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Steganography is the science of hiding secret information in another unsuspicious data. Generally, a steganographic secret message could be a widely useful multimedia: as a picture, an audio file, a video file or a message in clear text - the covertext. The most recent steganography techniques tend to hide a secret message in digital images. We propose and analyze experimentally a blind steganography...
This paper introduces region of interest (ROI) as a functionality to local tone mappings of high dynamic range (HDR) radiance maps. In the proposed scheme, a new quadratic regularization method is provided to decompose the luminance of an HDR radiance map into a base layer with large gradients and a detail layer with small gradients. An ROI based global tone mapping is designed to compress the base...
Quality-of-service (QoS) management often requires a continuous monitoring service to provide updated information about different hosts and network links in the managed system. However, it is a challenging task to achieve both scalability and precision for monitoring various intra-node and inter-node metrics (e.g., CPU, memory, disk, network delay) in a large-scale hosting infrastructure. In this...
Compression artifacts are the results of an aggressive data compression scheme applied to an image that discards some data which is determined by an algorithm to be of lesser importance to the overall contents but which is nonetheless discernible and objectionable to the user. In this paper we present a post-processing algorithm that focuses on restoring the clarity of important image features and...
In this paper, we propose a new local tone mapping (TM) algorithm, which combines luminance compression function with an adaptive color saturation control parameter. The luminance of the radiance map is decomposed by a bilateral filter and compressed by the modified luminance compression function. To generate color channels of the tone mapped image, we use color ratios and color saturation control...
The paper presents an approach for lossless image compression in spatial domain for continuous-tone images using a novel concept of image folding. The proposed method uses the property of adjacent neighbor redundancy for prediction. In this method, column folding followed by row folding is applied iteratively on the image till the image size reduces to a smaller pre-defined value. For column folding,...
Secured data transmission over computer networks can be achieved through steganography. In specific, Image Steganography entails the opportunity of hide any secret information into images. This paper presents the implementation of two image steganographic techniques in MATLAB. The first is a filter method to embed text information into image and new methods have been demonstrated to increase the information...
The work presented in this paper addresses the increasing demand of visual signal delivery to terminals with arbitrary resolutions (like in mobile multimedia communication and cloud computing) for universal access and presentation, without extra computational burden to the receiving end. Scalable image compression and transmission are essential, and to be effective and meaningful, it has to be content-based...
In this paper, Advanced Adaptive Image Coding (AAIC) is proposed to increase compression performance for frame delay memory applications. The AAIC contains two techniques to improve the quality of decompressed images. The first is a Mean Adaptive Image Coding (MAIC) to reduce the impact of noise on image compression. The second is a Content-based Bit Exchange Technique (CBBET) to provide an adaptive...
Multi-view depth estimation is an important part in the virtual view synthesis and depth map coding within the 3DV/FTV applications. However, existing depth estimation methods generally have difficulty to generate good depth results around object edges or in areas with less texture. To solve this problem, we propose an improved algorithm to obtain a smooth and accurate depth map for view synthesis...
Subtractive crosstalk cancelation is an effective way to reduce the appearance of ghosting in 3D displays. However, effective cancelation requires the black level of the input images to be raised above zero, which reduces the image contrast and visual quality. Previous methods for selecting the raised black level do not consider the image content; they are either based on the worst case or they do...
For lung tissue adhesion of the situation in the lung CT images, based on the classical watershed algorithm, this introduce line-encoded ideology, use contour tracing method to determine adhesion region segmentation points, according to segment code to get the split line, thus separating the adhesion region. Experimental results show that this method will be effective in the lung adhesion region segmentation,...
The efficient compression of multi-view-video-plus-depth (MVD) data raises the bit-rate allocation issue for the compression of texture and depth data. This question has not been solved yet because not all surveys reckon on a shared framework. This paper studies the impact of bit-rate allocation for texture and depth data relying on the quality of an intermediate synthesized view. The results show...
The paper proposes a novel method for coding artifact reduction in compressed images. For removing blocking artifacts, a localized DCT-based filter with condition on the similarity between surrounding blocks is considered. To reduce ringing, a localized fuzzy filter is utilized to avoid the blurry effect of linear filter and painting-like effect of conventional fuzzy filter. To enhance chroma components...
This paper proposes a methodology to estimate the correlation model between a pair of images that are given under the form of linear measurements. We consider an image pair whose common objects are relatively displaced due to the positioning of vision sensors. In such scenarios the correlation model that relates the displacement between the objects is effectively represented by a disparity image....
Stereo matching is an active area of research in image processing. In a recent work, a convex programming approach was developed in order to generate a dense disparity field. In this paper, we address the same estimation problem and propose to solve it in a more general convex optimization framework based on proximal methods. More precisely, unlike previous works where the criterion must satisfy some...
Motion compensated prediction (MCP) plays an important role in video coding due to its great capability of reducing temporal redundancy. In this paper, we propose a new MCP scheme by adaptive patch matching with the full use of the reconstructed pixels surrounding the current block (referred to as the template inside the patch) aiming at achieving a more accurate prediction than conventional MCP....
To exploit both spatial and temporal correlation of video signal, a Second Order Prediction (SOP) scheme has been presented to eliminate the spatial correlation existing in motion compensated residue. Although SOP achieves better RD performance by adopting residue prediction in Mode Decision (MD) stage, it can be further improved by combining residue prediction into Motion Estimation (ME). Our analysis...
This paper proposes a new image coding technique with low-memory usage and fast encoding/decoding time. In this embedded coder, the wavelet coefficients are tested with adaptive threshold and encoded into bit-stream with wavelet difference reduction (WDR) technique. However, the original WDR is a list-based coder and needs quite a lot of memory during the encoding/decoding process. Our new technique...
This paper proposes a new multi-exposure fusion algorithm for HDR imaging. The advantage of the fusion based method is that it does not actually generate HDR images so that the compression to LDR is also not needed. However, the conventional exposure fusion suffers from ghost effects when there are moving object or hand trembling because the output is just a weighted sum of multiple exposure input...
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