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Application Of Visual Modelling In Image Restoration And Colour Image Processing, Aziz Qureshi, Philip Ogunbona Jan 1997

Application Of Visual Modelling In Image Restoration And Colour Image Processing, Aziz Qureshi, Philip Ogunbona

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This paper describes the application of human visual models in (i) defining a visually uniform colour representation space and (ii) the formulation of visually weighted Kalman filtering for image restoration. The former being useful in colour image quantisation and compression. For (i), the uniformity of chromaticity differences at the ouptut of Frei ’s colour vision model [3] is tested and compensated for by using MacAdam’s uniform chromaticity space. For (ii), the dynamical image model of the Kalman filter is visually weighted using the frequency response of Stockham’s model [l] of human vision.


Shape Vq-Based Adaptive Predictive Lossless Image Coder, Jiazhao Wang, Philip Ogunbona, Golshah Naghdy Jan 1997

Shape Vq-Based Adaptive Predictive Lossless Image Coder, Jiazhao Wang, Philip Ogunbona, Golshah Naghdy

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A new shape adaptive predictive lossless image coder is proposed. Three classes of block shapes are delineated with associated “optimum” predctors. Each image is partitioned into sub-blocks that are classified into one of the three classes using vector quantisation. The encoder then employs the predictor corresponding to the class of the block under consideration. Performance evaluation of the proposed coder in comparison with four other lossless coders includmg lossless JPEG indicates its superiority.


Content-Based Retrieval From Compressed-Image Databases, Philip Ogunbona, P Sangassapaviriya Jan 1997

Content-Based Retrieval From Compressed-Image Databases, Philip Ogunbona, P Sangassapaviriya

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There is an enormous amount of multi-media data including images, video, speech, audio and text, distributed among the various computer nodes on the Internet. The extent to which a user wiU be able to derive useful information from these data depends largely on the ease with which required data can be retrieved from the databases. The share volume of the data also poses a storage constraint on the databases; hence these data will need to exist in the compressed form on the databases. In this paper we concentrate on image data and propose a new paradigm in which a compressed …


Edge Image Description Using Fractal Interpolation, P Motallebi, P O. Ogunbona Jan 1997

Edge Image Description Using Fractal Interpolation, P Motallebi, P O. Ogunbona

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Edge images derived from compressed image databases are described using fractal techniques. The proposed method is able to give affine transformation-invariant description suitable for use in a query-by-example database application. Comparison among the proposed method, polynomial interpolation and spline interpolation is given. It is concluded that fractal interpolation can give a compact description of image contours and is able to cope with random perturbation of the coordinates of the contour points by as much as 25 percent.


Similarity Measures For Compressed Image Databases, P Sangassapaviriya, Philip Ogunbona Jan 1997

Similarity Measures For Compressed Image Databases, P Sangassapaviriya, Philip Ogunbona

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For image database applications it is desirable that functions such as searching, browsing and partial recall be done without the need to totally decompress the image. This has the advantage of alleviating possible burden and degradation that the network may suffer. Edge images derived from wavelet-compressed images are considered as index that can be queried by example. Zernike moment invariants are used as descriptors for the index edge image and the query sketch image. The descriptions are compared for the purpose of database searching. The query images were allowed to undergo translation, rotation, scaling and some deformation. Simulation results gave …