The ultimate goal of automatic image rendering is a system that gives at least as pleasing results as a human expert using an image manipulation program. In this article we demonstrate that the exploitation of semantic image keywords is a promising approach towards this ultimate goal. We develop a keyword classification scheme specifically for the purpose of automatic image rendering. Further o...

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is a technology that creates three dimensional (3D) images of breast tissue. Tomosynthesis mammography detects lesions that are not detectable with other imaging systems. If image reconstruction time is in the order of seconds, we can use Tomosynthesis systems to perform Tomosynthesis-guided Interventional procedures. This research has been designed to study u...

Based on analyzing and experimenting a large number of the existing fingerprint image preprocessing algorithm, this paper presents a novel high-quality fingerprint image preprocessing algorithm. Taking full account of the inherent characteristics of the fingerprint image, the algorithm arranges overall features and local detail. The experiments show that it is a simple, efficient algorithm whic...

Digital image processing is an emerging tool to predict fruit quality; therefore present study was carried out to develop an image processing technique for investigating the storage life of cantaloupe. Potassium permanganate (KMnO4) impregnated materials were used to prolong the postharvest life of cantaloupe fruit and the effects of these treatments were evaluated by 3 image textural features ...

Image compression is the reduction or elimination of redundancy in image data representation in order to achieve savings in storage and communication. In this paper we propose a method for image compression and decompression using nested IFFT and FFT which works on both color and grey images. This technique is simple in implementation and utilizes less memory and also requires less computationa...

self-affine maps were successfully used for edge detection, image segmentation, and contour extraction. they belong to the general category of patch-based methods. particularly, each self-affine map is defined by one pair of patches in the image domain. by minimizing the difference between these patches, the optimal translation vector of the self-affine map is obtained. almost all image process...

gesture and motion recognition are needed for a variety of applications. the use of human hand motions as a natural interface tool has motivated researchers to conduct research in the modeling, analysis and recognition of various hand movements. in particular, human-computer intelligent interaction has been a focus of research in vision-based gesture recognition. in this work, we introduce a 3-...

This article presents a method of semi-blind watermarking based on the discrete wavelet transform, that uses the chrominance components of the image for watermark embedding. The watermark is resistant to usual image processing operations such as compression, noise addition, cropping, histogram adjustment and filtering. Keywords—watermarking;discrete wavelet transform

Image processing is an engineering field where stored image data is readily available for parallel processing. Basically data processing algorithms developed in sequential approach are not capable of harnessing the computing power of individual cores present in a single-chip multicore processor. To utilize the multicore processor efficiently on windows platform for color image processing applic...