We present a method that can handle the color correction of multiple photographs with blind image restoration simultaneously and automatically. We prove that the local colors of a set of images of the same scene exhibit the low-rank property locally both before and after a color-correction operation. This property allows us to correct all kinds of errors in an image under a low-rank matrix model without particular priors or assumptions. The possible errors may be caused by changes of viewpoint, large illumination variations, gross pixel corruptions, partial occlusions, etc. Furthermore, a new iterative soft-segmentation method is proposed for local color transfer using color influence maps. Due to the fact that the correct color information and the spatial information of images can be recovered using the low-rank model, more precise color correction and many other image-restoration tasks—including image denoising, image deblurring, and gray-scale image colorizing—can be performed simultaneously. Experiments have verified that our method can achieve consistent and promising results on uncontrolled real photographs acquired from the Internet and that it outperforms current state-of-the-art methods.
An efficient face-recognition algorithm is proposed, which not only possesses the advantages of linear subspace analysis approaches—such as low computational complexity—but also has the advantage of a high recognition performance with the wavelet-based algorithms. Based on the linearity of Gabor-wavelet transformation and some basic assumptions on face images, we can extract pseudo-Gabor features from the face images without performing any complex Gabor-wavelet transformations. The computational complexity can therefore be reduced while a high recognition performance is still maintained by using the principal component analysis (PCA) method. The proposed algorithm is evaluated based on the Yale database, the Caltech database, the ORL database, the AR database, and the Facial Recognition Technology database, and is compared with several different face recognition methods such as PCA, Gabor wavelets plus PCA, kernel PCA, locality preserving projection, and dual-tree complex wavelet transformation plus PCA. Experiments show that consistent and promising results are obtained.
An efficient texture classification method is proposed that considers the effects of both the rotation and scale of texture images. In our method, the Gabor wavelets are adopted to extract local features of an image and the statistical properties of its gray-level intensities are used to represent the global features. Then, an adaptive, circular orientation normalization scheme is proposed to make the feature invariant to rotation, and an elastic cross-frequency searching mechanism is devised to reduce the effect of scaling. Our method is evaluated based on the Brodatz album and the Outex database, and the experimental results show that it outperforms the traditional algorithms.
In this paper, an efficient rotation invariant texture classification method is proposed. Comparing with the previous texture classification method, which is also based on Gabor wavelets, two modifications are made in this paper. Firstly, an adaptive circular orientation normalization scheme is proposed. Because both the effects of orientation and frequency to Gabor features are considered, our method can effectively eliminate the disturbance from inter-frequency, and therefore has the ability to reduce the effect of image rotation. Secondly, besides the Gabor features, which mainly represent the local texture information of an image, the statistical property of the intensity values of an image is also used for texture classification in our algorithm. Our method is evaluated based on the Brodatz album, and the experimental results show that it outperforms the traditional algorithms.
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