In this paper we propose an extension of grayscale histogram equalization for color images. For aesthetic reasons, previously proposed color histogram equalization techniques do not generate uniform color histograms. Our method will always generate an almost uniform color histogram thus making an optimal use of the color space. This is particularly interesting for pseudo-color scientific visual...

The conventional color histogram retrieval method is prone to lo se the spatial information of colors. This paper proposes a novel color histogram approach for image retrieval. The histogram is built over groups of circular rings over the image. It keeps the advantages of the robust to the image rotation and scaling of the traditional histogram and incorporates the spatial information of pixels...

Volume 4, Issue 1, January – February 2015 Page 11 Abstract More information is transmitted in a digital format now than ever. Digital watermarking technology is a method of protecting copyrights for this information. In this paper, new watermarked algorithm is suggested. This algorithm consists of three stages, the first one, image is divided into several blocks, and these blocks are tested to...

In this paper, an advanced histogram-equalization algorithm for contrast enhancement is presented. Histogram equalization is the most popular algorithm for contrast enhancement due to its effectiveness and simplicity. It can be classified into two branches according to the transformation function used: global or local. Global histogram equalization is simple and fast, but its contrast-enhanceme...

In this paper, we propose a new approach for designing histogrambased descriptors. For demonstration purpose, we generate a descriptor based on the histogram of differential-turning angle scale space (d-TASS) function and its derived data. We then compare the proposed histogram-based descriptor with the traditional histogram descriptors in terms of retrieval performance from image databases. Ex...

Multimedia analysis benefits from understanding the emotional content of a scene in a variety of tasks such as video genre classification and content-based image retrieval. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in applying human bio-signals, particularly eye movements, to recognize the emotional gist of a scene such as its valence. In order to determine the emotional category of image...

This paper presents a preprocessing technique that can provide the improved quality of image robust to illumination changes. First, in order to enhance the image contrast, we proposed new adaptive histogram transformation combining histogram equalization and histogram specification. Here, by examining the characteristic of histogram distribution shape, we determine the appropriate target distri...

Data release is likely to result in privacy disclosure, so appropriate privacy protection measures are required for various data release technologies in order to ensure the privacy and safety of information, while differential privacy as a reliable model for privacy protection is extensively researched and applied. This paper presents the histogram data publishing solutions under differential p...

A novel histogram generation hardware architecture, which can develop histogram for all types of grayscale images of size (256 x 256), is presented in this paper. The histogram produced from the proposed hardware gives exactly the same information as obtained from a histogram plot using simulation tool like Matlab with 100 percent accuracy. Hardware realization of the architecture makes it suit...