Extending the color gamut and dynamic range of an sRGB image using a residual image

Image sources, such as digital camera captures and photographic negatives, typically have more information than can be reproduced on a photographic print or a video display. The information that is lost during the tone/color rendering process relates to both the extended dynamic range and color gamut of the original scene. In conventional photographic systems, most of this additional information is archived on the photographic negative and can be accessed by adjusting the way the negative is printed. However, most digital imaging systems have traditionally archived only a rendered video RGB image. As a result, it is not possible to make the same sorts of image manipulations that historically have been possible with conventional photographic systems. This suggests that there would be an advantage to storing images using an extended dynamic range/color gamut color encoding. However, because of file compatibility issues, digital imaging systems that store images using color encoding other than a standard video RGB representation (e.g., sRGB) would be significantly disadvantaged in the marketplace. In this article, we describe a solution that has been developed to maintain compatibility with existing file formats and software applications, while simultaneously retaining the extended dynamic range and color gamut information associated with the original scenes. With this approach, the input raw digital camera image or film scan is first transformed to the scene‐referred ERIMM RGB color encoding. Next, a rendered sRGB image is formed in the usual way and stored in a conventional image file (e.g., a standard JPEG file). A residual image representing the difference between the original extended dynamic range image and the final rendered image is formed and stored in the image file using proprietary metadata tags. This provides a mechanism for archiving the extended dynamic range/color gamut information, which is normally discarded during the rendering process, without sacrificing interoperability. Appropriately enabled applications can decode the residual image metadata and use it to reconstruct the ERIMM RGB image, whereas applications that are not aware of the metadata will ignore it and only have access to the sRGB image. The residual image is formed such that it will have negligible pixel values for those portions of the image that lie within the sRGB gamut, and will therefore be highly compressible. Tests on a population of 950 real customer images have demonstrated that the extended dynamic range scene information can be stored with an average file size overhead of about 8% compared to the sRGB images alone. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Col Res Appl, 28, 251–266, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/col.10160     

论科技论文英语摘要的表现形式

论述科技论文中英语摘要的文体风格、时态、语态和基本要求，并结合例句介绍了常用的表现形式，使之简洁、准确和流畅。     

Robust图像跟踪：强度—特征混合式目标定位

在像平面上确定目标的位置(由它的瞄准点位置表示)是图像跟踪技术的核心.目前研究的目标是图像定位方法多偏重于单一的工作模式,因而难以适应变化较大的使用环境.本文提出一种旨在综合利用强度相关和特征匹配的混合式目标图像定位方法.假定当前帧图像已经过预处理并完成分割,首先通过一种自适应门限SSDA并辅之以投影排序搜索,尽可能快速地剔除与参考图差别较大的子区;再用一种简便可靠并可具一定记忆能力的特征匹配法,在保留的子区集内,为目标精确定位——宣布瞄准点位置.利用实际序列图像所作实验表明:上述方法较之通常采用的单一工作模式的定位方法,有明显增强的Robust性以及更广的适应性,而增加的计算代价不大.     

利用机载SAR图像仿真星载SAR图像

简要介绍了现有的SAR图像仿真方法,提出了一种利用机载SAR图像进行星载SAR图像仿真的方法,对仿真原理进行了阐述,着重研究了图像几何特性、空间分辨率、噪声特性、辐射特性仿真的数学模型及设计流程,最后进行了计算机仿真。结果分析表明得到的仿真图像具有较高的逼真度,该星载SAR图像仿真方法是有效的。     

A digital secure image communication scheme based on the chaotic Chebyshev map

In this paper, a simple image secure communication scheme based on the chaotic Chebyshev map and chaos synchronization is proposed. The scheme relies on the excellent correlation property of chaotic sequences, which is very desirable for secure image communication. The results obtained by computer simulation indicate that the transmitted source image can be correctly and reliably recovered using the proposed scheme, even through a noisy channel. Notably, the scheme possesses relatively high security and can be easily implemented. Moreover, the quality of the recovered image is satisfactory, quantified by such common criteria as the bit‐error rate performance. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于数学形态学的红外图像小目标检测

针对红外成像跟踪系统的低信噪比、背景和噪声干扰严重的小目标图像,以及后续的目标识别处理需要目标的灰度信息的特点,设计了一种基于数学形态学的红外灰度图像小目标检测算法,并用FPGA硬件实现。实验表明,数学形态学滤波能够大大提高目标的信噪比,去除背景和噪声干扰,保留目标的灰度信息,满足系统实时性要求,是一种有效的红外灰度图像小目标检测算法。     

一种空间自适应小波门限去噪算法

提出了一种空间自适应小波门限去噪算法,该算法在小波域对含噪小波系数做两次自适应去噪,两次自适应门限分别基于最大似然(ML)方差估计和最大后验概率(MAP)方差估计.仿真结果表明,该算法与其它自适应门限去噪算法相比,去噪后的图象具有更高的峰值信噪比(PSNR).     

基于自适应四叉树分形图像编码的数字水印技术

提出了一种基于自适应四叉树分形编码的数字水印技术。对原始图像进行四叉树分形编码后，通过给定子块在不同的寻找区域中搜索其最佳匹配父块来嵌入水印。实验结果表明，本方法在嵌入水印编码时间、图像质量和鲁棒性方面均比传统的方法有较大的改进。     

基于区域生长法的医学图像分割研究

针对基于区域的分水岭分割算法中通常存在的严重过分割现象，通过两点措施来改进：其一，以梯度图像的浮点活动图像取代梯度图像进行分水岭变换，使边缘定位更准确；其二，以基于面积和对比度控制的合并小区域准则，有效抑制过分割现象，同时满足感兴趣区的分割要求。实验表明该算法简单有效，能够得到符合人类视觉系统特性的分割结果，边缘定位精确度较高。     

Distinctiveness and Correlation in Conceptual Structure: Behavioral and Computational Studies.

Patients with category-specific deficits have motivated a range of hypotheses about the structure of the conceptual system. One class of models claims that apparent category dissociations emerge from the internal structure of concepts rather than fractionation of the system into separate substores. This account claims that distinctive properties of concepts in the living domain are vulnerable because of their weak correlation with other features. Given the assumption that mutual activation among correlated properties produces faster activation in the normal system, the authors predicted a disadvantage for the distinctive features of living things for unimpaired adults. Results of a speeded feature verification study supported this prediction, as did a computational simulation in which networks mapped from orthography to semantics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)