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The paper addresses the challenges in enhancing Low-light images, which are crucial for various computer vision applications like semantic segmentation, object detection, and autonomous driving. Low-light image enhancement is vital because poor image quality in such conditions affects the accuracy and performance of algorithms. Traditional enhancement techniques, such as histogram equalization and...Show More
Color image enhancement is widely used in digital image processing. Retinex performs well in color image enhancement, however, traditional Gaussian filter-based retinex algorithms exist some problems such as halo artifacts and detail loss. To solve these problems, we propose an improved retinex image enhancement algorithm based on the guided filter, which is processed in IHS color space. We replac...Show More
A novel approach for image enhancement is presented in this paper. The enhancement result is achieved by combination the means of contrast enhancement, image smoothing and image sharpening techniques into one partial differential equation (PDE) framework. In the image evolution process, three kinds of operation execute at the same time, using the regularization parameters to adjust the proportion ...Show More
The aim of this study is to adjust automatically the contrast level of the distorted images. Since the images are in two- dimensional and multiple parameters are need to be tuned in the enhancement techniques, the classical algorithms increase the computational complexity with less enhancement success. However, optimization algorithms are able to find the optimal solutions to different types of pr...Show More
Extracting agricultural parcel boundaries from remote sensing images based on deep learning methods is currently the most promising method. Due to the diversity of agricultural types and limitations of deep learning networks, parcel boundaries extracted by edge detection deep learning networks lack target specificity, and parcel boundaries extracted by semantic segmentation deep learning networks ...Show More
This letter proposes a cooperative localization algorithm based on connectivity information-aided belief propagation that can enhance belief propagation, which relies on the mutual exchange of location information with uncertainty. The connectivity information in the network is used to reduce the location uncertainty in the belief. As a result, it is possible to prevent the message flow of unneces...Show More
In the current era of mobile Internet and big data, as an important part of the network information source of video images and its applications throughout various fields. Video image acquisition process is susceptible to the changing external environment, resulting in low image contrast, grayscale darkness and gray dynamic range contraction and other issues, resulting in image quality degradation,...Show More
In order to enhance the contrast, color and brightness information of the foggy image, an improved Retinex algorithm is proposed to enhance the foggy image. First, based on the Retinex algorithm, the Gaussian iterative algorithm is used to solve the total variational energy functional function, so as to effectively maintain the color constancy. Secondly, the method of combining relative gradient a...Show More
The main aim of this paper is to propose a novel set of metrics that measure the quality of the image enhancement of mammographic images in a computer-aided detection framework aimed at automatically finding masses using machine learning techniques. Our methodology includes a novel mechanism for the combination of the metrics proposed into a single quantitative measure. We have evaluated our metho...Show More
Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment targeted objects that have similar colors, textures, or shapes to their background environment. Due to the limited ability in distinguishing highly similar patterns, existing COD methods usually produce inaccurate predictions, especially around the boundary areas, when coping with complex scenes. This paper proposes a Progressive Region-to-Boundar...Show More
This paper proposes a new fog images clarity algorithm which is based on the combination of wavelet transform, top-hat transform and bottom-hat transform. This algorithm also processes the sky region separated out. Experimental results demonstrate that the contrast and clarity of images are much improved after they are processed by the algorithm proposed in this paper, and it effectively reduces t...Show More
Aiming at the problems of low brightness, weak contrast, and blurred edges of low illumination images, a multi-scale and mixed loss function based enhancement algorithm (MMLNet) for low illumination images is proposed. Firstly, the input image is decomposed into the illumination and reflectance, and the multi-scale channel and pixel attention module is designed, which is more conducive to the netw...Show More
The accuracy of video-based action recognition depends largely on the extraction and utilization of optical flow, especially in two-stream networks. The original intention of the introduction of optical flow is to use the time information contained in video, however, the subsequent work shows that optical flow is useful for action recognition because it is invariant to appearance. In this article,...Show More
Foggy image enhancement is an important branch of digital image processing, which significantly benefits traffic and outdoor visual systems. To overcome the shortcomings of the existing foggy image enhancement algorithms, we have developed a method that combines Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Multi-Scale Retinex (MSR) and Global Histogram Equalization (GHE). Initially, a PCA transform is appl...Show More
Camouflaged objects share very similar colors but have different semantics with the surroundings. Cognitive scientists observe that both the global contour (i.e., boundary) and the local pattern (i.e., texture) of camouflaged objects are key cues to help humans find them successfully. Inspired by the cognitive scientist’s observation, we propose a novel boundary-and-texture enhancement network (Fi...Show More
It is difficult to learn global remote semantic information based on convolutional neural network, and it is difficult to obtain multi-scale feature information based on Vision Transformer, Swin Transformer and Pyramid Vision Transformer. However, salient objects maybe involve different scales. This paper introduces Shunted Transformer as the backbone network to extract multi-scale features to ach...Show More
Boundary information is essential for the semantic segmentation of remote sensing images. However, most existing methods were designed to establish strong contextual information while losing detailed information, making it challenging to extract and recover boundaries accurately. In this article, a boundary-sensitive network (BSNet) is proposed to address this problem via dynamic hybrid gradient c...Show More
The detection of tile surface defects relies heavily on manual work and the existing automatic detection methods are difficult to be used in industrial production. In this paper, we propose a visual detection method of tile surface defects based on image enhancement and region growing algorithm. First, to eliminate the noise interference, uneven illumination and reflect light of surface during ima...Show More
In order to enhance the resolution of the image and improve the visual effect of the image, a method of image quality enhancement based on bilinear interpolation and wavelet transformation is proposed. The algorithm first enhances the image by histogram equalization and bilinear interpolation to preserve better detail quality, and then perform wavelet transform on the histogram equalized image and...Show More
Segmenting instances is a challenging task, especially for precise boundary segmentation. Modern methods always predict instance masks with imprecise boundaries due to the fact they do not pay enough attention to boundary information. To address this problem, we propose a conceptually simple yet effective attention-based module for better boundary segmentation, termed boundary-area enhanced module...Show More
3D semantic segmentation is a key technology of scene understanding in the self-driving field, which remains challenging problems. Recent 3D segmentation methods have achieved competitive results in indoor or typical urban traffic scenes. However, in complex and changeable scenarios where structured features are sparse and irregular, few of these methods could achieve well segmentation results, es...Show More
The human vision system can discriminate regions which differ up to the second-order statistics only. We present an algorithm designed to reveal "hidden" boundaries in gray level images, by computing gradients in higher order statistics of the data. We demonstrate it by applying it to the identification of possible "hidden" boundaries of glioblastomas as manifest themselves in three-dimensional (3...Show More
Due to its high efficiency and low cost, automatic extraction of building footprints from remotely sensed imagery has long been an important means to obtain building footprint information, which can be easily implemented using existing fully convolutional network (FCN)-based methods. However, such methods suffer from imperfections and thus accurately extracting building footprints from remotely se...Show More
In this paper, we propose an edge-driven bidirectional geometric flow for boundary extraction. To this end, we combine the geodesic active contour flow and the gradient vector flow external force for snakes. The resulting motion equation is considered within a level set formulation, can deal with topological changes and important shape deformations. An efficient numerical schema is used for the fl...Show More
A personal computer(pc)-based low-cost visual system that can detect and extract text regions in visual signs in the scene and recognize them for location awareness is described. It employs fast image enhancement and segmentation methods based on symmetric neighborhood filter and hierarchical-connected component analysis to extract written information on signboards, which appears in the scene. Our...Show More