R. Vijay Anandh^1,*, S. Rukmani Devi²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.3, pp. 1897-1910, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.027187

Abstract The demand for the exploration of ocean resources is increasing exponentially. Underwater image data plays a significant role in many research areas. Despite this, the visual quality of underwater images is degraded because of two main factors namely, backscattering and attenuation. Therefore, visual enhancement has become an essential process to recover the required data from the images. Many algorithms had been proposed in a decade for improving the quality of images. This paper aims to propose a single image enhancement technique without the use of any external datasets. For that, the degraded images are subjected to two main processes namely,… More >

Kandasamy Kittusamy^*, Latha Shanmuga Vadivu Sampath Kumar

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.3, pp. 1989-2005, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.026501

Abstract Medical Image Fusion is the synthesizing technology for fusing multimodal medical information using mathematical procedures to generate better visual on the image content and high-quality image output. Medical image fusion represents an indispensible role in fixing major solutions for the complicated medical predicaments, while the recent research results have an enhanced affinity towards the preservation of medical image details, leaving color distortion and halo artifacts to remain unaddressed. This paper proposes a novel method of fusing Computer Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) using a hybrid model of Non Sub-sampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) and Joint Sparse Representation (JSR). This… More >

Lixiu Wu^1,*, Song Wang², Qingbing Sang³

Journal of New Media, Vol.4, No.3, pp. 125-135, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jnm.2022.027199

Abstract In order to apply the deep learning to the stereo image quality evaluation, two problems need to be solved: The first one is that we have a bit of training samples, another is how to input the dimensional image’s left view or right view. In this paper, we transfer the 2D image quality evaluation model to the stereo image quality evaluation, and this method solves the first problem; use the method of principal component analysis is used to fuse the left and right views into an input image in order to solve the second problem. At the same time, the… More >

Nguyen Tu Trung^1,*, Tran Thi Ngan¹, Tran Manh Tuan¹, To Huu Nguyen²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 535-544, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.026011

Abstract Fusing medical images is a topic of interest in processing medical images. This is achieved to through fusing information from multimodality images for the purpose of increasing the clinical diagnosis accuracy. This fusion aims to improve the image quality and preserve the specific features. The methods of medical image fusion generally use knowledge in many different fields such as clinical medicine, computer vision, digital imaging, machine learning, pattern recognition to fuse different medical images. There are two main approaches in fusing image, including spatial domain approach and transform domain approachs. This paper proposes a new algorithm to fusion multimodal images.… More >

E. A. Alabdulkreem¹, Ahmed Sedik², Abeer D. Algarni^3,*, Ghada M. El Banby⁴, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie^3,5, Naglaa F. Soliman^3,6

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1845-1861, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023905

Abstract Image fusion has become one of the interesting fields that attract researchers to integrate information from different image sources. It is involved in several applications. One of the recent applications is the robotic vision. This application necessitates image enhancement of both infrared (IR) and visible images. This paper presents a Robot Human Interaction System (RHIS) based on image fusion and deep learning. The basic objective of this system is to fuse visual and IR images for efficient feature extraction from the captured images. Then, an enhancement model is carried out on the fused image to increase its quality. Several image… More >

Jiancheng Zou¹, Jiaxin Li^1,*, Juncun Wei¹, Zhengzheng Li¹, Xin Yang²

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.3, No.3, pp. 123-134, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jai.2021.027069

Abstract Facial expression recognition is a research hot spot in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition. However, the existing facial expression recognition models are mainly concentrated in the visible light environment. They have insufficient generalization ability and low recognition accuracy, and are vulnerable to environmental changes such as illumination and distance. In order to solve these problems, we combine the advantages of the infrared and visible images captured simultaneously by array equipment our developed with two infrared and two visible lens, so that the fused image not only has the texture information of visible image, but also has the… More >

Muhammad Ahmad^1,*, M. Arfan Jaffar¹, Fawad Nasim¹, Tehreem Masood¹, Sheeraz Akram²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 735-752, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019691

Abstract

Due to limited depth-of-field of digital single-lens reflex cameras, the scene content within a limited distance from the imaging plane remains in focus while other objects closer to or further away from the point of focus appear as blurred (out-of-focus) in the image. Multi-Focus Image Fusion can be used to reconstruct a fully focused image from two or more partially focused images of the same scene. In this paper, a new Fuzzy Based Hybrid Focus Measure (FBHFM) for multi-focus image fusion has been proposed. Optimal block size is very critical step for multi-focus image fusion. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm… More >

Kanika Bhalla¹, Deepika Koundal^2,*, Surbhi Bhatia³, Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani⁴, Muhammad Tahir⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 5503-5518, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021125

Abstract Traditional techniques based on image fusion are arduous in integrating complementary or heterogeneous infrared (IR)/visible (VS) images. Dissimilarities in various kind of features in these images are vital to preserve in the single fused image. Hence, simultaneous preservation of both the aspects at the same time is a challenging task. However, most of the existing methods utilize the manual extraction of features; and manual complicated designing of fusion rules resulted in a blurry artifact in the fused image. Therefore, this study has proposed a hybrid algorithm for the integration of multi-features among two heterogeneous images. Firstly, fuzzification of two IR/VS… More >

P. Siva Satya Sreedhar^1,*, N. Nandhagopal²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1331-1344, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020918

Abstract The current trend in Image Fusion (IF) algorithms concentrate on the fusion process alone. However, pay less attention to critical issues such as the similarity between the two input images, features that participate in the Image Fusion. This paper addresses these two issues by deliberately attempting a new Image Fusion framework with Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). CNN has features like pre-training and similarity score, but functionalities are limited. A CNN model with classification prediction and similarity estimation are introduced as Classification Similarity Networks (CSN) to address these issues. ResNet50 and GoogLeNet are modified as the classification branches of CSN v1,… More >

Javaria Tahir¹, Syed Rameez Naqvi^2,*, Khursheed Aurangzeb³, Musaed Alhussein³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3235-3250, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018949

Abstract Melanoma, due to its higher mortality rate, is considered as one of the most pernicious types of skin cancers, mostly affecting the white populations. It has been reported a number of times and is now widely accepted, that early detection of melanoma increases the chances of the subject’s survival. Computer-aided diagnostic systems help the experts in diagnosing the skin lesion at earlier stages using machine learning techniques. In this work, we propose a framework that accurately segments, and later classifies, the lesion using improved image segmentation and fusion methods. The proposed technique takes an image and passes it through two… More >