Page 14 of 19
This paper presents a fast context-based adaptive variable-length decoding (CAVLD) method of H.264/AVC with a very long instruction word-based bitstream processing unit (BsPU) designed for entropy decoding of ...
In this paper, a new adaptive distributed video coding (DVC) method with received motion vectors (MVs) through a back channel is proposed. The MVs estimated for side information (SI) generation in the proposed...
Due to the demand for real-time processing in real-time automatic target recognition (RTATR) systems, fast connected components analysis (CCA) is significant to RTATR performance improvement. Conventional sing...
Co-segmentation aims at segmenting common objects from a group of images. Markov random field (MRF) has been widely used to solve co-segmentation, which introduces a global constraint to make the foreground si...
Mammogram tissue density has been found to be a strong indicator for breast cancer risk. Efforts in computer vision of breast parenchymal pattern have been made in order to improve the diagnostic accuracy by r...
Copy-move forgeries are very common image manipulations that are often carried out with malicious intents. Among the techniques devised by the ‘Image Forensic’ community, those relying on scale invariant featu...
Local binary pattern (LBP) operators have become commonly used texture descriptors in recent years. Several new LBP-based descriptors have been proposed, of which some aim at improving robustness to noise. To ...
This article presents a new bottom-up framework for spatiotemporal salient region detection. The generated saliency map can uniformly highlight the salient regions. In the proposed framework, the spatial visua...
In this paper, we suggest a general model for the fixed-valued impulse noise and propose a two-stage method for high density noise suppression while preserving the image details. In the first stage, we apply a...
In this article, we present an investigation of possible improvement of the colour constant reflectance features that can be obtained from daylight illuminated scenes using pixel-level colour constancy algorit...
Face landmarking, defined as the detection and localization of certain characteristic points on the face, is an important intermediary step for many subsequent face processing operations that range from biomet...
In this study, an effective background initialization and foreground segmentation approach for bootstrapping video sequences is proposed. First, a modified block representation approach is used to classify eac...
Given a set of images containing similar objects, cosegmentation is a task of jointly segmenting the objects from the set of images, which has received increasing interests recently. To solve this problem, we ...
Clustering of specific object detections is a challenging problem for video summarization. In this article, we present a method to form tracks by grouping face detections of a video sequence. Our clustering me...
A depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) method with spatial and temporal texture synthesis is presented in this article. Theoretically, the DIBR algorithm can be used to generate arbitrary virtual views of the sa...
Facial landmarks are a set of salient points, usually located on the corners, tips or mid points of the facial components. Reliable facial landmarks and their associated detection and tracking algorithms can b...
This article explores an energy function and its minimization for the weighted gradient domain image processing, where variable weights are applied to the data term of conventional function for attaining bette...
In this article, a high performance face recognition system based on local binary pattern (LBP) using the probability distribution functions (PDFs) of pixels in different mutually independent color channels wh...
This article proposes a novel method of image unwrapping for spherical omnidirectional images acquired through a non-single viewpoint (NSVP) omnidirectional sensor. It has three key steps i.e. (1) calibrate th...
High efficiency video coding (HEVC) is the latest video coding standard that has been developed by JCT-VC. It employs plenty of efficient coding algorithms (e.g., highly flexible quad-tree coding block partiti...
Although many lung disease diagnostic procedures can benefit from computer-aided detection (CAD), current CAD systems are mainly designed for lung nodule detection. In this article, we focus on tuberculosis (T...
Various fast mode decision algorithms are proposed to reduce computational complexity for the H.264/scalable video coding standard. In this article, we focus on skip mode detection for coarse grain quality (CG...
This article presents a new approach for gait-based gender recognition using depth cameras, that can run in real time. The main contribution of this study is a new fast feature extraction strategy that uses th...
In this article, a new method for the recognition of obscene video contents is presented. In the proposed algorithm, different episodes of a video file starting by key frames are classified independently by us...
This article presents a shadow removal algorithm with background difference method based on shadow position and edges attributes. First, a novel background subtraction method is proposed to obtain moving objec...
Digital video stabilization (DVS) allows acquiring video sequences without disturbing jerkiness, removing unwanted camera movements. A good DVS should remove the unwanted camera movements while maintains the i...
In this article, we propose a novel blind image deconvolution method developed within the Bayesian framework. We concentrate on the restoration of blurred photographs taken by commercial cameras to show its ef...
In this article, we propose a new method for localizing optic disc in retinal images. Localizing the optic disc and its center is the first step of most vessel segmentation, disease diagnostic, and retinal rec...
Mobile video streaming services are challenging, as they obey several system constraints, such as random access facilities, efficient server storage, and flexible rate adaptation. Rate adaptation can be perfor...
Facial expressions are a valuable source of information that accompanies facial biometrics. Early detection of physiological and psycho-emotional data from facial expressions is linked to the situational aware...
We propose a novel image segmentation algorithm using piecewise smooth (PS) approximation to image. The proposed algorithm is inspired by four well-known active contour models, i.e., Chan and Vese’ piecewise c...
Facial expressions (FE) are one of the important cognitive load markers in the context of car driving. Any muscular activity can be coded as an action unit (AU) which are the building blocks of FE. Precise fac...
It is well known that discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is sensitive to shift, which means a slight shift of feature in the original signal may cause unpredictable changes in the analysis subbands. Some modifie...
In this work we evaluate the use of several real-time dense stereo algorithms as a passive 3D sensing technology for potential use as part of a driver assistance system or autonomous vehicle guidance. A key li...
This article proposes a technique for speckle reduction in medical ultrasound (US) imaging which preserves the point and linear features with the added advantage of energy condensation regulator. Whatever be t...
In this article, we present a new color image segmentation method, based on multilevel thresholding and data fusion techniques which aim at combining different data sources associated to the same color image i...
The goal of contrast enhancement is to improve visibility of image details without introducing unrealistic visual appearances and/or unwanted artefacts. While global contrast-enhancement techniques enhance the...
We propose a novel external force for active contours, which we call neighborhood-extending and noise-smoothing gradient vector flow (NNGVF). The proposed NNGVF snake expresses the gradient vector flow (GVF) as a...
Image quality is a vital criterion that guides the technical development of digital cameras. Traditionally, the image quality of digital cameras has been measured using test-targets and/or subjective tests. Su...
As screenshots of copyrighted video content are spreading through the Internet without any regulation, cases of copyright infringement have been observed. Further, it is difficult to use existing forensic tech...
On the basis of the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) feature, we research the distance measure in the process of image resizing. Through extracting SIFT features from the original image and the resized...
As satellite images are widely used in a large number of applications in recent years, content-based image retrieval technique has become important tools for image exploration and information mining; however, ...
In this article, a prediction error preprocessor based on the just noticeable distortion (JND) for the color image compression scheme is presented. The dynamic range of prediction error signals we can reduce, ...
This article presents a robust approach to tracking multiple vehicles with integration of multiple visual features. The observation is modeled by democratic integration strategies according to the reliability ...
Low-level computer vision algorithms have high computational requirements. In this study, we present two real-time architectures using resource constrained FPGA and GPU devices for the computation of a new alg...
Quarter-pel (q-pel) motion compensation (MC) is one of the features of H.264/AVC that aids in attaining a much better compression factor than what was possible in preceding standards. The better performance ho...
Many vision applications require high-accuracy dense disparity maps in real time. Due to the complexity of the matching process, most real-time stereo applications rely on local algorithms in the disparity com...
This article describes a pipeline synthesis and optimization technique that increases data throughput of FPGA-based system using minimum pipeline resources. The technique is applied on CAL dataflow language, and ...
This paper presents a real-time processing platform for high-definition stereo video. The system is capable to process stereo video streams at resolutions up to 1, 920 × 1, 080 at 30 frames per second (1080p30...
Learn more about the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing free monthly webinar series
2022 Citation Impact
2.4 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.6 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.410 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
0.608 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
2023 Speed
51 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
388 days submission to accept (Median)
2023 Usage
522,070 downloads
54 Altmetric mentions
​​​​We offer a free open access support service to make it easier for you to discover and apply for article-processing charge (APC) funding. Learn more here.
We are pleased to announce that the following paper published in EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing has been awarded a EURASIP best paper award!
Research
DIBR synthesized image quality assessment based on morphological multiscale approach
Dragana Sandić-Stanković, Dragan Kukolj, and Patrick Le Callet
The award ceremony will take place at the upcoming virtual edition of EUSIPCO to be held in August 2021. For more information see the EURASIP newsletter.
