Nature-inspired search algorithms have proved to be successful in solving real-world optimization problems. Firefly algorithm is a novel meta-heuristic algorithm which simulates the natural behavior of fireflies. This paper proposes a new sharpening technique based on the contourlet transform and firefly algorithm. Numerical results indicate the efficiency of the proposed approach. The paramete...

Advance medical imaging requires storage of large quantities of digitized clinical data. Due to the bandwidth and storage limitations, medical images must be compressed before transmission and storage. Diagnosis is effective only when compression techniques preserve all the relevant and important image information needed. There are basically two types of image compression: lossless and lossy. L...

In this paper, a novel watermarking technique in contourlet transform (CT) domain is presented. The proposed algorithm takes advantage of a multiscale framework and multi-directionality to extract the significant frequency, luminance and texture component in an image. Unlike the conventional methods in the contourlet domain, mask function is accomplished pixel by pixel by taking into account th...

Image fusion has wide range of application in satellite images, general photography, medical images etc. Image fusion is the process in which we combine two or more images or some features of images to form a single image which is free from distortion and does not loses its information. Images which are taken from different angles sometimes needs to be fused together to form a single image whic...

In this work, we study and analyze the contourlet transform for low bit-rate image coding. This image-based geometrical transform has been recently introduced to efficiently represent images with a spars set of coefficients. In order to explore the potentiality of this new transform as a tool for image coding, we developed a direct coding scheme that is based on using non-linear approximation o...

Medical image segmentation has become an essential technique in clinical and researchoriented applications. Because manual segmentation methods are tedious, and semi-automatic segmentation lacks the flexibility, fully-automatic methods have become the preferred type of medical image segmentation. This work proposes a robust fully automatic segmentation scheme based on the modified contouring te...

In different methods of Biometrics, recognition by iris images in recent years has been taken into consideration by researchers as one of the common methods of identification like passwords, credit cards or keys. Iris recognition a new biometric technology has great advantages such as variability, stability and security. In this paper we propose a new feature extraction method for iris recognit...

This paper proposes a Contourlet Transform based approach to the segmentation of corneal blood vessels that is of clinical importance in the treatment of corneal neovascularisation. The quantification of blood vessels provides means for monitoring the affect of any treatment process being followed. The proposed approach initially uses semi-automated algorithm to detect the corneal area of a hig...

This paper briefly introduces two classic algorithms for fingerprint image processing, which include the soft threshold denoise algorithm of wavelet domain based on wavelet domain and the fingerprint image enhancement algorithm based on Gabor function. Contourlet transform has good texture sensitivity and can be used for the segmentation enforcement of the fingerprint image. The method proposed...

Most existing image enhancement algorithms work on a single image. Their performance is limited to the capacity of the sensor by which the image is taken. In some cases they completely fail to provide us the necessary enhancements. This paper proposes a composite image approach for enhancing still images. The approach proposed combines the relevant features of the input images and produce a com...