An Improved Quantitative Analysis Method for Plant Cortical Microtubules

The performance of interpolation algorithm used in bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition directly affects its popularization and application. Therefore, the research on interpolation algorithm is more reasonable, accurate and fast. So far, in the interpolation algorithm adopted by the bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition, an adaptive interpolation algorithm can be proposed according to the image characteristics. In view of this, this paper proposes an image interpolation algorithm based on the particle swarm and fractal. Its procedure includes: to analyze the given image by using the fractal brown function, to pick up the feature quantity from the image, and then to operate the adaptive image interpolation in terms of the obtained feature quantity. The parameters involved in the interpolation process are optimized by particle swarm optimization algorithm, and the optimal parameters are obtained, which can solve the problem of low efficiency and low precision of interpolation algorithm used in bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition. It solves the problem that the image cannot be decomposed to obtain accurate and reliable bi-dimensional intrinsic modal function, and realize the fast decomposition of the image. It lays the foundation for the further popularization and application of the bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition algorithm.

The gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) algorithm is a contemporary computational biology method which, today, is frequently used to detect small changes in texture that are not visible using conventional techniques. We demonstrate that the toxic compound 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) and iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPS) have opposite effects on GLCM features of cell nuclei. Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cells were treated with 6-OHDA and IONPs, and imaging with GLCM analysis was performed at three different time points: 30 min, 60 min, and 120 min after the treatment. A total of 200 cell nuclei were analyzed, and for each nucleus, 5 GLCM parameters were calculated: Angular second moment (ASM), Inverse difference moment (IDM), Contrast (CON), Correlation (COR) and Sum Variance (SVAR). Exposure to IONPs was associated with the increase of ASM and IDM while the values of SVAR and COR were reduced. Treatment with 6-OHDA was associated with the increase of SVAR and CON, while the values of nuclear ASM and IDM were reduced. This is the first study to indicate that IONPs and 6-OHDA have opposite effects on nuclear texture. Also, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to apply the GLCM algorithm in Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cells in this experimental setting.

We propose a 2D generalization to the midpoint-based empirical mode decomposition algorithm (MBEMD). Unlike with the regular bidimensional empirical mode decomposition algorithm (BEMD), we do not interpolate the upper and lower envelopes, but rather directly find the mean envelope, utilizing well defined points between two extrema of different kind (midpoints). This approach has several advantages such as improved spectral selectivity and better time performance over the regular BEMD process. The MBEMD algorithm is then applied to the task of the interferometric fringe pattern analysis, to identify its distinct components. This allows to separate the oscillatory pattern component, which is of interest, from the background, noise and possibly other spurious interferometric patterns. In result, the phase demodulation error is reduced. Flexibility of the adaptive method allows for processing correlation fringe patterns met in the digital speckle pattern interferometry as well as the regular interferometric fringe patterns without any special tuning of the algorithm.

Abstract: Pomegranate is a valuable fruit crop that is widely cultivated in various regions. However, its production is often threatened by various diseases that can significantly affect its yield and quality. In this project, we propose a method for pomegranate disease detection and pesticides suggestion using the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) algorithm. The proposed approach utilizes GLCM to extract texture features from the pomegranate leaf images and classify them into healthy or diseased categories. Moreover, we suggest the most effective pesticides to control the detected diseases by using the GLCM algorithm. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated using a dataset of pomegranate leaf images with different disease symptoms. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in detecting and classifying pomegranate diseases with high accuracy. Furthermore, the suggested pesticides show promising results in controlling the diseases. Overall, the proposed method can assist farmers in identifying pomegranate diseases at an early stage and provide appropriate suggestions for pesticide selection, which can reduce crop losses and enhance crop productivity. Keywords: classification, disease detection, GLCM algorithm.

Spinal curvature type can be detected from digital X-ray images. Experts diagnose spinal curvature for a long time to obtain accurate results. This research aims to analyze the use of image processing techniques to extract features in two types of spinal imagery, normal and abnormal (i.e., scoliosis), by applying the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) algorithm and Support Vector Machine (SVM) for the classification method. This study used 40 images divided into 4 data sets for analysis. Three distance parameters, 50, 75, and 100 pixels, and three parameters of quantization values, 8, 16, and 32, were utilized for analysis. The highest accuracy obtained from one of the specific data set was 100%, while the highest accuracy of the average of each value distance and quantization was 90%. The GLCM algorithm could differentiate the abnormality of spinal imagery.

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) produces ocean SAR solitary images which include the information of internal solitary waves (ISWs), surface wave, terraininfo and noise. Based on wavelet transform (WT) and bidimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD), we give a new algorithm, named wBEMD, to obtain information of ISWs from the SAR images, and apply it on two SAR images to extract ISWs features. The ISWs information layer obtained from wBEMD shows more intact ISW features, from which we retrieve the characteristic width and phase velocity of ISWs and analyse other detailed information. The closeness between the retrieved parameters and observed data verifies wBEMD's practicability.

Texture refers to the tactile impression, such as rough, silky, bumpy, and other texture terms. The Grey-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) algorithm is widely used in visual images for texture feature extraction, image structure characterization analysis and texture classification. The GLCM can not only give the statistics of pixel gray values occur in an image, but also give multiple characteristics of the images. Since the primate brain, which is constructed with spiking neurons, has excellent performance in terms of image feature extraction, the improved GLCM algorithm is used to train a spiking neural network and also to simulate the brain's ability about extract key information and utilize these extracted feature information to classify different texture image. Experimental results in this article show that this combination of the GLCM and spiking neural network can effectively extract image features, and the texture classification results is also to achieve satisfactory effect.

Fabric defect detection has attracted increasing attention in the fields of computer vision and textile engineering because it is essential to quality assurance of textile manufacturing. In this paper, we propose a novel defect detection scheme for fabric inspection based on bidimensional empirical mode decomposition. The stopping criterion for sifting and the intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) are adapted for this specific application. Appropriate IMFs are selected to eliminate influences of fabric textures and lighting in defect segmentation. The experiment results on sample images from our laboratory and from TILDA’s Textile Texture Database demonstrate that the proposed method is a robust and accurate approach for fabric defect inspection.

QR image feature extraction effectiveness based on metrics using spectral clustering and grey level Co-Occurrence matrix algorithm

The interpolation causes the frequency aliasing in intrinsic mode functions (IMF) in bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD). The local orthogonality or the computational complexity of the improved BEMDs can not be met. In this paper, a novel BEMD - local estimation empirical mode decomposition (LEEMD) is proposed. Particularly, the local estimation instead of the interpolation without changing the framework of EMD is proposed to solve the problem. LEEMD will be applied in image fusion based on the proposed background/detail rule. In experiments, the objective and subjective experiments show that LEEMD and its application is effective.

The image fusion plays a crucial role in many fields such as remote sensing, medical and robotics applications. This paper is focused on image fusion of images of different focus depth. The aim is to study these concepts and provide simulations and evaluations on various implementations. When performing image fusion the images are decomposed by bi-dimensional Empirical mode decomposition (BEMD) to obtain high frequency coefficients which is used to determine which parts of the input images that makes it into the fused image. The same technique is tested on images of different modality. In this thesis, a novel bi-dimensional Empirical mode decomposition (BEMD) based image fusion scheme is proposed. The BEMD decomposes the source images into intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) and residual components. IMF components of the first signal in the decomposition of the source images are used to generate the fused images using appropriate fusion rule. Performance evaluation of fused images is done by computing fusion quality metrics and the fusion results are compared with other existing fusion schemes. It is seen that the performance of the proposed scheme is better as compared with the existing fusion schemes.

Youzhi Zheng Tsinghua University, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing, China 100084 Zheng Qin Tsinghua University, School of Software, Beijing, China 100084 We propose a novel multiscale decomposition (MSD) image fusion algorithm, which is region-based image fusion using bidimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD). BEMD is a 2-D data-driven decomposition derived from the empirical mode decomposition (EMD), which does not require predetermined filter or wavelet function. The input images are decomposed into a number of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) as well as a residual image. The fusion is performed region by region based on the segmentations of the input images to produce composite BEMD representation, and then the inverse BEMD transform is applied to obtain the fused image. Experiments show that the proposed image fusion algorithm provides superior performance over traditional fusion schemes in terms of both objective metrics and visual quality.

Infrared and visible image fusion based on BEMSD and improved fuzzy set

Data security by using an alphanumeric combination password is no longer used, so it needs to be added security that is difficult to be manipulated by certain people. One type of security is the type of biometrics technology using face recognition which has different characteristics by combining the Viola-Jones algorithm to detect facial features, GLCM (Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix) for extracting the texture characteristics of an image, and Cosine Similarity for the measurement of the proximity of the data (image matching). The image will be detected using the Viola-Jones algorithm to get face, eyes, nose, and mouth. The image detection results will be calculated the value of the texture characteristics with the GLCM (Gray Level Cooccurrence Matrix) algorithm. Image matching using cosine similarity will determine or match the data stored in the database with new image input until identification results are obtained. The results obtained in this study get the level of accuracy of the identification of the three algorithms by 77.20% with the amount of data that was correctly identified as many as 386 out of 500 images.Keywords: Security, face recognition, Viola-Jones, Cosine Similarity.

This paper presents a new simple and robust texture analysis feature based on Bidimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition (BEMD) and Local Binary Pattern (LBP). BEMD is a locally adaptive decomposition method and suitable for the analysis of nonlinear or nonstationary signals. Texture images are decomposed to several Bidimensional Intrinsic Mode Functions (BIMFs) by BEMD, which present a new set multi-scale compo- nents of images. In our approach, firstly, saddle points are added as supporting points for interpolation to improve original BEMD, and then images are decomposed by the new BEMD to several components (BIMFs). After then, Local Binary Pattern (LBP) in different sizes is used to detect features from different BIMFs. At last, normalization and BIMFs selection method are adopted for features selection. The proposed feature presents invariant while preserving LBP's simplicity. Our method has also been evaluated in CuRet and KTH-TIPS2a texture image databases. It is experimentally demonstrated that the proposed feature achieves higher classification accuracy than other state-of-the- art texture representation methods, especially in small training samples condition.