Digital radiography is currently the main method of medical imaging diagnosis. It also has a wide range of applications across different fields. This study used radiation to conduct non-destructive visual imaging, and further established a quantitati...
Digital radiography (DR) is a mature technology and has been broadly used in medical diagnosis. Currently, it’s also used for fruit quality inspection in the market. This purpose of the study is to conduct non-destructive experiments for visual compa...
XOR-based Visual Cryptography Scheme (XOR-based VCS) is a method of secret image sharing. The principle of XOR-based VCS is to encrypt a secret image into several encrypted images, called shares. No information about the secret can be obtained from a...
Visual cryptography (VC) has found numerous applications in privacy protection, online transaction security, and voting security, etc. To counteract potential cheating attacks, Lin et al. proposed flip visual cryptography in 2010, where a second secr...
How specific features of the environment are represented in the mammalian brain is an important unexplained mystery in neuroscience. Visual information is considered to be captured most preferentially by the brain. As one of the visual information el...
In the process of oil exploitation, the water level of an oil well can be predicted and the position of reservoir can be estimated by measuring the water content of crude oil, with reference for the automatic production of high efficiency in the oil...
Grayscale morphology is a powerful tool in image, video, and visual applications. A reconfigurable processor is proposed for grayscale image morphological processing. The architecture of the processor is a combination of a reconfigurable grayscale pr...
Image colorization assigns colors to a grayscale image, which is an important yet difficult image-processing task encountered in various applications. In particular, grayscale aerial image colorization is a poorly posed problem that is affected by th...
As a medium for transmitting visual information, image is a direct reflection of the objective existence of the natural world. Grayscale images lack more visual information than color images. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the colori...
The visual system of sighted animals plays a critical role in providing information about the environment, including motion details necessary for survival. Over the past few years, numerous studies have explored the mechanism of motion direction dete...
Secret image sharing (SIS) scheme is a secret image encoding and decoding scheme that reconstructs the secret image only if the number of participants is sufficient. In contrast, inadequate participants gain no information about the secret image. Two...
Aiming to solve the challenges of difficult training, mode collapse in current generative adversarial networks (GANs), and the efficiency issue of requiring multiple samples for Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM), this paper proposes a s...
Grayscale image processing is a key research area in the field of computer vision and image analysis, where image quality and visualization effects may be seriously damaged by high-density salt and pepper noise. A traditional median filter for noise...
Background: Age-related macular degeneration is a major cause of vision loss, and improved visualization of macular neovascularization (MNV) on OCT angiography (OCTA) could enhance clinical assessment. This study aimed to establish a simple and acces...
The failure process of a coal body around a borehole has progressive characteristics. Image characteristics can visually characterize the stress and failure characteristics of the coal body around a borehole during progressive failure. To investigate...
Typical visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems rely on front-end odometry for feature extraction and matching to establish the relations between adjacent images. In a low-light environment, the image obtained by a camera is dim a...
Infrared image enhancement is a crucial pre-processing technique in intelligent urban surveillance systems for Smart City applications. Existing grayscale mapping-based algorithms always suffer from over-enhancement of the background, noise amplifica...
Accurate and timely fault detection is crucial for ensuring the smooth operation and longevity of rotating machinery. This study explores the effectiveness of image-based approaches for machine fault diagnosis using data from a 6DOF IMU (Inertial Mea...
Human visual system is a crucial component of the nervous system, enabling us to perceive and understand the surrounding world. Advancements in research on the visual system have profound implications for our understanding of both biological and comp...
For the visual measurement of moving arm holes in complex working conditions, a histogram equalization algorithm can be used to improve image contrast. To lessen the problems of image brightness shift, image over-enhancement, and gray-level merging t...
The detection and description of features is one basic technique for many visual robot navigation systems in both indoor and outdoor environments. Matched features from two or more images are used to solve navigation problems, e.g., by establishing s...
Due to the detrimental impact of fog on image quality, dehazing maritime images is essential for applications such as safe maritime navigation, surveillance, environmental monitoring, and marine research. Traditional dehazing techniques, which are de...
Due to the increasing capabilities of cybercriminals and the vast quantity of sensitive data, it is necessary to protect remote sensing images during data transmission with “Belt and Road” countries. Joint image compression and encryption...
Color Doppler is used in the clinic for visually assessing the vascularity of breast masses on ultrasound, to aid in determining the likelihood of malignancy. In this study, quantitative color Doppler radiomics features were algorithmically extracted...
Visual navigation is developing rapidly and is of great significance to improve agricultural automation. The most important issue involved in visual navigation is extracting a guidance path from agricultural field images. Traditional image segmentati...
To objectively quantify the level of visual interference induced by lasers, we developed a biomimetic optical system designed to emulate human vision. This system is based on an optical model of the eye and synthetic imaging principles, allowing it t...
Underwater images often suffer from color distortion, reduced contrast, and blurred details due to the selective absorption and scattering of light by water, which limits the performance of underwater visual tasks. To address these issues, this paper...
Atomic force acoustic microscopy (AFAM) can provide surface morphology and internal structures of the samples simultaneously, with broad potential in non-destructive imaging of cells. As the output of AFAM, morphology and acoustic images reflect diff...
Color analysis of spalted wood surfaces requires a non-subjective, repeatable method for determining percent of pigmentation on the wood surface. Previously published methods used human visual perception with a square grid overlay to determine the pe...
This paper introduces a novel method for image colorization that utilizes a color transformer and generative adversarial networks (GANs) to address the challenge of generating visually appealing colorized images. Conventional approaches often struggl...
Pixel-based images captured by a charge-coupled device (CCD) with infrared (IR) LEDs around the image sensor are the well-known CCD Red–Green–Blue IR (the so-called CCD RGB-IR) data. The CCD RGB-IR data are generally acquired for video su...
Natural wood textures are appreciated in most forest products industries for their appealing visual characteristics including grain and color, but also their fine surface tactile sensation. The following presents an ultraviolet (UV)-curable inkjet te...
Infrastructure, such as buildings, bridges, pavement, etc., needs to be examined periodically to maintain its reliability and structural health. Visual signs of cracks and depressions indicate stress and wear and tear over time, leading to failure/co...
Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has been reported to successfully identify bone marrow oedema (BME) in various traumatic settings. DECT has multiple strengths, including the availability of both a 3D view of the anatomical area studied and of...
This study improves existing protection strategies for image processing models by embedding invisible watermarks into model outputs to verify the sources of images. Most current methods rely on CNN-based architectures, which are limited by their loca...
Reaching out the function of the brain in perceiving input data from the outside world is one of the great targets of neuroscience. Neural decoding helps us to model the connection between brain activities and the visual stimulation. The reconstructi...
The noise interference of side-scan sonar images is stronger than that of optical images, and the gray level is uneven. To solve this problem, we propose a side-scan sonar image enhancement method based on multi-stage repairing image fusion. Firstly,...
When the workpiece surface exhibits strong reflectivity, it becomes challenging to obtain accurate key measurements using non-contact, visual measurement techniques due to poor image quality. In this paper, we propose a high-precision measurement met...
Visual complexity is a crucial criterion for evaluating the quality of urban environments and a key dimension in arousal theory and visual preference theory. Objectively quantifying visual complexity holds significant importance for decision-making s...
The super-resolution (SR) technique reconstructs a high-resolution image from single or multiple low-resolution images. SR has gained much attention over the past decade, as it has significant applications in our daily life. This paper provides a new...
A new technique for progressive visual secret sharing (PVSS) with adaptive priority weight is proposed in this paper. This approach employs the bitwise and eXclusive-OR (XOR) based approaches for generating a set of shared images from a single secret...
This paper presents the interesting results of applying compression ratio (CR) in the prediction of the boundary between visually lossless and visually lossy compression, which is of particular importance in perceptual image compression. The predicti...
In order to obtain the physiological information and key features of source images to the maximum extent, improve the visual effect and clarity of the fused image, and reduce the computation, a multi-modal medical image fusion framework based on feat...
We present a tangent flow-based image abstraction framework that turns a color or grayscale image into a two-tone image, which contains only black and white color, but retains sufficient information such that the viewer can still recognize the main c...
Edge detection methods are significant in medical imaging-assisted diagnosis. However, existing methods based on grayscale gradient computation still need to be optimized in practicality, especially in terms of actual visual quality and sensitivity t...
Polarized light imaging (PLI) has been effective in visualizing and quantifying collagen content. Collagen-specific data are often overlaid over the tissue image for visualization. However, such contextual tissue images are typically in grayscale and...
To solve the problem that traditional dark channel is not suitable for a large sky area and can easyily distort defogged images, we propose a novel fusion-based defogging algorithm. Firstly, an improved remote sensing image segmentation algorithm is...
With the growing demand for structural health monitoring system applications, data imaging is an ideal method for performing regular routine maintenance inspections. Image analysis can provide invaluable information about the health conditions of a s...
The advantages of hyperspectral imaging in videodensitometry are presented and discussed with the example of extracts from 70 Polish grasses. An inexpensive microscope camera was modified to cover the infrared spectrum range, and then 11 combinations...
The reliability and operational safety of an aircraft engine gas turbine are extremely important in terms of its operation. In the course of operation, these turbines undergo complex thermal, mechanical, aerodynamic, and chemical exhaust gas loads. D...
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