Local Histogram Research Articles

Reconstructing Binary Signals from Local Histograms.

In this paper, we considered the representation power of local overlapping histograms for discrete binary signals. We give an algorithm that is linear in signal size and factorial in window size for producing the set of signals, which share a sequence of densely overlapping histograms, and we state the values for the sizes of the number of unique signals for a given set of histograms, as well as give bounds on the number of metameric classes, where a metameric class is a set of signals larger than one, which has the same set of densely overlapping histograms.

Study on Identification Method of Pulmonary Nodules: Improved Random Walk Pulmonary Parenchyma Segmentation and Fusion Multi-Feature VGG16 Nodule Classification.

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to realize automatic segmentation of lung parenchyma based on random walk algorithm to ensure the accuracy of lung parenchyma segmentation. The explicable features of pulmonary nodules were added into VGG16 neural network to improve the classification accuracy of pulmonary nodules.Materials and MethodsLIDC-IDRI, a public dataset containing lung Computed Tomography images/pulmonary nodules, was used as experimental data. In lung parenchyma segmentation, the maximum Between-Class Variance method (OTSU), corrosion and expansion methods were used to automatically obtain the foreground and background seed points of random walk algorithm in lung parenchyma region. The shortest distance between point sets was added as one of the criteria of prospect probability in the calculation of random walk weight function to achieve accurate segmentation of pulmonary parenchyma. According to the location of the nodules marked by the doctor, the nodules were extracted. The texture features and grayscale features were extracted by Volume Local Direction Ternary Pattern (VLDTP) method and gray histogram. The explicable features were input into VGG16 network in series mode and fused with depth features to achieve accurate classification of nodules. Intersection of Union (IOU) and false positive rate (FPR) were used to measure the segmentation results. Accuracy, Sensitivity, Specificity, Accuracy and F1 score were used to evaluate the results of nodule classification.ResultsThe automatic random walk algorithm is effective in lung parenchyma segmentation, and its segmentation efficiency is improved obviously. In VGG16 network, the accuracy of nodular classification is 0.045 higher than that of single depth feature classification.ConclusionThe method proposed in this paper can effectively and accurately achieve automatic segmentation of lung parenchyma. In addition, the fusion of multi-feature VGG16 network is effective in the classification of pulmonary nodules, which can improve the accuracy of nodular classification.

A Format-compatible Searchable Encryption Scheme for JPEG Images Using Bag-of-words

The development of cloud computing attracts enterprises and individuals to outsource their data, such as images, to the cloud server. However, direct outsourcing causes the extensive concern of privacy leakage, as images often contain rich sensitive information. A straightforward way to protect privacy is to encrypt the images using the standard cryptographic tools before outsourcing. However, in such a way the possible usage of the outsourced images would be strongly limited together with the services provided to users, like the Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). In this article, we propose a secure outsourced CBIR scheme, in which an encryption scheme is designed for the widely used JPEG-format images, and the secure features can be directly extracted from such encrypted images. Specifically, the JPEG images are encrypted by the block permutation, intra-block permutation, polyalphabetic cipher, and stream cipher. Then secure local histograms are extracted from the encrypted DCT blocks and the Bag-Of-Words (BOW) model is further used to organize the encrypted local features to represent the image. The proposed image encryption gets all of the image data protected and the experimental results show that the proposed scheme achieves improved accuracy with a small file size expansion.

Face recognition methods analysis

Face Recognition is one of the most important issues in Image processing tasks. It is important because it uses for various purposes in real world such as Criminal detection or for detecting fraud in passport and visa check in airports. Face book is a nice example of Face recognition application, when it sends notification to one user’s friends who are recognized by their images that user uploaded in face book page. To solve Face Recognition problem different methods are introduced such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Independent Component Analysis (ICA), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), and Hidden Markov Models (HMM) which are explained and analyzed. Also algorithms like; Eigen face, Fisher face and Local Binary Pattern Histogram (LBPH) which are simplest and most accurate methods are implemented in this project for AT&T dataset to recognize the most similar face to other faces in this data set. To this end these algorithms are explained and advantages and disadvantages of each one are analyzed as well. Consequently, the best method is selected with comparison between the results of face reconstruction by Engine face, Fisher face and Local binary pattern histogram methods. In this project Eigen face method has best result. It should be noted that for implementing face recognition algorithms color map methods are used to distinguish the facial features more precisely. In this work Rainbow color map in Eigen Face algorithm and HSV color map in Fisher Face algorithm are utilized and results shows that HSV color map is more accurate than rainbow color map.

Facial Makeup Detection Using Multi-Scale Local Binary Patterns and Convolutional Neural Network Fusion

This study presents a novel facial makeup detection scheme using fusion of multi-scale Local Binary Patterns (ms-LBP) texture methods and convolutional neural network (CNN) deep learning extractor. Facial makeups affect the accuracy of face recognition systems due to appearance alteration of individuals. In order to fuse the facial features, the proposed scheme first considers concatenation of extracted global histogram of a whole image using three different LBP operators. The LBP scales are used to extract and then concatenate the local histogram of overlapping and nonoverlapping blocks of images. This way utilizes the advantages of microtexton information of local primitives besides the extracted global textures. Finally, the extracted features using CNN feature extractor are combined with global and local multi-scale textures. In general, CNN deep learning extractor learns high-level discriminative characteristics of images and therefore the proposed system improves the facial makeup detection rate by involving both microtexton and discriminative information of facial images. In addition, the proposed method attempts to select the optimized subset of facial features to increase the detection performance of system by applying Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique after feature level fusion. The paper uses Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier for classifying the facial vectors into makeup or no-makeup classes. The proposed scheme is then evaluated using YMU, VMU and MIW facial makeup databases with consideration of light, medium and heavy makeups on several datasets. Experimental results analysis clarifies the effectiveness of proposed facial makeup detection framework of this study.

Deep learning model for deep fake face recognition and detection.

Deep Learning is an effective technique and used in various fields of natural language processing, computer vision, image processing and machine vision. Deep fakes uses deep learning technique to synthesis and manipulate image of a person in which human beings cannot distinguish the fake one. By using generative adversarial neural networks (GAN) deep fakes are generated which may threaten the public. Detecting deep fake image content plays a vital role. Many research works have been done in detection of deep fakes in image manipulation. The main issues in the existing techniques are inaccurate, consumption time is high. In this work we implement detecting of deep fake face image analysis using deep learning technique of fisherface using Local Binary Pattern Histogram (FF-LBPH). Fisherface algorithm is used to recognize the face by reduction of the dimension in the face space using LBPH. Then apply DBN with RBM for deep fake detection classifier. The public data sets used in this work are FFHQ, 100K-Faces DFFD, CASIA-WebFace.

An l ½ and Graph Regularized Subspace Clustering Method for Robust Image Segmentation

Segmenting meaningful visual structures from an image is a fundamental and most-addressed problem in image analysis algorithms. However, among factors such as diverse visual patterns, noise, complex backgrounds, and similar textures present in foreground and background, image segmentation still stands as a challenging research problem. In this article, the proposed method employs an unsupervised method that addresses image segmentation as subspace clustering of image feature vectors. Initially, an image is partitioned into a set of homogeneous regions called superpixels, from which Local Spectral Histogram features are computed. Subsequently, a feature data matrix is created whereupon subspace clustering methodology is applied. A single-stage optimization model is formulated with enhanced segmentation capabilities by the combined action of l ½ and l 2 norm minimization. Robustness of l ½ regularization toward both the noise and overestimation of sparsity provides simultaneous noise robustness and better subspace selection, respectively. While l 2 norm facilitates grouping effect. Hence, the designed optimization model ensures an improved sparse solution and a sparse representation matrix with an accurate block diagonal structure, which thereby favours getting properly segmented images. Then, experimental results of the proposed method are compared with the state-of-art algorithms. Results demonstrate the improved performance of our method over the state-of-art algorithms.

Face Recognition Based Automated Attendance Management System

At the beginning and end of each session, attendance is an important aspect of the daily classroom evaluation. When using traditional methods such as calling out roll calls or taking a student's signature, managing attendance can be a time-consuming task. The teacher normally checks it, although it's possible that a teacher will miss someone or some students' answers many times. Face recognition-based attendance system is a solution to the problem of recognizing faces for the purpose of collecting attendance by utilizing face recognition technology based on high-definition monitor video and other information technology. Instead of depending on time-consuming approaches, we present a real-time Face Recognition System for tracking student attendance in class in this work. The suggested method included identifying human faces from a webcam using the Viola-Jones technique, resizing the identified face to the desired size, and then processing the resized face using a basic Local Binary Patterns Histogram algorithm. After the recognition is completed, the attendance will be immediately updated in a SQLite database with the relevant information. Many institutions will profit greatly from this endeavor. As a result, the amount of time it takes and the number of human errors it makes are minimized, making it more efficient.

An Efficient Approach to Detect Meningioma Brain Tumor Using Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System Method

Detection of tumors in brain on time saves the patient life. The brain tumor detection is usually done in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the human brain. An automated model is framed to identify tumor pixels in method for detecting and image. This proposed method contains the following modules as enhancement, transformation, feature extraction, classifications and segmentation. The Oriented Local Histogram Equalization (OLHE) method is applied on the brain MRI images in order to enhance the pixel intensity in boundary regions. This enhanced brain image is transformed to multi orientation image using Gabor transform with respect to various scale and orientation of pixels. Then, set of features (Higher Order Spectra (HOS), Gradient, Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM), Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and Curvelet) are extracted from this Gabor transformed image and these features are further trained and classified into benign or malignant using Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference (ANFIS) classification approach. Finally, morphological algorithm is used for segmenting the tumor regions in the classified responses. MATLAB R2018 version is used in this paper to simulate the proposed algorithm for brain tumor detection. This proposed system achieves 98.6% of sensitivity, 99.5% of specificity and 99.4% of segmentation accuracy.

Face detection and recognition in organic video: A comparative study for sport celebrities database

The present paper reports on an experimental study carried out under the applicative field of organic video processing, and relates to the possibility of identifying sport celebrities (soccer players) in video content. In contrast to common state-of-the-art studies, a special attention is paid on the cases in which the face is not completely included in the frame (lateral views, partial occlusions, etc.) and/or in which arbitrarily lighting conditions occur. To this aim, we consider two conventional types of face detection algorithms (Haar Cascade Classifier, and MMOD - Max-Margin object detection) coupled to two conventional face recognition models (LSBH - Local binary pattern histogram, and CNN-based Pruned ResNet). The experimental work consists of evaluating the end-to-end performances of the four possible combinations among the above-mentioned two face detection and two face recognition methods. A database of 20 video sequences of about 3 minutes each is organized. As an overall conclusion, we brought to light that the MMOD coupled to a Pruned ResNet model seems to better suit the organic video processing use-case constraints, being able to reach a recognition rate of 98%.

BOEW: A Content-Based Image Retrieval Scheme Using Bag-of-Encrypted-Words in Cloud Computing

Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) techniques have been extensively studied with the rapid growth of digital images. Generally, CBIR service is quite expensive in computational and storage resources. Thus, it is a good choice to outsource CBIR service to the cloud server that is equipped with enormous resources. However, the privacy protection becomes a big problem, as the cloud server cannot be fully trusted. In this paper, we propose an outsourced CBIR scheme based on a novel bag-of-encrypted-words (BOEW) model. The image is encrypted by color value substitution, block permutation, and intra-block pixel permutation. Then, the local histograms are calculated from the encrypted image blocks by the cloud server. All the local histograms are clustered together, and the cluster centers are used as the encrypted visual words. In this way, the bag-of-encrypted-words (BOEW) model is built to represent each image by a feature vector, i.e., a normalized histogram of the encrypted visual words. The similarity between images can be directly measured by the Manhattan distance between feature vectors on the cloud server side. Experimental results and security analysis on the proposed scheme demonstrate its search accuracy and security.

Classification of Cervical Precursor Lesions via Local Histogram and Cell Morphometric Features.

Cervical squamous intra-epithelial lesions (SIL) are precursor cancer lesions and their diagnosis is important because patients have a chance to be cured before cancer develops. In the diagnosis of the disease, pathologists decide by considering the cell distribution from the basal to the upper membrane. The idea, inspired by the pathologists' point of view, is based on the fact that cell amounts differ in the basal, central, and upper regions of tissue according to the level of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia (CIN). Therefore, histogram information can be used for tissue classification so that the model can be explainable. In this study, two different classification schemes are proposed to show that the local histogram is a useful feature for the classification of cervical tissues. The first classifier is Kullback Leibler divergence-based, and the second one is the classification of the histogram by combining the embedding feature vector from morphometric features. These algorithms have been tested on a public dataset.The method we propose in the study achieved an accuracy performance of 78.69% in a data set where morphology-based methods were 69.07% and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) patch-based algorithms were 75.77%. The proposed statistical features are robust for tackling real-life problems as they operate independently of the lesions manifold.

Application of Local Histogram Clipping Equalization Image Enhancement in Bearing Fault Diagnosis

Aiming at the problem that the time-frequency image of bearing fault characteristics is relatively weak and difficult to identify. This paper presents a time-frequency analysis method of local maximum synchrosqueezing transform based on image enhancement. Firstly, the instantaneous frequency of the collected vibration signal is obtained through local maximum synchrosqueezing transformation. Secondly, a local histogram cropping equalization image enhancement algorithm is proposed, which is used to obtain time-frequency images with clearer textures. Then, in order to extract fault features from the enhanced instantaneous frequency (IF) image, A new neural network is proposed. The network consists of Multi-size convolution kernel module, Dual-channel pooling layer and Cross Stage Partial Network (MDCNet). Finally, the fault signal was collected on the bearing fault test bench for prediction, and the accuracy rate reached 99.7%. And compared with AlexNet, VGG-16, Resnet and other methods. The results show that the method can meet the needs of actual engineering.

Optical and SAR Image Registration Using Complexity Analysis and Binary Descriptor in Suburban Areas

Optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image registration is a challenging task due to significant geometric and radiometric differences. In particular, the strong scattering phenomenon in SAR images can seriously affect the registration results. Accordingly, to solve the low repeatability of the key points in optical and SAR images, a complexity analysis scheme is proposed. In the first phase, the complexity distribution diagram is calculated by the threshold sliding window in the edge images obtained from the maximum moment of the phase congruency. Then morphological operation and connected regions are used to obtain the high-complexity regions and mask them to avoid the extraction of the interference points. Next to solve the limitations of the local self-similarity (LSS) descriptor in the optical and SAR image registration, such as poor discrimination, expensive computational complexity, and sensitivity to large geometric and radiometric difference, we propose a binary LSS descriptor (BLSS). We replace the correlation surface of the LSS with the local gradient orientation histogram. Furthermore, we construct descriptors based on the <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">XY</i> -coordinate system and convert the correlation of the regions to binary descriptors. Finally, the fast sample consensus (FSC) is used to remove false correspondences. The experiments conducted on several optical and SAR image pairs verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Background Subtraction in Surveillance Systems Using Local Spectral Histograms and Linear Regression

Background subtraction is a fundamental and crucial task for computer vision-based automatic video analysis due to various challenging situations that occur in real-world scenarios. This paper presents a novel background subtraction method by estimating the background model using linear regression and local spectral histogram which captures combined spectral and texture features. Different linear filters are applied on the image window centered at each pixel location and the features are captured via these filter responses. Each feature has been approximated by a linear combination of two representative features, each of which corresponds to either a background or a foreground pixel. These representative features have been identified using K-means clustering, which is used in background modeling using a least square method. Constraints have been introduced in the least square solution to make it robust in noisy environments. Experiments on existing datasets show that our proposed method outperforms the methods in the literature, with an overall accuracy of 92%.

Deep Learning based Cervical Cancer Classification and Segmentation from Pap Smears Images using an EfficientNet

One of the most prevalent cancers in the world, cervical cancer claims the lives of many people every year. Since early cancer diagnosis makes it easier for patients to use clinical applications, cancer research is crucial. The Pap smear is a useful tool for early cervical cancer detection, although the human error is always a risk. Additionally, the procedure is laborious and time-consuming. By automatically classifying cervical cancer from Pap smear images, the study's goal was to reduce the risk of misdiagnosis. For picture enhancement in this study, contrast local adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) was employed. Then, from this cervical image, features including wavelet, morphological features, and Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) are extracted. An effective network trains and tests these derived features to distinguish between normal and abnormal cervical images by using EfficientNet. On the aberrant cervical picture, the SegNet method is used to identify and segment the cancer zone. Specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value, Sensitivity, and negative predictive value are all utilized to analyze the suggested cervical cancer detection system performances. When used on the Herlev benchmark Pap smear dataset, results demonstrate that the approach performs better than many of the existing algorithms.

Real time Face Detection and Optimal Face Mapping for Online Classes

The main objective of this paper is to provide a web-based tool for identifying faces in a real-time environment, such as Online Classes. Face recognition in real-time is now a fascinating field with an ever-increasing challenge such as light variations, occlusion, variation in facial expressions, etc. During the current pandemic scenario of COVID-19, the demand for online classrooms has rapidly increased. This has escalated the need for a real-time, economic, simple, and convenient way to track the attendance of the students in a live classroom. This paper addresses the aforementioned issue by proposing a real-time online attendance system. Two alternative face recognition algorithms are perceived in order to develop the tool for realtime face detection and recognition with improved accuracy. The algorithms adopted are Local Binary Pattern Histogram(LBPH) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for face recognition as well as Haar cascade classifier with boosting for face detection. Experimental results show that CNN with an accuracy of 95% is better in this context than LBPH that yields an accuracy of 78%.

Person Re-Identification Using LBPH and K-Reciprocal Encoding

Individual re-identification proof (Re-ID) targets recovering an individual of interest across different non-covering cameras. With the recent development of technological algorithm and expanding request of intelligence video observation, it has acquired fundamentally expanded interest in the computer vision. Person re-identification is characterized as the issue of perceiving an individual caught in different occasions and additionally areas more than a few nonoverlapping camera sees, thinking about a huge arrangement of up-and-comers. This issue influences essentially the administration of disseminated, multiview observation frameworks, in which subjects should be followed across better places, either deduced or on-the-fly when they travel through various areas. Re-identification proof is a truly challenging issue, as more often than not individuals can be caught by a few low goal cameras, under impediment conditions, severely (and not quite the same as view to see) enlightened, and in differing presents. In this context an encoding technique K-reciprocal results using the LBPH (Local Binary Patterns Histogram) Algorithm has been proposed. This work aims to obtain a genuine image match more prone to the probe in the K-corresponding closest neighbour. When probe image is given, complementary is encoded with the k-equal nearest neighbours into a vector to rerank using the Jaccard matrix. The obtained result is a combination of a Mahalanobis metric, the Jaccard metric, and the LBPH algorithm. The reranking activity needs no Human interference in producing an appropriate enormous scale dataset. The performance of rank-1 metrics 77.27, 61.90, 76.34 &.55.11 percentage is achieved for large-scale Market-1501, CUHK03, MARS, and PRW datasets. The other metrics used for person re-id named mAP recorded 65.01%, 61.21%, 68.21% and 38.13% for the same dataset in that order.

Face Detection Based Marking Attendance through Local Binary Pattern Histogram

Face Detection Based Marking Attendance through Local Binary Pattern Histogram

A review on smart attendance system with protection

Attendance is an important task in any institution. Manual methods generally waste a lot of time. They are also not the safest and fastest option. In schools and colleges, the most common technique for attendance is calling the students' names, and in industries, the most common method is signing a register which generally needs extra time to do the attendance. A "Smart Attendance System with Protection" is proposed to solve these problems. This project is mainly divided into 3 parts according to its applications which includes, attendance, thermal screening and ultrasonic sensors. For the automatic attendance part, the Local Binary Pattern Histogram (LBPH) method is used for the face recognition of the person. LBPH is considered the most useful technique for face recognition. For the second part of the project, thermal screening, a sensor (MLX90614) is used to take the temperature of the person and check if it is normal or not. In the third part of the project, ultrasonic sensors are used to detect the hands of the person. Under the sanitization section, and after detection, a small pump motor is used to pour the sanitizer into the hands of the person for the sanitization of their hands. Manual records can be easily extracted from the Smart Attendance System when needed. Attendance record manipulation is not possible in the system. The proposed device uses the Raspberry Pi, IRT, Ultrasonic Sensor, Pi Camera, and Pump Motor. An attendance record is generated and stored in excel format.