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A novel method of color image enhancement is proposed, in which three or four color channels of the image are transformed to one channel 2-D grayscale image. This paper describes different models of such transformations in the RGB and other…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Artyom M Grigoryan , Aparna John , Sos S Agaian

Image colorization adds color to grayscale images. It not only increases the visual appeal of grayscale images, but also enriches the information contained in scientific images that lack color information. Most existing methods of…

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We transpose an optimal control technique to the image segmentation problem. The idea is to consider image segmentation as a parameter estimation problem. The parameter to estimate is the color of the pixels of the image. We use the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Hend Ben Ameur , Guy Chavent , Francois Clément , Pierre Weis

A new computational method for finite-temperature properties of strongly correlated electrons is proposed by extending the variational Monte Carlo method originally developed for the ground state. The method is based on the path integral in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-10 Kensaku Takai , Kota Ido , Takahiro Misawa , Youhei Yamaji , Masatoshi Imada

In vector quantization the number of vectors used to construct the codebook is always an undefined problem, there is always a compromise between the number of vectors and the quantity of information lost during the compression. In this text…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rami Kanhouche

We present a new vectorial total variation method that addresses the problem of color consistent image filtering. Our approach is inspired from the double-opponent cell representation in the human visual cortex. Existing methods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Freddie Åström , Christoph Schnörr

We propose a general framework for solving quantum state estimation problems using the minimum relative entropy criterion. A convex optimization approach allows us to decide the feasibility of the problem given the data and, whenever…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-29 Mattia Zorzi , Francesco Ticozzi , Augusto Ferrante

This work proposes a method for underwater image enhancement using the principle of histogram equalization. Since underwater images have a global strong dominant colour, their colourfulness and contrast are often degraded. Before applying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Anushka Yadav , Mayank Upadhyay , Ghanapriya Singh

Most image deblurring methods assume an over-simplistic image formation model and as a result are sensitive to more realistic image degradations. We propose a novel variational framework, that explicitly handles pixel saturation, noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jérémy Anger , Mauricio Delbracio , Gabriele Facciolo

In this work we focus on the problem of colorization for image compression. Since color information occupies a large proportion of the total storage size of an image, a method that can predict accurate color from its grayscale version can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Mohammad Haris Baig , Lorenzo Torresani

Image colorization is the process of colorizing grayscale images or recoloring an already-color image. This image manipulation can be used for grayscale satellite, medical and historical images making them more expressive. With the help of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ahmed Samir Ragab , Shereen Aly Taie , Howida Youssry Abdelnaby

We describe a novel method to obtain thermodynamic properties of quantum systems using Baysian Inference -- Maximum Entropy techniques. The method is applicable to energy values sampled at a discrete set of temperatures from Quantum Monte…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Carey Huscroft , Richard Gass , Mark Jarrell

We develop a framework for rendering photographic images, taking into account display limitations, so as to optimize perceptual similarity between the rendered image and the original scene. We formulate this as a constrained optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Valero Laparra , Alex Berardino , Johannes Ballé , Eero P. Simoncelli

Image colorization achieves more and more realistic results with the increasing computation power of recent deep learning techniques. It becomes more difficult to identify the fake colorized images by human eyes. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Weize Quan , Dong-Ming Yan , Kai Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Denis Pellerin

Recent advances in differentiable rendering have enabled high-quality reconstruction of 3D scenes from multi-view images. Most methods rely on simple rendering algorithms: pre-filtered direct lighting or learned representations of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Jon Hasselgren , Nikolai Hofmann , Jacob Munkberg

As quantum technologies advance, the ability to generate increasingly large quantum states has experienced rapid development. In this context, the verification and estimation of large entangled systems represents one of the main challenges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Joshua Morris , Valeria Saggio , Aleksandra Gočanin , Borivoje Dakić

Colorization is a well-explored problem in the domains of image and video processing. However, extending colorization to 3D scenes presents significant challenges. Recent Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and Gaussian-Splatting(3DGS) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ankit Dhiman , R Srinath , Srinjay Sarkar , Lokesh R Boregowda , R Venkatesh Babu

Finding better solutions to combinatorial optimization problems could have a large positive impact on many real-world application areas, such as logistics. For this reason, significant efforts have been made to design novel optimisation…

Handling various objects with different colors is a significant challenge for image colorization techniques. Thus, for complex real-world scenes, the existing image colorization algorithms often fail to maintain color consistency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Subhankar Ghosh , Saumik Bhattacharya , Prasun Roy , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

This paper proposes a novel multi-exposure image fusion method based on exposure compensation. Multi-exposure image fusion is a method to produce images without color saturation regions, by using photos with different exposures. However, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Yuma Kinoshita , Taichi Yoshida , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya