This project will involve the exploration of a directional extension of multidimensional wavelet transforms, called “contourlets”, to perform pattern recognition. First, the general concept of a directional extension vs. a regular multidimensional wavelet transform will be discussed and explain the reasoning behind the directional extension. Then, a comparison will be done using sample images b...

Image fusion combines information from multiple images of the same scene to get a composite image that is more suitable for human visual perception or further image-processing tasks. In this paper, we compare various multi-resolution decomposition algorithms, especially the latest developed image decomposition methods, such as curvelet and contourlet, for image fusion. The investigations includ...

we propose a robust quantization-based image watermarking scheme, called the gradient direction watermarking (GDWM), and based on the uniform quantization of the direction of gradient vectors. In GDWM, the watermark bits are embedded by quantizing the angles of significant gradient vectors at multiple wavelet scales. The proposed scheme has the following advantages: 1) Increased invisibility of...