In this paper, a novel approach to the problem of mixed Gaussian and impulsive noise reduction in color images is proposed. The elaborated denoising framework is based on the Non-Local Means technique, which has been ...
In this paper, a novel approach to the problem of mixed Gaussian and impulsive noise reduction in color images is proposed. The elaborated denoising framework is based on the Non-Local Means technique, which has been shown to effectively suppress Gaussian noise. To overcome the inability of this filter to deal with impulsive distortions, a robust similarity measure between image patches, that is insensitive to the impact of impulsive distortions, was developed. First, the distorted pixels of the image are detected using the concept of a peer group. If the number of neighbors of a pixel at the center of a filtering window, whose Euclidean distance in the RGB color space does not exceed a threshold value, is smaller than a predefined value, then the considered pixel is treated as corrupted. Afterwards, the similarity between image patches are calculated in a standard way omitting the noisy pixels. In this way, only the average of distances between pairs of unaffected pixels are calculated. Thus, the closeness measure of the patches, which serves as the coefficient in weighted averaging of pixels in the processing block, is not affected by impulsive noise and is still able to cope with the Gaussian noise component. The proposed filtering design is capable of reducing even strong mixed noise while preserving image details and edges. Moreover, it is not computationally intensive, so it can be used in real-time image processing scenarios.
This paper describes a new technique for removing impulsive noise in digital color images. The proposed method uses a measure of the pixel distortion caused by the impulsive noise, expressed as the sum of the Euclidea...
This paper describes a new technique for removing impulsive noise in digital color images. The proposed method uses a measure of the pixel distortion caused by the impulsive noise, expressed as the sum of the Euclidean distances between the central pixel and its closest neighbors in the filtering window. This corruption measure is used to determine a weighted average of the pixels from the local neighborhood that is not affected by the distorted pixels. The filtering output is obtained using a soft switching scheme, where the denoising result is determined as a weighted average of the central pixel of a processing window and its robust estimate. The weighting coefficient is calculated based on the amount of distortion of the central pixel. Thus, if the central pixel is highly distorted, it is replaced by its robust estimate, otherwise it is not significantly changed. The parameters that determine the image enhancement result are adaptively adjusted by using a noise-resistant image contrast measure. The proposed filter design is able to effectively suppress impulsive noise while preserving fine image details and edges. Comparison with existing algorithms shows that the proposed method provides better denoising results than the most efficient filters designed for impulsive noise suppression in color images. Moreover, the new method is very fast and can be used in real-time denoising scenarios.
It is our pleasure to introduce Prof. Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis and Prof. Sorin Cotofana as the Guest Editors of this Special Issue of IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine.
It is our pleasure to introduce Prof. Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis and Prof. Sorin Cotofana as the Guest Editors of this Special Issue of IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine.
Digital technology in libraries has made necessary the description and organization of digitized resources to facilitate their access and exchange. These resources, such as digitized ancient Arabic manuscripts, are ac...
Digital technology in libraries has made necessary the description and organization of digitized resources to facilitate their access and exchange. These resources, such as digitized ancient Arabic manuscripts, are accessible through a set of metadata describing them. These metadata are encoded using standards (formats) such as EAD (Encoded Archival Description), TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), MARC (Machine Readable Cataloguing), etc. This work consists of defining the different manuscript encoding formats and carrying out a comparative and critical study of these standards to see which is the most suitable for describing Arabic manuscripts, or whether we should use a novel format or an extended format.
This paper presents a novel design methodology for circularly polarized (CP) filtering reflectarray (RA). Unlike conventional filtering techniques based on magnitude response, the proposed filtering RA solely manipula...
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This paper proposes an alternative detection frame-work for multiple sclerosis (MS) and idiopathic acute transverse myelitis (ATM) within the 6G-enabled Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) environment. The developed fra...
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This paper proposes an alternative detection frame-work for multiple sclerosis (MS) and idiopathic acute transverse myelitis (ATM) within the 6G-enabled Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) environment. The developed framework relies on the implementation of a deep learning technique known as Dense Convolutional Networks (DenseNets) in the 6G-enabled IoMT to enhance prediction performance. To validate the performance of DenseNets, we compared it with other deep learning techniques, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and MobileNet, using real-world datasets. The experimental results show the high performance of DenseNets in predicting MS and ATM compared to other methods, achieving an accuracy of nearly 90 %.
The number of wheelchair users has increased at an alarming rate throughout the last decade due to the increased number of individuals with upper/lower extremity dysfunctions resulting from a stroke, spinal cord injur...
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In this letter, a novel approach to reduce mutual coupling (MC) of quad-port circularly polarized (CP) microstrip patch antenna (MPA) is proposed using a multi-mode concept. Firstly, the dual-port MPA with decoupling ...
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One of the most promising technologies for next-generation wireless networks is unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). They make excellent prospects for a range of applications due to their accessibility and capacity for es...
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Contactless fingerprint authentication has gained popularity as a field of research in biometrics in recent years. Unlike traditional fingerprint recognition systems that require direct contact of the person’s finger...
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Contactless fingerprint authentication has gained popularity as a field of research in biometrics in recent years. Unlike traditional fingerprint recognition systems that require direct contact of the person’s finger with the sensor, contactless fingerprint systems offer several advantages, among them ease of capture and cost-effectiveness. Despite the progress made in this field, poor contrast, background noise, and limited image information continue to pose difficulties for fingerprint recognition in contactless environments. Furthermore, the number of images in published fingerprint biometric datasets for each person is restricted, and there is insufficient data for efficient training. Nevertheless, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures have been widely used, necessitating large databases. To address these issues, this paper introduces a Siamese network designed for the purpose of identity Verification, using the contactless thumb fingerprint modality to enhance recognition results. The Siamese network is able to extract pertinent features from noisy images with low contrast and limited information, even if they have limited information and low contrast. Additionally, this work proposes the use of the contactless thumb fingerprint modality instead of the contactless index fingerprint modality, which is more commonly used in related works. Consequently, the Mobile FingerPrint (MFP) dataset is introduced and constructed for evaluation. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method, achieving an accuracy of 98.68% for thumb fingerprint Verification.
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