Edit propagation on images/videos has become more and more popular in recent years due to simple and intuitive interaction. It propagates sparse user edits to the whole data following the policy that nearby regions with similar appearances receive similar edits. While it gives a friendly editing mode, it often produces aliasing artifacts on edge pixels. In this paper, we present a simple algori...

A large number of comb filtering techniques for a national television system committee (NTSC) or phase alternate each line (PAL) color decoding have been researched and developed for the last three decades. Comb filtering can separately obtain the luminance and the quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) modulated chrominance information from a composite video burst signal (CVBS). However there i...

Steganography is the idea of hiding private, sensitive data or information within something that appears to be nothing but normal. If a person views the digital object that the information is hidden inside, he or she will have no idea that there is any hidden information, therefore the person will not attempt to decrypt the information, this is the main objective behind steganography. In this p...

Scanning a halftone image introduces halftone artifacts, known as Moire patterns, which significantly degrade the image quality. Printers that use amplitude modulation (AM) screening for halftone printing position dots in a periodic pattern. Therefore, frequencies relating half toning arc easily identifiable in the frequency domain. This paper proposes a method for de screening scanned color ha...

The Rapid and Accurate Image Super Resolution (RAISR) method of Romano, Isidoro, and Milanfar is a computationally efficient image upscaling method using a trained set of filters. We describe a generalization of RAISR, which we name Best Linear Adaptive Enhancement (BLADE). This approach is a trainable edge-adaptive filtering framework that is general, simple, computationally efficient, and use...

The theoretical expectation of the high mass of > 400 eV for the particles constituting the dark matter in dwarf-spheroidals as an artifact of the implicit assumption that the density of particles vanishes at the visible edge. On the contrary if our Galaxy and the dwarf-spheroidals are embedded in a neutrino condensation of the dimensions of the cluster then mv 10 eV can accommodate all the obs...

X-ray absorption spectral (XAS) analysis is performed with a combination of a 9 V dry electric battery X-ray generator and a portable Si PIN X-ray detector. The calcium K edge (4.0 keV) in paper is measured with a grazing incidence geometry, which suppressed the artifact due to the Kalpha X-ray fluorescence peak at 3.5 keV. The 9 V dry battery X-ray emitter is useful for portable XAS measurements.

An interference fringe modulation skewing effect in white-light vertical scanning interferometry that can produce a batwings artifact in a step height measurement is described. The skewing occurs at a position on or close to the edge of a step in the sample under measurement when the step height is less than the coherence length of the light source used. A diffraction model is used to explain t...

This paper presents region-based super-resolution reconstruction approach using a parallel programming for minimizing interpolation artifacts. In the proposed algorithm of regularized iterative SR, two different types of constraints are incorporated, namely (i) edge reconnection and (ii) orientation adaptive filtering. By combining these two constraints the proposed SR algorithm can successfull...

This paper presents a new adaptive approach for blocking and ringing artifact reduction. In order to avoid smearing of the image details, the proposed method first performs visual artifacts detection and then applies adaptive filtering to the corrupted blocks. Both visual artifacts detection and filtering are guided by an edge map which is constructed based on the local features. The fuzzy iden...