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...

speckle is a granular disturbance in coherent images such as synthetic aperture radar (sar) images, modeled as a multiplicative noise. this noise degrades the sar image and complicates the image exploitation using automated image analysis techniques. several approaches have been developed to reduce the effect of speckle noise. recently, the application of compressed sensing (cs) is explored in ...

Potato image segmentation is an important part of image-based potato defect detection. This paper presents a robust potato color image segmentation through a combination of a fuzzy rule based system, an image thresholding based on Genetic Algorithm (GA) optimization and morphological operators. The proposed potato color image segmentation is robust against variation of background, distance and ...

Histogram Equalization technique is one of the basic methods in image contrast enhancement. Using this method, in the case of images with uniform gray levels (with narrow histogram), causes loss of image detail and the natural look of the image. To overcome this problem and to have a better image contrast enhancement, a new two-step method was proposed. In the first step, the image histogram is...

nowadays, sar imaging systems have become more interesting for scientists. high spatial resolution of recent sar images has become a key factor for their accurate applications such as interferometry, radargrammetry and change detection. in these applications, sar image matching procedure is a critical step for conjugate point extraction which is much more difficult than the optical images. the ...

introduction: in patients with cardiac artery disease, a myocardial perfusion scan, which is a non-invasive method, is utilized. this study is conducted to develop an advantageous software applicable to quantitative myocardial spect perfusion. material and methods: each cross-section of the left ventricle was segmented by applying a fuzzy clustering method. after obtaining the myocardial skelet...

clustering is the process of dividing a set of input data into a number of subgroups. the members of each subgroup are similar to each other but different from members of other subgroups. the genetic algorithm has enjoyed many applications in clustering data. one of these applications is the clustering of images. the problem with the earlier methods used in clustering images was in selecting in...

image retrieval is an important research field which has received great attention in the last decades. in this paper, we present an approach for the image retrieval based on the combination of text-based and content-based features. for text-based features, keywords and for content-based features, color and texture features have been used. query in this system contains some keywords and an input...