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Journal of Imaging, Volume 10, Issue 1

2024 January - 28 articles

Cover Story: The composition of an image is a critical element in constructing an image that conveys a narrative and related emotions. It is widely acknowledged that composition is emphasized by the presence of leading lines. Making the image’s composition explicit through a set of leading lines is valuable when analyzing an image or assisting in photography. We conducted user studies to assess the agreement among image experts when requesting them to draw leading lines on images. According to these studies, we introduce a fully automatic computational method for recovering the leading lines that underlie the image’s composition. We evaluate our method through both subjective and objective studies, and we propose an objective metric to compare two sets of leading lines. View this paper
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Articles (28)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,183 Views
15 Pages

Endoscopic Image Enhancement: Wavelet Transform and Guided Filter Decomposition-Based Fusion Approach

  • Shiva Moghtaderi,
  • Omid Yaghoobian,
  • Khan A. Wahid and
  • Kiven Erique Lukong

20 January 2024

Endoscopies are helpful for examining internal organs, including the gastrointestinal tract. The endoscope device consists of a flexible tube to which a camera and light source are attached. The diagnostic process heavily depends on the quality of th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,681 Views
23 Pages

19 January 2024

The aim of this article is to review the single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) segmentation methods used in patient-specific dosimetry of 177Lu molecular therapy. Notably, 177Lu-labelled radiopharmaceuticals are currently used in molecul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,914 Views
19 Pages

Images, Words, and Imagination: Accessible Descriptions to Support Blind and Low Vision Art Exploration and Engagement

  • Stacy A. Doore,
  • David Istrati,
  • Chenchang Xu,
  • Yixuan Qiu,
  • Anais Sarrazin and
  • Nicholas A. Giudice

18 January 2024

The lack of accessible information conveyed by descriptions of art images presents significant barriers for people with blindness and low vision (BLV) to engage with visual artwork. Most museums are not able to easily provide accessible image descrip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,313 Views
22 Pages

Individual Contrast Preferences in Natural Images

  • Olga Cherepkova,
  • Seyed Ali Amirshahi and
  • Marius Pedersen

18 January 2024

This paper is an investigation in the field of personalized image quality assessment with the focus of studying individual contrast preferences for natural images. To achieve this objective, we conducted an in-lab experiment with 22 observers who ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,131 Views
16 Pages

18 January 2024

Higher standards have been proposed for detection systems since camouflaged objects are not distinct enough, making it possible to ignore the difference between their background and foreground. In this paper, we present a new framework for Camouflage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,027 Views
14 Pages

Fully Self-Supervised Out-of-Domain Few-Shot Learning with Masked Autoencoders

  • Reece Walsh,
  • Islam Osman,
  • Omar Abdelaziz and
  • Mohamed S. Shehata

16 January 2024

Few-shot learning aims to identify unseen classes with limited labelled data. Recent few-shot learning techniques have shown success in generalizing to unseen classes; however, the performance of these techniques has also been shown to degrade when t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,408 Views
15 Pages

15 January 2024

Human body tissue disease diagnosis will become more accurate if transmittance images, such as X-ray images, are separated according to each constituent tissue. This research proposes a new image decomposition technique based on the matrix inverse me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,557 Views
16 Pages

ControlFace: Feature Disentangling for Controllable Face Swapping

  • Xuehai Zhang,
  • Wenbo Zhou,
  • Kunlin Liu,
  • Hao Tang,
  • Zhenyu Zhang,
  • Weiming Zhang and
  • Nenghai Yu

11 January 2024

Face swapping is an intriguing and intricate task in the field of computer vision. Currently, most mainstream face swapping methods employ face recognition models to extract identity features and inject them into the generation process. Nonetheless,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,180 Views
20 Pages

Improved Loss Function for Mass Segmentation in Mammography Images Using Density and Mass Size

  • Parvaneh Aliniya,
  • Mircea Nicolescu,
  • Monica Nicolescu and
  • George Bebis

Mass segmentation is one of the fundamental tasks used when identifying breast cancer due to the comprehensive information it provides, including the location, size, and border of the masses. Despite significant improvement in the performance of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,384 Views
18 Pages

Classification of Cocoa Beans by Analyzing Spectral Measurements Using Machine Learning and Genetic Algorithm

  • Kacoutchy Jean Ayikpa,
  • Pierre Gouton,
  • Diarra Mamadou and
  • Abou Bakary Ballo

The quality of cocoa beans is crucial in influencing the taste, aroma, and texture of chocolate and consumer satisfaction. High-quality cocoa beans are valued on the international market, benefiting Ivorian producers. Our study uses advanced techniqu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
18,737 Views
30 Pages

Advancements and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey

  • Wissam AlKendi,
  • Franck Gechter,
  • Laurent Heyberger and
  • Christophe Guyeux

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is essential for digitizing historical documents in different kinds of archives. In this study, we introduce a hybrid form archive written in French: the Belfort civil registers of births. The digitization of these...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,632 Views
16 Pages

When an unidentified skeleton is discovered, a video superimposition (VS) of the skull and a facial photograph may be undertaken to assist identification. In the first instance, the method is fundamentally a photographic one, requiring the overlay of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,213 Views
15 Pages

Generating synthetic data is a promising solution to the challenge of limited training data for industrial deep learning applications. However, training on synthetic data and testing on real-world data creates a sim-to-real domain gap. Research has s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,212 Views
31 Pages

Decision Fusion at Pixel Level of Multi-Band Data for Land Cover Classification—A Review

  • Spiros Papadopoulos,
  • Georgia Koukiou and
  • Vassilis Anastassopoulos

According to existing signatures for various kinds of land cover coming from different spectral bands, i.e., optical, thermal infrared and PolSAR, it is possible to infer about the land cover type having a single decision from each of the spectral ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,576 Views
17 Pages

Forest damage has become more frequent in Hungary in the last decades, and remote sensing offers a powerful tool for monitoring them rapidly and cost-effectively. A combined approach was developed to utilise high-resolution ESA Sentinel-2 satellite i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,166 Views
16 Pages

Ultrasound imaging has been used to investigate compression of the median nerve in carpal tunnel syndrome patients. Ultrasound imaging and the extraction of median nerve parameters from ultrasound images are crucial and are usually performed manually...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,838 Views
13 Pages

Multispectral Deep Neural Network Fusion Method for Low-Light Object Detection

  • Keval Thaker,
  • Sumanth Chennupati,
  • Nathir Rawashdeh and
  • Samir A. Rawashdeh

31 December 2023

Despite significant strides in achieving vehicle autonomy, robust perception under low-light conditions still remains a persistent challenge. In this study, we investigate the potential of multispectral imaging, thereby leveraging deep learning model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,829 Views
16 Pages

Simulation-Assisted Augmentation of Missing Wedge and Region-of-Interest Computed Tomography Data

  • Vladimir O. Alekseychuk,
  • Andreas Kupsch,
  • David Plotzki,
  • Carsten Bellon and
  • Giovanni Bruno

29 December 2023

This study reports a strategy to use sophisticated, realistic X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) simulations to reduce Missing Wedge (MW) and Region-of-Interest (RoI) artifacts in FBP (Filtered Back-Projection) reconstructions. A 3D model of the object i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,203 Views
29 Pages

Visually Significant Dimensions and Parameters for Gloss

  • Donatela Šarić and
  • Aditya Suneel Sole

29 December 2023

The appearance of a surface depends on four main appearance attributes, namely color, gloss, texture, and translucency. Gloss is an important attribute that people use to understand surface appearance, right after color. In the past decades, extensiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,363 Views
14 Pages

Upper First and Second Molar Pulp Chamber Endodontic Anatomy Evaluation According to a Recent Classification: A Cone Beam Computed Tomography Study

  • Rodolfo Reda,
  • Dario Di Nardo,
  • Alessio Zanza,
  • Valentina Bellanova,
  • Rosemary Abbagnale,
  • Francesco Pagnoni,
  • Maurilio D’Angelo,
  • Ajinkya M. Pawar,
  • Massimo Galli and
  • Luca Testarelli

28 December 2023

(1) The possibility of knowing information about the anatomy in advance, in particular the arrangement of the endodontic system, is crucial for successful treatment and for avoiding complications during endodontic therapy; the aim was to find a corre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,436 Views
13 Pages

A Robust Machine Learning Model for Diabetic Retinopathy Classification

  • Gigi Tăbăcaru,
  • Simona Moldovanu,
  • Elena Răducan and
  • Marian Barbu

28 December 2023

Ensemble learning is a process that belongs to the artificial intelligence (AI) field. It helps to choose a robust machine learning (ML) model, usually used for data classification. AI has a large connection with image processing and feature classifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,896 Views
15 Pages

27 December 2023

In the last decade, many neural network algorithms have been proposed to solve depth reconstruction. Our focus is on reconstruction from images captured by multi-camera arrays which are a grid of vertically and horizontally aligned cameras that are u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,719 Views
13 Pages

When Sex Matters: Differences in the Central Nervous System as Imaged by OCT through the Retina

  • Ana Nunes,
  • Pedro Serranho,
  • Pedro Guimarães,
  • João Ferreira,
  • Miguel Castelo-Branco and
  • Rui Bernardes

25 December 2023

Background: Retinal texture has gained momentum as a source of biomarkers of neurodegeneration, as it is sensitive to subtle differences in the central nervous system from texture analysis of the neuroretina. Sex differences in the retina structure,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,372 Views
18 Pages

Reconstructing Image Composition: Computation of Leading Lines

  • Jing Zhang,
  • Rémi Synave,
  • Samuel Delepoulle and
  • Rémi Cozot

25 December 2023

The composition of an image is a critical element chosen by the author to construct an image that conveys a narrative and related emotions. Other key elements include framing, lighting, and colors. Assessing classical and simple composition rules in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,284 Views
20 Pages

Harmonizing Image Forgery Detection & Localization: Fusion of Complementary Approaches

  • Hannes Mareen,
  • Louis De Neve,
  • Peter Lambert and
  • Glenn Van Wallendael

25 December 2023

Image manipulation is easier than ever, often facilitated using accessible AI-based tools. This poses significant risks when used to disseminate disinformation, false evidence, or fraud, which highlights the need for image forgery detection and local...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,920 Views
13 Pages

Exocentric and Egocentric Views for Biomedical Data Analytics in Virtual Environments—A Usability Study

  • Jing Ng,
  • David Arness,
  • Ashlee Gronowski,
  • Zhonglin Qu,
  • Chng Wei Lau,
  • Daniel Catchpoole and
  • Quang Vinh Nguyen

23 December 2023

Biomedical datasets are usually large and complex, containing biological information about a disease. Computational analytics and the interactive visualisation of such data are essential decision-making tools for disease diagnosis and treatment. Onco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,466 Views
19 Pages

22 December 2023

In this paper, we propose a new model for image segmentation under geometric constraints. We define the geometric constraints and we give a minimization problem leading to a variational equation. This new model based on a minimal surface makes it pos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,328 Views
19 Pages

Segmentation of Substantia Nigra in Brain Parenchyma Sonographic Images Using Deep Learning

  • Giansalvo Gusinu,
  • Claudia Frau,
  • Giuseppe A. Trunfio,
  • Paolo Solla and
  • Leonardo Antonio Sechi

19 December 2023

Currently, Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is diagnosed primarily based on symptoms by experts clinicians. Neuroimaging exams represent an important tool to confirm the clinical diagnosis. Among them, Brain Parenchyma Sonography (BPS) is used to evalu...

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