Local quaternion PHT based robust color image watermarking algorithm

It is a challenging work to design a robust localized color image watermarking scheme against desynchronization attacks. There are two main drawbacks indwelled in current localized color image watermarking: firstly, the pure gray-based feature points detectors were utilized, in which the important color information is ignored. Secondly, the watermarking algorithms were designed mainly to mark the image luminance component only, in which the significant color channels correlation are neglected. In this paper, we propose a robust color image watermarking algorithm using local quaternion PHT (Polar Harmonic Transform), which is invariant to various noises, local geometric transformations, and color variations. Firstly, the stable color image feature points are extracted by using new color image feature point detector, in which the SIFER (Scale-Invariant Feature detector with Error Resilience) detector and color invariance model are incorporated. Then, the affine invariant local regions are built adaptively according to local image content variation. Finally, the digital watermark is embedded into the local regions by modulating the invariant quaternion PHT modulus coefficients. Experiments are carried out on a color image set collected from Internet, and the extensive experimental works have shown that the proposed color image watermarking is not only invisible and robust against common image processing operations such as median filtering, noise adding, and JPEG compression, but also has conquered those challenging desynchronization attacks.     

客观评价彩色图像质量的全四元数结构相似度方法

在不损失彩色图像颜色信息的基础上,通过定义一 种全四元数模型 将四元数的3个虚部以及实部全部用于表示彩色图像的结构信息,从而在完整保留颜色信息 的基础上提高了四元数矩阵的信息承载量。为了进一步增加与主观感知的一致性,将彩色图 像的细节信息和颜色分量合并作为四元数的实部和虚部,进而改进传统的图像质 量评价结构相似度(SSIM)方法,采用四元数结构相似度方法 实现了对待测图像的质量评价。实验结 果表明,本文方法既保留了彩色图像的颜色信息,又增强了图像内容中人眼 敏感的细节信息,采用LIVE数据库和IVC数据库验证了本文方法的评价指标,实验结果 表明, 所提指标与人眼主观感知的一致程度要好于传统的图像质量评价方法以及纯四元数SSIM方法。在交叉失真实验中,量化评价结果的Kendall等级相关系数 (KRCC),Spearman等级相关系 数(SRCC)以及均方根误差(RMSE)为0.6929、0.881以及 7.506,均好于实验中采用的其它几种方法。     

Research on color constancy under open illumination conditions

Color information plays a key role in the research fields of object recognition and image retrieval. However, the actual color varies by the conditions of illumination, especially the open natural daylight. Four different color constancy schemes are proposed in the paper to minimize the effects of open illumination conditions. (1) The color constancy scheme based on the image statistics is proposed,which includes the color cast detection and removal. (2) The color constancy scheme based on the color temperature curve is proposed, which combines Gaussian model with linear fitting to estimate color temperature curve. (3) The color constancy scheme based on the double exposure theory is proposed,which is able to reproduce a color image under typical illumination. (4) According to the concepts of supervised learning, the supervised color constancy scheme is proposed. The transformation of color values from unknown illumination to typical illumination is solved by improved Support Vector Re-gression (SVR).     

Saliency-directed color image segmentation using modified particle swarm optimization

Color image segmentation, an ill-posed problem, can be treated as a process of dividing a color image into some constituent regions and each region is homogeneous. In this study, a saliency-directed color image segmentation approach using “simple” modified particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed, in which both low-level features and high-level image semantics extracted from each color image are employed. To extract high-level image semantics from each color image, the visual attention saliency map for each color image is generated by three (color, intensity, and orientation) feature maps, which is used to guide region merging using “simple” modified PSO and a hybrid fitness function for color image segmentation. The proposed approach contains four stages, namely, color quantization, feature extraction, small region elimination, and region merging using “simple” modified PSO. Based on the experimental results obtained in this study, as compared with four comparison approaches, the proposed approach usually provides the better color image segmentation results.     

Compressive near-field millimeter wave imaging algorithm based on Gini index and total variation mixed regularization

A compressive near-field millimeter wave (MMW) imaging algorithm is proposed. From the compressed sensing (CS) theory, the compressive near-field MMW imaging process can be considered to reconstruct an image from the under-sampled sparse data. The Gini index (GI) has been founded that it is the only sparsity measure that has all sparsity attributes that are called Robin Hood, Scaling, Rising Tide, Cloning, Bill Gates, and Babies. By combining the total variation (TV) operator, the GI-TV mixed regularization introduced compressive near-field MMW imaging model is proposed. In addition, the corresponding algorithm based on a primal-dual framework is also proposed. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed GI-TV mixed regularization algorithm has superior convergence and stability performance compared with the widely used l₁-TV mixed regularization algorithm.     

Color image canonical correlation analysis for face feature extraction and recognition

Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is a powerful statistical analysis technique, which can extract canonical correlated features from two data sets. However, it cannot be directly used for color images that are usually represented by three data sets, i.e., red, green and blue components. Current multi-set CCA (mCCA) methods, on the other hand, can only provide the iterative solutions, not the analytical solutions, when processing multiple data sets. In this paper, we develop the CCA technique and propose a color image CCA (CICCA) approach, which can extract canonical correlated features from three color components and provide the analytical solution. We show the mathematical model of CICCA, prove that CICCA can be cast as solving three eigen-equations, and present the realization algorithm of CICCA. Experimental results on the AR and FRGC-2 public color face image databases demonstrate that CICCA outperforms several representative color face recognition methods.     

基于图正则化与非负组稀疏的自动图像标注

设计一个稳健的自动图像标注系统的重要环节是提取能够有效描述图像语义的视觉特征。由于颜色、纹理和形状等异构视觉特征在表示特定图像语义时所起作用的重要程度不同且同一类特征之间具有一定的相关性,该文提出了一种图正则化约束下的非负组稀疏(Graph Regularized Non-negative Group Sparsity, GRNGS)模型来实现图像标注,并通过一种非负矩阵分解方法来计算其模型参数。该模型结合了图正则化与l2,1-范数约束,使得标注过程中所选的组群特征能体现一定的视觉相似性和语义相关性。在Corel5K和ESP Game等图像数据集上的实验结果表明:相较于一些最新的图像标注模型,GRNGS模型的鲁棒性更强,标注结果更精确。     

基于正则化稀疏表示的图像超分辨率算法

为了从单幅低分辨率(LR)图像恢复出高分辨率(H R)图像,提出了一种应用正则化稀疏表示和基于机器学习 的超分辨率(SR)图像恢复算法。构造了一种基于稀疏表示的SR凸变模型,为了提高 恢复效果,针对模型 提出了两种稀疏正则化约束条件,一是将分类效果更好的图表拉普拉斯作为正则化约束条件 ,从而找到与 输入LR图像块在结构上最接近的学习样本;另一种是针对冗余的学习样本进行约 束,保证了图像边 缘的锐利。将输入的每一块LR图像应用正则化稀疏表示,经过学习得到与之对应的HR图像块 , 最终得到整幅HR图像。试验结果表明,算法恢复出的HR图像峰值信噪比(PSNR )值较双三次插值算法最高提升约2dB,主观目视清晰、边缘锐利。     

A Gaussian Mixture Model-based regularization method in adaptive image restoration

A GMM （Gaussian Mixture Model） based adaptive image restoration is proposed in this paper. The feature vectors of pixels are selected and extracted. Pixels are clustered into smooth, edge or detail texture region according to variance-sum criteria function of the feature vectors. Then parameters of GMM are calculated by using the statistical information of these feature vectors. GMM predicts the regularization parameter for each pixel adaptively. Hopfield Neural Network （Hopfield-NN） is used to optimize the objective function of image restoration, and network weight value matrix is updated by the output of GMM. Since GMM is used, the regularization parameters share properties of different kind of regions. In addition, the regularization parameters are different from pixel to pixel. GMM-based regularization method is consistent with human visual system, and it has strong generalization capability. Comparing with non-adaptive and some adaptive image restoration algorithms, experimental results show that the proposed algorithm obtains more preferable restored images.     

引入双边滤波器优化的彩色滤波阵列插值

基于彩色滤波阵列(CFA)的图像传感器在每个像素 位置获得三原色红(R)、绿(G)和蓝(B)中的一种分量 ,其缺失 分量需要根据周围像素插值得到。目前提出的许多种插值算法,绝大部分采用Bayer排列模 式。本文在色 差恒定假设基础上,提出一种基于双边滤波器的自适应Bayer模型插值算法,对G通道的估计采 用自适应滤波器进行插值,对R和B通道的插值采用双边滤波器。算法利用待插值像素 与不同距离像 素相关性不同的思想,根据图像边缘自适应设定滤波模板,能较准确估计G、B和R、G通 道之间的色差值。 实验结果表明,对比多尺度色差梯度算法和边缘强度滤波等算法,插值后的图像不仅 主观视觉, 且客观评价指标(彩色峰值信噪比,CPSNR)均优于这些算法。     

交通标志灯色饱和图像的色彩校正

针对在交通路口采集的闯红灯的彩色图像中的色饱和现象,讨论了图像中高光区域的定位、边缘色彩的确定以及色彩校正等问题。使用基于符号的GMM模型的EM算法进行最大似然估计,获得分类结果,使用区域深度快速标记算法标记深度,提出色彩校正模型,最后给出实验结果及讨论。     

Saliency-directed color image interpolation using artificial neural network and particle swarm optimization

In this study, a saliency-directed color image interpolation approach using artificial neural network (ANN) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed. First, a high-quality saliency map of a color image to be interpolated is generated by a modified block-based visual attention model in an effective manner. Then, based on the saliency map, bilinear interpolation and ANN-PSO interpolation are employed for non-saliency (non-ROI) and saliency (ROI) blocks, respectively, to obtain the final color interpolation results. In the proposed ANN-PSO interpolation scheme, ANN is used to determine the orientation of each 5 × 5 image pattern (block), whereas PSO is employed to determine the weights in 5 × 5 interpolation filtering masks. The proposed approach is applicable to image interpolation with arbitrary magnification factors (MFs). Based on the experimental results obtained in this study, the color interpolation results by the proposed approach are better than those by five comparison approaches.     

Orthogonal-directional forward diffusion image inpainting and denoising model

In this paper, an orthogonal-directional forward diffusion Partial Differential Equation （PDE） image inpainting and denoising model which processes image based on variation problem is proposed. The novel model restores the damaged information and smoothes the noise in image simultaneously. The model is morphological invariant which processes image based on the geometrical property. The regularization item of it diffuses along and cross the isophote, and then the known image information is transported into the target region through two orthogonal directions. The cross isophote diffusion part is the TV （Total Variation） equation and the along isophote diffusion part is the inviscid Helmholtz vorticity equation. The equivalence between the Helmholtz equation and the inpainting PDEs is proved. The model with the fidelity item which is used in the whole image domain denoises while preserving edges. So the novel model could inpaint and denoise simultaneously. Both theoretical analysis and experiments have verified the validity of the novel model proposed in this paper.     

基于离散四元数余弦变换的彩色图像数字水印技术

将离散四元数余弦变换(DQCT)应用于彩色图像的数字水印技术中,提出了一种在彩色图像中嵌入水印的新技术。应用四元数理论把彩色图像作为一整体进行余弦变换,在彩色宿主图像的DQCT域中实现彩色水印图像的嵌入。实验表明,该方法具有较好的抗压缩能力,对高斯噪声、椒盐噪声和缩放攻击具有较好的鲁棒性。     

基于雾气特征与不等关系约束的去雾方法

针对现有去雾算法未充分考虑图像雾气信息、复原图像细节模糊等问题,提出一种新颖的反映图像雾信息分布的雾气特征图,并采用不等关系约束方法提高图像质量。首先,提取退化图像的极值通道以实现雾气信息的粗略估计,并通过L-1正则化对其进行优化从而得到雾气特征图。其次,提出一种基于雾气特征的初级大气光幕函数,通过对颜色通道和大气光幕作深入分析,利用均值不等式获得约束后的退化场景大气光幕。最后,利用雾气特征图对局部大气光进行改进,并基于大气散射模型实现图像去雾。将所提算法在真实雾图和合成数据集雾图上与其他经典方法进行比较分析,可以发现,所提算法在单幅图像去雾中展现了较好的性能,且在夜间雾图复原中更具优势。     

基于循环生成对抗网络的超分辨率重建算法研究

为了提高图像超分辨率重建的效果,该文将注意力机制引入多级残差网络(Multi-level Residual Attention Network,MRAN)作为CycleGAN的重建网络,提出了基于循环生成对抗网络(CycleGAN)的超分辨率重建模型MRA-GAN.MRA-GAN模型中重建网络负责将低分辨率(LR)图像...     

结合局部能量与改进的符号距离正则项的图像目标分割算法

针对传统C-V模型对颜色不均匀图像分割失败并且对初始轮廓和位置敏感问题,以及现有符号距离正则项存在周期性振荡和局部极值问题。该文提出结合局部能量信息和改进的符号距离正则项的图像目标分割算法。首先,将全局图像信息扩展到HSV空间,并使用局部能量项信息分析每个像素及其领域内的统计特性,从而在较少的迭代次数内有效分割颜色分布不均匀图像。其次,改进现有符号距离正则项,改进后的符号距离正则项在避免水平集函数的重新初始化的同时,提高了计算效率,保证了水平集函数演化过程的稳定性。然后,定义阈值判断法的水平集函数演化的终止准则,使曲线准确演化到目标轮廓。该算法与同类模型的对比实验表明该模型具有较高的分割精度和对初始轮廓的鲁棒性。     

Specification of the observation model for regularized image up-sampling.

Regularization is one of the most promising methods for image up-sampling, which is an ill-posed inverse problem. A key element of such a regularization approach is the observation model relating the observed lower resolution (LR) image to the desired higher resolution (HR) up-sampled image, used in the data-fidelity term of the regularization cost function. This paper presents an algorithm to determine this observation model based on a model of the physical acquisition process for the LR image, and the ideal acquisition process for the desired HR image, both from the same underlying continuous image. The method is illustrated with typical scenarios corresponding to LR and HR cameras modeled by either Gaussian or rectangular apertures. Experiments with some regularized image up-samplers demonstrate the importance of using the correct, adapted observation model as determined by our algorithm. Index Terms-Camera aperture, data fidelity, image up-sampling, interpolation, multidimensional signal processing, observation model, power spectral density (PSD), super-resolution.