Recently, the bag-of-visual-words (BoW) model has been proven very effective for image classification. However, most researchers used local features directly while neglecting their spatial information and correlations. Besides, the encoding of local features causes some information loss which also hinders the final image classification performance. To tackle these problems, in this paper, we pr...

Pattern-based video coding representing moving regions in macroblock has very good potential for improved coding efficiency over existing standard H.264/AVC in the very low bit-rate range. However, the coding efficiency diminishes compared to H.264 with the bit rates because variable block sizes of H.264 for motion estimation and compensation are successfully selected for any bit rates using we...

Block Truncation Coding (BTC) is a streamlined and competent application for image compression. An improved BTC algorithm, namely Enhanced Block Truncation Coding (EBTC), is presented in this research study. Several gray scale images are used to appraise the coding efficiency and performance of this proposed algorithm with existing image compression algorithm. It is habitually shown that propos...

Image-space free-viewpoint video (FVV) is a framework for representation and coding of sparse multi-view video and subsequent re-rendering from arbitrary viewpoints. It is based on the fundamental concept of storing all information describing a scene’s visual appearance in multi-channel video images. Each pixel’s channels define different attributes of discrete point samples of observed surface...

This correspondence addresses the problem of human visual weighted quantization for transform/subband coding of interlaced pictures. Merged field coding is assumed. The criterion proposed for the optimization of the quantizer is the distortion measured on the deinterlaced and decoded image. This criterion and the associated weighting factors are shown to be dependent on the motion between two s...

Neighborhood algorithm is an important part of 3D SOM algorithm. We proposed three kinds of neighborhood shape and two kinds of neighborhood decay function for threedimensional self-organizing feature maps (3D SOM) algorithm and applied them to three-dimensional image compression coding. Experimental results show that the 3D orthogonal cross neighborhood shape and exponential function algorithm...

The paper attempts a comparison between Joint Picture Expert Group (JPEG), JPEG2000 and the novel method of position based coding scheme (PBCS) introduced by the authors, based on the output from different images. The results have proved that the proposed method is superior in terms of image compression ratio, PSNR and visual quality. After a review of various image compression standards and im...

Octave subband coding has been used as an efficient image coding approach for various well-known standards such as MPEG-4 and JPEG-2000. Although the sub-images in the octave subband representation have low statistical correlation, the visual similarity among the sub-images indicates that there exists some unexploited perceptual redundancy between sibling bands in addition to the parent–child r...

abstract cognizing environment in human vision-system is complex process. part of this process is perceiving image elements and attention signals in general. in the other hand, extracting special description from image elements. it is assumed that the environment scene is a kind of image. according to this description, it is justifiable to interpret image according to the gestalt theory princip...

In the print-type steganographic system and watermark, a calibration pattern is arranged around contents where invisible data is embedded, as plural feature points between an original image and the scanned image for normalization of the scanned image. In this paper, we propose an arrangement and detection method of an invisible calibration pattern based on the characteristics of human visual pe...