scholarly journals Gated Dehazing Network via Least Square Adversarial Learning

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (21) ◽  
pp. 6311
Author(s):  
Eunjae Ha ◽  
Joongchol Shin ◽  
Joonki Paik
Keyword(s):  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Adversarial Learning ◽  
Scattering Model ◽  
Atmospheric Scattering ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Atmospheric Scattering Model

In a hazy environment, visibility is reduced and objects are difficult to identify. For this reason, many dehazing techniques have been proposed to remove the haze. Especially, in the case of the atmospheric scattering model estimation-based method, there is a problem of distortion when inaccurate models are estimated. We present a novel residual-based dehazing network model to overcome the performance limitation in an atmospheric scattering model-based method. More specifically, the proposed model adopted the gate fusion network that generates the dehazed results using a residual operator. To further reduce the divergence between the clean and dehazed images, the proposed discriminator distinguishes dehazed results and clean images, and then reduces the statistical difference via adversarial learning. To verify each element of the proposed model, we hierarchically performed the haze removal process in an ablation study. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperformed state-of-the-art approaches in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), structural similarity index measure (SSIM), international commission on illumination cie delta e 2000 (CIEDE2000), and mean squared error (MSE). It also gives subjectively high-quality images without color distortion or undesired artifacts for both synthetic and real-world hazy images.

scholarly journals An Improved Multithreshold Segmentation Algorithm Based on Graph Cuts Applicable for Irregular Image

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Yanzhu Hu ◽  
Jiao Wang ◽  
Xinbo Ai ◽  
Xu Zhuang
Keyword(s):  
Cost Function ◽  
Artificial Bee Colony ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Segmentation Algorithm ◽  
Bee Colony ◽  
Segmentation Of Images ◽  
The Cost

In order to realize the multithreshold segmentation of images, an improved segmentation algorithm based on graph cut theory using artificial bee colony is proposed. A new weight function based on gray level and the location of pixels is constructed in this paper to calculate the probability that each pixel belongs to the same region. On this basis, a new cost function is reconstructed that can use both square and nonsquare images. Then the optimal threshold of the image is obtained through searching for the minimum value of the cost function using artificial bee colony algorithm. In this paper, public dataset for segmentation and widely used images were measured separately. Experimental results show that the algorithm proposed in this paper can achieve larger Information Entropy (IE), higher Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), higher Structural Similarity Index (SSIM), smaller Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), and shorter time than other image segmentation algorithms.

scholarly journals A Characterization of CS-MRI Reconstruction Using PSO for Random Under Sampling Pattern

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 376-381
Keyword(s):  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Reconstruction Algorithm ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Imaging Method ◽  
Radial Sampling ◽  
Under Sampling ◽  
Space Data ◽  
Sampling Pattern

MR imaging method is widely used for diagnosis applications. The echo signal received from the MR scanning machine is used to generate the image. The data acquisition and reconstruction are the important operations. In this paper the kspace is compressively sampled using Radial Sampling pattern for acquiring the k-space data and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) with Total Variation (TV) is used as the reconstruction algorithm for the faithful reconstruction of MR image. The experiments are conducted on MR images of Brain, Head Angiogram and Shoulder images. Performance of the proposed method of reconstruction is analyzed for different sampling kspace scanning percentages. The reconstruction results are compared with the standard sampling pattern used for compressive sampling prove the novelty of the proposed method. The results are verified in terms of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Structural Similarity index (SSIM).

Wavelet-Based Image Compression Encoding Techniques — A Complete Performance Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050008
Author(s):  
S. P. Raja
Keyword(s):  
Image Compression ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Set Partitioning ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
Structural Content ◽  
Image Quality Index

This paper presents a complete analysis of wavelet-based image compression encoding techniques. The techniques involved in this paper are embedded zerotree wavelet (EZW), set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT), wavelet difference reduction (WDR), adaptively scanned wavelet difference reduction (ASWDR), set partitioned embedded block coder (SPECK), compression with reversible embedded wavelet (CREW) and spatial orientation tree wavelet (STW). Experiments are done by varying level of the decomposition, bits per pixel and compression ratio. The evaluation is done by taking parameters like peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), mean square error (MSE), image quality index (IQI) and structural similarity index (SSIM), average difference (AD), normalized cross-correlation (NK), structural content (SC), maximum difference (MD), Laplacian mean squared error (LMSE) and normalized absolute error (NAE).

Video Steganography Based on Shi-Tomasi Corner Detection and Least Significant Bit Algorithm

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaviya K ◽  
Mridula Bala ◽  
Swathy N P ◽  
Chittam Jeevana Jyothi ◽  
S.Ewins Pon Pushpa
Keyword(s):  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Corner Detection ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Video Steganography ◽  
Corner Points ◽  
Algorithmic Rule

Today, the digital and social media platforms are extremely trending, leading a demand to transmit knowledge very firmly. The information that is exchanged daily becomes ‘a victim’ to hackers. To beat this downside, one of the effective solutions is Steganography or Cryptography. In this paper, the video Steganography and cryptography thoughts are employed, where a key text is hidden behind a ‘certain frame’ of the video using Shi-Tomasi corner point detection and Least Significant Bit (LSB) algorithmic rule. Shi-Tomasi algorithmic rule is employed to observe, the corner points of the frame. In the proposed work, a ‘certain frame’ with large number of corner points is chosen from the video. Then, the secret text is embedded within the detected corner points using LSB algorithmic rule and transmitted. At the receiver end, decryption process is employed, in the reverser order of encryption to retrieve the secret data. As a technical contribution, the average variation of Mean Squared Error, Peak Signal to Noise Ratio, Structural Similarity Index are analysed for original and embedded frames and found to be 0.002, 0.016 and 0.0018 respectively.

Morphological based Medical Image Processing on Cervical Cytology Cancer Images using Connected Component Techniques

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Robert ◽  
A. Celine Kavida
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
Good Precision ◽  
Connected Component ◽  
Binary Images ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Structural Content

: Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women. In 2018, it was estimated that 570000 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer worldwide, and about 311000 women died from the disease. An efficient technique is essential for solving the complication in the diagnosis of cervical cancer images. In this research, a new method is developed for cervical cancer image segmentation. First, the RGB image is converted into an HSI color model. Then, the thresholding is applied to the saturation and intensity components to get binary images. These binary images are combined to get a new mask. Using the connected component concept, nucleus and cytoplasm are segmented accurately. For the performance evaluation, peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), mean square error (MSE), structural similarity index (SSIM), image quality index (IQI), structural content (SC), normalized cross-correlation (NK), precision (PR), recall (RC), the average difference (AD), and image fidelity (IF) are taken. The proposed techniques’ highest PSNR values are 44.2341, 46.7953, 60.5925, and 61.4862, respectively. The proposed segmentation technique can attain a high PSNR (>40db) value at a threshold value equal to 0.1. Also proposed approach attains good precision, recall, and SSIM values. The lowest MSE values using proposed segmentation techniques are 0.0454, 0.0351, 0.0924, and 0.0271 individually. The AD, NK, SC, NAE, and LMSE values for the implemented approach are low, showing that the segmented image’s quality is very good. Thus, the proposed model performed better compared to other methods.

scholarly journals A Single Image Dehazing Method Using Average Saturation Prior

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenfei Gu ◽  
Mingye Ju ◽  
Dengyin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Estimation Accuracy ◽  
Single Image ◽  
High Definition ◽  
Image Dehazing ◽  
Scattering Model ◽  
Atmospheric Scattering ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Bad Weather ◽  
Atmospheric Scattering Model ◽  
Single Image Dehazing

Outdoor images captured in bad weather are prone to yield poor visibility, which is a fatal problem for most computer vision applications. The majority of existing dehazing methods rely on an atmospheric scattering model and therefore share a common limitation; that is, the model is only valid when the atmosphere is homogeneous. In this paper, we propose an improved atmospheric scattering model to overcome this inherent limitation. By adopting the proposed model, a corresponding dehazing method is also presented. In this method, we first create a haze density distribution map of a hazy image, which enables us to segment the hazy image into scenes according to the haze density similarity. Then, in order to improve the atmospheric light estimation accuracy, we define an effective weight assignment function to locate a candidate scene based on the scene segmentation results and therefore avoid most potential errors. Next, we propose a simple but powerful prior named the average saturation prior (ASP), which is a statistic of extensive high-definition outdoor images. Using this prior combined with the improved atmospheric scattering model, we can directly estimate the scene atmospheric scattering coefficient and restore the scene albedo. The experimental results verify that our model is physically valid, and the proposed method outperforms several state-of-the-art single image dehazing methods in terms of both robustness and effectiveness.

scholarly journals Research on the Image Denoising Method Based on Partial Differential Equations

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Xiaolu Xie
Keyword(s):  
Image Denoising ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Structural Similarity Index ◽  
Denoising Method ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Index Measure

Abstract In this paper we propose a new approach for image denoising based on the combination of PM model, isotropic diffusion model, and TV model. To emphasize the superiority of the proposed model, we have used the Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) as the subjective criterion. Numerical experiments with different images show that our algorithm has the highest PSNR and SS1M, as well as the best visual quality among the six algorithms. Experimental results confirm the high performance of the proposed model compared with some well-known algorithms. In a word, the new model outperforms the mentioned three well known algorithms in reducing the Gibbs-type artifacts, edges blurring, and the block effect, simultaneously.

scholarly journals ADAPTIVE TRIMMED MEAN AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL FOR REDUCTION OF POISSON NOISE IN SCINTIGRAPHIC IMAGES

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khan Bahadar Khan ◽  
Muhammad Shahid ◽  
Hayat Ullah ◽  
Eid Rehman ◽  
Muhammad Mohsin Khan
Keyword(s):  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Poisson Noise ◽  
Trimmed Mean ◽  
Mean Filter ◽  
Scale Down ◽  
Contrast Stretching ◽  
Denoised Image

A 2-D Adaptive Trimmed Mean Autoregressive (ATMAR) model has been proposed for denoising of medical images corrupted with poisson noise. Unfiltered images are divided into smaller chunks and ATMAR model is applied on each chunk separately. In this paper, two 5x5 windows with 40% overlapping are used to predict the center pixel value of the central row. The AR coefficients are updated by sliding both windows forward with 60% shift. The same process is repeated to scan the entire image for prediction of a new denoised image. The Adaptive Trimmed Mean Filter (ATMF) eradicates the lowest and highest variations in pixel values of the ATMAR model denoised image and also average out the remaining neighborhood pixel values. Finally, power-law transformation is applied on the resultant image of the ATMAR model for contrast stretching. Image quality is judged in terms of correlation, Mean Squared Error (MSE), Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) of the image with latest denoising techniques. The proposed technique showed an efficient way to scale down poisson noise in scintigraphic images on a pixel-by-pixel basis.

scholarly journals A Log-Exponential Shrinkage Technique for De-Noising of Ultrasound Images for Breast Cancer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayank Kumar Singh ◽  
Indu Saini ◽  
Neetu Sood
Keyword(s):  
Gaussian Distribution ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Speckle Noise ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Noise Variance ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Thresholding Function

Abstract Ultrasound in diagnostic imaging is well known for its safety and accessibility. But its efficiency for diagnosis is always limited by the presence of noise. So, in this study, a Log-Exponential shrinkage technique is presented for denoising of ultrasound images. A Combinational filter was designed for the removal of additive noise without losing any details. The speckle noise after homomorphic transformation follows Gaussian distribution and the conventional median estimator has very low accuracy for Gaussian distribution. The scale parameter calculated from the sub-band coefficients after homomorphic transformation was utilized to design the estimator. For shrinkage of wavelet coefficients, a multi-scale thresholding function was designed, with better flexibility. The proposed technique was tested for both medical and standard images. A significant improvement was observed in the estimation of speckle noise variance. For quantitative evaluation of the proposed technique with existing denoising methods, Mean Squared Error (MSE), Structural Similarity Index (SSIM), and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) were used. At the highest noise variance, the minimum improvement achieved by the proposed denoising technique in PSNR, SSIM, and MSE was 10.65%, 23.21%, and 30.46% respectively.

scholarly journals Region of Interest Prediction using Segmentation

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 613-617
Keyword(s):  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Signal To Noise ◽  
Edge Preservation ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Noise Ratio

Segmentation separates an image into different sections badsed on the desire of the user. Segmentation will be carried out in an image, until the region of interest (ROI) of an object is extracted. Segmentation reliability predicts the progress of the various segmentation techniques. In this paper, various segmentation methods are proposed and quality of segmentation is verified by using quality metrics like Mean Squared Error (MSE),Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Peak- Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Edge Preservation Index (EPI) and Structural Similarity Index Metric (SSIM).

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