Assessing Gray Scale Grades for Color Change of Dyed Fabrics via Image Processing Technology

Gray scale grades for color change of dyed fabrics are assessed via image processing technology.Digital images of groups of specimens are obtained,cropped,and saved as JPEG format.Relationships between gray scale grades for color change and the corresponding color differences calculated via image processing technology are investigated,compared with those obtained from high accurate computer color matching system.Results show that the new method is acceptable with an accuracy of 92.0% when the grading errors are of not more than one grade.

A Secure Robust Gray Scale Image Steganography Using Image Segmentation

Steganography is the art of hiding a secret message in some kind of media. The main goal is not to hide only the secret message but also the existence of communication and secure data transferring. There are a lot of methods that were utilized for building the steganography;such as LSB (Least Significant Bits), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Discrete Fourier Transform, Spread-Spectrum Encoding, and Perceptual Masking, but all of them are challenged by steganalysis. This paper proposes a new technique for Gray Scale Image Steganography that uses the idea of image segmentation and LSB to deal with such problem. The proposed method deals with different types of images by converting them to a virtual gray scale 24 bitmaps, finds out the possible segments inside image and then computes the possible areas for each segment with boundaries. Any intruder trying to find the transformed image will not be able to understand it without the correct knowledge about the transformation process. The knowledge is represented by the key of image segmentation, key of data distribution inside segment (area selection), key of mapping within each area segment, key agreement of cryptography method, key of secret message length and key of message extension. Our method is distinguishing oneself by one master key to generate the area selection key, pixels selection keys and cryptography key. Thus, the existence of secret message is hard to be detected by the steganalysis. Experiment results show that the proposed technique satisfied the main requirements of steganography;visual appearance, modification rate, capacity, undetectability, and robustness against extraction (security). Also it achieved the maximum capacity of cover image with a modification rate equals 0.04 and visual quality for stego-image comparable to cover image.

Design on AM-OLED display control ASIC with high gray scale levels

The paper puts forward a method on controlling the AM-OLED panel to display image with high gray scale levels. It also gives an ASIC design sample to implement this method. A twenty sub-fields scan scheme has been taken into use in the chip to display 256 gray scale levels on a QVGA resolution AM-OLED display screen. The functions of image scaling and rotating have also been implemented for multiply application. The simulation and chip test result show that the chip design has met the design requirements.

Dynamic infrared scene simulation using grayscale modulation of digital micro-mirror device

Dynamic infrared scene simulation is for discovering and solving the problems encountered in designing, developing and manufacturing infrared imaging guidance weapons. The infrared scene simulation is explored by using the digital grayscale modulation method. The infrared image modulation model of a digital micro-mirror device （DMD） is established and then the infrared scene simulator prototype which is based on DMD grayscale modulation is developed. To evaluate its main parameters such as resolution, contrast, minimum temperature difference, gray scale, various DMD subsystems such as signal decoding, image normalization, synchronization drive, pulse width modulation （PWM） and DMD chips are designed. The infrared scene simulator is tested on a certain infrared missile seeker. The test results show preliminarily that the infrared scene simulator has high gray scale, small geometrical distortion and highly resolvable imaging resolution and contrast and yields high-fidelity images, thus being able to meet the requirements for the infrared scene simulation inside a laboratory.

Regional brain structural abnormality in ischemic stroke patients:a voxel-based morphometry study

Our previous study used regional homogeneity analysis and found that activity in some brain areas of patients with ischemic stroke changed significantly. In the current study, we examined structural changes in these brain regions by taking structural magnetic resonance imaging scans of 11 ischemic stroke patients and 15 healthy participants, and analyzing the data using voxel-based morphometry. Compared with healthy participants, patients exhibited higher gray matter density in the left inferior occipital gyrus and right anterior white matter tract. In contrast, gray matter density in the right cerebellum, left precentral gyrus, right middle frontal gyrus, and left middle temporal gyrus was less in ischemic stroke patients. The changes of gray matter density in the middle frontal gyrus were negatively associated with the clin- ical rating scales of the Fugl-Meyer Motor Assessment （r = -0.609, P = 0.047） and the left middle temporal gyrus was negatively correlated with the clinical rating scales of the nervous functional deficiency scale （r = -0.737, P = 0.010）. Our findings call objectively identify the functional abnormality in some brain regions of ischemic stroke patients.