This paper presents a hierarchical animation method for transferring facial expressions extracted from a performance video to different facial sketches. Without any expression example obtained from target faces, our approach can transfer expressions by motion retargetting to facial sketches. However, in practical applications, the image noise in each frame will reduce the feature extraction acc...

Noise removing belongs to image restoration in digital image processing. It’s the essential guarantee of identifying image information and the reliable guarantee of making further image processing. A satisfying result can’t be found if processing method such as feature extraction, registration or image fusion is carried out on an image with noise. So removing noise is absolutely necessary for i...

In many applications of dynamic scene analysis, the objects or structures to be analyzed undergo deformations that have to be modeled. In this paper, we develop a hierarchical statistical modeling framework for the representation, segmentation, and tracking of 2D deformable structures in image sequences. The model relies on the specification of a template, on which global as well as local defor...

Noises are unwanted information which will be normally present in an image. It should be removed in such a way that the important information present in an image is preserved. De-noising an image is very active research area in image processing. There are several algorithms for de-noise but each algorithm has its own assumptions, advantages and limitations. The method proposed in this paper use...

MRI is one of the most powerful techniques to study the internal structure of the body. MRI image quality is affected by various noises. Noises in MRI are usually thermal and mainly due to the motion of charged particles in the coil. Noise in MRI images also cause a limitation in the study of visual images as well as computer analysis of the images. In this paper, first, it is proved that proba...

In recent time, ultrasound imaging is a popular modality for various medical applications. The presence of speckle noise affects difficulties on features extraction and quantitative measurement of ultrasound images. This paper proposes a new method to suppress the speckle noise while attempting to preserve the image content using combination of Gaussian filter and discrete cosine transform (DCT...

Feature extraction is a main step in all perceptual image hashing schemes in which robust features will led to better results in perceptual robustness. Simplicity, discriminative power, computational efficiency and robustness to illumination changes are counted as distinguished properties of Local Binary Pattern features. In this paper, we investigate the use of local binary patterns for percep...

\ Abstract: Edge detection plays an important role in object identification. Application ranges from machine vision, image processing to pattern recognition. There exist many algorithms for detecting edges such as sobel, prewitt, canny, morphological operators etc. Canny operator is more susceptible to noise. This paper analyses the advantages and disadvantages of Canny operator and Morphologic...