—The research community and the IT industry have invested significant effort in fighting spam emails. There are many different approaches, ranging from white listing, black listi...
This paper proposes a computationally efficient approach of adaptive directional wavelet transform (AD WT). The AD WT is based on lifting implementation of WT, and it is able to t...
Skin tones, portraits in particular, are of critical importance in photography and video, but a number of factors, such as pigmentation irregularities (e.g., moles, freckles), irr...
This paper presents a novel perceptually based method for noise reduction of image signals characterized by low signal to noise ratios. The proposed method exploits the local phas...
—Content-based video indexing and retrieval has become an interesting research area with the tremendous growth in the amount of digital media. In addition to the audio-visual con...