{"title":"Image Steganography Based on Local Variance","authors":"O. Hadar, Adiel Sol, Or Hamra, A. Shmilovici","doi":"10.1145/3369973.3369982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369973.3369982","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a simple and robust watermarking algorithm is presented by using the first, second, third and the fourth Least Significant Bits (LSBs). We embed two bits in two places out of four LSBs according to the local variance value. Compared to the simple LSB algorithm where we use bits 7 and 8 to embed information, the proposed algorithm is more robust to white noise and JPEG compression. Experimental results show that the quality of the watermarked image is high in terms of Peak Signal-to-Noise (PSNR) and Structural Similarity Index (SSIM).","PeriodicalId":197888,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Watermarking and Image Processing","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133122479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mennato-Allah Talaat, Nataly Raed, Aya Medhat, Romisaa Ashraf, Mohammad Essam, Rana Y. ElKashlan, Lamiaa Abdel-Hamid
{"title":"Glaucoma Detection from Retinal Images using Generic Features: Analysis & Results","authors":"Mennato-Allah Talaat, Nataly Raed, Aya Medhat, Romisaa Ashraf, Mohammad Essam, Rana Y. ElKashlan, Lamiaa Abdel-Hamid","doi":"10.1145/3369973.3369976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369973.3369976","url":null,"abstract":"Glaucoma is a silent disease that, left untreated, causes severe visual impairments which can progress to irreversible blindness. Fortunately, early detection and proper treatment can control the development of glaucoma and in turn limit further progression of associated visual impairments. However, periodic manual diagnosis of glaucoma necessary for its early diagnosis would require abundancy of experts, besides being invasive, expensive, and time consuming. Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) can thus serve as a game changer in the early detection of glaucoma by bringing clinician to the level of an expert. Moreover, CAD has the advantages of being non-invasive, simple, and cost effective. In this work, an automated generic glaucoma detection algorithm is presented in which statistical and textural features are computed from the optic nerve head (ONH) region within retinal images. Several analyses are performed to compare glaucoma classification performance considering different contrast enhancement techniques (histogram equalization - contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization) and color models (RGB - HSV - CIELAB). Feature selection is then used to find the best set of features for each of the different experiments. Best performance was achieved when textural features were computed from the histogram equalized CIELAB channels, resulting in an accuracy of 92.5%, sensitivity of 95.0%, and specificity of 90.0% considering a public dataset consisting of 40 glaucomatous and 40 healthy retinal images.","PeriodicalId":197888,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Watermarking and Image Processing","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116576090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reduction of Phase Error Caused by Overexposure in Phase Measurement Profilometry","authors":"Min Qi, Yu Gao, Huiqing Zheng, Yuelei Xu","doi":"10.1145/3369973.3369978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369973.3369978","url":null,"abstract":"When using phase measurement profilometry (PMP) for three dimensional (3D) detection, the surface specular reflection of the object can easily cause the captured fringe pattern image to become overexposed and non-sinusoidal, which leads to a phase error. In this paper, based on the analysis of the phase error model in the overexposed region, a double four-step phase-shifting method is proposed to measure the phase in the overexposure regions of fringe pattern images. A simulation and an experiment show that the phase measurement accuracy of the overexposed region can be effectively improved using the proposed algorithm while maintaining the high-speed of the PMP.","PeriodicalId":197888,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Watermarking and Image Processing","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124589402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of Finger Geometry Features for Multibiometric Authentication","authors":"F. Bahmed, Madani Ould Mammar","doi":"10.1145/3369973.3369974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369973.3369974","url":null,"abstract":"Authentication systems based on biometrics are more suitable to use, since users don't need to remember passwords. Hand offers good mean in authentication and access control systems. Hand's geometry or finger's geometry is one of many modalities which can be extracted from hand's person. This paper proposes an efficiency study of finger's geometry features. This study is performed for each finger separately, which hasn't be done before. Experimental results show that the proposed system achieves very good accuracy and outperforms many other systems.","PeriodicalId":197888,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Watermarking and Image Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125988238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Target Periodicity Estimation Based on Time Domain Analysis","authors":"Cheng Yu, Liu Shufang, L. Lijun","doi":"10.1145/3369973.3369975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369973.3369975","url":null,"abstract":"Feature extraction is important for radar target recognition, especially in the practical applications. The movement feature contained in narrowband RCS could be used for target recognition. Different targets have different RCS periodicity. Spectrum analysis and time domain analysis are the main methods for RCS periodicity extraction. Since spectrum analysis has limits in practical applications, time domain analysis is a good choice for target periodicity estimation. In this paper, several time domain based periodicity estimation algorithms are compared using the measured RCS data. Experimental results show that a combination of circle autocorrelation function and circle average magnitude difference function exhibits good effects in target periodicity estimation.","PeriodicalId":197888,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Watermarking and Image Processing","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123882665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammad T. Al-Antary, M. Hassouna, Y. Arafa, Rakan Khalifah
{"title":"Automated Identification of Diabetic Retinopathy using Pixel-based Segmentation Approach","authors":"Mohammad T. Al-Antary, M. Hassouna, Y. Arafa, Rakan Khalifah","doi":"10.1145/3369973.3369979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369973.3369979","url":null,"abstract":"Diabetic retinopathy is a condition that occurs in human eyes due to diabetes mellitus. It causes progressive damages in the retina. Due to changes in blood vessels of the retina, several clinical features are observed in the fundus images. Microaneurysms, soft exudates, hard exudates, and haemorrhages are common types of clinical lesions present in fundus images of damaged retina. In this study, an automated diabetic retinopathy detection method was developed to identify such lesions from fundus images. The proposed approach adopted a pixel-based image segmentation model with supervised classifier. Multiple linear and non-linear image filtering algorithms were applied to each fundus image to generate feature dataset, which was used in Random Forest classifier training. The trained classifier model performed the classification-cum-segmentation of each pixel presents in an image. The proposed detection system achieved 98.87% accuracy.","PeriodicalId":197888,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Watermarking and Image Processing","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121615629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Javier García López, Antonio Agudo, F. Moreno-Noguer
{"title":"3D Vehicle Detection on an FPGA from LiDAR Point Clouds","authors":"Javier García López, Antonio Agudo, F. Moreno-Noguer","doi":"10.1145/3369973.3369984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369973.3369984","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper is presented a deep neural network architec- ture designed to run on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for detection vehicle on LIDAR point clouds. This works present a network based on VoxelNet adapted to run on an FPGA and to locate vehicles on point clouds from a 32 and a 64 channel optical sensor. For training the pre- sented network the Kitti and Nuscenes dataset have been used. This work aims to motivate the usage of dedicated FPGA targets for training and validating neural network due to their accelerated computational capability compared to the well known GPUs. This platform also has some constraints that need to be assessed and taken care during development (limited memory e.g.). This research presents an implementation to overcome such limitations and obtain as good results as if a GPU would be used. This paper makes use of a state-of-the-art dataset such us Nuscenes which is formed by several sensors and provides seven time more annotations than the KITTI dataset of the 6 cameras, 5 radars and 1 Lidar it is formed by, all with full 360 degree field of view. The presented work proves real- time performance and good detection accuracy when moving part of the CNN presented in the proposed architecture to a commercial FPGA.","PeriodicalId":197888,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Watermarking and Image Processing","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125080088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Underwater Exploration Issues, Deep Study on Optical Underwater Vision for an Effective Traditional Fishing","authors":"Mohcine Boudhane, O. Balcers, B. Nsiri","doi":"10.1145/3369973.3369981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369973.3369981","url":null,"abstract":"Visibility is a very subjective notion. It depends on the view of the person who determines it. But it also depends on more precise elements such as the turbidity of water, the ambient luminosity (which itself depends on the nature of the environment and the sunshine on the surface), the degree of pollution of the water, the bustle of the sea, the quality of the diving mask. Good visibility allows you to dive safely, and / or to collect easily some fresh fish. Clear, crystal-clear water also makes the most of the beautiful landscapes of the underwater world. However, this visibility rate change from an environment to another. In this paper we describe the effects responsible to disrupts visibility underwater by analyzing water properties and the reaction of optical sensors.","PeriodicalId":197888,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Watermarking and Image Processing","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116022743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Approach for Distorted Image Restoration By Distance-based Correction and Cubic Spline Interpolation","authors":"Min Qi, Guanrong Yu, Yuelei Xu","doi":"10.1145/3369973.3369977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369973.3369977","url":null,"abstract":"Fish-eye lenses are used more and more widely in the field of photography and computer vision nowadays. However, images captured with these lenses suffer from high barrel-type spatial distortion, so severely errors are brought into the camera calibration, feature extraction, parameter calculation and following analyses. This paper proposes a new and effective method to correct the high distortion. With the improved model in this paper, the degree of correction changes in accordance with the distance from the center pixel location. And the inverse mapping from corrected images space to the distorted images space based on the cubic spline interpolation method is taken to eliminate the vacant pixels in the corrected images caused by forwarding mapping. The final correction results are satisfactory by using this improved method.","PeriodicalId":197888,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Watermarking and Image Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128414990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimum-Energy Group Scaling of Wavelet Coefficient Quantization for Audio Watermarking","authors":"Shuo-Tsung Chen, Chih-Yu Hsu, Huang-Nan Huang, Shu-Yi Tu, Jun-Jin Xie","doi":"10.1145/3369973.3369983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369973.3369983","url":null,"abstract":"Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), bit-error-rate (BER), and Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Quality (PEAQ) are commonly utilized performance indexes in measuring the fidelity, robustness, and quality of watermarking algorithms. However, there is a trade-off relationship between audio quality and robustness. This paper aims in proposing an optimization scheme using multi-coefficients quantization in the wavelet domain. A function connecting the multi-coefficients quantization, composed of arbitrary scaling on the lowest DWT coefficients, and the group SNR of these coefficients is derived. Two-stage Lagrange Principle and minimum-energy approach play two essential roles to obtain the optimal scaling factors. To practically evaluate the watermarked audio quality, an objective measurement using the PEAQ is also performed as well. Experimental results confirm that the embedded audio in the proposed method has high SNR and good PEAQ.","PeriodicalId":197888,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Watermarking and Image Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128994555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}