Underwater images frequently suffer from chromatic distortion,blurred details,and low contrast,posing significant challenges for enhancement.This paper introduces AquaTree,a novel underwater image enhancement(UIE)meth...Underwater images frequently suffer from chromatic distortion,blurred details,and low contrast,posing significant challenges for enhancement.This paper introduces AquaTree,a novel underwater image enhancement(UIE)method that reformulates the task as a Markov Decision Process(MDP)through the integration of Monte Carlo Tree Search(MCTS)and deep reinforcement learning(DRL).The framework employs an action space of 25 enhancement operators,strategically grouped for basic attribute adjustment,color component balance,correction,and deblurring.Exploration within MCTS is guided by a dual-branch convolutional network,enabling intelligent sequential operator selection.Our core contributions include:(1)a multimodal state representation combining CIELab color histograms with deep perceptual features,(2)a dual-objective reward mechanism optimizing chromatic fidelity and perceptual consistency,and(3)an alternating training strategy co-optimizing enhancement sequences and network parameters.We further propose two inference schemes:an MCTS-based approach prioritizing accuracy at higher computational cost,and an efficient network policy enabling real-time processing with minimal quality loss.Comprehensive evaluations on the UIEB Dataset and Color correction and haze removal comparisons on the U45 Dataset demonstrate AquaTree’s superiority,significantly outperforming nine state-of-the-art methods across five established underwater image quality metrics.展开更多
Low-light images often have defects such as low visibility,low contrast,high noise,and high color distortion compared with well-exposed images.If the low-light region of an image is enhanced directly,the noise will in...Low-light images often have defects such as low visibility,low contrast,high noise,and high color distortion compared with well-exposed images.If the low-light region of an image is enhanced directly,the noise will inevitably blur the whole image.Besides,according to the retina-and-cortex(retinex)theory of color vision,the reflectivity of different image regions may differ,limiting the enhancement performance of applying uniform operations to the entire image.Therefore,we design a Hierarchical Flow Learning(HFL)framework,which consists of a Hierarchical Image Network(HIN)and a normalized invertible Flow Learning Network(FLN).HIN can extract hierarchical structural features from low-light images,while FLN maps the distribution of normally exposed images to a Gaussian distribution using the learned hierarchical features of low-light images.In subsequent testing,the reversibility of FLN allows inferring and obtaining enhanced low-light images.Specifically,the HIN extracts as much image information as possible from three scales,local,regional,and global,using a Triple-branch Hierarchical Fusion Module(THFM)and a Dual-Dconv Cross Fusion Module(DCFM).The THFM aggregates regional and global features to enhance the overall brightness and quality of low-light images by perceiving and extracting more structure information,whereas the DCFM uses the properties of the activation function and local features to enhance images at the pixel-level to reduce noise and improve contrast.In addition,in this paper,the model was trained using a negative log-likelihood loss function.Qualitative and quantitative experimental results demonstrate that our HFL can better handle many quality degradation types in low-light images compared with state-of-the-art solutions.The HFL model enhances low-light images with better visibility,less noise,and improved contrast,suitable for practical scenarios such as autonomous driving,medical imaging,and nighttime surveillance.Outperforming them by PSNR=27.26 dB,SSIM=0.93,and LPIPS=0.10 on benchmark dataset LOL-v1.The source code of HFL is available at https://github.com/Smile-QT/HFL-for-LIE.展开更多
Important in many different sectors of the industry, the determination of stream velocity has become more and more important due to measurements precision necessity, in order to determine the right production rates, d...Important in many different sectors of the industry, the determination of stream velocity has become more and more important due to measurements precision necessity, in order to determine the right production rates, determine the volumetric production of undesired fluid, establish automated controls based on these measurements avoiding over-flooding or over-production, guaranteeing accurate predictive maintenance, etc. Difficulties being faced have been the determination of the velocity of specific fluids embedded in some others, for example, determining the gas bubbles stream velocity flowing throughout liquid fluid phase. Although different and already applicable methods have been researched and already implemented within the industry, a non-intrusive automated way of providing those stream velocities has its importance, and may have a huge impact in projects budget. Knowing the importance of its determination, this developed script uses a methodology of breaking-down real-time videos media into frame images, analyzing by pixel correlations possible superposition matches for further gas bubbles stream velocity estimation. In raw sense, the script bases itself in functions and procedures already available in MatLab, which can be used for image processing and treatments, allowing the methodology to be implemented. Its accuracy after the running test was of around 97% (ninety-seven percent);the raw source code with comments had almost 3000 (three thousand) characters;and the hardware placed for running the code was an Intel Core Duo 2.13 [Ghz] and 2 [Gb] RAM memory capable workstation. Even showing good results, it could be stated that just the end point correlations were actually getting to the final solution. So that, making use of self-learning functions or neural network, one could surely enhance the capability of the application to be run in real-time without getting exhaust by iterative loops.展开更多
The unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)images captured under low-light conditions are often suffering from noise and uneven illumination.To address these issues,we propose a low-light image enhancement algorithm for UAV imag...The unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)images captured under low-light conditions are often suffering from noise and uneven illumination.To address these issues,we propose a low-light image enhancement algorithm for UAV images,which is inspired by the Retinex theory and guided by a light weighted map.Firstly,we propose a new network for reflectance component processing to suppress the noise in images.Secondly,we construct an illumination enhancement module that uses a light weighted map to guide the enhancement process.Finally,the processed reflectance and illumination components are recombined to obtain the enhancement results.Experimental results show that our method can suppress the noise in images while enhancing image brightness,and prevent over enhancement in bright regions.Code and data are available at https://gitee.com/baixiaotong2/uav-images.git.展开更多
Under low-illumination conditions, the quality of image signals deteriorates significantly, typically characterized by a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) below 10 dB, which severely limits the usability of the images...Under low-illumination conditions, the quality of image signals deteriorates significantly, typically characterized by a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) below 10 dB, which severely limits the usability of the images. Supervised methods, which utilize paired high-low light images as training sets, can enhance the PSNR to around 20 dB, significantly improving image quality. However, such data is challenging to obtain. In recent years, unsupervised low-light image enhancement (LIE) methods based on the Retinex framework have been proposed, but they generally lag behind supervised methods by 5–10 dB in performance. In this paper, we introduce the Denoising-Distilled Retine (DDR) method, an unsupervised approach that integrates denoising priors into a Retinex-based training framework. By explicitly incorporating denoising, the DDR method effectively addresses the challenges of noise and artifacts in low-light images, thereby enhancing the performance of the Retinex framework. The model achieved a PSNR of 19.82 dB on the LOL dataset, which is comparable to the performance of supervised methods. Furthermore, by applying knowledge distillation, the DDR method optimizes the model for real-time processing of low-light images, achieving a processing speed of 199.7 fps without incurring additional computational costs. While the DDR method has demonstrated superior performance in terms of image quality and processing speed, there is still room for improvement in terms of robustness across different color spaces and under highly resource-constrained conditions. Future research will focus on enhancing the model’s generalizability and adaptability to address these challenges. Our rigorous testing on public datasets further substantiates the DDR method’s state-of-the-art performance in both image quality and processing speed.展开更多
To overcome the shortcomings of the Lee image enhancement algorithm and its improvement based on the logarithmic image processing(LIP) model, this paper proposes what we believe to be an effective image enhancement al...To overcome the shortcomings of the Lee image enhancement algorithm and its improvement based on the logarithmic image processing(LIP) model, this paper proposes what we believe to be an effective image enhancement algorithm. This algorithm introduces fuzzy entropy, makes full use of neighborhood information, fuzzy information and human visual characteristics.To enhance an image, this paper first carries out the reasonable fuzzy-3 partition of its histogram into the dark region, intermediate region and bright region. It then extracts the statistical characteristics of the three regions and adaptively selects the parameter αaccording to the statistical characteristics of the image’s gray-scale values. It also adds a useful nonlinear transform, thus increasing the ubiquity of the algorithm. Finally, the causes for the gray-scale value overcorrection that occurs in the traditional image enhancement algorithms are analyzed and their solutions are proposed.The simulation results show that our image enhancement algorithm can effectively suppress the noise of an image, enhance its contrast and visual effect, sharpen its edge and adjust its dynamic range.展开更多
The measurement of the surface quality and the profile preciseness is major issues in many industrial branches such that the surface quality of semi products directly affects the subsequent production steps.Although,t...The measurement of the surface quality and the profile preciseness is major issues in many industrial branches such that the surface quality of semi products directly affects the subsequent production steps.Although,there are many ways to obtain required data,the hardware necessary for the measurements such as 2D or 3D scanners,depending on the problem’s complexity,is too expensive.Therefore,in this paper,what we put forward as a novelty is an algorithm which is verified on the model of simple 3D scanner on the image processing basis with the resolution of 0.1 mm.There are many ways to scan surface profile;however,the image processing currently is the most trending topic in industry automation.Most importantly,in order to obtain surface images,standard high resolution reflex camera is used and thus the post processing could be realized with MatLab as the software environment.Therefore,this solution is an alternative to the expensive scanners,and single-purpose devices could be extended by many additional functions.展开更多
Disease recognition in plants is one of the essential problems in agricultural image processing.This article focuses on designing a framework that can recognize and classify diseases on pomegranate plants exactly.The ...Disease recognition in plants is one of the essential problems in agricultural image processing.This article focuses on designing a framework that can recognize and classify diseases on pomegranate plants exactly.The framework utilizes image processing techniques such as image acquisition,image resizing,image enhancement,image segmentation,ROI extraction(region of interest),and feature extraction.An image dataset related to pomegranate leaf disease is utilized to implement the framework,divided into a training set and a test set.In the implementation process,techniques such as image enhancement and image segmentation are primarily used for identifying ROI and features.An image classification will then be implemented by combining a supervised learning model with a support vector machine.The proposed framework is developed based on MATLAB with a graphical user interface.According to the experimental results,the proposed framework can achieve 98.39%accuracy for classifying diseased and healthy leaves.Moreover,the framework can achieve an accuracy of 98.07%for classifying diseases on pomegranate leaves.展开更多
The current study provides a quantum calculus-based medical image enhancement technique that dynamically chooses the spatial distribution of image pixel intensity values.The technique focuses on boosting the edges and...The current study provides a quantum calculus-based medical image enhancement technique that dynamically chooses the spatial distribution of image pixel intensity values.The technique focuses on boosting the edges and texture of an image while leaving the smooth areas alone.The brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)scans are used to visualize the tumors that have spread throughout the brain in order to gain a better understanding of the stage of brain cancer.Accurately detecting brain cancer is a complex challenge that the medical system faces when diagnosing the disease.To solve this issue,this research offers a quantum calculus-based MRI image enhancement as a pre-processing step for brain cancer diagnosis.The proposed image enhancement approach improves images with low gray level changes by estimating the pixel’s quantum probability.The suggested image enhancement technique is demonstrated to be robust and resistant to major quality changes on a variety ofMRIscan datasets of variable quality.ForMRI scans,the BRISQUE“blind/referenceless image spatial quality evaluator”and the NIQE“natural image quality evaluator”measures were 39.38 and 3.58,respectively.The proposed image enhancement model,according to the data,produces the best image quality ratings,and it may be able to aid medical experts in the diagnosis process.The experimental results were achieved using a publicly available collection of MRI scans.展开更多
In recent times,an image enhancement approach,which learns the global transformation function using deep neural networks,has gained attention.However,many existing methods based on this approach have a limitation:thei...In recent times,an image enhancement approach,which learns the global transformation function using deep neural networks,has gained attention.However,many existing methods based on this approach have a limitation:their transformation functions are too simple to imitate complex colour transformations between low-quality images and manually retouched high-quality images.In order to address this limitation,a simple yet effective approach for image enhancement is proposed.The proposed algorithm based on the channel-wise intensity transformation is designed.However,this transformation is applied to the learnt embedding space instead of specific colour spaces and then return enhanced features to colours.To this end,the authors define the continuous intensity transformation(CIT)to describe the mapping between input and output intensities on the embedding space.Then,the enhancement network is developed,which produces multi-scale feature maps from input images,derives the set of transformation functions,and performs the CIT to obtain enhanced images.Extensive experiments on the MIT-Adobe 5K dataset demonstrate that the authors’approach improves the performance of conventional intensity transforms on colour space metrics.Specifically,the authors achieved a 3.8%improvement in peak signal-to-noise ratio,a 1.8%improvement in structual similarity index measure,and a 27.5%improvement in learned perceptual image patch similarity.Also,the authors’algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives on three image enhancement datasets:MIT-Adobe 5K,Low-Light,and Google HDRþ.展开更多
Medical imaging includes different modalities and processes to visualize the interior of human body for diagnostic and treatment purpose. However, one of the most common degradations in medical images is their poor co...Medical imaging includes different modalities and processes to visualize the interior of human body for diagnostic and treatment purpose. However, one of the most common degradations in medical images is their poor contrast quality and noise. The existence of several objects and the close proximity of adjacent pixels values make the diagnostic process a daunting task. The idea of image enhancement techniques is to improve the quality of an image. In this study, morphological transform operation is carried out on medical images to enhance the contrast and quality. A disk shaped mask is used in Top-Hat and Bottom-Hat transform and this mask plays a vital role in the operation. Different types and sizes of medical images need different masks so that they can be successfully enhanced. The method shown in this study takes a mask of an arbitrary size and keeps changing its size until an optimum enhanced image is obtained from the transformation operation. The enhancement is achieved via an iterative exfoliation process. The results indicate that this method improves the contrast of medical images and can help with better diagnosis.展开更多
Aiming at the problem,i.e.infrared images own the characters of bad contrast ratio and fuzzy edges,a method to enhance the contrast of infrared image is given,which is based on stationary wavelet transform.After makin...Aiming at the problem,i.e.infrared images own the characters of bad contrast ratio and fuzzy edges,a method to enhance the contrast of infrared image is given,which is based on stationary wavelet transform.After making stationary wavelet transform to an infrared image,denoising is done by the proposed method of double-threshold shrinkage in detail coefficient matrixes that have high noisy intensity.For the approximation coefficient matrix with low noisy intensity,enhancement is done by the proposed method based on histogram.The enhanced image can be got by wavelet coefficient reconstruction.Furthermore,an evaluation criterion of enhancement performance is introduced.The results show that this algorithm ensures target enhancement and restrains additive Gauss white noise effectively.At the same time,its amount of calculation is small and operation speed is fast.展开更多
基金supported by theHubei Provincial Technology Innovation Special Project and the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province under Grants 2023BEB024,2024AFC066,respectively.
文摘Underwater images frequently suffer from chromatic distortion,blurred details,and low contrast,posing significant challenges for enhancement.This paper introduces AquaTree,a novel underwater image enhancement(UIE)method that reformulates the task as a Markov Decision Process(MDP)through the integration of Monte Carlo Tree Search(MCTS)and deep reinforcement learning(DRL).The framework employs an action space of 25 enhancement operators,strategically grouped for basic attribute adjustment,color component balance,correction,and deblurring.Exploration within MCTS is guided by a dual-branch convolutional network,enabling intelligent sequential operator selection.Our core contributions include:(1)a multimodal state representation combining CIELab color histograms with deep perceptual features,(2)a dual-objective reward mechanism optimizing chromatic fidelity and perceptual consistency,and(3)an alternating training strategy co-optimizing enhancement sequences and network parameters.We further propose two inference schemes:an MCTS-based approach prioritizing accuracy at higher computational cost,and an efficient network policy enabling real-time processing with minimal quality loss.Comprehensive evaluations on the UIEB Dataset and Color correction and haze removal comparisons on the U45 Dataset demonstrate AquaTree’s superiority,significantly outperforming nine state-of-the-art methods across five established underwater image quality metrics.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61971078,61501070)the Scientific Research Foundation of Chongqing University of Technology(Grant No.0121230236)the Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission(Grant No.KJ202301165).
文摘Low-light images often have defects such as low visibility,low contrast,high noise,and high color distortion compared with well-exposed images.If the low-light region of an image is enhanced directly,the noise will inevitably blur the whole image.Besides,according to the retina-and-cortex(retinex)theory of color vision,the reflectivity of different image regions may differ,limiting the enhancement performance of applying uniform operations to the entire image.Therefore,we design a Hierarchical Flow Learning(HFL)framework,which consists of a Hierarchical Image Network(HIN)and a normalized invertible Flow Learning Network(FLN).HIN can extract hierarchical structural features from low-light images,while FLN maps the distribution of normally exposed images to a Gaussian distribution using the learned hierarchical features of low-light images.In subsequent testing,the reversibility of FLN allows inferring and obtaining enhanced low-light images.Specifically,the HIN extracts as much image information as possible from three scales,local,regional,and global,using a Triple-branch Hierarchical Fusion Module(THFM)and a Dual-Dconv Cross Fusion Module(DCFM).The THFM aggregates regional and global features to enhance the overall brightness and quality of low-light images by perceiving and extracting more structure information,whereas the DCFM uses the properties of the activation function and local features to enhance images at the pixel-level to reduce noise and improve contrast.In addition,in this paper,the model was trained using a negative log-likelihood loss function.Qualitative and quantitative experimental results demonstrate that our HFL can better handle many quality degradation types in low-light images compared with state-of-the-art solutions.The HFL model enhances low-light images with better visibility,less noise,and improved contrast,suitable for practical scenarios such as autonomous driving,medical imaging,and nighttime surveillance.Outperforming them by PSNR=27.26 dB,SSIM=0.93,and LPIPS=0.10 on benchmark dataset LOL-v1.The source code of HFL is available at https://github.com/Smile-QT/HFL-for-LIE.
基金financial support from the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education(Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior—CAPES,scholarship process no BEX 0506/15-0)the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum,Natural Gas and Biofuels(Agencia Nacional do Petroleo,Gas Natural e Biocombustiveis—ANP),in cooperation with the Brazilian Financier of Studies and Projects(Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos—FINEP)the Brazilian Ministry of Science,Technology and Innovation(Ministério da Ciencia,Tecnologia e Inovacao—MCTI)through the ANP’s Human Resources Program of the State University of Sao Paulo(Universidade Estadual Paulista—UNESP)for the Oil and Gas Sector PRH-ANP/MCTI no 48(PRH48).
文摘Important in many different sectors of the industry, the determination of stream velocity has become more and more important due to measurements precision necessity, in order to determine the right production rates, determine the volumetric production of undesired fluid, establish automated controls based on these measurements avoiding over-flooding or over-production, guaranteeing accurate predictive maintenance, etc. Difficulties being faced have been the determination of the velocity of specific fluids embedded in some others, for example, determining the gas bubbles stream velocity flowing throughout liquid fluid phase. Although different and already applicable methods have been researched and already implemented within the industry, a non-intrusive automated way of providing those stream velocities has its importance, and may have a huge impact in projects budget. Knowing the importance of its determination, this developed script uses a methodology of breaking-down real-time videos media into frame images, analyzing by pixel correlations possible superposition matches for further gas bubbles stream velocity estimation. In raw sense, the script bases itself in functions and procedures already available in MatLab, which can be used for image processing and treatments, allowing the methodology to be implemented. Its accuracy after the running test was of around 97% (ninety-seven percent);the raw source code with comments had almost 3000 (three thousand) characters;and the hardware placed for running the code was an Intel Core Duo 2.13 [Ghz] and 2 [Gb] RAM memory capable workstation. Even showing good results, it could be stated that just the end point correlations were actually getting to the final solution. So that, making use of self-learning functions or neural network, one could surely enhance the capability of the application to be run in real-time without getting exhaust by iterative loops.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.62201454 and 62306235)the Xi’an Science and Technology Program of Xi’an Science and Technology Bureau(No.23SFSF0004)。
文摘The unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)images captured under low-light conditions are often suffering from noise and uneven illumination.To address these issues,we propose a low-light image enhancement algorithm for UAV images,which is inspired by the Retinex theory and guided by a light weighted map.Firstly,we propose a new network for reflectance component processing to suppress the noise in images.Secondly,we construct an illumination enhancement module that uses a light weighted map to guide the enhancement process.Finally,the processed reflectance and illumination components are recombined to obtain the enhancement results.Experimental results show that our method can suppress the noise in images while enhancing image brightness,and prevent over enhancement in bright regions.Code and data are available at https://gitee.com/baixiaotong2/uav-images.git.
基金support by the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.2024GXNSFAA010484)the NationalNatural Science Foundation of China(No.62466013),this work has been made possible.
文摘Under low-illumination conditions, the quality of image signals deteriorates significantly, typically characterized by a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) below 10 dB, which severely limits the usability of the images. Supervised methods, which utilize paired high-low light images as training sets, can enhance the PSNR to around 20 dB, significantly improving image quality. However, such data is challenging to obtain. In recent years, unsupervised low-light image enhancement (LIE) methods based on the Retinex framework have been proposed, but they generally lag behind supervised methods by 5–10 dB in performance. In this paper, we introduce the Denoising-Distilled Retine (DDR) method, an unsupervised approach that integrates denoising priors into a Retinex-based training framework. By explicitly incorporating denoising, the DDR method effectively addresses the challenges of noise and artifacts in low-light images, thereby enhancing the performance of the Retinex framework. The model achieved a PSNR of 19.82 dB on the LOL dataset, which is comparable to the performance of supervised methods. Furthermore, by applying knowledge distillation, the DDR method optimizes the model for real-time processing of low-light images, achieving a processing speed of 199.7 fps without incurring additional computational costs. While the DDR method has demonstrated superior performance in terms of image quality and processing speed, there is still room for improvement in terms of robustness across different color spaces and under highly resource-constrained conditions. Future research will focus on enhancing the model’s generalizability and adaptability to address these challenges. Our rigorous testing on public datasets further substantiates the DDR method’s state-of-the-art performance in both image quality and processing speed.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61472324)
文摘To overcome the shortcomings of the Lee image enhancement algorithm and its improvement based on the logarithmic image processing(LIP) model, this paper proposes what we believe to be an effective image enhancement algorithm. This algorithm introduces fuzzy entropy, makes full use of neighborhood information, fuzzy information and human visual characteristics.To enhance an image, this paper first carries out the reasonable fuzzy-3 partition of its histogram into the dark region, intermediate region and bright region. It then extracts the statistical characteristics of the three regions and adaptively selects the parameter αaccording to the statistical characteristics of the image’s gray-scale values. It also adds a useful nonlinear transform, thus increasing the ubiquity of the algorithm. Finally, the causes for the gray-scale value overcorrection that occurs in the traditional image enhancement algorithms are analyzed and their solutions are proposed.The simulation results show that our image enhancement algorithm can effectively suppress the noise of an image, enhance its contrast and visual effect, sharpen its edge and adjust its dynamic range.
基金Project(2102–2020)supported by the SPEV Project,University of Hradec Kralove,FIM,Czech RepublicProject(Vot-20H04)supported by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia(UTM)+1 种基金Project(Vot 4L876)supported by Malaysia Research University Network(MRUN)Project(Vot 5F073)supported by the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme(FRGS),Ministry of Education Malaysia。
文摘The measurement of the surface quality and the profile preciseness is major issues in many industrial branches such that the surface quality of semi products directly affects the subsequent production steps.Although,there are many ways to obtain required data,the hardware necessary for the measurements such as 2D or 3D scanners,depending on the problem’s complexity,is too expensive.Therefore,in this paper,what we put forward as a novelty is an algorithm which is verified on the model of simple 3D scanner on the image processing basis with the resolution of 0.1 mm.There are many ways to scan surface profile;however,the image processing currently is the most trending topic in industry automation.Most importantly,in order to obtain surface images,standard high resolution reflex camera is used and thus the post processing could be realized with MatLab as the software environment.Therefore,this solution is an alternative to the expensive scanners,and single-purpose devices could be extended by many additional functions.
文摘Disease recognition in plants is one of the essential problems in agricultural image processing.This article focuses on designing a framework that can recognize and classify diseases on pomegranate plants exactly.The framework utilizes image processing techniques such as image acquisition,image resizing,image enhancement,image segmentation,ROI extraction(region of interest),and feature extraction.An image dataset related to pomegranate leaf disease is utilized to implement the framework,divided into a training set and a test set.In the implementation process,techniques such as image enhancement and image segmentation are primarily used for identifying ROI and features.An image classification will then be implemented by combining a supervised learning model with a support vector machine.The proposed framework is developed based on MATLAB with a graphical user interface.According to the experimental results,the proposed framework can achieve 98.39%accuracy for classifying diseased and healthy leaves.Moreover,the framework can achieve an accuracy of 98.07%for classifying diseases on pomegranate leaves.
文摘The current study provides a quantum calculus-based medical image enhancement technique that dynamically chooses the spatial distribution of image pixel intensity values.The technique focuses on boosting the edges and texture of an image while leaving the smooth areas alone.The brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)scans are used to visualize the tumors that have spread throughout the brain in order to gain a better understanding of the stage of brain cancer.Accurately detecting brain cancer is a complex challenge that the medical system faces when diagnosing the disease.To solve this issue,this research offers a quantum calculus-based MRI image enhancement as a pre-processing step for brain cancer diagnosis.The proposed image enhancement approach improves images with low gray level changes by estimating the pixel’s quantum probability.The suggested image enhancement technique is demonstrated to be robust and resistant to major quality changes on a variety ofMRIscan datasets of variable quality.ForMRI scans,the BRISQUE“blind/referenceless image spatial quality evaluator”and the NIQE“natural image quality evaluator”measures were 39.38 and 3.58,respectively.The proposed image enhancement model,according to the data,produces the best image quality ratings,and it may be able to aid medical experts in the diagnosis process.The experimental results were achieved using a publicly available collection of MRI scans.
基金National Research Foundation of Korea,Grant/Award Numbers:2022R1I1A3069113,RS-2023-00221365Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute,Grant/Award Number:2014-3-00123。
文摘In recent times,an image enhancement approach,which learns the global transformation function using deep neural networks,has gained attention.However,many existing methods based on this approach have a limitation:their transformation functions are too simple to imitate complex colour transformations between low-quality images and manually retouched high-quality images.In order to address this limitation,a simple yet effective approach for image enhancement is proposed.The proposed algorithm based on the channel-wise intensity transformation is designed.However,this transformation is applied to the learnt embedding space instead of specific colour spaces and then return enhanced features to colours.To this end,the authors define the continuous intensity transformation(CIT)to describe the mapping between input and output intensities on the embedding space.Then,the enhancement network is developed,which produces multi-scale feature maps from input images,derives the set of transformation functions,and performs the CIT to obtain enhanced images.Extensive experiments on the MIT-Adobe 5K dataset demonstrate that the authors’approach improves the performance of conventional intensity transforms on colour space metrics.Specifically,the authors achieved a 3.8%improvement in peak signal-to-noise ratio,a 1.8%improvement in structual similarity index measure,and a 27.5%improvement in learned perceptual image patch similarity.Also,the authors’algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives on three image enhancement datasets:MIT-Adobe 5K,Low-Light,and Google HDRþ.
文摘Medical imaging includes different modalities and processes to visualize the interior of human body for diagnostic and treatment purpose. However, one of the most common degradations in medical images is their poor contrast quality and noise. The existence of several objects and the close proximity of adjacent pixels values make the diagnostic process a daunting task. The idea of image enhancement techniques is to improve the quality of an image. In this study, morphological transform operation is carried out on medical images to enhance the contrast and quality. A disk shaped mask is used in Top-Hat and Bottom-Hat transform and this mask plays a vital role in the operation. Different types and sizes of medical images need different masks so that they can be successfully enhanced. The method shown in this study takes a mask of an arbitrary size and keeps changing its size until an optimum enhanced image is obtained from the transformation operation. The enhancement is achieved via an iterative exfoliation process. The results indicate that this method improves the contrast of medical images and can help with better diagnosis.
基金the Aeronautics Science Foundation of China(20070153005)Astronautics Science Technology Innovation Foundation of China(05C53005)
文摘Aiming at the problem,i.e.infrared images own the characters of bad contrast ratio and fuzzy edges,a method to enhance the contrast of infrared image is given,which is based on stationary wavelet transform.After making stationary wavelet transform to an infrared image,denoising is done by the proposed method of double-threshold shrinkage in detail coefficient matrixes that have high noisy intensity.For the approximation coefficient matrix with low noisy intensity,enhancement is done by the proposed method based on histogram.The enhanced image can be got by wavelet coefficient reconstruction.Furthermore,an evaluation criterion of enhancement performance is introduced.The results show that this algorithm ensures target enhancement and restrains additive Gauss white noise effectively.At the same time,its amount of calculation is small and operation speed is fast.
