs of each pixel. Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients of these MSBs and LSBs values are embedded into the middle singular value of each block having size 4 x 4 of the host image's one level Discrete wavelet Transform (DWT) sub-bands. The reason for incorporating Arnold Cat Map in the proposed scheme is to encode the watermark image before embedding it in the host image. The proposed scheme is a blind scheme and does not require the choice of scaling factor. Thus, the proposed scheme is secure as well as free from the false positive detection problem. The proposed watermarking scheme is tested for various malicious and non-malicious attacks. The experimental results demonstrate that the scheme is robust, imperceptible and secure to several attacks and common signalprocessing operations.
The two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform has a huge number of applications in image-processing techniques. Until now, several papers compared the performance of such transform on graphics processing units (GPUs)...
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(纸本)9781509021758
The two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform has a huge number of applications in image-processing techniques. Until now, several papers compared the performance of such transform on graphics processing units (GPUs). However, all of them only dealt with lifting and convolution computation schemes. In this paper, we show that corresponding horizontal and vertical lifting parts of the lifting scheme can be merged into non-separable lifting units, which halves the number of steps. We also discuss an optimization strategy leading to a reduction in the number of arithmetic operations. The schemes were assessed using the OpenCL and pixel shaders. The proposed non-separable lifting scheme outperforms the existing schemes in many cases, irrespective of its higher complexity.
Aortic stenosis (AS) is a condition where the calcification deposit within the heart leaflets narrows the valve and restricts the blood from flowing through it. This disease is progressive over time where it may affec...
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This paper proposes an image steganography for hiding secret images. The objective of the proposed work is to increase the embedding capacity while ensuring the security of the image. This has been addressed using two...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509043811
This paper proposes an image steganography for hiding secret images. The objective of the proposed work is to increase the embedding capacity while ensuring the security of the image. This has been addressed using two levels of processing. First is the application of Genetic Algorithm (GA) as 'before embedding hiding technique' which tries to identify suitable places in cover image where embedding of secret image will not lead to much distortion in the image. Second process is improvement using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and its wavelet (DCWT) to gain the advantage of their energy compaction property. The secret image is embedded in the lower energy transformed regions of the cover image. The paper makes a comparison between DCT and DCWT (with and without using GA). The experimental results are evaluated using various performance evaluation parameters such as Mean Square Error (MSE), Peak signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Correlation. The overall comparison proves that both DCT and DCWT perform better when combined with genetic algorithm. This work also proves that the proposed two level processing contributes in improvement of both security as well as embedding capacity for the image steganography.
In this work we present a novel inpainting algorithm to gain reduced acquisition time and high quality data reconstruction for MRI applications. We analyzed MRI recordings of two synthetically generated and of one rea...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538618950
In this work we present a novel inpainting algorithm to gain reduced acquisition time and high quality data reconstruction for MRI applications. We analyzed MRI recordings of two synthetically generated and of one real measured data set. On the basis of the proposed mask-based sampling trajectories, patients only have to spend a fraction of the recording time in the MRI. Especially, in the range of high k-space coefficient reduction, the reconstruction quality of our Permuted Cubes wavelet Thresholding (PCWT) approach can compete with standard data compression-focused methods like JPEG2000 or MPEG4. In all simulations, the proposed algorithm also outperforms state-of-the-art techniques such as BM3D-MRI with respect to accuracy after data reconstruction. Regarding the quality of the approximated MRI data, we mainly focus on the clear recovery of sharp edges without undesirable artifacts and the identification of tumors within MRI frames.
Recently, the ensuring security by biometric authentication/identification presents a big challenge for network designers. This precious biometric information have to be itself protected against fraudulent uses, espec...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538671214;9781538671207
Recently, the ensuring security by biometric authentication/identification presents a big challenge for network designers. This precious biometric information have to be itself protected against fraudulent uses, especially during the remote authentication and data exchange in wireless mesh networks such as the Internet of Things (IoT). This paper presents a securing biometric cryptosystem for IoT based on fuzzy commitment principle which is suitable of the connected things due to their low processing and memorization capacity. Our scheme, which is based on fingerprint modalities, can be decomposed into two parts. Firstly, at the sender side, a biometric feature vector is extracted using DWT technique and then the data is encrypted in order to transmit via internet. Secondly, at the receiver side, an authentication protocol was used to authenticate the things and decrypt the received data. The obtained results, using a popular fingerprint dataset, show that the proposed scheme is more secure, fast and points at increased authentication accuracy.
This paper is dedicated to the research and development of quantization methods for wavelet-based video codec. Uniform, nonlinear quantization method and their potential applications for wavelet-based video codec Dira...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728104331
This paper is dedicated to the research and development of quantization methods for wavelet-based video codec. Uniform, nonlinear quantization method and their potential applications for wavelet-based video codec Dirac have been investigated. The optimized quantization method for wavelet-based video codec have been proposed based on analysis of the processing results for various video types using quantization methods mentioned above. The processing results for various types of video show that the proposed method provides up to 4.2% bitrate saving for low distortion level in the intra-frame coding mode, up to 9.8% bitrate reduction for low distortion level and up to 11.2% bitrate saving for medium (acceptable) distortion level in the inter-frame coding mode compared to the uniform quantization method implemented in video codec Dirac.
Super-resolution (SR) technique reconstructs a higher-resolution image or sequence from the observed LR images. In various imageprocessing fields super resolution is playing a very crucial part. The single-frame as w...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538614433;9781538614426
Super-resolution (SR) technique reconstructs a higher-resolution image or sequence from the observed LR images. In various imageprocessing fields super resolution is playing a very crucial part. The single-frame as well as multi-frame both the methods in SR are widely used in multiple day to day applications and systems from last few years. In this work, we are proposing an image resolution enhancement technique which has its basis on interpolation of the high-frequency sub-band images obtained by fractional discrete wavelet transform (FDWT). HereFDWT is used to decompose an input low-resolution image into different subbands. Then, interpolation between the high-frequency subband images and the input image takes place, followed by combining all these images to generate a new high-resolution image by using inverse FDWT. Directional selectivity which is provided by FDWT actually produces resolution enhancement, where the high-frequency subbands in different directions contribute to the sharpness of the high-frequency details such as edges. The quantitative peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and visual results show the superiority of the proposed technique over the conventional bicubic interpolation image resolution enhancement techniques.
Foreground detection has been widely studied for decades due to its importance in many practical applications. Most of the existing methods assume foreground and background show visually distinct characteristics and t...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509021758
Foreground detection has been widely studied for decades due to its importance in many practical applications. Most of the existing methods assume foreground and background show visually distinct characteristics and thus the foreground can be detected once a good background model is obtained. However, there are many situations where this is not the case. Of particular interest in video surveillance is the camouflage case. For example, an active attacker camouflages by intentionally wearing clothes that are visually similar to the background. In such cases, even given a decent background model, it is not trivial to detect foreground objects. This paper proposes a texture guided weighted voting (TGWV) method which can efficiently detect foreground objects in camouflaged scenes. The proposed method employs the stationary wavelet transform to decompose the image into frequency bands. We show that the small and hardly noticeable differences between foreground and background in the image domain can be effectively captured in certain wavelet frequency bands. To make the final foreground decision, a weighted voting scheme is developed based on intensity and texture of all the wavelet bands with weights carefully designed. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior performance compared to the current state-of-the-art results.
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