Choice of a pertinent color space for color texture characterization using parametric spectral analysis

This article presents a comparison of different color spaces including RGB, IHLS and L?a*b* for color texture characterization. This comparison is based on the fusion of the independent spatial structure and color feature cues. In IHLS and L*a*b*, two channel complex color images are created from the luminance and the chrominance values. For such images, two dimensional complex multichannel linear prediction models are used to perform parametric power spectrum estimation and the structure feature cues are computed from this estimated power spectrum. Quantitative comparison of auto spectra of luminance and combined chrominance channels for different color spaces is done. This comparison is based on the degree of decorrelation between luminance and chrominance information provided by different color space transformations. Three dimensional histograms are used as color feature cues. Then, to classify color textures, Kullback-Leibler divergence based symmetric distance measures are calculated for pure color, luminance structure and chrominance structure feature cues. Individual as well as combined effect of information from all feature cues on classification results is then compared for different color spaces and different color texture data sets. The proposed color texture classification method performs better than the state of the art methods in certain cases. The L*a*b* color space gives us a better characterization of the chrominance spatial structure as well as the overall spatial structure for all of the chosen data sets. Experimental results on pixel classification of color textures are also presented and discussed.     

基于四元数的改进型最小核值相似区边缘检测

针对基于亮度和色度的彩色图像边缘检测在检测过程中忽略亮度和色度之间关联性而导致部分边缘不能有效地被检测出来的问题,提出了一种基于四元数的改进型最小核值相似区(SUSAN)边缘检测算法。首先,利用四元数矢量旋转原理将HSI颜色空间的三维信息映射成二维平面信息实现空间降维,同时引入标量V来综合表示H、S、I三通道之间的关系;然后,将标量V作为算子的核函数;最后,利用改进的SUSAN算子完成图像的边缘检测。实验结果表明,提出的算法针对色度相同、饱和度存在差异以及饱和度相同、色度存在差异的彩色图像,在边缘检测的定位误差率上降低了1.5%。在实际的应用中,能够更好地获得图像中的目标信息,同时也为后续的分割和识别研究提供更好的先验知识。     

基于自然彩色图像的彩色化权值函数建模

针对现有的权值函数采用人为指定的核函数,难以准确地反映图像复杂处像素间的色度相似关系,提出了利用自然彩色图像特性构建权值函数的方法。根据自然图像的像素在RGB空间的分布特征,提取出色度与灰度的局部线性关系,并利用其作为先验知识结合最小二乘法推广至整幅图像,进而获得一种新的权值函数。该权值函数能将相近的两像素间的灰度差异、位置差异及周围像素的灰度分布统一到色度相似程度的计算中。实验结果表明,该权值函数有助于获得更优的彩色化结果,特别是在复杂边界处效果提升明显。     

An improved contrast enhancing approach for color-to-grayscale mappings

Despite the widespread availability of color sensors for image capture, the printing of documents and books are still primarily done in black-and-white for economic reasons. In this case, the included illustrations and photographs are printed in grayscale, with the potential loss of important information encoded in the chrominance channels of these images. We present an efficient contrast enhancement algorithm for color-to-grayscale image conversion that uses both luminance and chrominance information. Our algorithm is about three orders of magnitude faster than previous optimization-based methods, while providing some guarantees on important image properties. More specifically, our approach preserves gray values present in the color image, ensures global consistency, and locally enforces luminance consistency. Our algorithm is completely automatic, scales well with the number of pixels in the image, and can be efficiently implemented on modern GPUs. We also introduce an error metric for evaluating the quality of color-to-grayscale transformations.     

Multispectral and joint colour-texture feature extraction for ore-gangue separation

Ore sorting is a useful tool to remove gangue material from the ore and increase the quality of the ore. The vast developments in the area of artificial intelligence allow fast processing of full color digital images for the preferred investigations. Three different approaches to color texture analysis were used for the classification of associated gangue from limestone and iron ore. All the methods were based on extensions of the co-occurrence matrix method. The first approach was a correlation method, in which co-occurrence matrices are computed both between and within the color bands. In the second approach, joint color-texture features, where color features were extracted from chrominance information and texture features were extracted from luminance information of the color bands. The last approach used grey scale texture features computed on a quantized color image. Results showed that the joint color-texture method was 98% accurate for limestone and 98.4% for iron ore gangue classification. It was further observed that the features showed better accuracy with 64 grey levels quantization.     

Adaptive fuzzy color segmentation with neural network for road detections

In this paper a new color space, called the RGB color ratio space, is proposed and defined according to a reference color such that an image can be transformed from a conventional color space to the RGB color ratio space. Because a color in the RGB color ratio space is represented as three color ratios and intensity, the chrominance can be completely reserved (three color ratios) and the luminance can be de-correlated with the chrominance. Different from traditional distance measurement, a road color model is determined by an ellipse area in the RGB ratio space enclosed by the estimated boundaries. A proposed adaptive fuzzy logic in which fuzzy membership functions are defined according to estimated boundaries is introduced to implement clustering rules. Therefore, each pixel will have its own fuzzy membership function corresponding to its intensity. A basic neural network is trained and used to achieve parameters optimization. The low computation cost of the proposed segmentation method shows the feasibility for real time application. Experimental results for road detection demonstrate the robustness to intensity variation of the proposed approach.     

宏微观信息增强与色彩校正的高效色调映射

目的 色调映射是一种在保持视觉效果基本不变的前提下将高动态范围图像映射到常规低动态显示设备上进行显示的技术。针对现有方法存在细节模糊、边缘光晕及色彩失真等不足,提出一种宏微观信息增强与色彩校正的色调映射新方法。方法 将给定的高动态范围图像映射到HSV(hue, saturation, value)颜色空间,分离亮度信息与色彩信息。基于人类视觉感知机制,在亮度通道构建宏观一致性和微观显著性的亮度感知压缩模型,并进一步通过调节模型缩放因子消除边缘光晕现象。基于颜色恒常性原理,在色度通道构建自适应饱和度偏移模型,融合亮度压缩信息调整图像的饱和度信息,解决色调映射所造成的主观色彩失真问题。结果 实验结果表明,所提算法在结构保真度、自然度和色调映射质量指数等客观评价方面均优于对比色调映射算法,同时主观平均意见值也取得了最高的4.3分（即好—非常好）。结论 宏微观信息增强的亮度感知压缩模型,在确保场景亮度信息不变的情况下,可以有效增强图像纹理细节的完整性和保真性。融合亮度压缩的饱和度偏移模型可以有效解决亮度压缩导致的图像色彩失真等问题。该色调映射算法效率高、通用性强,可广泛应用于图像压缩、生物医学...     

No-reference stereoscopic image quality assessment using quaternion wavelet transform and heterogeneous ensemble learning

As the demand for high-quality stereo images has grown in recent years, stereoscopic image quality assessment (SIQA) has become an important research area in modern image processing technology.In this paper, we propose a no-reference stereoscopic image quality assessment (NR-SIQA) model using heterogeneous ensemble learning ‘quality-aware’ features from luminance image, chrominance image, disparity and cyclopean images via quaternion wavelet transform (QWT). Firstly, luminance image and chrominance image are generated by CIELAB color space as monocular perception, and the novel disparity and cyclopean images are utilized to complement with monocular information. Then, a number of ‘quality-aware’ features in the quaternion wavelet domain are discovered, including entropy, texture features, energy features, energy differences features and MSCN coefficients of high frequency sub-band. Finally, a heterogeneous ensemble model via support vector regression (SVR) & extreme learning machine (ELM) & random forest (RF) is proposed to predict quality score, and bootstrap sampling and rotated feature space are used to increase the diversity of data distribution. Comparing with the state-of-the-art NR-SIQA models, experimental results on four public databases prove the accuracy and robustness of the proposed model.     

基于小波变换的水下降质图像复原算法

根据水下成像的物理模型,提出一种基于小波变换的水下降质图像清晰化处理算法。该算法将RGB图像转换为YUV图像,根据图像的对比度,对亮度Y图像利用小波变换自适应估计介质散射光的大小,增强水下降质图像的对比度,并在小波变换的低频子带上进行非线性亮度调节,消除水下图像的光照不均问题,将亮度Y图像的处理结果与颜色分量U、V合成得到清晰的水下彩色图像。实验结果表明,该算法可以自适应实现水下观测图像的清晰化处理。     

An HVS based adaptive quantization scheme for the compression of color images

In this paper a Human Visual System based adaptive quantization scheme is proposed. The proposed algorithm supports perceptually lossless as well as lossy compression. The algorithm uses a transform based compression approach using the wavelet transform, and has incorporated vision models for the compression of both luminance and chrominance components. The major strength of the coder is the incorporation of the vision model for the chrominance components and the optimum way in which the scales are distributed among the luminance and chrominance components to achieve higher compression ratios. The perceptual model developed for the color components gives flexibility for giving more compression for the color components without causing any color degradations. For each image the visual thresholds are evaluated and an optimum bit allocation is done in such a way that the quantization error is always less than the visual distortion for the given rate. To validate the strength of the proposed algorithm, the perceptual quality of the images reconstructed using the proposed coder is compared with the images reconstructed with JPEG2000 standard coder, for the same compression. To evaluate the perceptual quality of the compressed images latest perceptual quality matrices such as Structural Similarity Index, Visual Information Fidelity and Visual Signal-to-Noise Ratio are used. The results obtained reveal that the proposed structure gives excellent improvement in perceptual quality compared to the existing schemes, for both lossy as well as lossless compression. These advantages make the proposed algorithm a good candidate for replacing the quantizer stage of the current image compression standards.     

一种联合图像分割与背景建模的运动目标检测算法

介绍了在混合高斯模型的基础上,采用每一个像素点及其邻域组成的集合作为特征矢量来描述图像,对YUV格式的彩色图像的不同颜色分量分别建立混合高斯模型,从而确定是否有变化发生.为充分利用空间信息,提出将彩色图像分割与背景建模结合起来,得到具有精确边缘的运动目标.实验结果表明,即使在前景纹理、颜色比较一致且与背景对比不是很明显的情况下,本方法也能完整地检测出运动前景.     

基于HVS和交叉掩蔽的彩色图像编码算法

以层树分集（SPIHT）编码方案为基础,结合人类视觉系统（HVS）模型和人类视觉对彩色图像分量亮度和色度的不同敏感性,提出了一种基于非对称编码和交叉掩蔽的小波域彩色图像压缩编码算法。该算法首先将原始图像从RGB空间转换到YCbCr空间,然后对YCbCr空间的各分量进行离散小波变换;之后根据人类视觉对彩色图像的亮度分量的敏感性,用交叉掩蔽模型对亮度分量的小波系数进行加权处理;与此同时,利用非对称编码和SPIHT编码思想完成图像的压缩。仿真实验结果表明,文中算法是一种高效的图像压缩编码方法,其压缩效果明显优于SPIHT编码方案。     

Colorization coding based on iterative regression with major group priority

Colorization-based image coding is a new color image compression technique which compresses the color information of a color image into a small set of representative pixels (RP). The main issue in colorization-based coding is to design good RP extraction and colorization methods such that the compression rate and the quality of the reconstructed color become good. In this paper, we propose an iterative local regression method for RP extraction which takes the major group priority into account. It is shown that the problem of computing the RP can be formulated into a local regression problem. The local regions are obtained by performing a hierarchical image segmentation on the luminance channel both in the encoder and the decoder. Then the local regression parameters, i.e., the parameters that express the local relationship between the pixel values in the luminance channel and the chrominance channels are computed by taking the hierarchical structure into account. At the initial stage, the local regression parameters are calculated to fit the major tendency of the pixels in the segmented regions of the largest scale in the hierarchical structure. After that, additional regression parameters are extracted to reduce the remaining residual errors between the original color and the colors reconstructed by the previously computed local regression parameters. By repeating these steps, an RP set is extracted which can colorize the image in the decoder with sufficient detail. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs better than the JPEG standard and conventional colorization-based coding methods in terms of the compression rate, PSNR and SSIM values.     

基于多梯度的区域自适应去马赛克算法*

针对Bayer格式的彩色滤波阵列,鉴于传统去马赛克算法存在图像纹理和边缘模糊的现象,提出了一种基于多梯度的区域自适应去马赛克算法.该算法利用区域水平和垂直方向的梯度组算子来判断区域平滑程度和插值方向,从而有效地恢复绿色分量,同时根据色度差恒定原理来还原另外两个丢失的颜色信息.实验结果显示,相对于传统插值算法提高了图像的峰值信噪比,锐化了图像的纹理和边缘,改善了图像的视觉质量.     

Rotation invariant features for color texture classification and retrieval under varying illumination

This article proposes a new quaternion-based method for rotation invariant color texture classification under illumination variance with respect to direction and spectral band. The color of an object varies according to the spectral power distribution, object-illumination, and viewing geometry of the light source. The quaternion representation of color is shown to be effective, which treats color channels as single unit rather than separate components. New texture signatures are extracted by calculating the norm of the Quaternion fourier spectrum. These signatures are proved to be invariant under image rotation and illumination rotation. Moreover, these features are also invariant to the color spaces. The robustness of different color spaces against varying illumination in color Texture classification with 45 samples of 15 outex texture classes are examined. Comparative results show that the proposed method is efficient in rotation invariant texture classification.     

基于空间模糊纹理光谱的多光谱遥感图像分类方法

为了充分利用各波段的纹理信息，针对遥感图像不同波段之间具有较大相关性的特点，提出了一种用空间模糊纹理光谱描述多光谱遥感图像纹理特征的方法。根据纹理特征具有多尺度的特性，对原始图像进行二次模糊纹理滤波，一次滤波采用平面三角隶属度函数，二次滤波采用空阃距离代替平面距离形成滤波隶属度函数，其模糊滤波图像的隶属度分布称之为空间模糊纹理光谱。用FasART神经网络分类验证，实验结果表明，该方法具有较高的分类精度，尤其对纹理特征较为复杂的区域的分类效果更为明显。     

Color texture classification by integrative Co-occurrence matrices

Integrative Co-occurrence matrices are introduced as novel features for color texture classification. The extended Co-occurrence notation allows the comparison between integrative and parallel color texture concepts. The information profit of the new matrices is shown quantitatively using the Kolmogorov distance and by extensive classification experiments on two datasets. Applying them to the RGB and the LUV color space the combined color and intensity textures are studied and the existence of intensity independent pure color patterns is demonstrated. The results are compared with two baselines: gray-scale texture analysis and color histogram analysis. The novel features improve the classification results up to 20% and 32% for the first and second baseline, respectively.     

Multi-sensor data fusion using NIHS transform and decomposition algorithms

Multi-spectral image fusion is to enhance the details present in multi-spectral bands with the spatial information available in the panchromatic image. Fused images have the effect of spectral distortions and lack of structural similarity. To overcome these limitations, three methods are proposed using intensity, hue, saturation (IHS) and nonlinear IHS (NIHS) transform along with the Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) and 2D-Empirical Mode Decomposition (2D-EMD or IEMD). An intensity plane is calculated from the NIHS transform. The modes are constructed using DMD by considering the variations between the intensity plane computed using NIHS transforms of a low resolution multi-spectral image and a panchromatic image. Similarly, 2D-EMD is also used for image fusion. Modes are subjected to weighted fusion rule to get an intensity plane with spatial and edge information. Finally, the calculated intensity plane is concatenated along with the hue and saturation plane of low-resolution multi-spectral image and transformed into RGB color space. Thus, the fused images have high spatial and edge information on spectral bands. The experiments and its quality assessment assure that proposed methods perform better than the existing methods.     

An evaluation of Landsat TM spectral data and SAR-derived textural information for lithological discrimination in the Red Sea Hills,Sudan

The effectiveness of spectral and textural information in the identification of surface rock types in an arid region, the Red Sea Hills of Sudan, is evaluated using spectral information from the six Landsat TM optical bands and textural features derived from Shuttle Imaging Radar-C (SIR-C) C-band HH polarization data. An initial classification is derived from Landsat TM data alone using three classification algorithms, Gaussian maximum likelihood, a multi-layer feed-forward neural network and a Kohonen self-organizing feature map (SOM), to generate lithological maps, with classification accuracy being measured using a confusion matrix approach. The feed-forward neural net produced the highest overall classification accuracy of 57 per cent and was, therefore, selected for the second experiment, in which texture measures from SIR-C C-band HH-polarized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data are added to selected TM spectral features. Four methods of measuring texture are employed, based on the Fourier power spectrum, grey level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), multi-fractal measures, and the multiplicative autoregressive random field (MAR) model. The use of textural information together with a subset of the TM spectral features leads to an increase in classification accuracy to almost 70 per cent. Both the MAR model and the GLCM matrix approach perform better than Fourier and multi-fractal based methods of texture characterization.     

基于支持向量机与多特征选择的农作物彩色病斑边缘检测

为正确提取作物病害图像病斑,提出了一种基于支持向量机与多特征选择的作物彩色病斑边缘检测方法。该方法用（2d＋1）×（2d＋1）大小的窗口遍历图像,计算图像亮度和色度通道的方差、均值差、最大梯度,以及空间位置特征和均值色差作为特征向量,实现支持向量机对病斑边缘识别。为提高检测病斑边缘的效率,提出了在遍历过程中,若特征值都小于阈值时,则跳过d行, d列再遍历。实验表明,该方法比传统的边缘检测算子具有更好的病斑边缘识别能力。