Efficient Total Variation Minimization Methods for Color Image Restoration

In this paper, we consider and study a total variation minimization model for color image restoration. In the proposed model, we use the color total variation minimization scheme to denoise the deblurred color image. An alternating minimization algorithm is employed to solve the proposed total variation minimization problem. We show the convergence of the alternating minimization algorithm and demonstrate that the algorithm is very efficient. Our experimental results show that the quality of restored color images by the proposed method are competitive with the other tested methods.     

基于耦合全变差的快速图像着色算法

本文在YCbCr色彩空间机制下,结合目标灰度图像的梯度信息,提出基于耦合全变差的图像着色模型.然后,利用交替方向乘子算法（ADMM）,设计所提模型的快速数值求解算法,并给出了该算法的收敛性结果.最后,数值实验结果表明,该模型在快速着色的同时,能有效地防止颜色越界.     

动态大气散射系数的颜色衰减先验图像去雾

针对颜色衰减先验图像去雾算法存在对较浓的有雾图像去雾效果不佳的问题,提出基于动态大气散射系数的颜色衰减先验图像去雾算法.用动态大气散射系数取代颜色衰减先验去雾算法中恒定大气散射系数的假设,定义大气散射系数为关于图像景深的指数函数.利用Middlebury stereo datasets中无雾图像和相应的景深图像得到合成有雾图像.采用均方误差(MSE)和结构相似度(SSIM)的综合评价参数MSE-SSIM确定上述指数函数的两个参数的最佳取值.实验结果表明与颜色衰减先验算法、He、Meng算法相比,该算法的去雾图像清晰颜色自然,有效地提高了去雾效果.     

基于FPGA的视频图像去雾系统的设计与实现

基于FPGA设计与实现视频图像实时去雾系统.该系统基于暗原色去雾模型,直接估算雾的浓度并恢复出高质量的去雾图像,具有并行运算能力强、接口逻辑丰富等特性,为构建实时、便携的视频图像实时去雾系统提供了一种有效、可行的解决方案.实验结果表明,通过合理的硬件架构设计,该系统完全可达到视频去雾的实时处理.     

一种改进的容差机制图像去雾算法

针对经典容差机制图像去雾算法存在的对部分明亮区域透射率提升力度不够,难以彻底消除色彩失真问题,本文提出一种改进算法。将原算法中对明亮区域透射率根据容差进行双曲线提升修正变为线性提升修正,使透射率平稳提升,并适当增大了透射率提升力度,有效消除色彩失真。以方差和色调还原度作为图像去雾的客观质量评测指标,与暗原色先验算法和经典容差机制算法进行对比实验。实验结果表明,本文算法在改善明亮区域色彩失真及提高图像去雾效果方面优于对比算法。     

基于霾层学习的单幅图像去雾算法

针对传统去雾算法出现色彩失真、去雾不完全、出现光晕等现象,本文提出了一种基于霾层学习的卷积神经网络的单幅图像去雾算法.首先,依据大气散射物理模型进行理论推导,本文设计了一种能够直接学习和估计有雾图像和霾层图像之间的映射关系的网络模型.采用有雾图像作为输入,并输出有雾图像与无雾图像之间的残差图像,随后直接从有雾图像中去除此霾层图像,即可恢复出无雾图像.残差学习的引入,使得网络来直接估计初始霾层,利用相对大的学习率,减少计算量,加快收敛过程.再利用引导滤波进行细化,使得恢复出的无雾图像更接近真实场景.本文对不同雾浓度的有雾图片的去雾效果进行测试,并与当前主流深度学习去雾算法及其他经典算法进行对比.实验结果显示,本文设计的卷积神经网络模型在图像去雾的应用,不论在主观效果还是客观指标上,都有优势.     

一种联合雾线和凸优化的单幅图像去雾算法

为解决传统去雾算法容易在天空区域出现光晕效应和复原后的图像颜色过饱和等问题,提出了一种联合雾线和凸优化的单幅图像去雾算法。该算法使用雾线先验来估计大气光值,并通过离散小波变换构建了一个降维的子带雾图模型,进一步将双线性耦合项和大气光传输分布作为线性优化变量进行凸优化求解来得到透射率,最后通过大气散射模型恢复出无雾图像。实验结果表明该算法在大多数情况下恢复的图像清晰自然,与其他几种常用的图像去雾算法的客观对比,也证实了该算法的可行性和有效性。     

Sparse intrinsic decomposition and applications

This paper proposes an intrinsic decomposition method from a single RGB-D image. To remedy the highly ill-conditioned problem, the reflectance component is regularized by a sparsity term, which is weighted by a bilateral kernel to exploit non-local structural correlation. As shading images are piece-wise smooth and have sparse gradient fields, the sparse-induced ${\ell }_1$-norm is used to regularize the finite difference of the direct irradiance component, which is the most dominant sub-component of shading and describes the light directly received by the surfaces of the objects from the light source. To derive an efficient algorithm, the proposed model is transformed into an unconstrained minimization of the augmented Lagrangian function, which is then optimized via the alternating direction method. The stability of the proposed method with respect to parameter perturbation and its robustness to noise are investigated by experiments. Quantitative and qualitative evaluation demonstrates that our method has better performance than state-of-the-art methods. Our method can also achieve intrinsic decomposition from a single color image by integrating existed depth estimation methods. We also present a depth refinement method based on our intrinsic decomposition method, which obtains more geometry details without texture artifacts. Other application, e.g., texture editing, also demonstrates the effectiveness of our method.     

单幅图像的快速去雾算法

雾的存在使得户外图像的处理变得困难。雾、霭、烟等现象会使彩色图像退化,对比度降低。介绍了一种单幅图像的去雾新算法,不需要分割图像,直接利用高斯低通滤波器分离出背景空气光,利用改良的暗通道法对大气光进行估计,结合雾天图像的物理模型对图像进行复原,最后再对图像的饱和度进行校正,得到最终的复原效果。该算法的主要优点是速度快,...     

人工光源条件下夜间雾天图像建模及去雾

夜间有雾图像光照不均匀,整体亮度较低,色偏严重,且人工光源周围存在光晕。现有的去雾模型和算法大多针对白天图像,其并不适用于夜间场景,夜间图像去雾颇具挑战性。该文深入分析夜间有雾图像的成像规律,建立含有人工光源的夜间雾天图像成像新模型,并在此基础上提出夜间图像去雾新算法。针对夜间图像光照不均问题,提出基于低通滤波的环境光估计方法,利用估计出的环境光可准确预测夜间场景传输率;针对目前夜间图像去雾后存在光源光晕问题,提出根据图像色度估计场景点属于近光源区域的程度,使算法能自适应地处理光源区域和非光源区域;针对非一致色偏问题,利用直方图匹配方法进行颜色校正。对大量图像进行实验,并与现有白天、夜晚图像去雾算法进行比较,验证了该文提出的夜间雾天图像成像模型及去雾算法的有效性。     

基于饱和度运算单幅图像去雾算法

在雾、霾等恶劣的天气条件下,大气介质中悬浮粒子的散射和吸收作用会严重退化户外拍摄图像,造成图像识别率降低.从单色大气散射模型和暗原色先验规律,提出面向视觉感知的HSI颜色模型的饱和度的新算法,从而实现图像去雾,对于去雾图像最小值像素点采用极大值和极小值进行估计,并对透射率进行修正.该算法能够有效地提高清晰度,能很好地运用于单幅图像去雾.     

基于耦合非局部全变差的图像着色算法

基于局部算子的全变差(TV)模型在对纹理图像着色时,会出现颜色扩散不均匀,着色范围区域较小等问题。为了解决上述问题,该文提出基于非局部算子的耦合全变差图像着色模型,结合交替方向乘子法(ADMM),设计出相应的数值求解算法,并给出该算法的收敛性结果。该模型充分利用像素邻域亮度之间的相似性进行颜色扩散,能有效避免仅利用亮度边缘信息进行局部扩散导致颜色扩散不均匀的问题。数值实验结果表明,该模型在快速着色的同时,能有效解决颜色在纹理等细节处扩散不均匀的问题。     

Fast algorithm for multiplicative noise removal

In this work, we consider a variational restoration model for multiplicative noise removal problem. By using a maximum a posteriori estimator, we propose a strictly convex objective functional whose minimizer corresponds to the denoised image we want to recover. We incorporate the anisotropic total variation regularization in the objective functional in order to preserve the edges well. A fast alternating minimization algorithm is established to find the minimizer of the objective functional efficiently. We also give the convergence of this minimization algorithm. A broad range of numerical results are given to prove the effectiveness of our proposed model.     

暗原色先验自适应图像去雾方法

针对传统暗原色先验去雾算法存在的亮区域色彩失真、去雾参 数人工设定等问题,提出了一种基于暗原色先验改进的自适应图像去雾方法。首先,提出快 速OSTU法对雾霾图像亮暗区域进行自适应分割,并分区域获取亮暗区域的暗原色值;其次, 根据亮区域分布情况,对不同区域大气光强进行自适应估计;接着,通过分析雾霾图像直方 图特征,提出采用灰度集中度法自适应计算去雾系数;然后,运用色阶自适应调整方法进行 输出图像的色彩调整;最后,通过开展对比实验,验证了本文算法的优越性。主客观 评价结果表明:本文方法无需人为设定去雾参数,具有较好的 鲁棒性,可适用于多种浓度、 各种场景雾霾图像的去雾处理,获取的图像清晰、色彩自然,对比度高。     

Adaptive single image dehazing method based on support vector machine

A dehazing method often only shows good results when processing the image for a certain haze concentration. So an adaptive hazy image dehazing method based on SVM is proposed. The innovation points are as follows: Firstly, combining the characteristics of the degraded images of haze weather, the dark channel histogram and texture features of the input images are extracted to form the feature vectors. These are trained by supervised learning through SVM algorithm to realize automatic binary classification of images; Secondly, the defined dehazing methods are called to process the classified result as a hazy image and the same quality evaluation indexes are used to evaluate each image output by different dehazing methods. Then, it outputs the highest evaluation image after haze removal. Finally, the output image is classified again by SVM until the image reaches the clearest it can be. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm exhibits good contrast, brightness and color saturation from the visual effect. Also the scene adaptability and robustness of the algorithm are improved.     

Application of SVM and its Improved Model in Image Segmentation

In the research and application of images, people are often only interested in the foreground or specific area of the image, so it is necessary to extract the specific area from the image, and image segmentation technology is the key to solving this problem. Aiming at the complex background and the color image with unclear target contour as the target image to be segmented, this paper first uses the texture and color of the image as the feature vector, and proposes an image segmentation algorithm based on SVM. The experimental results show that the segmentation accuracy is 91.23%. Secondly, in order to improve the accuracy of segmentation, the SVM algorithm is improved. The improved SVM algorithm is based on the grid search method to optimize the parameters C and g in the SVM. At the same time, the HIS color channel is added to the feature vector to obtain more Excellent SVM image segmentation model. Finally, the color image segmentation is verified and compared with the standard SVM algorithm. The experimental results show that the accuracy rate of the improved SVM algorithm reaches 97.263%, which improves the segmentation efficiency. It is verified that the improved model proposed in this paper can effectively segment complex color images.

     

Double color image encryption based on fractional order discrete improved Henon map and Rubik’s cube transform

A double color image encryption method based on DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) computation and chaos is proposed. Differently from the conventional algorithms, double color images are encrypted at the same time so that we can save information of each other, which makes the encryption more safe and reliable. In addition, a new chaotic fractional order (FO) discrete improved Henon map (FODIHM) is proposed as a pseudo-random number generator. To ensure the plain-image sensitivity of the encryption algorithm, the initial value of FODIHM is calculated from the hash value of the color image (SHA-256) and from the three additional keys entered by the user. Furthermore, a Rubik’s cube transform scrambles the pixels in each color component of the two images. Then, each pixel in each color component of the two images is diffused by means of different DNA coding rules. Finally, the CAT transform, based on FO discrete Logistic map and the classic XOR, is used to further improve the security performance. The key space size of the proposed algorithm is of order $10^{135}$, which is about 30 orders of magnitude higher than those available in the literature. The information entropies are 7.9974 and 7.9973, which are very close to the ideal entropy value of 8. The values of the unified average changing intensity (NPCI) are 99.630 and 99.623, while the number of pixels change rate (UACR) are 33.473 and 33.553, which are also close to the ideal NPCR and UACR value of 99.6094 and 33.4635, respectively. The numerical results and security analysis prove that the algorithm has good resistance to several classic attacks.     

Single image visibility restoration using optical compensation and pixel-by-pixel transmission estimation

Aiming at image degradation in hazy and sandstorm weather,an optical compensation color restoration and pixel-by-pixel transmissvity estimation algorithm was proposed.The blue light was absorbed by sandstorm particles.The color shift phenomenon could be eliminated by optical compensate method,which convert the sandstorm images into hazy images.Then the ratio relationship between the minimum channel and its Gaussian function as the transmissivity,and median filter was used to eliminate its texture effects.The depth of the restored transmissivity alternated obviously and the edge was well preserved,which did not need the time-consuming postprocessing operativity.Finally,the image was restored by the atmospheric scattering model.The experimental results show that recovered sandstorm image treatment is better,and the saturation of the haze image is appropriate,the bright area is more nature,and running time is faster.     

A novel haze image steganography method via cover-source switching

In realistic outdoor scenarios, image sensors tend to suffer from various weather conditions (e.g., haze, rain, etc.),which make the images of the same scene taken at different times may be different. Therefore, one should be able to securely embed secret messages into these images by making use of the variations of the weather effects. Inspired by some recent natural steganography algorithms, this paper presents a novel haze image steganography method, which embeds messages through adjusting the weather effects of an input haze image, making it resemble the same image captured under another weather condition. The proposed steganography method consists of three parts: (1) model parameter estimation of the input haze image, (2) haze effects adjustment according to the atmospheric scattering model, (3) message embedding using the floating-point adjusted haze image. 10,000 haze images captured under different haze conditions in various scenarios were used to test the proposed steganography algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed steganography algorithm is more secure than S-UNIWARD and HILL for steganalyzers who only have raw haze images.