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IMAGING
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Spatial Color-to-Grayscale Transform Preserving Chrominance Edge Information
A color image sent to a monochrome output device must undergo a color-to-grayscale transformation. Such a transform typically retains the luminance channel or a derivative thereof...
Raja Bala, Reiner Eschbach
IJIT
2004
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Enhance Performance of Secure Image Using Wavelet Compression
The increase popularity of multimedia application especially in image processing places a great demand on efficient data storage and transmission techniques. Network communication ...
Goh Han Keat, Azman Samsudin, Zurinahni Zainol
IJIT
2004
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IMDC: An Image-Mapped Data Clustering Technique for Large Datasets
In this paper, we present a new algorithm for clustering data in large datasets using image processing approaches. First the dataset is mapped into a binary image plane. The synthe...
Faruq A. Al-Omari, Nabeel I. Al-Fayoumi
CATA
2003
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Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Intel VTUNE Image Processing Functions in the MATLAB Environment
Many current general purpose processors use extensions to the instruction set architecture to enhance the performance of digital image processing and multimedia applications. In t...
Phaisit Chewputtanagul, David Jeff Jackson, Kennet...
SIP
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Contactless palmprint authentication using circular gabor filter and approximated string matching
More and more research have been developed very recently for automatic hand recognition. This paper proposes a new method for contactless hand authentication in complex images. Ou...
J. Doublet, O. Lepetit, M. Revenu
SIP
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive large scale artifact reduction in edge-based image super-resolution
— The goal of multi-frame image super-resolution is to use information from low-resolution images to construct highresolution images. Current multi-frame image super-resolution m...
Alexander Wong, William Bishop
SIP
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Mosaic-based figure-ground segmentation along with static segmentation by mean shift
This work deals with the problem of backgroundforeground segmentation in video scenes. We propose an approach that makes use of feature extraction and matching, robust estimation,...
J. Sole, Yu Huang, Joan Llach
SIP
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Watershed segmentation with boundary curvature ratio based merging criterion
This paper proposes to incorporate boundary curvature ratio, region homogeneity and boundary smoothness into a single new merging criterion to improve the oversegmentation of mark...
X. He, N. H. C. Yung, K. P. Chow, Francis Y. L. Ch...
SIP
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Matting through variational inpainting
While current matting algorithms work very well for some natural images, their performance is questionable in the presence of sharp discontinuities in the foreground and backgroun...
Kangyu Ni, Sheshadri R. Thiruvenkadam, Tony F. Cha...