A cockpit of multiple measures for assessing film restoration quality

In machine vision, the idea of expressing the quality of a films by a single value is very popular. Usually this value is computed by processing a set of image features with the aim of resembling as much as pos- sible a kind of human judgment of the film quality. Since human quality assessment is a complex mech- anism involving many different perceptual aspects, we believe that such approach may scarcely provide a comprehensive analysis. Especially in the field of digital movie restoration, a single score can hardly provide reliable information about the effects of the various restoring operations. For this reason we in- troduce an alternative approach, where a set of measures, describing over time basic global and local visual properties of the film frames, is computed in an unsupervised way and delivered to expert evalu- ators for checking the restoration pipeline and results. The proposed framework can be viewed as a car or airplane cockpit , whose parameters (i.e. the computed measures) are necessary to control the machine status and performance. This cockpit, which is publicly available online, would like to support the digital restoration process and its assessment

Pixel-level Image Fusion Algorithms for Multi-camera Imaging System

This thesis work is motivated by the potential and promise of image fusion technologies in the multi sensor image fusion system and applications. With specific focus on pixel level image fusion, the process after the image registration is processed, we develop graphic user interface for multi-sensor image fusion software using Microsoft visual studio and Microsoft Foundation Class library. In this thesis, we proposed and presented some image fusion algorithms with low computational cost, based upon spatial mixture analysis. The segment weighted average image fusion combines several low spatial resolution data source from different sensors to create high resolution and large size of fused image. This research includes developing a segment-based step, based upon stepwise divide and combine process. In the second stage of the process, the linear interpolation optimization is used to sharpen the image resolution. Implementation of these image fusion algorithms are completed based on the graphic user interface we developed. Multiple sensor image fusion is easily accommodated by the algorithm, and the results are demonstrated at multiple scales. By using quantitative estimation such as mutual information, we obtain the experiment quantifiable results. We also use the image morphing technique to generate fused image sequence, to simulate the results of image fusion. While deploying our pixel level image fusion algorithm approaches, we observe several challenges from the popular image fusion methods. While high computational cost and complex processing steps of image fusion algorithms provide accurate fused results, they also makes it hard to become deployed in system and applications that require real-time feedback, high flexibility and low computation abilit

Visibility recovery on images acquired in attenuating media. Application to underwater, fog, and mammographic imaging

136 p.When acquired in attenuating media, digital images of ten suffer from a particularly complex degradation that reduces their visual quality, hindering their suitability for further computational applications, or simply decreasing the visual pleasan tness for the user. In these cases, mathematical image processing reveals it self as an ideal tool to recover some of the information lost during the degradation process. In this dissertation,we deal with three of such practical scenarios in which this problematic is specially relevant, namely, underwater image enhancement, fogremoval and mammographic image processing. In the case of digital mammograms,X-ray beams traverse human tissue, and electronic detectorscapture them as they reach the other side. However, the superposition on a bidimensional image of three-dimensional structures produces low contraste dimages in which structures of interest suffer from a diminished visibility, obstructing diagnosis tasks. Regarding fog removal, the loss of contrast is produced by the atmospheric conditions, and white colour takes over the scene uniformly as distance increases, also reducing visibility.For underwater images, there is an added difficulty, since colour is not lost uniformly; instead, red colours decay the fastest, and green and blue colours typically dominate the acquired images. To address all these challenges,in this dissertation we develop new methodologies that rely on: a)physical models of the observed degradation, and b) the calculus of variations.Equipped with this powerful machinery, we design novel theoreticaland computational tools, including image-dependent functional energies that capture the particularities of each degradation model. These energie sare composed of different integral terms that are simultaneous lyminimized by means of efficient numerical schemes, producing a clean,visually-pleasant and use ful output image, with better contrast and increased visibility. In every considered application, we provide comprehensive qualitative (visual) and quantitative experimental results to validateour methods, confirming that the developed techniques out perform other existing approaches in the literature

A Review on Methods of Identifying and Counting Aedes Aegypti Larvae using Image Segmentation Technique

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are a small slender fly insect that spreads the arbovirus from flavivirus vector through its sucking blood. An early detection of this species is very important because once these species turn into adult mosquitoes a population control becomes more complicated. Things become worse when difficult access places like water storage tank becomes one of the breeding favorite places for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Therefore, there is a need to help the field operator during the routine inspection for an automated identification and detection of Aedes aegypti larvae, especially at difficult access places. This paper reviews different methodologies that have been used by various researchers in identifying and counting Aedes aegypti. The objective of the review was to analyze the techniques and methods in identifying and counting the Aedes Aegypti larvae of various fields of study from 2008 and above by taking account their performance and accuracy. From the review, thresholding method was the most widely used with high accuracy in image segmentation followed by hidden Markov model, histogram correction and morphology operation region growing

Color Restoration for Objects of Interest using Robust Image Features

Abstract-Illumination distortion due to uncontrolled lighting can severely degrade the color appearance of a photo. Frequently, the desired colors for objects in a newly taken query image are found in a previously stored database image. Then, the goal is to change the colors in the query image to match the colors in the database image. This paper presents a color restoration system that automatically retrieves a database image which matches the query image, even if the two images are taken from different viewpoints and under different illuminations. Robust features enable both accurate retrieval from the database and efficient sampling of the color differences between the query and database images. A spatially varying color mismatch model is generated, and the colors of the query image are effectively restored

CLE Diffusion: Controllable Light Enhancement Diffusion Model

Low light enhancement has gained increasing importance with the rapid development of visual creation and editing. However, most existing enhancement algorithms are designed to homogeneously increase the brightness of images to a pre-defined extent, limiting the user experience. To address this issue, we propose Controllable Light Enhancement Diffusion Model, dubbed CLE Diffusion, a novel diffusion framework to provide users with rich controllability. Built with a conditional diffusion model, we introduce an illumination embedding to let users control their desired brightness level. Additionally, we incorporate the Segment-Anything Model (SAM) to enable user-friendly region controllability, where users can click on objects to specify the regions they wish to enhance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CLE Diffusion achieves competitive performance regarding quantitative metrics, qualitative results, and versatile controllability. Project page: \url{https://yuyangyin.github.io/CLEDiffusion/

Introduction to computer image processing

Theoretical backgrounds and digital techniques for a class of image processing problems are presented. Image formation in the context of linear system theory, image evaluation, noise characteristics, mathematical operations on image and their implementation are discussed. Various techniques for image restoration and image enhancement are presented. Methods for object extraction and the problem of pictorial pattern recognition and classification are discussed

A Comprehensive Review of Image Restoration and Noise Reduction Techniques

Images play a crucial role in modern life and find applications in diverse fields, ranging from preserving memories to conducting scientific research. However, images often suffer from various forms of degradation such as blur, noise, and contrast loss. These degradations make images difficult to interpret, reduce their visual quality, and limit their practical applications. To overcome these challenges, image restoration and noise reduction techniques have been developed to recover degraded images and enhance their quality. These techniques have gained significant importance in recent years, especially with the increasing use of digital imaging in various fields such as medical imaging, surveillance, satellite imaging, and many others. This paper presents a comprehensive review of image restoration and noise reduction techniques, encompassing spatial and frequency domain methods, and deep learning-based techniques. The paper also discusses the evaluation metrics utilized to assess the effectiveness of these techniques and explores future research directions in this field. The primary objective of this paper is to offer a comprehensive understanding of the concepts and methods involved in image restoration and noise reduction

Digits Recognition on Medical Device

With the rapid development of mobile health, mechanisms for automatic data input are becoming increasingly important for mobile health apps. In these apps, users are often required to input data frequently, especially numbers, from medical devices such as glucometers and blood pressure meters. However, these simple tasks are tedious and prone to error. Even though some Bluetooth devices can make those input operations easier, they are not popular enough due to being expensive and requiring complicated protocol support. Therefore, we propose an automatic procedure to recognize the digits on the screen of medical devices with smartphone cameras. The whole procedure includes several “standard” components in computer vision: image enhancement, the region-of-interest detection, and text recognition. Previous works existed for each component, but they have various weaknesses that lead to a low recognition rate. We proposed several novel enhancements in each component. Experiment results suggest that our enhanced procedure outperforms the procedure of applying optical character recognition directly from 6.2% to 62.1%. This procedure can be adopted (with human verification) to recognize the digits on the screen of medical devices with smartphone cameras