The gradient image is always sensitive to noise in image detail enhancement. To overcome this shortage, an improved detail enhancement algorithm based on difference curvature and contrast field is proposed. F...The gradient image is always sensitive to noise in image detail enhancement. To overcome this shortage, an improved detail enhancement algorithm based on difference curvature and contrast field is proposed. Firstly, the difference curvature is utilized to determine the amplification coefficient instead of the gradient. This new amplification function of the difference curvature takes more neighboring points into account, it is therefore not sensitive to noise. Secondly, the contrast field is nonlinearly amplified according to the new amplification coefficient. And then, with the enhanced contrast field, we construct the energy functional. Finally, the enhanced image is reconstructed by the variational method. Experimental results of standard testing image and industrial X-ray image show that the proposed algorithm can perform well on increasing contrast and sharpening edges of images while suppressing noise at the same time.展开更多
An efficient bit rate allocation algorithm for video sequence transmission in motion JPEG2000 is presented. In many cases,the moving portions of video are often the interested regions. Based on tile encoding of JPEG20...An efficient bit rate allocation algorithm for video sequence transmission in motion JPEG2000 is presented. In many cases,the moving portions of video are often the interested regions. Based on tile encoding of JPEG2000,the important regions are discerned by two parameters. One is the complexity of a tile;the other is the motion activity of a tile. Thus an adaptive rate-allocation is re-alized in a lower complexity and the perceptive quality of a frame is improved. Experimental results show the effectiveness of this algorithm.展开更多
Speckle degrades severely the quality of medical B-scan ultrasonic images, especiallyit blurs edges and details of images. An adaptive speckle suppression and edge enhancementmethod based on Nakagami distribution is p...Speckle degrades severely the quality of medical B-scan ultrasonic images, especiallyit blurs edges and details of images. An adaptive speckle suppression and edge enhancementmethod based on Nakagami distribution is presented. The statistics of log-compressed echo im-ages is derived for Nakagami distribution. An adaptive filter based on local statistical propertyof speckle is designed. The stick technique that utilizes sticks with different sizes and variousorientations is applied to locally approximate certain linear features of image. The local regionis a stick instead of a usual window, the orientation of sticks is decided by hypothesis test op-timizing method and the length of sticks is obtained by region growing technique. Performanceof the new method has been tested on the phantom and ultrasound images of pig muscle andechocardiographic. The results show that the technique effectively reduces the speckle noise whilepreserving and enhancing the tissue edge and resolvable details.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61271357)International S&T Cooperation Program of Shanxi Province(No.2013081035)
文摘The gradient image is always sensitive to noise in image detail enhancement. To overcome this shortage, an improved detail enhancement algorithm based on difference curvature and contrast field is proposed. Firstly, the difference curvature is utilized to determine the amplification coefficient instead of the gradient. This new amplification function of the difference curvature takes more neighboring points into account, it is therefore not sensitive to noise. Secondly, the contrast field is nonlinearly amplified according to the new amplification coefficient. And then, with the enhanced contrast field, we construct the energy functional. Finally, the enhanced image is reconstructed by the variational method. Experimental results of standard testing image and industrial X-ray image show that the proposed algorithm can perform well on increasing contrast and sharpening edges of images while suppressing noise at the same time.
文摘An efficient bit rate allocation algorithm for video sequence transmission in motion JPEG2000 is presented. In many cases,the moving portions of video are often the interested regions. Based on tile encoding of JPEG2000,the important regions are discerned by two parameters. One is the complexity of a tile;the other is the motion activity of a tile. Thus an adaptive rate-allocation is re-alized in a lower complexity and the perceptive quality of a frame is improved. Experimental results show the effectiveness of this algorithm.
文摘Speckle degrades severely the quality of medical B-scan ultrasonic images, especiallyit blurs edges and details of images. An adaptive speckle suppression and edge enhancementmethod based on Nakagami distribution is presented. The statistics of log-compressed echo im-ages is derived for Nakagami distribution. An adaptive filter based on local statistical propertyof speckle is designed. The stick technique that utilizes sticks with different sizes and variousorientations is applied to locally approximate certain linear features of image. The local regionis a stick instead of a usual window, the orientation of sticks is decided by hypothesis test op-timizing method and the length of sticks is obtained by region growing technique. Performanceof the new method has been tested on the phantom and ultrasound images of pig muscle andechocardiographic. The results show that the technique effectively reduces the speckle noise whilepreserving and enhancing the tissue edge and resolvable details.
