基于三维特征和结构相似度的图像质量评价方法

分析了人眼视觉特性、双眼视差异信息等三维特征,将立体视觉与图像的结构相似度(SSIM)相结合,提出了一种新的立体图像质量评价方法。该方法考虑了立体图像的亮度、纹理细节和空间位置等因素对人感知立体效果的影响,利用加权平均结构相似性(WMSS)联合统计学方法得到评价初值,用包含三维景物深度信息的双眼视差信息进行修正,作为立体图像质量的评价结果。实验表明,该方法符合人眼视觉特性,与主观评价(MOS)的一致性较好。     

基于多尺度边缘结构相似性的图像质量评价

基于结构相似度(SSIM)的图像质量评价方法是从视觉区域提取图像的结构性信息,但在评价模糊较严重的图像时存在其局限性,因此本文将图像边缘和SSIM相结合,提出了基于多尺度边缘结构相似度(MESS)的图像质量评价方法。实验结果表明,由于MESS考虑了边缘信息对于人眼感知结构信息的重要性,评价结果比SSIM更加符合人眼视觉感知特性。     

一种基于局部方差和结构相似度的图像质量评价方法

针对结构相似度(SSIM)方法对图像不同失真类型的敏感程度不同的问题,提出了一种基于局部方差和结构相似度的图像质量评价方法.计算并比较了两图像整体局部方差的分布,分析了度量结果所表征的图像特征.局部方差较好地体现了图像的细节信息,因此对于模糊等失真类型较为敏感,但是对于噪声污染等失真类型的敏感程度较低.因此,本文提出的评价方法将局部方差与结构相似度方法相结合,平衡了二者对造成图像失真各种因素的不同敏感偏向,从而使评价结果更加接近人眼对图像质量的主观感觉.实验结果表明,该方法充分考虑了图像中人跟比较敏感的细节信息的完整程度对图像质量的影响,评价结果优于SSIM方法,与人的主观感觉的一致性较好.     

一种基于颜色特征的图像质量评价算法

颜色作为描述图像最直接有效的特征,是目前图像质量评价中备受关注的评价参数之一。提出一种基于颜色特征的全参考图像质量评价系统,该系统在结构相似性SSIM(Structural Similarity)理论的基础上,充分考虑色度信息对人眼视觉感知的影响,利用分块颜色矩,建立了一种新的相似度度量模型。实验结果表明,该模型获得的客观评价结果与主观评价值具有很高的一致性。     

基于局部结构张量的SSIM图像质量评价

针对结构相似度(SSIM)评价模糊图像存在的局限性,提出一种基于局部结构张量的结构相似性图像质量评价方法(ST-SSIM).方法首先利用结构张量提取图像几何结构强度和方向角度信息,然后用局部结构方向相似度比较函数和结构强度相似度比较函数替换SSIM中原有的结构比较函数,最后在图像质量映射图上以参考图像的结构强度函数加权计算得出最终的图像质量评价值.实验结果表明,由于LST-SSIM更加全面考虑到对于人眼感知结构强度和方向的重要性,因此评价结果比SSIM更加符合人眼视觉感知特性.     

基于频率、空间和方向的图像质量评估

将空间域图像质量评价方法结构相似度SSIM推广到HWD变换域,结合人眼视觉倾斜效应和粒子群优化算法,提出一种新的图像质量评价测度。将SSIM直接用于各HWD分解频带,用频带相关性图加权各频带的结构相似度得到局部质量,然后对不同方向的局部质量求加权和得到整幅图像的结构相似度。实验结果表明,该测度与主观感知有较好的一致性,能准确地反映人眼对图像的视觉感知。     

一种基于HWD结构相似的图像质量评价方法

针对传统图像质量评价方法峰值信噪比PSNR和结构相似度SSIM没有充分考虑人眼视觉特性,所得结果有时并不能与人眼的视觉所感知到的实际质量一致的问题,通过对图像结构相似度和人眼视觉系统的研究,文中提出了一种新的基于HWD结构相似的图像质量评价方法。首先对图像进行Hybrid Wavelets and Directional Filter Banks(HWD)分解,提取图像不同频带不同方向上的信息,然后计算各子带结构相似度,最后综合人眼视觉特性的CSF得到图像质量评价值。实验结果表明文中方法相比峰值信噪比PSNR、结构相似度SSIM算法具有更高的准确性和良好的相关性,可以更好的评价图像质量。     

基于人眼视觉特性的彩色图像质量评价

图像处理系统的性能优劣的评判往往需要一个合理迅速的图像质量评价算法作为支撑.传统的图像质量评价算法由于没有充分考虑人眼的视觉特性,使得质量评价结果与实际图像的人眼感知质量不符.根据人眼对图像边缘信息非常敏感这一人眼视觉特性,提出一种综合图像边缘和背录相似度的算法(EBS)来评价彩色图像质量,即通过比较失真彩色图像与原始参考图像的边缘以及除边缘之外的背景相似程度最终确定失真图像的质量.应用于由779幅包含五种类型失真的图像质量评价库的实验结果表明,该算法的评价结果相比PSNR,MSSIM,IFC以及基于像素域的VIF等算法与图像的主观评价结果(由DMOS值表示--将背景不同的一组观察者对失真图像的评分进行统计平均后所得到的评价结果)更一致,也即该算法的评价结果更接近图像的实际视觉感知质量.     

基于结构相似的小波域图像质量评价方法的研究

 小波域的图像处理已经成为图像处理领域的重要组成部分,研究能嵌入在小波域图像处理算法中的图像质量评判方法显得至关重要.空间域结构相似度SSIM具有计算简单、与主观评分相关性高等优点.本文通过对小波域图像结构特性的研究,提出了小波域结构相似度(DWTSSIM)的图像质量评价方法.实验结果表明DWTSSIM比SSIM更加符合人眼的视觉特性,可以更好地评判图像质量,并且能容易地嵌入在小波域图像处理算法中,在图像处理过程中指导或调节算法.     

基于QDCT和贝叶斯谱熵的盲彩色图像质量评价

图像质量评价算法在评价彩色图像质量时,往往会因损失色彩信息或者破坏彩色图像结构的整体性,而使得评价结果与人眼观测结果不一致.由于图像越模糊其频谱的高频分量分布越不均匀,基于四元数离散余弦变换(QDCT)和贝叶斯谱熵,提出了一种无参考模糊彩色图像质量评价算法.首先,利用四元数矩阵对彩色图像进行表示并分解成不重叠的8×8 ...     

Color image detail enhancement based on quaternion guided filter

Color image enhancement is an active research field in image processing. Currently, many image enhancement methods are capable of enhancing the details of the color image. However, these methods only process the red, green and blue (RGB) color channels separately, which leads to color distortion easily. In order to overcome this problem, the paper presents an approach to integrate the quaternion theory into the traditional guided filter to obtain a quaternion guided filter (QGF). This method makes full use of the color information of an image to realize the holistic processing of RGB color channels. So as to preserve color information while enhancing details, this paper proposes a color image detail enhancement algorithm based on the QGF. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is effective in the applications of the color image detail enhancement, and enables image's edges to be more prominent and texture clearer while avoiding color distortion. Compared with the existing image enhancement methods, the proposed method achieves better enhancement performance in terms of the visual quality and the objective evaluating indicators.     

Weighted truncated nuclear norm regularization for low-rank quaternion matrix completion

In recent years, quaternion matrix completion (QMC) based on low-rank regularization has been gradually used in image processing. Unlike low-rank matrix completion (LRMC) which handles RGB images by recovering each color channel separately, QMC models retain the connection of three channels and process them as a whole. Most of the existing quaternion-based methods formulate low-rank QMC (LRQMC) as a quaternion nuclear norm (a convex relaxation of the rank) minimization problem. The main limitation of these approaches is that they minimize the singular values simultaneously such that cannot approximate low-rank attributes efficiently. To achieve a more accurate low-rank approximation, we introduce a quaternion truncated nuclear norm (QTNN) for LRQMC and utilize the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to get the optimization in this paper. Further, we propose weights to the residual error quaternion matrix during the update process for accelerating the convergence of the QTNN method with admissible performance. The weighted method utilizes a concise gradient descent strategy which has a theoretical guarantee in optimization. The effectiveness of our method is illustrated by experiments on real visual data sets.     

基于四元同质微分的彩色光流估计

该文通过将颜色3维矢量表示为一个4元数(quaternion)形式的超复数,将彩色图像序列映射为3维时-空空间上定义的4元超复变函数,并以颜色常数模型假设为基础,建立了描述彩色图像序列中运动模式的4元光流方程。为了对超复数4元光流方程中的运动参数进行有效估计,定义了4元同质微分的概念,进而得到了基于4元同质颜色常数模型的光流方程,并给出了该光流方程的优化求解方法。最后,与已有算法的对比实验验证了该文方法的有效性。     

Quaternion pseudo-Zernike moments combining both of RGB information and depth information for color image splicing detection

The quaternion representation (QR) used in current quaternion-based color image processing creates redundancy when representing a color image of three components by a quaternion matrix having four components. In this paper, both RGB and depth (RGB-D) information are considered to improve QR for efficiently representing RGB-D images. The improved QR fully utilizes the four-dimensional quaternion domain. Using this improved QR, firstly we define the new quaternion pseudo-Zernike moments (NQPZMs) and then propose an efficient computational algorithm for NQPZMs through the conventional pseudo-Zernike moments (PZMs). Finally, we propose an algorithm for color image splicing detection based on the NQPZMs and the quaternion back-propagation neural network (QBPNN). Experimental results on four public datasets (DVMM, CASIA v1.0 and v2.0, Wild Web) demonstrate that the proposed splicing detection algorithm can achieve almost 100% accuracy with the appropriate feature dimensionality and outperforms 14 existing algorithms. Moreover, the comparison of six color spaces (RGB, HSI, HSV, YCbCr, YUV, and YIQ) shows that the proposed algorithm using YCbCr color space has the overall best performance in splicing detection.     

An image retrieval method based on spatial distribution of color

Color histogram is now widely used in image retrieval. Color histogram-based image retrieval methods are simple and efficient but without considering the spatial distribution information of the color. To overcome the shortcoming of conventional color histogram-based image retrieval methods, an image retrieval method based on Radon Transform （RT） is proposed. In order to reduce the computational complexity, wavelet decomposition is used to compress image data. Firstly, images are decomposed by Mallat algorithm. The low-frequency components are then projected by RT to generate the spatial color feature. Finally the moment feature matrices which are saved along with original images are obtained. Experimental results show that the RT based retrieval is more accurate and efficient than traditional color histogram-based method in case that there are obvious objects in images. Further more, RT based retrieval runs significantly faster than the traditional color histogram methods.     

Hypergraph-regularized sparse representation for single color image super resolution

Sparsity-based single image super resolution method generates the High-Resolution (HR) output via a corresponding dictionary from the Low-Resolution (LR) input. However, most of these existing methods ignore the complementary information from color channels, which causes the loss of a valid prior and the limitation of HR image quality improvement. In this paper, hypergraph regularization is first incorporated with Joint Color Dictionary Training (JCDT) model and HR image reconstruction (HRIR) model. A novel Hypergraph-regularized Sparse coding-based Super Resolution (HG-ScSR) is proposed. This regularization can not only focus on the illuminance information, but also exploit the self-channel and cross-channel information of three color RGB channels from high-resolution image patches. Especially, the complex relationship is explored among every color image patch pixel and the consistency of the similar pixels is enforced. Both simulated and real data experiments verify the higher performance of the proposed HG-ScSR.     

基于DWT-QDFT的硬拷贝彩色图像全息水印

提出了一种基于离散小波变换(DWT)及四元数傅里 叶变换(QDFT)的鲁棒性全息水印算法。首先对RGB彩色图像的三个色彩分量分 别做DWT,取变换后的3个低频部分组成纯四元数矩阵;随后对其进行QDFT ,将全息水印通过替代QDFT的实部的中频系数进行嵌入,再经过逆QDFT及小波重构得到含有 水印的彩 色图像。攻击测试结果表明,本文算法对于常规的信号处理有很好的鲁棒性;打印扫描实验 证明,本文算法具有抵 抗硬拷贝攻击的能力。四元数傅立叶变换的引入,实现了小波低频系数的嵌入保证了算法的 鲁棒性,同时 又结合了四元数在处理彩色图像中的优势,双变换域的采用与全息方法的结合实现了算法应 用于硬拷贝彩 色图像中鲁棒性及不可见性之间的平衡。本文全息水印方案可以应用于印品水印防伪领域。     

基于局部二值模式和四元数的行人检测

局部二值模式(LBP)特征具有光照不变性、旋转不变性及计算简单等特性,能有效表示行人特征,广泛应用于行人检测。LBP 特征的提取方法通常基于灰度图像,如果用于彩色图像,则没有充分考虑各通道之间的相关性,不能保证行人检测的准确性。为此,我们对彩色图像的红、绿、蓝三通道的LBP 特征,以四元数的形式表示,利用四元数的性质,提出一种P-LBP特征,再利用k-最近邻算法训练分类器。该方法在INRIA 数据集上进行实验,与HOG、S-LBP、F-LBP、HOG-LBP特征进行比较,具有更好的效果。     

基于结构特征的机载LiDAR数据与航空影像自动配准

针对现有机载LiDAR数据与航空影像配准方法对匹配特征具有较强的依赖性,易受数据等影响的问题,提出了一种基于结构特征的自动配准方法。该方法首先提取LiDAR距离图像与对应影像的结构特征,利用初始姿态参数将LiDAR结构特征投影至影像坐标系下,根据结构特征的几何约束条件获取初始匹配点集,完成粗匹配;接着利用粗匹配结果计算直接变换模型（DLT）参数,并以此为初值引入双点几何约束,采用循环迭代的匹配策略,不断剔除错误匹配,获得一组新的匹配点集,完成精匹配;最后根据精匹配结果,采用基于单位四元数的空间后方交会方法解算航空影像的姿态参数,实现机载LiDAR数据与航空影像的自动配准。实验证明,该方法受噪声影响小,能实现机载LiDAR数据与航空影像的自动配准。     

Least squares restoration of multichannel images

Multichannel restoration using both within- and between-channel deterministic information is considered. A multichannel image is a set of image planes that exhibit cross-plane similarity. Existing optimal restoration filters for single-plane images yield suboptimal results when applied to multichannel images, since between-channel information is not utilized. Multichannel least squares restoration filters are developed using the set theoretic and the constrained optimization approaches. A geometric interpretation of the estimates of both filters is given. Color images (three-channel imagery with red, green, and blue components) are considered. Constraints that capture the within- and between-channel properties of color images are developed. Issues associated with the computation of the two estimates are addressed. A spatially adaptive, multichannel least squares filter that utilizes local within- and between-channel image properties is proposed. Experiments using color images are described