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    A novel optimal fuzzy system for color image enhancement using bacterial foraging
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2009) Hanmandlu, M.; Verma, O.P.; Kumar, N.K.; Kulkarni, M.
    A new approach is presented for the enhancement of color images using the fuzzy logic technique. An objective measure called exposure has been defined to provide an estimate of the underexposed and overexposed regions in the image. This measure serves as the dividing line between the underexposed and overexposed regions of the image. The hue, saturation, and intensity (HSV) color space is employed for the process of enhancement, where the hue component is preserved to keep the original color composition intact. A parametric sigmoid function is used for the enhancement of the luminance component of the underexposed image. A power-law operator is used to improve the overexposed region of the image, and the saturation component of HSV is changed through another power-law operator to recover the lost information in the overexposed region. Objective measures like fuzzy contrast and contrast and visual factors are defined to make the operators adaptive to the image characteristics. Entropy and the visual factors are involved in the objective function, which is optimized using the bacterial foraging algorithm to learn the parameters. Gaussian and triangular membership functions (MFs) are chosen for the underexposed and overexposed regions of the image, respectively. Separate MFs and operators for the two regions make the approach universal to all types of contrast degradations. This approach is applicable to a degraded image of mixed type. On comparison, this approach is found to be better than the genetic algorithm (GA)-based and entropy-based approaches. © 2009 IEEE.
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    A simple single seeded region growing algorithm for color image segmentation using adaptive thresholding
    (2011) Verma, O.P.; Hanmandlu, M.; Susan, S.; Kulkarni, M.; Jain, P.K.
    In this paper, we present a region growing technique for color image segmentation. Conventional image segmentation techniques using region growing requires initial seeds selection, which increases computational cost & execution time. To overcome this problem, a single seeded region growing technique for image segmentation is proposed, which starts from the center pixel of the image as the initial seed. It grows region according to the grow formula and selects the next seed from connected pixel of the region. We use intensity based similarity index for the grow formula and Otsu's Adaptive thresholding is used to calculate the stopping criteria for the grow formula. We apply the proposed method to the Berkley segmentation database images and discuss results based on Liu's F-factor that shows efficient segmentation. © 2011 IEEE.
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    A novel optimal fuzzy system for color image enhancement using bacterial foraging
    (2009) Hanmandlu, M.; Verma, O.P.; Kumar, N.K.; Kulkarni, M.
    A new approach is presented for the enhancement of color images using the fuzzy logic technique. An objective measure called exposure has been defined to provide an estimate of the underexposed and overexposed regions in the image. This measure serves as the dividing line between the underexposed and overexposed regions of the image. The hue, saturation, and intensity (HSV) color space is employed for the process of enhancement, where the hue component is preserved to keep the original color composition intact. A parametric sigmoid function is used for the enhancement of the luminance component of the underexposed image. A power-law operator is used to improve the overexposed region of the image, and the saturation component of HSV is changed through another power-law operator to recover the lost information in the overexposed region. Objective measures like fuzzy contrast and contrast and visual factors are defined to make the operators adaptive to the image characteristics. Entropy and the visual factors are involved in the objective function, which is optimized using the bacterial foraging algorithm to learn the parameters. Gaussian and triangular membership functions (MFs) are chosen for the underexposed and overexposed regions of the image, respectively. Separate MFs and operators for the two regions make the approach universal to all types of contrast degradations. This approach is applicable to a degraded image of mixed type. On comparison, this approach is found to be better than the genetic algorithm (GA)-based and entropy-based approaches. � 2009 IEEE.
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    A simple single seeded region growing algorithm for color image segmentation using adaptive thresholding
    (2011) Verma, O.P.; Hanmandlu, M.; Susan, S.; Kulkarni, M.; Jain, P.K.
    In this paper, we present a region growing technique for color image segmentation. Conventional image segmentation techniques using region growing requires initial seeds selection, which increases computational cost & execution time. To overcome this problem, a single seeded region growing technique for image segmentation is proposed, which starts from the center pixel of the image as the initial seed. It grows region according to the grow formula and selects the next seed from connected pixel of the region. We use intensity based similarity index for the grow formula and Otsu's Adaptive thresholding is used to calculate the stopping criteria for the grow formula. We apply the proposed method to the Berkley segmentation database images and discuss results based on Liu's F-factor that shows efficient segmentation. � 2011 IEEE.