Parametric ratio-based method for efficient contrast-preserving decolorization

J Xiong, H Lu, Q Liu, X Xu - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2018 - Springer
Decolorization is a fundamental technology indispensable for image processing, digital
printing, and photograph rendering, while it suffers from information loss. This paper …

Multispectral particle filter tracking using adaptive decision-based fusion of visible and thermal sequences

N Pourmomtaz, M Nahvi - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2020 - Springer
One of the main challenges of detection and tracking of objects in video monitoring is the
lighting conditions of the scene under surveillance and its variations. Due to the availability …

A polar model for fast object tracking in 360-degree camera images

A Delforouzi, SAH Tabatabaei, K Shirahama… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2019 - Springer
The task of fast object tracking in polar images using emerging high-resolution 360-degree
camera technology is presented in this paper. In this approach, when an arbitrary object has …

Robust object tracking using a sparse coadjutant observation model

J Zhao, W Zhang, F Cao - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2018 - Springer
This paper develops a classical visual tracker that is called a discriminative sparse similarity
(DSS) tracker. Based on the classical Laplacian multi-task reverse sparse representation to …

Single-target localization in video sequences using offline deep-ranked metric learning and online learned models updating

W Huang, J Zeng, P Zhang, G Chen, H Ding - Multimedia Tools and …, 2018 - Springer
Foreground targets localization in video sequences receives much popularity in computer
vision during the past few years, and its studies are highly related toward machine learning …

Wavelet denoising with generalized bivariate prior model

W Zeng, X Fu, C Hu, Y Du - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2018 - Springer
This paper presents a novel wavelet method based on a prior model of wavelet coefficient
with a generalized bivariate distribution function. The generalized bivariate prior model …

Improved performance of quality metrics using saliency map and CSF filter for standard coding H264/AVC

M Ben Amor, F Kammoun, N Masmoudi - Multimedia Tools and …, 2018 - Springer
Despite the great evolution in the field of quality metrics, classical tools such as the PSNR
remain useful in the field of evolution of video coding research. Our idea is to improve the …

Authenticity identification of speaker digital recording data based on quantum genetic algorithm

C Zhou, P Pan, L Huang - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2018 - Springer
The problem we are trying to solve in this paper is the authenticity identification of speaker
digital recording data. As an important basis of the judicial identification, it is crucial to …

Adaptive interpolation and segmentation based reversible image watermarking

R Samee, MM Riaz, A Ghafoor - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2018 - Springer
Reversible image watermarking schemes are used to protect ownership and copyrights of
digital images. This paper proposes a novel reversible image watermarking scheme based …

Learning guidelines for automatic indoor scene design

Y Liang, SH Zhang, RR Martin - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019 - Springer
In this work, we address a novel and practical problem of automatically generating a room
design from given room function and basic geometry, which can be described as picking …