Visual Cryptography plays an important role in area of information security. It is a technique of cryptography to secure the visual information by encrypting them into cipher text. At user’s end human visual system is used for decryption. For this there is no need of any computer aid. Performance of Visual Cryptography scheme depends on the several measures these are generated share is meaningf...

We introduce halftoning as a general primitive for real-time non-photorealistic shading. It is capable of producing a variety of rendering styles, ranging from engraving with lighting-dependent line width to pen-and-ink style drawings using prioritized stroke textures. Since monitor resolution is limited we employ a smooth threshold function that provides stroke antialiasing. By applying the ha...

■ This article presents an overview of the theoretical and practical issues associated with the development, analysis, and application of detection algorithms to exploit hyperspectral imaging data. We focus on techniques that exploit spectral information exclusively to make decisions regarding the type of each pixel—target or nontarget—on a pixel-by-pixel basis in an image. First we describe th...

We consider the sensor broadcast problem: in our setup, sensors measure each one pixel of an image that unfolds over a field, and broadcast a rate constrained encoding of their measurements to every other sensor—the goal is for all sensors to form an estimate of the entire image. In recent work, we proposed a protocol that uses wavelets to decorrelate sensor data, taking advantage of the compac...

Direct visualization of higher-order data provides manifold advantages over the traditional approach, which is based on resampling and subsequent visualization by interpolation-based techniques. Most important, it avoids excessive computation and consumption of memory, and prevents artifacts by pixel-accurate visualization at interactive rates. This work addresses particle-partition of unity si...

A coordinate system is described which provides a natural means for representing hexagonally-organized pixels. The coordinate system has the unusual property that its basis vectors are not orthogonal. Vector-space properties and operations are described in this coordinate system, and shown to be straightforward computations. Some image processing algorithms, including calculations of image grad...

For an image pixel information can be converted to the moments of some basis Qk, e.g. Fourier–Mellin, Zernike, monomials, etc. Given sufficient number of moments pixel information can be completely recovered, for insufficient number of moments only partial information can be recovered and the image reconstruction is, at best, of interpolatory type. Standard approach is to present interpolated v...

We present a two-layer dynamic generative model of the statistical structure of natural image sequences. The second layer of the model is a linear mapping from simple cell outputs to pixel values, as in most work on natural image statistics. The first layer models the dependencies of the activity levels (amplitudes or variances) of the simple cells, using a multivariate autoregressive model. Th...

In the proposed work a method for generating HDR images based on exposure blending is described. Using three differently exposed images a single image with recovered details in shadows and highlights is generated. Input images are analyzed to locate over and underexposed regions based on pixels intensity. Local contrast of input images is also considered in order to generate the output image wi...