There is a great need of developing efficient content based image retrieval systems because of the availability of large image databases. A new image retrieval system CTDCIRS (color-texture and dominant color based image retrieval system) to retrieve the images using three features called dynamic dominant color (DDC), Motif co-occurrence matrix (MCM) and

This paper proposes a novel method for detecting foreground objects in nonstationary complex environments containing moving background objects. We derive a Bayes decision rule for classification of background and foreground changes based on inter-frame color co-occurrence statistics. An approach to store and fast retrieve color co-occurrence statistics is also established. In the proposed metho...

Hemoglobin (Hb) is the major protein present in red blood cells whose function is to transport oxygen throughout the body. The oxygenated form of hemoglobin is responsible for the typical red color of fresh blood that is normally observed. Carbon monoxide (CO) binds to hemoglobin with an affinity 250-300 times greater than that of oxygen, making it a highly competitive, toxic substance which ca...

Natural scenes contain both color and luminance variations at different sizes and orientations that are sometimes spatially overlaid and sometimes not. Here, we explore visual interactions between overlaid color and luminance contrast that are both suprathreshold and highly visible. We used a color-luminance plaid in which the perception of the color contrast and luminance contrast components w...

Background & Objective:  Vibrio cholerae is a natural inhabitant of the environment and causes severe diarrhea ailments (cholera) that affects thousands of people each year worldwide. The most important virulence factors of this pathogen are cholera toxin (cholera toxin CT) and Type IV...

In this paper, a novel color texture image classification based on HSV color space, wavelet transform, and motif patterns is introduced. Traditionally, RGB color space is widely used in digital images and hardware. However, RGB color space is not accurate in human visual perception and statistical analysis. Therefore, HSV color space is applied to obtain more accurate color statistics for extra...

Image segmentation is a primary step in many computer vision tasks. Although many segmentation methods based on either color or texture have been proposed in the last decades, there have been only few approaches combining both these features. This work presents a new image segmentation method using color texture features extracted from 3D co-occurrence matrices combined with spatial dependence,...

The objective of this study was to evaluate change in color in experimental titanium-20mass% chromium (Ti-20Cr) alloy in an oral environment. Pure Ti and Ti-6Al-7Nb and Co-29Cr-5Mo alloys, as references to compare change in color, were prepared by casting. The cast specimen was mirror-polished. Each specimen was affixed to a palatal plate and the plate then worn by a volunteer for up to 300 h. ...

When two isoluminant colors alternate at frequencies > 10 Hz, we perceive only one fused color with a minimal sensation of brightness flicker. In spite of the perception of color fusion, color opponent (CO) cells at early stages of the visual pathway are known to respond to chromatic flicker at frequencies far exceeding the perceptual fusion frequency. To explain color fusion, several groups ha...