{"title":"MACHINE LEARNING OF HANDWRITTEN NANDINAGARI CHARACTERS USING VLAD VECTORS","authors":"P. Guruprasad, J. Majumdar","doi":"10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0229","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an early attempt to train and retrieve handwritten Nandinagari characters using one of the latest techniques in visual feature detection. The data set consists of over 1600 handwritten Nandinagari characters of different fonts, size, rotation, translation and image formats. In the Learning phase, we subject them to an approach where their recognition is effective by first extracting their key interest points on the images which are invariant to Scale, rotation, translation, illumination and occlusion. The technique used for this phase is Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT). These features are represented in quantized form as visual words in code book generation step. Then the Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors (VLAD) is used for encoding each of the Image descriptors in the database. In the recognition phase, for query image, SIFT features are extracted and represented as query vector .Then these features are compared against the visual vocabulary generated by code book to retrieve similar images from the database. The performance is analysed by computing mean average precision .This is a novel scalable approach for recognition of rare handwritten Nandinagari characters with about 98% search accuracy with a good efficiency and relatively low memory usage requirements.","PeriodicalId":30615,"journal":{"name":"ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing","volume":"8 1","pages":"1633-1638"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43199860","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":"DETECTION OF HUMAN FACES IN COLOR IMAGES AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT SKIN CHROMINANCE SPACES AND SKIN CHROMINANCE MODELS","authors":"Poorvi Bhatt, Usa Global Solutions","doi":"10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0232","url":null,"abstract":"The overall objective of the project is to build a system that detects human faces in a given color image and to compare performance of different chrominance models and chrominance spaces. For face detection, approach is to detect skin color and segment given image into skin and non-skin regions. In a skin segmented image, the region of skin whose height to width ratio falls under well-known Golden ratio = (1 +√5)) / 2 some tolerance, the probability of that region to be considered as face is very high. In this implementation, evaluation of this assumption has been performed. To be able to find out what skin looks like, system has to generate statistical model of skin color. A training set of 54 skin samples (37,020 pixels) and 28 background samples (23,229 pixels) used to generate such models. This paper discusses two types of statistical models Single Gaussian Model and Gaussian Mixture Model. Performance of both these model has been compared and the best fit model for given dataset has been used. Training dataset was collected using University of Stirling’s face database and several images from internet is used. Since dataset comes from different sources, it might result in some unknowns in dataset. One way to eliminate such unknowns is to separate color information from intensity or try to reduce effect of illumination by normalizing color information. To reduce effect of unknowns, this paper uses normalized-rgb (Red, Green, Blue) (illumination is normalized across three color, so effect is reduced), HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) space (intensity and chromaticity part are independent) and CIE-xyz (Commission Internationale de l'Elcairage) (Machine independent) color spaces. Chrominance models in all three color spaces have been generated and compared to find which color space best suits the selected dataset.","PeriodicalId":30615,"journal":{"name":"ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing","volume":"8 1","pages":"1651-1659"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48166107","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":"AUTHENTICATION, TAMPER LOCALIZATION AND RECTIFICATION ALGORITHM WITH PRIVACY PRESERVATION OF IMAGE FOR THE CLOUD USING HMAC","authors":"Sayyada Fahmeeda Sultana, D. Shubhangi","doi":"10.21917/ijivp.2017.0233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21917/ijivp.2017.0233","url":null,"abstract":"Digital images like military, medical and quality control images are increasingly stored over cloud server. These images need protection against attempts to manipulate them since manipulations could tamper the decisions based on these images, many approaches have been proposed to protect the privacy of multimedia images over cloud through cryptography, these cryptographic approaches prevent the visibility of image contents but it does not identify if any changes are made on encrypted data by insider attack and cipher-text only attack. In this paper, we proposed to provide authentication, tamper localization, rectification along with privacy preservation of the image using padding extra bit plane for tamper localization, Hash message authentication code (HMAC) algorithm to authentication image, tamper rectification. The proposed algorithm will provide privacy to the image through hiding bit planes.","PeriodicalId":30615,"journal":{"name":"ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing","volume":"8 1","pages":"1660-1664"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45280696","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":"FRACTAL COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE FOR COLOR IMAGES USING VARIABLE BLOCK","authors":"Nisar Ahmed, S. A. Sattar","doi":"10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0230","url":null,"abstract":"The main intention of Fractal Image Compression is to reduce the size of image and maintain good level of their reconstructed image. A major issue in Fractal Image Compression is decrease in image quality, compression ratio and PSNR. To overcome these issues we employ Fractal transformation with entropy coding. There are two phases in the proposed approach. In the first phase color images are separated into three RGB planes using variable range block size. In second phase by applying the inverse transform and iterative functions the image is restored. It is observed that the results are improving in fractal compression for both gray images as well as color images. In this work high CR and PSNR is observed compared to fixed block range and other existing methods. The proposed work yields better CR of 20 and high PSNR.","PeriodicalId":30615,"journal":{"name":"ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing","volume":"8 1","pages":"1639-1644"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43814719","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":"BRAIN MR IMAGE SEGMENTATION BY MODIFIED ACTIVE CONTOURS AND CONTOURLET TRANSFORM","authors":"P. Reddy, C. Rao, C. Satyanarayana","doi":"10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0231","url":null,"abstract":"Multiresolution analysis is often used for image representation and processing because it can represent image at the split resolution and scale space. In this paper, a novel medical image segmentation algorithm is proposed that combines contourlet transform and modified active contour model. This method has a new energy formulation by representing the image with the coefficients of a contourlet transform. This results fast and accurate convergence of the contour towards the object boundary. Medical image segmentation using contourlet transforms has shown significant improvement towards the weak and blurred edges of the Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI). Also, the computational complexity is less compared to using traditional level sets and variational level sets for medical image segmentation. The special property of the contourlet transform is that, the directional information is preserved in each sub-band and is captured by computing its energy. This energy is capable of enhancing weak and complex boundaries in details. Performance of medical image segmentation algorithm using contourlet transform is compared with other deformable models in terms of various performance measures.","PeriodicalId":30615,"journal":{"name":"ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing","volume":"8 1","pages":"1645-1650"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48884006","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":"AN EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING HIERARCHICAL PART-TEMPLATE AND TREE MODELING","authors":"P. Nikkam, B. E. Reddy","doi":"10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0226","url":null,"abstract":"Image based content recognition and retrieval is critical in many applications. Existing mechanisms for content based image retrieval lack in terms of performance. In this paper a hierarchical template tree based CBIR system is described. Content in image is represented using a combination of shape features and low level features. Comprehensive feature set definitions proposed enables in achieving better performance. Shape and low level features are considered as templates. Templates of similar categories are further decomposed to form a hierarchical template tree. Query image is converted into a query template and is decomposed. A part template based matching scheme and SVM classifier is used to retrieve visually similar images. Results presented in the paper prove superior performance of proposed technique when compared to recent existing mechanisms in place. An improvement of 10.45% and 9.69% in mean average precision and mean retrieval accuracy is reported using proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":30615,"journal":{"name":"ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing","volume":"8 1","pages":"1607-1613"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49387064","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":"CORRELATION COEFFICIENT BASED DETECTION ALGORITHM FOR REMOVAL OF RANDOM VALUED IMPULSE NOISE IN IMAGES","authors":"Neeti Singh, O. Umamaheswari","doi":"10.21917/ijivp.2017.0227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21917/ijivp.2017.0227","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to present an alternative and novel method for removal of Random Valued Impulse Noise in corrupted images which is a challenging task as compared to the removal of fixed valued impulse noise. The proposed algorithm i.e. “Correlation Coefficient Based Detection Algorithm” (CCBD) is a two stage filter. The Detection stage of CCBD utilises the Correlation Coefficients of the absolute differences of the pixels in detection window with their Mean, the Central Pixel and a predefined value respectively. The Filtering stage of CCBD utilises the Fuzzy Switching Weighted Median filter (FSWM) for restoration of the corrupted image. The performance of CCBD has been compared to some of the existing methods e.g. Rank Order Absolute Difference (ROAD), Rank Order Logarithmic Difference (ROLD), Triangle Based Linear Interpolation (TBLI) and Adaptive Switching Median (ASM) algorithms. The Comparative analysis in terms of MSE, PSNR and SSIM show that the CCBD is superior to the existing methods in all parameters.","PeriodicalId":30615,"journal":{"name":"ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing","volume":"8 1","pages":"1614-1625"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45341538","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":"OBJECT DETECTION AND TRACKING IN THERMAL VIDEO USING DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH (DAG)","authors":"Supriya Mangale, R. Tambe, M. Khambete","doi":"10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0221","url":null,"abstract":"This paper suggests an incipient approach to perform target detection as well as tracking for single and multiple moving objects in thermal video sequences. Thermal imaging is complimentary to visible imaging as it has capability to detect object in low light or dark conditions by detecting the infrared radiation of an object and creating an image which contains temperature information. The extracted regions are then used for performing the segmentation of targets in thermal videos. In projected method first, Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is used for segmentation in thermal videos. Second, to enlarge the set of target proposals, DAG is initialized with an incremented object proposal set in which, from adjacent frames motion based predictions are used. Last, in this paper for selection of the specific object motion scoring function is used, which is having high optical flow gradient between the edges of the object and background is presented. After segmentation of object, centroid based object tracking is performed to track the objects in thermal videos. The proposed method is evaluated on different thermal videos and found to be robust compared with standard background subtraction method.","PeriodicalId":30615,"journal":{"name":"ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing","volume":"8 1","pages":"1566-1574"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44710814","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":"BETTER FINGERPRINT IMAGE COMPRESSION AT LOWER BIT-RATES: AN APPROACH USING MULTIWAVELETS WITH OPTIMISED PREFILTER COEFFICIENTS","authors":"N. Remac, K. T. Shanavaz, P. Mythili","doi":"10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0224","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a multiwavelet based fingerprint compression technique using set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) algorithm with optimised prefilter coefficients is proposed. While wavelet based progressive compression techniques give a blurred image at lower bit rates due to lack of high frequency information, multiwavelets can be used efficiently to represent high frequency information. SA4 (Symmetric Antisymmetric) multiwavelet when combined with SPIHT reduces the number of nodes during initialization to 1/4 compared to SPIHT with wavelet. This reduction in nodes leads to improvement in PSNR at lower bit rates. The PSNR can be further improved by optimizing the prefilter coefficients. In this work genetic algorithm (GA) is used for optimizing prefilter coefficients. Using the proposed technique, there is a considerable improvement in PSNR at lower bit rates, compared to existing techniques in literature. An overall average improvement of 4.23dB and 2.52dB for bit rates in between 0.01 to 1 has been achieved for the images in the databases FVC 2000 DB1 and FVC 2002 DB3 respectively. The quality of the reconstructed image is better even at higher compression ratios like 80:1 and 100:1. The level of decomposition required for a multiwavelet is lesser compared to a wavelet.","PeriodicalId":30615,"journal":{"name":"ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing","volume":"8 1","pages":"1588-1595"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42208621","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":"NEUROIMAGING AND PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: A REVIEW","authors":"R. Kamathe, K. Joshi","doi":"10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21917/IJIVP.2017.0219","url":null,"abstract":"Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia with currently unavailable firm treatments that can stop or reverse the disease progression. A combination of brain imaging and clinical tests for checking the signs of memory impairment is used to identify patients with AD. In recent years, Neuroimaging techniques combined with machine learning algorithms have received lot of attention in this field. There is a need for development of automated techniques to detect the disease well before patient suffers from irreversible loss. This paper is about the review of such semi or fully automatic techniques with detail comparison of methods implemented, class labels considered, data base used and the results obtained for related study. This review provides detailed comparison of different Neuroimaging techniques and reveals potential application of machine learning algorithms in medical image analysis; particularly in AD enabling even the early detection of the diseasethe class labelled as Multiple Cognitive","PeriodicalId":30615,"journal":{"name":"ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing","volume":"8 1","pages":"1543-1553"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48697299","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}