Blind Image Watermark Detection Algorithm based on Discrete Shearlet Transform Using Statistical Decision Theory

Blind watermarking targets the challenging recovery of the watermark when the host is not available during the detection stage.This paper proposes Discrete Shearlet Transform as a new embedding domain for blind image watermarking. Our novel DST blind watermark detection system uses a nonadditive scheme based on the statistical decision theory. It first computes the probability density function (PDF) of the DST coefficients modelled as a Laplacian distribution. The resulting likelihood ratio is compared with a decision threshold calculated using Neyman-Pearson criterion to minimise the missed detection subject to a fixed false alarm probability. Our method is evaluated in terms of imperceptibility, robustness and payload against different attacks (Gaussian noise, Blurring, Cropping, Compression and Rotation) using 30 standard grayscale images covering different characteristics (smooth, more complex with a lot of edges and high detail textured regions). The proposed method shows greater windowing flexibility with more sensitive to directional and anisotropic features when compared against Discrete Wavelet and Contourlets

Low Complexity Image Recognition Algorithms for Handheld devices

Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has gained a lot of interest over the last two decades. The need to search and retrieve images from databases, based on information (“features”) extracted from the image itself, is becoming increasingly important. CBIR can be useful for handheld image recognition devices in which the image to be recognized is acquired with a camera, and thus there is no additional metadata associated to it. However, most CBIR systems require large computations, preventing their use in handheld devices. In this PhD work, we have developed low-complexity algorithms for content based image retrieval in handheld devices for camera acquired images. Two novel algorithms, ‘Color Density Circular Crop’ (CDCC) and ‘DCT-Phase Match’ (DCTPM), to perform image retrieval along with a two-stage image retrieval algorithm that combines CDCC and DCTPM, to achieve the low complexity required in handheld devices are presented. The image recognition algorithms run on a handheld device over a large database with fast retrieval time besides having high accuracy, precision and robustness to environment variations. Three algorithms for Rotation, Scale, and Translation (RST) compensation for images were also developed in this PhD work to be used in conjunction with the two-stage image retrieval algorithm. The developed algorithms are implemented, using a commercial fixed-point Digital Signal Processor (DSP), into a device, called ‘PictoBar’, in the domain of Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC). The PictoBar is intended to be used in the field of electronic aid for disabled people, in areas like speech rehabilitation therapy, education etc. The PictoBar is able to recognize pictograms and pictures contained in a database. Once an image is found in the database, a corresponding associated speech message is played. A methodology for optimal implementation and systematic testing of the developed image retrieval algorithms on a fixed point DSP is also established as part of this PhD work

Intelligent Circuits and Systems

ICICS-2020 is the third conference initiated by the School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Lovely Professional University that explored recent innovations of researchers working for the development of smart and green technologies in the fields of Energy, Electronics, Communications, Computers, and Control. ICICS provides innovators to identify new opportunities for the social and economic benefits of society.　 This conference bridges the gap between academics and R&D institutions, social visionaries, and experts from all strata of society to present their ongoing research activities and foster research relations between them. It provides opportunities for the exchange of new ideas, applications, and experiences in the field of smart technologies and finding global partners for future collaboration. The ICICS-2020 was conducted in two broad categories, Intelligent Circuits & Intelligent Systems and Emerging Technologies in Electrical Engineering

Naval Postgraduate School Catalog 2015

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