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Adaptive Region

The document presents a novel adaptive region-based image preprocessing scheme to enhance face images and facilitate illumination invariant face recognition under variable illumination conditions. The method first segments an image into different regions according to local illumination, then enhances both contrast and edges regionally to alleviate side lighting effects. It applies adaptive region-based histogram equalization to low-frequency coefficients to minimize illumination variations. It also enlarges high-frequency coefficients to make faces more distinguishable, called edge enhancement. Experimental results on two databases show the method significantly improves recognition performance of faces with illumination variations.

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Adaptive Region

The document presents a novel adaptive region-based image preprocessing scheme to enhance face images and facilitate illumination invariant face recognition under variable illumination conditions. The method first segments an image into different regions according to local illumination, then enhances both contrast and edges regionally to alleviate side lighting effects. It applies adaptive region-based histogram equalization to low-frequency coefficients to minimize illumination variations. It also enlarges high-frequency coefficients to make faces more distinguishable, called edge enhancement. Experimental results on two databases show the method significantly improves recognition performance of faces with illumination variations.

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Adaptive Region-Based Image Enhancement Method for Robust Face Recognition Under Variable Illumination Conditions

Abstract Variable illumination conditions, especially the side lighting effects in face images, form a main obstacle in face recognition systems. To deal with this problem, this paper presents a novel adaptive region-based image preprocessing scheme that enhances face images and facilitates the illumination invariant face recognition task. The proposed method first segments an image into different regions according to its different local illumination conditions, then both the contrast and the edges are enhanced regionally so as to alleviate the side lighting effect. Different from existing contrast enhancement methods, we apply the proposed adaptive region-based histogram equalization on the low-frequency coefficients to minimize illumination variations under different lighting conditions. Besides contrast enhancement, by observing that under poor illuminations the highfrequency features become more important in recognition, we propose enlarging the high-frequency coefficients to make face images more distinguishable. This procedure is called edge enhancement (EdgeE). The EdgeE is also region-based. Compared with existing image preprocessing methods, our method is shown to be more suitable for dealing with uneven illuminations in face images. Experimental results on the representative databases, the Yale B+Extended Yale B database and the Carnegie Mellon University-Pose, Illumination, and Expression database, show that the proposed method significantly improves the performance of face images with illumination variations. The proposed method does not require any modeling and model fitting steps and can be implemented easily. Moreover, it can be applied directly to any single image without using any lighting assumption, and any prior information on 3-D face geometry.

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method, which is based on the improved Bernsen algorithm combined with the Gaussian filter. Our second contribution is a character recognition algorithm known as support vector machine (SVM) integration. In SVM integration, character features are extracted from the elastic mesh, and the entire address character string is taken as the object of study, as opposed to a single character. This paper also presents improved techniques for image tilt correction and image gray enhancement. Our algorithm is robust to the variance of illumination, view angle, position, size, and color of the license plates when working in a complex environment. The algorithm was tested with 9026 images, such as natural-scene vehicle images using different backgrounds and ambient illumination particularly for low-resolution images. The license plates were properly located and segmented as 97.16% and 98.34%, respectively. The optical character recognition system is the SVM integration with different character features, whose performance for numerals, Kana, and address recognition reached 99.5%, 98.6%, and 97.8%, respectively. Combining the preceding tests, the overall performance of success for the license plate achieves 93.54% when the system is used for LPR in various complex conditions.

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Abstract Computer-generated (CG) images have achieved high levels of realism. This realism, however, comes at the cost of long and expensive manual modeling, and often humans can still distinguish between CG and real images. We introduce a new data-driven approach for rendering realistic imagery that uses a large collection of photographs gathered from online repositories. Given a CG image, we retrieve a small number of real images with similar global structure. We identify corresponding regions between the CG and real images using a mean-shift cosegmentation algorithm. The user can then automatically transfer color, tone, and texture from matching regions to the CG image. Our system only uses image processing operations and does not require a 3D model of the scene, making it fast and easy to integrate into digital content creation workflows. Results of a user study show that our hybrid images appear more realistic than the originals.

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Abstract The loss in contrast discrimination ability of the human visual system was estimated under a variety of ambient illumination levels first. Then it was modelled as a non-linear weighting function defined in spatial frequency domain to determine which of parts of the image, whatever their spatial frequency, will appear under a given surround luminance level. The weighting function was adopted as a filter for developing an image enhancement algorithm adaptive to surround luminance. The algorithm aims to improve the image contrast under various surround levels especially for small-sized mobile phone displays through gain control of a 2D contrast sensitivity function.

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