An anti-aliasing filtering of quantum images in spatial domain using a pyramid structure

As a part of quantum image processing,quantum image filtering is a crucial technology in the development of quantum computing.Low-pass filtering can effectively achieve anti-aliasing effects on images.Currently,most quantum image filterings are based on classical domains and grayscale images,and there are relatively fewer studies on anti-aliasing in the quantum domain.This paper proposes a scheme for anti-aliasing filtering based on quantum grayscale and color image scaling in the spatial domain.It achieves the effect of anti-aliasing filtering on quantum images during the scaling process.First,we use the novel enhanced quantum representation(NEQR)and the improved quantum representation of color images(INCQI)to represent classical images.Since aliasing phenomena are more pronounced when images are scaled down,this paper focuses only on the anti-aliasing effects in the case of reduction.Subsequently,we perform anti-aliasing filtering on the quantum representation of the original image and then use bilinear interpolation to scale down the image,achieving the anti-aliasing effect.The constructed pyramid model is then used to select an appropriate image for upscaling to the original image size.Finally,the complexity of the circuit is analyzed.Compared to the images experiencing aliasing effects solely due to scaling,applying anti-aliasing filtering to the images results in smoother and clearer outputs.Additionally,the anti-aliasing filtering allows for manual intervention to select the desired level of image smoothness.

Feature fusion method for edge detection of color images

A novel feature fusion method is proposed for the edge detection of color images. Except for the typical features used in edge detection, the color contrast similarity and the orientation consistency are also selected as the features. The four features are combined together as a parameter to detect the edges of color images. Experimental results show that the method can inhibit noisy edges and facilitate the detection for weak edges. It has a better performance than conventional methods in noisy environments.

Fuzzy color morphological sieves

To solve the problems that exist in the color morphological sieves, a new fuzzy color morphological sieve is proposed.The method adopts color fuzzy model to define extrema and selects more rational regional merging way to produce better results.It can deal with the maxima or the minima areas respectively and the approach is simple and agile in design.The color fuzzy model and the steps of the algorithm are discussed.The evaluation of the performance shows the new method can produce the best synthetical performance.

Study of Dynamic Features of Surface Plasma in High-Power Disk Laser Welding

High-speed photography was used to obtain the dynamic changes in the surface plasma during a high-power disk laser welding process. A color space clustering algorithm to extract the edge information of the surface plasma region was developed in order to improve the accuracy of image processing. With a comparative analysis of the plasma features, i.e., area and height, and the characteristics of the welded seam, the relationship between the surface plasma and the stability of the laser welding process was characterized, which provides a basic understanding for the real-time monitoring of laser welding.

Quaternion Diffusion for Color Image Filtering

How to combine color and multiscale information is a fundamental question for computer vision, and quite a few color diffusion techniques have been presented. Most of these proposed techniques do not consider the direct interactions between color channel pairs. In this paper, a new method of color diffusion considering these effects is presented, which is based on quaternion diffusion （QD） equation. In addition to showing the solution to linear QD and its analysis, one form of nonlinear QD is discussed. Compared with other color diffusion techniques, considering the interactions between channel pairs, QD has the following advantages： 1） staircasing effect is avoided; 2） as diffusion tensor, the image derivative is regularized without requiring additional convolution; 3） less time is needed. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of linear and nonlinear QD applied to natural color images for denoising by both visual and quantitative evaluations.

New fast algorithm for hypercomplex decomposition and hypercomplex cross-correlation

In order to calculate the cross-correlation of two color images treated as vector in a holistic manner,a rapid vertical/parallel decomposition algorithm for quaternion is presented.The calculation for decomposition is reduced from 21 times to 4 times real number multiplications with the same results.An algorithm for cross-correlation of color images based on decomposition in time domain is put forward,in which some properties pointed out in this paper can be utilized to reduce the computational complexity.Simulation results show the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.

An adaptively spatial color gamut mapping algorithm

To improve the accuracy of color image reproduction from displays to printers, an adaptively spatial color gamut mapping algorithm （ASCGMA） is proposed. In this algorithm, the compression degree of out- of-reproduction-gamut color is not only related to the position of the color in CIELCH color space, but also depending on the neighborhood of the color to be mapped. The psyehophysical experiment of pair comparison is carried out to evaluate and compare this new algorithm with the HPMINDE and SGCK gamut mapping algorithms recommended by the International Commission on Illumination （CIE）. The experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm outperforms the algorithms of HPMINDE and SGCK except for the very dark images.

Colored 3D surface reconstruction using Kinect sensor

A colored 3D surface reconstruction method which effectively fuses the information of both depth and color image using Microsoft Kinect is proposed and demonstrated by experiment.Kinect depth images are processed with the improved joint-bilateral filter based on region segmentation which efficiently combines the depth and color data to improve its quality.The registered depth data are integrated to achieve a surface reconstruction through the colored truncated signed distance fields presented in this paper.Finally,the improved ray casting for rendering full colored surface is implemented to estimate color texture of the reconstruction object.Capturing the depth and color images of a toy car,the improved joint-bilateral filter based on region segmentation is used to improve the quality of depth images and the peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)is approximately 4.57 d B,which is better than 1.16 d B of the joint-bilateral filter.The colored construction results of toy car demonstrate the suitability and ability of the proposed method.

Robust color segmentation algorithms in illumination variation conditions

Changing illumination condition can change the result of image segmentation algorithm and reduce the intelligent recognition rate. A novel color image segmentation method robust to illumination variations is presented. The method is applied to the skin segmentation. Based on the hue preserving algorithm, the method reduces the dimensionality of the red-green-blue （RGB） space to one dimension, while keeping the hue of every pixel unchanging before and after space transformation. In the new color space, the skin color model is established using Gaussian model. Experimental results show that the method is robust to illumination variations, and has low computational complexity.

Luminescence of Tb^(3+)/Eu^(3+) codoped LiYF_4 single crystals under UV excitation for white-light LEDs

The absorption spectra, excitation spectra, and emission spectra of Tb3＋/Eu3＋ ions in LiYF4 single crystals synthesized by an improved Bridgman method are measured. The emission spectra of several bands, mainly located at blue^487 nm （Tb：5D4→7F6）, yellowish green ~542 nm （Tb：SD4→ 7F5）, and red ~611 nm （Eu：SD0 → 7F2） wavelengths, are observed under excitation by UV light. An ideal white light emission as a result of simultaneous combination of these emissions can be obtained from 1.11 mol%Tb3＋ and 0.9 mol% Eu3＋ co-doped LiYF4 single crystals with chromaticity coordinates of x = 0.3242, y = 0.3389, color temperature Tc = 5878 K, color rendering index Ra = 77, and color quality scale Qa = 75 under excitation of 384 nm light. The chromaticity coordinate, color rendering index, and color quality scale can be modified by the change of the concentration of rare-earth dopants and the excitation wavelength.