In order to preferably identify infrared image of refuge chamber, reduce image noises of refuge chamber and retain more image details, we propose the method of combining two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform and ...In order to preferably identify infrared image of refuge chamber, reduce image noises of refuge chamber and retain more image details, we propose the method of combining two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform and bilateral denoising. First, the wavelet transform is adopted to decompose the image of refuge chamber, of which low frequency component remains unchanged. Then, three high-frequency components are treated by bilateral filtering, and the image is reconstructed. The result shows that the combination of bilateral filtering and wavelet transform for image denoising can better retain the details which are included in the image, while providing better visual effect. This is superior to using either bilateral filtering or wavelet transform alone. It is useful for perfecting emergency refuge system of coal mines.展开更多
This paper presents an image denoising method based on bilateral filtering and non-local means. The non-local region texture or structure of the image has the characteristics of repetition, which can be used to effect...This paper presents an image denoising method based on bilateral filtering and non-local means. The non-local region texture or structure of the image has the characteristics of repetition, which can be used to effectively preserve the edge and detail of the image. And compared with classical methods, bilateral filtering method has a better performance in denosing for the reason that the weight includes the geometric closeness factor and the intensity similarity factor. We combine the geometric closeness factor with the weight of non-local means, and construct a new weight. Experimental results show that the modified algorithm can achieve better performance. And it can protect the image detail and structure information better.展开更多
A novel image denoising method is proposed based on multiscale wavelet thresholding(WT)and bilateral filtering(BF).First,the image is decomposed into multiscale subbands by wavelet transform.Then,from the top scale to...A novel image denoising method is proposed based on multiscale wavelet thresholding(WT)and bilateral filtering(BF).First,the image is decomposed into multiscale subbands by wavelet transform.Then,from the top scale to the bottom scale,we apply BF to the approximation subbands and WT to the detail subbands.The filtered subbands are reconstructed back to ap-proximation subbands of the lower scale.Finally,subbands are reconstructed in all the scales,and in this way the denoised image is formed.Different from conventional methods such as WT and BF,it can smooth the low-frequency noise efficiently.Experiment results on the image Lena and Rice show that the peak sig-nal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)is improved by at least 3 dB and 0.7 dB compared with using the WT and BF,respectively.In addition,the computational time of the proposed method is almost comparable with that of WT but much less than that of BF.展开更多
Marine oil spills are among the most significant sources of marine pollution.Synthetic aperture radar(SAR)has been used to improve oil spill observations because of its advantages in oil spill detection and identifica...Marine oil spills are among the most significant sources of marine pollution.Synthetic aperture radar(SAR)has been used to improve oil spill observations because of its advantages in oil spill detection and identification.However,speckle noise,weak boundaries,and intensity inhomogeneity often exist in the oil spill regions of SAR imagery,which will seriously aff ect the accurate identification of oil spills.To enhance marine oil spill segmentation of SAR images,a fast,edge-preserving framework based on the distance-regularized level set evolution(DRLSE)model was proposed.Specifically,a bilateral filter penalty term is designed and incorporated into the DRLSE energy function(BF-DRLSE)to preserve the edges of oil spills,and an adaptive initial box boundary was selected for the DRLSE model to reduce the operation time complexity.Two sets of RadarSat-2 SAR data were used to test the proposed method.The experimental results indicate that the bilateral filtering scheme incorporated into the energy function during level set evolution improved the stability of level set evolution.Compared with other methods,the proposed improved BF-DRLSE algorithm displayed a higher overall segmentation accuracy(97.83%).In addition,using an appropriate initial box boundary for the DRLSE method accelerated the global search process,improved the accuracy of oil spill segmentation,and reduced computational time.Therefore,the results suggest that the proposed framework is eff ective and applicable for marine oil spill segmentation.展开更多
A new method based on gray-natural logarithm ratio bilateral filtering is presented for image smoothing in this work. A new gray-natural logarithm ratio range filter kernel, leading to adaptive magnitude from image gr...A new method based on gray-natural logarithm ratio bilateral filtering is presented for image smoothing in this work. A new gray-natural logarithm ratio range filter kernel, leading to adaptive magnitude from image gray distinction information, is pointed out for the bilateral filtering. The new method can not only well restrain noise but also keep much more weak edges and details of an image, and preserve the original color transition of color images. Experimental results show the effectiveness for image denoising with our method.展开更多
In this paper we propose an image magnification reconstruction method. In recent years many interpolation algorithms have been proposed for image magnification, but all of them have defects to some degree, such as jag...In this paper we propose an image magnification reconstruction method. In recent years many interpolation algorithms have been proposed for image magnification, but all of them have defects to some degree, such as jaggies and blurring. To solve these problems, we propose applying post-processing which consists of edge-aware level set diffusion and bilateral filtering. After the initial interpolation, the contours of the image are identified. Next, edge-aware level set diffusion is applied to these significant contours to remove the jaggies, followed by bilateral filtering at the same locations to reduce the blurring created by the initial interpolation and level set diffusion. These processes produce sharp contours without jaggies and preserve the details of the image. Results show that the overall RMS error of our method barely increases while the contour smoothness and sharpness are substantially improved.展开更多
Photographs taken in daily life often became blurred due to shaking,out-of-focus,changes in depth of field,and movement of photographed objects.Aiming at this problem,a double-channel cyclic image deblurring method ba...Photographs taken in daily life often became blurred due to shaking,out-of-focus,changes in depth of field,and movement of photographed objects.Aiming at this problem,a double-channel cyclic image deblurring method based on edge features was proposed.Firstly,image edge gradient operator was introduced as a threshold based on the rule that the maximum value of the image edge gradient will decrease after the blurring process,making the blurred image be divided into two channels:edge channel and non-edge channel.Secondly,a double-channel loop iteration network was designed,where the edge gradient was used in the edge channel to sample the main edge structure and bilateral filtering was used in the non-edge channel to extract the detailed texture feature information.Finally,the feature information extracted from two channels was cyclically iterated to obtain a clear image using the deblurring model with maximum a posteriori probability.The experimental results showed that the image evaluation indexes obtained by the proposed deblurring model were superior to those of other algorithms,and the edge structure and texture details of the image were effectively recovered with better performance.展开更多
In the present study,we propose to integrate the bilateral filter into the Shepard-interpolation-based method for the optimization of composite structures.The bilateral filter is used to avoid defects in the structure...In the present study,we propose to integrate the bilateral filter into the Shepard-interpolation-based method for the optimization of composite structures.The bilateral filter is used to avoid defects in the structure that may arise due to the gap/overlap of adjacent fiber tows or excessive curvature of fiber tows.According to the bilateral filter,sensitivities at design points in the filter area are smoothed by both domain filtering and range filtering.Then,the filtered sensitivities are used to update the design variables.Through several numerical examples,the effectiveness of the method was verified.展开更多
In existing methods for segmented images,either edge point extraction or preservation of edges,compromising contrast images is so sensitive to noise.The Degeneration Threshold Image Detection(DTID)framework has been p...In existing methods for segmented images,either edge point extraction or preservation of edges,compromising contrast images is so sensitive to noise.The Degeneration Threshold Image Detection(DTID)framework has been proposed to improve the contrast of edge filtered images.Initially,DTID uses a Rapid Bilateral Filtering process for filtering edges of contrast images.This filter decomposes input images into base layers in the DTID framework.With minimal filtering time,Rapid Bilateral Filtering handles high dynamic contrast images for smoothening edge preservation.In the DTID framework,Rapid Bilateral Filtering with Shift-Invariant Base Pass Domain Filter is insensitive to noise.This Shift-Invariant Filtering estimates value across edges for removing outliers(i.e.,noise preserving base layers of the contrast image).The intensity values are calculated in the base layer of the contrast image for accurately detecting nearby spatial locations using Shift-Invariant base Pass Domain Filter(SIDF).At last,Affine Planar Transformation is applied to detect edge filtered contrast images in the DTID framework for attaining a high quality of the image.It normalizes the translation and rotation of images.With this,Degeneration Threshold Image Detection maximizes average contrast enhancement quality and performs an experimental evaluation of factors such as detection accuracy,rate,and filtering time on contrast images.Experimental analysis shows that the DTID framework reduces the filtering time taken on contrast images by 54%and improves average contrast enhancement quality by 27%compared to GUMA,HMRF,SWT,and EHS.It provides better performance on the enhancement of average contrast enhancement quality by 28%,detection accuracy rate by 26%,and reduction in filtering time taken on contrast images by 30%compared to state-of-art methods.展开更多
Aimed at low contrast effect on fabric detection,a method based on bilateral filter and frangi filter is proposed. Firstly,in order to reduce the influence of fabric background texture information on the detection res...Aimed at low contrast effect on fabric detection,a method based on bilateral filter and frangi filter is proposed. Firstly,in order to reduce the influence of fabric background texture information on the detection results,bilateral filter is used to deal with the fabric image. Then frangi filter is used to filter the fabric image after bilateral filtering to enhance the fabric defect area information. Finally,a maximum entropy method is implemented on the fabric image after frangi filtering to separate the defected area. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively detect defects.展开更多
The 3D reconstruction using deep learning-based intelligent systems can provide great help for measuring an individual’s height and shape quickly and accurately through 2D motion-blurred images.Generally,during the a...The 3D reconstruction using deep learning-based intelligent systems can provide great help for measuring an individual’s height and shape quickly and accurately through 2D motion-blurred images.Generally,during the acquisition of images in real-time,motion blur,caused by camera shaking or human motion,appears.Deep learning-based intelligent control applied in vision can help us solve the problem.To this end,we propose a 3D reconstruction method for motion-blurred images using deep learning.First,we develop a BF-WGAN algorithm that combines the bilateral filtering(BF)denoising theory with a Wasserstein generative adversarial network(WGAN)to remove motion blur.The bilateral filter denoising algorithm is used to remove the noise and to retain the details of the blurred image.Then,the blurred image and the corresponding sharp image are input into the WGAN.This algorithm distinguishes the motion-blurred image from the corresponding sharp image according to the WGAN loss and perceptual loss functions.Next,we use the deblurred images generated by the BFWGAN algorithm for 3D reconstruction.We propose a threshold optimization random sample consensus(TO-RANSAC)algorithm that can remove the wrong relationship between two views in the 3D reconstructed model relatively accurately.Compared with the traditional RANSAC algorithm,the TO-RANSAC algorithm can adjust the threshold adaptively,which improves the accuracy of the 3D reconstruction results.The experimental results show that our BF-WGAN algorithm has a better deblurring effect and higher efficiency than do other representative algorithms.In addition,the TO-RANSAC algorithm yields a calculation accuracy considerably higher than that of the traditional RANSAC algorithm.展开更多
Aiming at the inaccurate transmission estimation problem of dark channel prior image dehazing algorithm in the sudden change area of depth of field and sky area,a dehazing algorithm using adaptive dark channel fusion ...Aiming at the inaccurate transmission estimation problem of dark channel prior image dehazing algorithm in the sudden change area of depth of field and sky area,a dehazing algorithm using adaptive dark channel fusion and sky compensation is proposed.Firstly,according to the characteristics of minimum filtering of large window scale and small window scale in the dark channel prior,the fused dark channel is obtained by weighted fusion of the approximate depth of field relationship,thus obtaining the primary transmission.Secondly,use the down-sampling to optimize the primary transmission combined with gray scale image of haze image by fast joint bilateral filtering,then restore the original image size by up-sampling,and the compensation of the Gaussian function is used in the sky area to obtain corrected transmission.Finally,the improved atmospheric light is combined with atmospheric scattering model to recover haze-free image.Experimental results show that the algorithm can recover a large amount of detailed information of the image,obtain high visibility,and effectively eliminate the halo effect.At the same time,it has a better recovery effect on bright areas such as the sky area.展开更多
This work presents a robust and rotationally invariant shape descriptor, namely perception pronouncement （called p2）, to mathematically model the eye fixations, p2 takes two criteria - the local consideration of sur...This work presents a robust and rotationally invariant shape descriptor, namely perception pronouncement （called p2）, to mathematically model the eye fixations, p2 takes two criteria - the local consideration of surface curvature and the global consideration of view- independent visibility - into account. Differing from existing works that often computed the intrinsic surface property of visibility in imaging space, a novel approach is proposed to approxi- mate the attribute in object space using Gauss map and Ray tracing. With the presented shape descriptor, mesh saliency detection, which refers to reasoning about which regions or points of a surface axe important, is more sensible, especially when 3D models fall into two categories： （1） the models possess significant interior/exterior structures; （2） the models contain regions where the contrast in visibility is high. For the models that are out of the categories, saliencies achieved by our approach are comparable to or even better than those of state-of-the-axt methods.展开更多
At low bitrate, all block discrete cosine transform (BDCT) based video coding algorithms suffer from visible blocking and ringing artifacts in the reconstructed images because the quantization is too coarse and high f...At low bitrate, all block discrete cosine transform (BDCT) based video coding algorithms suffer from visible blocking and ringing artifacts in the reconstructed images because the quantization is too coarse and high frequency DCT coefficients are inclined to be quantized to zeros. Preprocessing algorithms can enhance coding efficiency and thus reduce the likelihood of blocking artifacts and ringing artifacts generated in the video coding process by applying a low-pass filter before video encoding to remove some relatively insignificant high frequent components. In this paper, we introduce a new adaptive preprocessing algo- rithm, which employs an improved bilateral filter to provide adaptive edge-preserving low-pass filtering which is adjusted ac- cording to the quantization parameters. Whether at low or high bit rate, the preprocessing can provide proper filtering to make the video encoder more efficient and have better reconstructed image quality. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed preprocessing algorithm can significantly improve both subjective and objective quality.展开更多
Motivated by the conception of Lee et al.(2005)’s mesh saliency and Chen (2005)’s contextual discontinuities, a novel adaptive smoothing approach is proposed for noise removal and feature preservation. Mesh saliency...Motivated by the conception of Lee et al.(2005)’s mesh saliency and Chen (2005)’s contextual discontinuities, a novel adaptive smoothing approach is proposed for noise removal and feature preservation. Mesh saliency is employed as a multiscale measure to detect contextual discontinuity for feature preserving and control of the smoothing speed. The proposed method is similar to the bilateral filter method. Comparative results demonstrate the simplicity and efficiency of the presented method, which makes it an excellent solution for smoothing 3D noisy meshes.展开更多
A novel smoothness term of Bayesian regularization framework based on M-estimation of robust statistics is proposed, and from this term a class of fourth-order nonlinear diffusion methods is proposed. These methods at...A novel smoothness term of Bayesian regularization framework based on M-estimation of robust statistics is proposed, and from this term a class of fourth-order nonlinear diffusion methods is proposed. These methods attempt to approximate an observed image with a piecewise linear image, which looks more natural than piecewise constant image used to approximate an observed image by P-M model. It is known that M-estimators and W-estimators are essentially equivalent and solve the same minimization problem. Then, we propose PL bilateral filter from equivalent W-estimator. This new model is designed for piecewise linear image filtering, which is more effective than normal bilateral filter.展开更多
Segmentation of vessel in retinal fundus images is a primary step for the clinical identification for specific eye diseases.Effective diagnosis of vascular pathologies from angiographic images is thus a vital aspect a...Segmentation of vessel in retinal fundus images is a primary step for the clinical identification for specific eye diseases.Effective diagnosis of vascular pathologies from angiographic images is thus a vital aspect and generally depends on segmentation of vascular structure.Although various approaches for retinal vessel segmentation are extensively utilized,however,the responses are lower at vessel’s edges.The curvelet transform signifies edges better than wavelets,and hence convenient for multiscale edge enhancement.The bilateral filter is a nonlinear filter that is capable of providing effective smoothing while preserving strong edges.Fast bilateral filter is an advanced version of bilateral filter that regulates the contrast while preserving the edges.Therefore,in this paper a fusion algorithm is recommended by fusing fast bilateral filter that can effectively preserve the edge details and curvelet transform that has better capability to detect the edge direction feature and better investigation and tracking of significant characteristics of the image.Afterwards C mean thresholding is used for the extraction of vessel.The recommended fusion approach is assessed on DRIVE dataset.Experimental results illustrate that the fusion algorithm preserved the advantages of the both and provides better result.The results demonstrate that the recommended method outperforms the traditional approaches.展开更多
Imaging sonar devices generate sonar images by receiving echoes from objects,which are often accompanied by severe speckle noise,resulting in image distortion and information loss.Common optical denoising methods do n...Imaging sonar devices generate sonar images by receiving echoes from objects,which are often accompanied by severe speckle noise,resulting in image distortion and information loss.Common optical denoising methods do not work well in removing speckle noise from sonar images and may even reduce their visual quality.To address this issue,a sonar image denoising method based on fuzzy clustering and the undecimated dual-tree complex wavelet transform is proposed.This method provides a perfect translation invariance and an improved directional selectivity during image decomposition,leading to richer representation of noise and edges in high frequency coefficients.Fuzzy clustering can separate noise from useful information according to the amplitude characteristics of speckle noise,preserving the latter and achieving the goal of noise removal.Additionally,the low frequency coefficients are smoothed using bilateral filtering to improve the visual quality of the image.To verify the effectiveness of the algorithm,multiple groups of ablation experiments were conducted,and speckle sonar images with different variances were evaluated and compared with existing speckle removal methods in the transform domain.The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve image quality,especially in cases of severe noise,where it still achieves a good denoising performance.展开更多
Super-resolution(SR)algorithms address the inabilities of poor imaging devices,there by producing high quality images with enhanced resolution.We propose a new SR approach which produces sharp high resolution(HR)image...Super-resolution(SR)algorithms address the inabilities of poor imaging devices,there by producing high quality images with enhanced resolution.We propose a new SR approach which produces sharp high resolution(HR)image using its low resolution(LR)counterparts.The proposed method uses geometric duality for spatially adapting covariance-based interpolation(CBI).To preserve edge information,a multi-stage cascaded joint bilateral filter(MSCJBF)is proposed as an intermediary stage.These edges are incorporated in the high frequency subbands obtained by the stationary wavelet transform(SWT),through nearest neighbor interpolation(NNI)method.Prior to the NNI process,the high frequency subbands undergo two-lobed lanczos interpolation to achieve the desired resolution enhancement.The quantitative and qualitative analysis for various test images prove the superiority of our method.展开更多
Haze scatters light transmitted in the air and reduces the visibility of images.Dealing with haze is still a challenge for image processing applications nowadays.For the purpose of haze removal,we propose an accelerat...Haze scatters light transmitted in the air and reduces the visibility of images.Dealing with haze is still a challenge for image processing applications nowadays.For the purpose of haze removal,we propose an accelerated dehazing method based on single pixels.Unlike other methods based on regions,our method estimates the transmission map and atmospheric light for each pixel independently,so that all parameters can be evaluated in one traverse,which is a key to acceleration.Then,the transmission map is bilaterally filtered to restore the relationship between pixels.After restoration via the linear hazy model,the restored images are tuned to improve the contrast,value,and saturation,in particular to offset the intensity errors in different channels caused by the corresponding wavelengths.The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed dehazing method outperforms the state-of-the-art dehazing methods in terms of processing speed.Comparisons with other dehazing methods and quantitative criteria(peak signal-to-noise ratio,detectable marginal rate,and information entropy difference)are introduced to verify its performance.展开更多
基金the Scientific Research Project of Zhejiang Education Department of China (No. Y20108569)the Soft Science Project of Ningbo of China (No. 2011A1058)the Soft Science of Zhejiang Association for Science and Technology of China (No. KX12E-10)
文摘In order to preferably identify infrared image of refuge chamber, reduce image noises of refuge chamber and retain more image details, we propose the method of combining two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform and bilateral denoising. First, the wavelet transform is adopted to decompose the image of refuge chamber, of which low frequency component remains unchanged. Then, three high-frequency components are treated by bilateral filtering, and the image is reconstructed. The result shows that the combination of bilateral filtering and wavelet transform for image denoising can better retain the details which are included in the image, while providing better visual effect. This is superior to using either bilateral filtering or wavelet transform alone. It is useful for perfecting emergency refuge system of coal mines.
基金supported by the Student’s Platform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program(No.201510060022)
文摘This paper presents an image denoising method based on bilateral filtering and non-local means. The non-local region texture or structure of the image has the characteristics of repetition, which can be used to effectively preserve the edge and detail of the image. And compared with classical methods, bilateral filtering method has a better performance in denosing for the reason that the weight includes the geometric closeness factor and the intensity similarity factor. We combine the geometric closeness factor with the weight of non-local means, and construct a new weight. Experimental results show that the modified algorithm can achieve better performance. And it can protect the image detail and structure information better.
基金Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program)(2006AA040307)
文摘A novel image denoising method is proposed based on multiscale wavelet thresholding(WT)and bilateral filtering(BF).First,the image is decomposed into multiscale subbands by wavelet transform.Then,from the top scale to the bottom scale,we apply BF to the approximation subbands and WT to the detail subbands.The filtered subbands are reconstructed back to ap-proximation subbands of the lower scale.Finally,subbands are reconstructed in all the scales,and in this way the denoised image is formed.Different from conventional methods such as WT and BF,it can smooth the low-frequency noise efficiently.Experiment results on the image Lena and Rice show that the peak sig-nal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)is improved by at least 3 dB and 0.7 dB compared with using the WT and BF,respectively.In addition,the computational time of the proposed method is almost comparable with that of WT but much less than that of BF.
基金Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2017YFC1405600)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41776182,42076182)the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(No.ZR2016DM16)。
文摘Marine oil spills are among the most significant sources of marine pollution.Synthetic aperture radar(SAR)has been used to improve oil spill observations because of its advantages in oil spill detection and identification.However,speckle noise,weak boundaries,and intensity inhomogeneity often exist in the oil spill regions of SAR imagery,which will seriously aff ect the accurate identification of oil spills.To enhance marine oil spill segmentation of SAR images,a fast,edge-preserving framework based on the distance-regularized level set evolution(DRLSE)model was proposed.Specifically,a bilateral filter penalty term is designed and incorporated into the DRLSE energy function(BF-DRLSE)to preserve the edges of oil spills,and an adaptive initial box boundary was selected for the DRLSE model to reduce the operation time complexity.Two sets of RadarSat-2 SAR data were used to test the proposed method.The experimental results indicate that the bilateral filtering scheme incorporated into the energy function during level set evolution improved the stability of level set evolution.Compared with other methods,the proposed improved BF-DRLSE algorithm displayed a higher overall segmentation accuracy(97.83%).In addition,using an appropriate initial box boundary for the DRLSE method accelerated the global search process,improved the accuracy of oil spill segmentation,and reduced computational time.Therefore,the results suggest that the proposed framework is eff ective and applicable for marine oil spill segmentation.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60778046.
文摘A new method based on gray-natural logarithm ratio bilateral filtering is presented for image smoothing in this work. A new gray-natural logarithm ratio range filter kernel, leading to adaptive magnitude from image gray distinction information, is pointed out for the bilateral filtering. The new method can not only well restrain noise but also keep much more weak edges and details of an image, and preserve the original color transition of color images. Experimental results show the effectiveness for image denoising with our method.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.60703003 and 60641002
文摘In this paper we propose an image magnification reconstruction method. In recent years many interpolation algorithms have been proposed for image magnification, but all of them have defects to some degree, such as jaggies and blurring. To solve these problems, we propose applying post-processing which consists of edge-aware level set diffusion and bilateral filtering. After the initial interpolation, the contours of the image are identified. Next, edge-aware level set diffusion is applied to these significant contours to remove the jaggies, followed by bilateral filtering at the same locations to reduce the blurring created by the initial interpolation and level set diffusion. These processes produce sharp contours without jaggies and preserve the details of the image. Results show that the overall RMS error of our method barely increases while the contour smoothness and sharpness are substantially improved.
基金supported in part by Natural Science Research Foundation of Shanxi Province(Nos.20210302123019,20210302124195,20210302124212,20210302123189)。
文摘Photographs taken in daily life often became blurred due to shaking,out-of-focus,changes in depth of field,and movement of photographed objects.Aiming at this problem,a double-channel cyclic image deblurring method based on edge features was proposed.Firstly,image edge gradient operator was introduced as a threshold based on the rule that the maximum value of the image edge gradient will decrease after the blurring process,making the blurred image be divided into two channels:edge channel and non-edge channel.Secondly,a double-channel loop iteration network was designed,where the edge gradient was used in the edge channel to sample the main edge structure and bilateral filtering was used in the non-edge channel to extract the detailed texture feature information.Finally,the feature information extracted from two channels was cyclically iterated to obtain a clear image using the deblurring model with maximum a posteriori probability.The experimental results showed that the image evaluation indexes obtained by the proposed deblurring model were superior to those of other algorithms,and the edge structure and texture details of the image were effectively recovered with better performance.
基金This research work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51975227)the Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hubei Province,China(Grant No.2017CFA044).
文摘In the present study,we propose to integrate the bilateral filter into the Shepard-interpolation-based method for the optimization of composite structures.The bilateral filter is used to avoid defects in the structure that may arise due to the gap/overlap of adjacent fiber tows or excessive curvature of fiber tows.According to the bilateral filter,sensitivities at design points in the filter area are smoothed by both domain filtering and range filtering.Then,the filtered sensitivities are used to update the design variables.Through several numerical examples,the effectiveness of the method was verified.
文摘In existing methods for segmented images,either edge point extraction or preservation of edges,compromising contrast images is so sensitive to noise.The Degeneration Threshold Image Detection(DTID)framework has been proposed to improve the contrast of edge filtered images.Initially,DTID uses a Rapid Bilateral Filtering process for filtering edges of contrast images.This filter decomposes input images into base layers in the DTID framework.With minimal filtering time,Rapid Bilateral Filtering handles high dynamic contrast images for smoothening edge preservation.In the DTID framework,Rapid Bilateral Filtering with Shift-Invariant Base Pass Domain Filter is insensitive to noise.This Shift-Invariant Filtering estimates value across edges for removing outliers(i.e.,noise preserving base layers of the contrast image).The intensity values are calculated in the base layer of the contrast image for accurately detecting nearby spatial locations using Shift-Invariant base Pass Domain Filter(SIDF).At last,Affine Planar Transformation is applied to detect edge filtered contrast images in the DTID framework for attaining a high quality of the image.It normalizes the translation and rotation of images.With this,Degeneration Threshold Image Detection maximizes average contrast enhancement quality and performs an experimental evaluation of factors such as detection accuracy,rate,and filtering time on contrast images.Experimental analysis shows that the DTID framework reduces the filtering time taken on contrast images by 54%and improves average contrast enhancement quality by 27%compared to GUMA,HMRF,SWT,and EHS.It provides better performance on the enhancement of average contrast enhancement quality by 28%,detection accuracy rate by 26%,and reduction in filtering time taken on contrast images by 30%compared to state-of-art methods.
文摘Aimed at low contrast effect on fabric detection,a method based on bilateral filter and frangi filter is proposed. Firstly,in order to reduce the influence of fabric background texture information on the detection results,bilateral filter is used to deal with the fabric image. Then frangi filter is used to filter the fabric image after bilateral filtering to enhance the fabric defect area information. Finally,a maximum entropy method is implemented on the fabric image after frangi filtering to separate the defected area. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively detect defects.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61902311in part by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS)Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(KAKENHI)under Grant JP18K18044.
文摘The 3D reconstruction using deep learning-based intelligent systems can provide great help for measuring an individual’s height and shape quickly and accurately through 2D motion-blurred images.Generally,during the acquisition of images in real-time,motion blur,caused by camera shaking or human motion,appears.Deep learning-based intelligent control applied in vision can help us solve the problem.To this end,we propose a 3D reconstruction method for motion-blurred images using deep learning.First,we develop a BF-WGAN algorithm that combines the bilateral filtering(BF)denoising theory with a Wasserstein generative adversarial network(WGAN)to remove motion blur.The bilateral filter denoising algorithm is used to remove the noise and to retain the details of the blurred image.Then,the blurred image and the corresponding sharp image are input into the WGAN.This algorithm distinguishes the motion-blurred image from the corresponding sharp image according to the WGAN loss and perceptual loss functions.Next,we use the deblurred images generated by the BFWGAN algorithm for 3D reconstruction.We propose a threshold optimization random sample consensus(TO-RANSAC)algorithm that can remove the wrong relationship between two views in the 3D reconstructed model relatively accurately.Compared with the traditional RANSAC algorithm,the TO-RANSAC algorithm can adjust the threshold adaptively,which improves the accuracy of the 3D reconstruction results.The experimental results show that our BF-WGAN algorithm has a better deblurring effect and higher efficiency than do other representative algorithms.In addition,the TO-RANSAC algorithm yields a calculation accuracy considerably higher than that of the traditional RANSAC algorithm.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61561030)Natural Science Foundation of Science and Technology Department of Gansu Province(No.1310RJZA050)Basic Research Projects Supported by Operating Expenses of Finance Department of Gansu Province(No.214138)。
文摘Aiming at the inaccurate transmission estimation problem of dark channel prior image dehazing algorithm in the sudden change area of depth of field and sky area,a dehazing algorithm using adaptive dark channel fusion and sky compensation is proposed.Firstly,according to the characteristics of minimum filtering of large window scale and small window scale in the dark channel prior,the fused dark channel is obtained by weighted fusion of the approximate depth of field relationship,thus obtaining the primary transmission.Secondly,use the down-sampling to optimize the primary transmission combined with gray scale image of haze image by fast joint bilateral filtering,then restore the original image size by up-sampling,and the compensation of the Gaussian function is used in the sky area to obtain corrected transmission.Finally,the improved atmospheric light is combined with atmospheric scattering model to recover haze-free image.Experimental results show that the algorithm can recover a large amount of detailed information of the image,obtain high visibility,and effectively eliminate the halo effect.At the same time,it has a better recovery effect on bright areas such as the sky area.
基金Supported by China Scholarship Council(201206230015)China NSFC Key Project(61133009)the National 973 Program of China(2011CB302203)
文摘This work presents a robust and rotationally invariant shape descriptor, namely perception pronouncement （called p2）, to mathematically model the eye fixations, p2 takes two criteria - the local consideration of surface curvature and the global consideration of view- independent visibility - into account. Differing from existing works that often computed the intrinsic surface property of visibility in imaging space, a novel approach is proposed to approxi- mate the attribute in object space using Gauss map and Ray tracing. With the presented shape descriptor, mesh saliency detection, which refers to reasoning about which regions or points of a surface axe important, is more sensible, especially when 3D models fall into two categories： （1） the models possess significant interior/exterior structures; （2） the models contain regions where the contrast in visibility is high. For the models that are out of the categories, saliencies achieved by our approach are comparable to or even better than those of state-of-the-axt methods.
基金Project (No. 2006CB303104) supported by the National Basic Re-search Program (973) of China
文摘At low bitrate, all block discrete cosine transform (BDCT) based video coding algorithms suffer from visible blocking and ringing artifacts in the reconstructed images because the quantization is too coarse and high frequency DCT coefficients are inclined to be quantized to zeros. Preprocessing algorithms can enhance coding efficiency and thus reduce the likelihood of blocking artifacts and ringing artifacts generated in the video coding process by applying a low-pass filter before video encoding to remove some relatively insignificant high frequent components. In this paper, we introduce a new adaptive preprocessing algo- rithm, which employs an improved bilateral filter to provide adaptive edge-preserving low-pass filtering which is adjusted ac- cording to the quantization parameters. Whether at low or high bit rate, the preprocessing can provide proper filtering to make the video encoder more efficient and have better reconstructed image quality. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed preprocessing algorithm can significantly improve both subjective and objective quality.
基金Project supported by the National Science Fund for Creative Re-search Groups (No. 60521002), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 60373070 and 60573147)
文摘Motivated by the conception of Lee et al.(2005)’s mesh saliency and Chen (2005)’s contextual discontinuities, a novel adaptive smoothing approach is proposed for noise removal and feature preservation. Mesh saliency is employed as a multiscale measure to detect contextual discontinuity for feature preserving and control of the smoothing speed. The proposed method is similar to the bilateral filter method. Comparative results demonstrate the simplicity and efficiency of the presented method, which makes it an excellent solution for smoothing 3D noisy meshes.
文摘A novel smoothness term of Bayesian regularization framework based on M-estimation of robust statistics is proposed, and from this term a class of fourth-order nonlinear diffusion methods is proposed. These methods attempt to approximate an observed image with a piecewise linear image, which looks more natural than piecewise constant image used to approximate an observed image by P-M model. It is known that M-estimators and W-estimators are essentially equivalent and solve the same minimization problem. Then, we propose PL bilateral filter from equivalent W-estimator. This new model is designed for piecewise linear image filtering, which is more effective than normal bilateral filter.
基金The authors would like to thank for the support from Taif University Researchers Supporting Project number(TURSP-2020/239),Taif University,Taif,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Segmentation of vessel in retinal fundus images is a primary step for the clinical identification for specific eye diseases.Effective diagnosis of vascular pathologies from angiographic images is thus a vital aspect and generally depends on segmentation of vascular structure.Although various approaches for retinal vessel segmentation are extensively utilized,however,the responses are lower at vessel’s edges.The curvelet transform signifies edges better than wavelets,and hence convenient for multiscale edge enhancement.The bilateral filter is a nonlinear filter that is capable of providing effective smoothing while preserving strong edges.Fast bilateral filter is an advanced version of bilateral filter that regulates the contrast while preserving the edges.Therefore,in this paper a fusion algorithm is recommended by fusing fast bilateral filter that can effectively preserve the edge details and curvelet transform that has better capability to detect the edge direction feature and better investigation and tracking of significant characteristics of the image.Afterwards C mean thresholding is used for the extraction of vessel.The recommended fusion approach is assessed on DRIVE dataset.Experimental results illustrate that the fusion algorithm preserved the advantages of the both and provides better result.The results demonstrate that the recommended method outperforms the traditional approaches.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62065001)the Yunnan Young and Middle-aged Academic and Technical Leaders Reserve Talent Project(No.202205AC160001)+1 种基金the Science and Technology Programs of Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department(No.202101BA070001-054)the Special Basic Cooperative Research Programs of Yunnan Provincial Undergraduate Universities Association(No.2019FH001(-066))。
文摘Imaging sonar devices generate sonar images by receiving echoes from objects,which are often accompanied by severe speckle noise,resulting in image distortion and information loss.Common optical denoising methods do not work well in removing speckle noise from sonar images and may even reduce their visual quality.To address this issue,a sonar image denoising method based on fuzzy clustering and the undecimated dual-tree complex wavelet transform is proposed.This method provides a perfect translation invariance and an improved directional selectivity during image decomposition,leading to richer representation of noise and edges in high frequency coefficients.Fuzzy clustering can separate noise from useful information according to the amplitude characteristics of speckle noise,preserving the latter and achieving the goal of noise removal.Additionally,the low frequency coefficients are smoothed using bilateral filtering to improve the visual quality of the image.To verify the effectiveness of the algorithm,multiple groups of ablation experiments were conducted,and speckle sonar images with different variances were evaluated and compared with existing speckle removal methods in the transform domain.The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve image quality,especially in cases of severe noise,where it still achieves a good denoising performance.
文摘Super-resolution(SR)algorithms address the inabilities of poor imaging devices,there by producing high quality images with enhanced resolution.We propose a new SR approach which produces sharp high resolution(HR)image using its low resolution(LR)counterparts.The proposed method uses geometric duality for spatially adapting covariance-based interpolation(CBI).To preserve edge information,a multi-stage cascaded joint bilateral filter(MSCJBF)is proposed as an intermediary stage.These edges are incorporated in the high frequency subbands obtained by the stationary wavelet transform(SWT),through nearest neighbor interpolation(NNI)method.Prior to the NNI process,the high frequency subbands undergo two-lobed lanczos interpolation to achieve the desired resolution enhancement.The quantitative and qualitative analysis for various test images prove the superiority of our method.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U1664264 and U1509203)
文摘Haze scatters light transmitted in the air and reduces the visibility of images.Dealing with haze is still a challenge for image processing applications nowadays.For the purpose of haze removal,we propose an accelerated dehazing method based on single pixels.Unlike other methods based on regions,our method estimates the transmission map and atmospheric light for each pixel independently,so that all parameters can be evaluated in one traverse,which is a key to acceleration.Then,the transmission map is bilaterally filtered to restore the relationship between pixels.After restoration via the linear hazy model,the restored images are tuned to improve the contrast,value,and saturation,in particular to offset the intensity errors in different channels caused by the corresponding wavelengths.The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed dehazing method outperforms the state-of-the-art dehazing methods in terms of processing speed.Comparisons with other dehazing methods and quantitative criteria(peak signal-to-noise ratio,detectable marginal rate,and information entropy difference)are introduced to verify its performance.
