This paper proposes a new histogram shifting-based reversible watermarking method. In contrast to other almost methods that need to use simultaneously the watermarked image and some image-dependent side information to restore the watermark and the original image, our method can do above restorations without any auxiliary information. Such methods are called free from side information. Our solut...

We study the performance of Monte Carlo simulations that sample a broad histogram in energy by determining the mean first-passage time to span the entire energy space of d-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising/Potts models. We first show that flat-histogram Monte Carlo methods with single-spin flip updates such as the Wang-Landau algorithm or the multicanonical method perform suboptimally in comparis...

In this paper the color images with dim regions have been enhanced by using modified histogram equalization (MHE) algorithm. This technique uses the lightness component in YIQ color space is transformed using sigmoid function, then the traditional histogram equalization (HE) method is applied on Y component. A relationship between the mean and the average of standard deviation for images have b...

We present an adaptive algorithm which optimizes the statistical-mechanical ensemble in a generalized broad-histogram Monte Carlo simulation to maximize the system's rate of round trips in total energy. The scaling of the mean round-trip time from the ground state to the maximum entropy state for this local-update method is found to be O ( [N ln N](2) ) for both the ferromagnetic and the fully ...

Histograms are commonly used to characterize and analyze the region of interest within an image. Weighting the contributions of the pixels to the histogram is a key feature to handle noise and occlusion and increase object localization accuracy of many histogram-based search problems including object detection, tracking and recognition. The integral histogram method provides an optimum and comp...