The document discusses image segmentation techniques using the Canny edge detector and Mixture of Gaussians (MoG) classifier. It begins with an abstract discussing how images are analyzed using features like edges, color, texture, and shape. It then discusses the Canny edge detector, noting it was developed to detect a wide range of edges in a multi-stage algorithm. The document focuses on improving image classification accuracy by combining natural image statistics and scene semantics features in a MoG classifier with an integrated feature weighting model.
Research Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Scienceresearchinventy
Research Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Science is published by the group of young academic and industrial researchers with 12 Issues per year. It is an online as well as print version open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as: civil, mechanical, chemical, electronic and computer engineering as well as production and information technology. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published by rapid process within 20 days after acceptance and peer review process takes only 7 days. All articles published in Research Inventy will be peer-reviewed.
Content Based Image Retrieval using Color Boosted Salient Points and Shape fe...CSCJournals
Salient points are locations in an image where there is a significant variation with respect to a chosen image feature. Since the set of salient points in an image capture important local characteristics of that image, they can form the basis of a good image representation for content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Salient features are generally determined from the local differential structure of images. They focus on the shape saliency of the local neighborhood. Most of these detectors are luminance based which have the disadvantage that the distinctiveness of the local color information is completely ignored in determining salient image features. To fully exploit the possibilities of salient point detection in color images, color distinctiveness should be taken into account in addition to shape distinctiveness. This paper presents a method for salient points determination based on color saliency. The color and texture information around these points of interest serve as the local descriptors of the image. In addition, the shape information is captured in terms of edge images computed using Gradient Vector Flow fields. Invariant moments are then used to record the shape features. The combination of the local color, texture and the global shape features provides a robust feature set for image retrieval. The experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the method.
Research Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Scienceresearchinventy
Research Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Science is published by the group of young academic and industrial researchers with 12 Issues per year. It is an online as well as print version open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as: civil, mechanical, chemical, electronic and computer engineering as well as production and information technology. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published by rapid process within 20 days after acceptance and peer review process takes only 7 days. All articles published in Research Inventy will be peer-reviewed.
Content Based Image Retrieval using Color Boosted Salient Points and Shape fe...CSCJournals
Salient points are locations in an image where there is a significant variation with respect to a chosen image feature. Since the set of salient points in an image capture important local characteristics of that image, they can form the basis of a good image representation for content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Salient features are generally determined from the local differential structure of images. They focus on the shape saliency of the local neighborhood. Most of these detectors are luminance based which have the disadvantage that the distinctiveness of the local color information is completely ignored in determining salient image features. To fully exploit the possibilities of salient point detection in color images, color distinctiveness should be taken into account in addition to shape distinctiveness. This paper presents a method for salient points determination based on color saliency. The color and texture information around these points of interest serve as the local descriptors of the image. In addition, the shape information is captured in terms of edge images computed using Gradient Vector Flow fields. Invariant moments are then used to record the shape features. The combination of the local color, texture and the global shape features provides a robust feature set for image retrieval. The experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the method.
A New Method for Indoor-outdoor Image Classification Using Color Correlated T...CSCJournals
In this paper a new method for indoor-outdoor image classification is presented; where the concept of Color Correlated Temperature is used to extract distinguishing features between the two classes. In this process, using Hue color component, each image is segmented into different color channels and color correlated temperature is calculated for each channel. These values are then incorporated to build the image feature vector. Besides color temperature values, the feature vector also holds information about the color formation of the image. In the classification phase, KNN classifier is used to classify images as indoor or outdoor. Two different datasets are used for test purposes; a collection of images gathered from the internet and a second dataset built by frame extraction from different video sequences from one video capturing device. High classification rate, compared to other state of the art methods shows the ability of the proposed method for indoor-outdoor image classification.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Automatic dominant region segmentation for natural imagescsandit
Image Segmentation segments an image into different homogenous regions. An efficient
semantic based image retrieval system divides the image into different regions separated by
color or texture sometimes even both. Features are extracted from the segmented regions and
are annotated automatically. Relevant images are retrieved from the database based on the
keywords of the segmented region In this paper, automatic image segmentation is proposed to
obtained dominant region of the input natural images. Dominant region are segmented and
results are obtained . Results are also recorded in comparison to JSEG algorithm
Detail description of feature extraction methods and classifier used for Texture Classification Approach. it also contain detail description of different Texture Database used for texture classification.
MMFO: modified moth flame optimization algorithm for region based RGB color i...IJECEIAES
Region-based color image segmentation is elementary steps in image processing and computer vision. The region-based color image segmentation has faced the problem of multidimensionality. The color image is considered in five-dimensional problems, in which three dimensions in color (RGB) and two dimensions in geometry (luminosity layer and chromaticity layer). In this paper, L*a*b color space conversion has been used to reduce the one dimension and geometrically it converts in the array hence the further one dimension has been reduced. This paper introduced, an improved algorithm modified moth flame optimization (MMFO) algorithm for RGB color image segmentation which is based on bio-inspired techniques. The simulation results of MMFO for region based color image segmentation are performed better as compared to PSO and GA, in terms of computation times for all the images. The experiment results of this method gives clear segments based on the different color and the different number of clusters is used during the segmentation process.
CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES USING HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION METHODS ON COLOR...IJCSEA Journal
Histogram equalization (HE) is a simple and widely used image contrast enhancement technique. The basic disadvantage of HE is it changes the brightness of the image. In order to overcome this drawback, various HE methods have been proposed. These methods preserves the brightness on the output image but, does not have a natural look. In order to overcome this problem the, present paper uses Multi-HE methods, which decompose the image into several sub images, and classical HE method is applied to each sub image. The algorithm is applied on various images and has been analysed using both objective and subjective assessment.
An implementation of novel genetic based clustering algorithm for color image...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
The color image segmentation is one of most crucial application in image processing. It can apply to medical image segmentation for a brain tumor and skin cancer detection or color object detection on CCTV traffic video image segmentation and also for face recognition, fingerprint recognition etc. The color image segmentation has faced the problem of multidimensionality. The color image is considered in five-dimensional problems, three dimensions in color (RGB) and two dimensions in geometry (luminosity layer and chromaticity layer). In this paper the, L*a*b color space conversion has been used to reduce the one dimensional and geometrically it converts in the array hence the further one dimension has been reduced. The a*b space is clustered using genetic algorithm process, which minimizes the overall distance of the cluster, which is randomly placed at the start of the segmentation process. The segmentation results of this method give clear segments based on the different color and it can be applied to any application.
Feature Extraction of an Image by Using Adaptive Filtering and Morpological S...IOSR Journals
Abstract: For enhancing an image various enhancement schemes are used which includes gray scale manipulation, filtering and Histogram Equalization, Where Histogram equalization is one of the well known image enhancement technique. It became a popular technique for contrast enhancement because it is simple and effective. The basic idea of Histogram Equalization method is to remap the gray levels of an image. Here using morphological segmentation we can get the segmented image. Morphological reconstruction is used to segment the image. Comparative analysis of different enhancement and segmentation will be carried out. This comparison will be done on the basis of subjective and objective parameters. Subjective parameter is visual quality and objective parameters are Area, Perimeter, Min and Max intensity, Avg Voxel Intensity, Std Dev of Intensity, Eccentricity, Coefficient of skewness, Coefficient of Kurtosis, Median intensity, Mode intensity. Keywords: Histogram Equalization, Segmentation, Morphological Reconstruction .
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Wavelet-Based Color Histogram on Content-Based Image RetrievalTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
The growth of image databases in many domains, including fashion, biometric, graphic design,
architecture, etc. has increased rapidly. Content Based Image Retrieval System (CBIR) is a technique used
for finding relevant images from those huge and unannotated image databases based on low-level features
of the query images. In this study, an attempt to employ 2nd level Wavelet Based Color Histogram (WBCH)
on a CBIR system is proposed. Image database used in this study are taken from Wang’s image database
containing 1000 color images. The experiment results show that 2nd level WBCH gives better precision
(0.777) than the other methods, including 1st level WBCH, Color Histogram, Color Co-occurrence Matrix,
and Wavelet texture feature. It can be concluded that the 2nd Level of WBCH can be applied to CBIR system.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Texture based feature extraction and object trackingPriyanka Goswami
The project involved developing and implementing different texture analysis based extraction techniques like Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Local Derivative Pattern (LDP) and Local Ternary Pattern (LTP) in MATLAB and carrying out a comparative study by analyzing the effectiveness of each technique using a standard set of images (Yale data set). The most optimum technique is then applied to identify cloud patterns and track their motion (in pixel position changes) in time series images (acquired from weather satellites like GOES) using the Chi-Square Difference method.
Combining Generative And Discriminative Classifiers For Semantic Automatic Im...CSCJournals
The object image annotation problem is basically a classification problem and there are many different modeling approaches for the solution. These approaches can be classified into two main categories such as generative and discriminative. An ideal classifier should combine these two complementary approaches. In this paper, we present a method achieving this combination by using the discriminative power of the neural networks and the generative nature of Bayesian networks. The evaluation of the proposed method on three typical image’s database has shown some success in automatic image annotation.
Abstract Image Segmentation plays a vital role in image processing. The research in this area is still relevant due to its wide applications. Image segmentation is a process of assigning a label to every pixel in an image such that pixels with same label share certain visual characteristics. Sometimes it becomes necessary to calculate the total number of colors from the given RGB image to quantize the image, to detect cancer and brain tumour. The goal of this paper is to provide the best algorithm for image segmentation. Keywords: Image segmentation, RGB
A Review of Feature Extraction Techniques for CBIR based on SVMIJEEE
As with the advancement of multimedia technologies, users are not gratified with the conventional retrieval system techniques. So a application “Content Based Image Retrieval System” is introduced. CBIR is the application to retrieve the images or to search the digital images from the large database .The term “content” deals with the colour, shape, texture and all the information which is extracted from the image itself. This paper reviews the CBIR system which uses SVM classifier based algorithms for feature extraction phase.
A Novel Feature Extraction Scheme for Medical X-Ray ImagesIJERA Editor
X-ray images are gray scale images with almost the same textural characteristic. Conventional texture or color
features cannot be used for appropriate categorization in medical x-ray image archives. This paper presents a
novel combination of methods like GLCM, LBP and HOG for extracting distinctive invariant features from Xray
images belonging to IRMA (Image Retrieval in Medical applications) database that can be used to perform
reliable matching between different views of an object or scene. GLCM represents the distributions of the
intensities and the information about relative positions of neighboring pixels of an image. The LBP features are
invariant to image scale and rotation, change in 3D viewpoint, addition of noise, and change in illumination A
HOG feature vector represents local shape of an object, having edge information at plural cells. These features
have been exploited in different algorithms for automatic classification of medical X-ray images. Excellent
experimental results obtained in true problems of rotation invariance, particular rotation angle, demonstrate that
good discrimination can be achieved with the occurrence statistics of simple rotation invariant local binary
patterns.
Hashing is popular technique of image authentication to identify malicious attacks and it also allows appearance changes in an image in controlled way. Image hashing is quality summarization of images. Quality summarization implies extraction and representation of powerful low level features in compact form. Proposed adaptive CSLBP compressed hashing method uses modified CSLBP (Center Symmetric Local Binary Pattern) as a basic method for texture extraction and color weight factor derived from L*a*b* color space. Image hash is generated from image texture. Color weight factors are used adaptively in average and difference forms to enhance discrimination capability of hash. For smooth region, averaging of colours used while for non-smooth region, color differencing is used. Adaptive CSLBP histogram is a compressed form of CSLBP and its quality is improved by adaptive color weight factor. Experimental results are demonstrated with two benchmarks, normalized hamming distance and ROC characteristics. Proposed method successfully differentiate between content change and content persevering modifications for color images.
IOSR Journal of Mathematics(IOSR-JM) is an open access international journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of mathemetics and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in mathematics. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
A New Method for Indoor-outdoor Image Classification Using Color Correlated T...CSCJournals
In this paper a new method for indoor-outdoor image classification is presented; where the concept of Color Correlated Temperature is used to extract distinguishing features between the two classes. In this process, using Hue color component, each image is segmented into different color channels and color correlated temperature is calculated for each channel. These values are then incorporated to build the image feature vector. Besides color temperature values, the feature vector also holds information about the color formation of the image. In the classification phase, KNN classifier is used to classify images as indoor or outdoor. Two different datasets are used for test purposes; a collection of images gathered from the internet and a second dataset built by frame extraction from different video sequences from one video capturing device. High classification rate, compared to other state of the art methods shows the ability of the proposed method for indoor-outdoor image classification.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Automatic dominant region segmentation for natural imagescsandit
Image Segmentation segments an image into different homogenous regions. An efficient
semantic based image retrieval system divides the image into different regions separated by
color or texture sometimes even both. Features are extracted from the segmented regions and
are annotated automatically. Relevant images are retrieved from the database based on the
keywords of the segmented region In this paper, automatic image segmentation is proposed to
obtained dominant region of the input natural images. Dominant region are segmented and
results are obtained . Results are also recorded in comparison to JSEG algorithm
Detail description of feature extraction methods and classifier used for Texture Classification Approach. it also contain detail description of different Texture Database used for texture classification.
MMFO: modified moth flame optimization algorithm for region based RGB color i...IJECEIAES
Region-based color image segmentation is elementary steps in image processing and computer vision. The region-based color image segmentation has faced the problem of multidimensionality. The color image is considered in five-dimensional problems, in which three dimensions in color (RGB) and two dimensions in geometry (luminosity layer and chromaticity layer). In this paper, L*a*b color space conversion has been used to reduce the one dimension and geometrically it converts in the array hence the further one dimension has been reduced. This paper introduced, an improved algorithm modified moth flame optimization (MMFO) algorithm for RGB color image segmentation which is based on bio-inspired techniques. The simulation results of MMFO for region based color image segmentation are performed better as compared to PSO and GA, in terms of computation times for all the images. The experiment results of this method gives clear segments based on the different color and the different number of clusters is used during the segmentation process.
CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES USING HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION METHODS ON COLOR...IJCSEA Journal
Histogram equalization (HE) is a simple and widely used image contrast enhancement technique. The basic disadvantage of HE is it changes the brightness of the image. In order to overcome this drawback, various HE methods have been proposed. These methods preserves the brightness on the output image but, does not have a natural look. In order to overcome this problem the, present paper uses Multi-HE methods, which decompose the image into several sub images, and classical HE method is applied to each sub image. The algorithm is applied on various images and has been analysed using both objective and subjective assessment.
An implementation of novel genetic based clustering algorithm for color image...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
The color image segmentation is one of most crucial application in image processing. It can apply to medical image segmentation for a brain tumor and skin cancer detection or color object detection on CCTV traffic video image segmentation and also for face recognition, fingerprint recognition etc. The color image segmentation has faced the problem of multidimensionality. The color image is considered in five-dimensional problems, three dimensions in color (RGB) and two dimensions in geometry (luminosity layer and chromaticity layer). In this paper the, L*a*b color space conversion has been used to reduce the one dimensional and geometrically it converts in the array hence the further one dimension has been reduced. The a*b space is clustered using genetic algorithm process, which minimizes the overall distance of the cluster, which is randomly placed at the start of the segmentation process. The segmentation results of this method give clear segments based on the different color and it can be applied to any application.
Feature Extraction of an Image by Using Adaptive Filtering and Morpological S...IOSR Journals
Abstract: For enhancing an image various enhancement schemes are used which includes gray scale manipulation, filtering and Histogram Equalization, Where Histogram equalization is one of the well known image enhancement technique. It became a popular technique for contrast enhancement because it is simple and effective. The basic idea of Histogram Equalization method is to remap the gray levels of an image. Here using morphological segmentation we can get the segmented image. Morphological reconstruction is used to segment the image. Comparative analysis of different enhancement and segmentation will be carried out. This comparison will be done on the basis of subjective and objective parameters. Subjective parameter is visual quality and objective parameters are Area, Perimeter, Min and Max intensity, Avg Voxel Intensity, Std Dev of Intensity, Eccentricity, Coefficient of skewness, Coefficient of Kurtosis, Median intensity, Mode intensity. Keywords: Histogram Equalization, Segmentation, Morphological Reconstruction .
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Wavelet-Based Color Histogram on Content-Based Image RetrievalTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
The growth of image databases in many domains, including fashion, biometric, graphic design,
architecture, etc. has increased rapidly. Content Based Image Retrieval System (CBIR) is a technique used
for finding relevant images from those huge and unannotated image databases based on low-level features
of the query images. In this study, an attempt to employ 2nd level Wavelet Based Color Histogram (WBCH)
on a CBIR system is proposed. Image database used in this study are taken from Wang’s image database
containing 1000 color images. The experiment results show that 2nd level WBCH gives better precision
(0.777) than the other methods, including 1st level WBCH, Color Histogram, Color Co-occurrence Matrix,
and Wavelet texture feature. It can be concluded that the 2nd Level of WBCH can be applied to CBIR system.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Texture based feature extraction and object trackingPriyanka Goswami
The project involved developing and implementing different texture analysis based extraction techniques like Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Local Derivative Pattern (LDP) and Local Ternary Pattern (LTP) in MATLAB and carrying out a comparative study by analyzing the effectiveness of each technique using a standard set of images (Yale data set). The most optimum technique is then applied to identify cloud patterns and track their motion (in pixel position changes) in time series images (acquired from weather satellites like GOES) using the Chi-Square Difference method.
Combining Generative And Discriminative Classifiers For Semantic Automatic Im...CSCJournals
The object image annotation problem is basically a classification problem and there are many different modeling approaches for the solution. These approaches can be classified into two main categories such as generative and discriminative. An ideal classifier should combine these two complementary approaches. In this paper, we present a method achieving this combination by using the discriminative power of the neural networks and the generative nature of Bayesian networks. The evaluation of the proposed method on three typical image’s database has shown some success in automatic image annotation.
Abstract Image Segmentation plays a vital role in image processing. The research in this area is still relevant due to its wide applications. Image segmentation is a process of assigning a label to every pixel in an image such that pixels with same label share certain visual characteristics. Sometimes it becomes necessary to calculate the total number of colors from the given RGB image to quantize the image, to detect cancer and brain tumour. The goal of this paper is to provide the best algorithm for image segmentation. Keywords: Image segmentation, RGB
A Review of Feature Extraction Techniques for CBIR based on SVMIJEEE
As with the advancement of multimedia technologies, users are not gratified with the conventional retrieval system techniques. So a application “Content Based Image Retrieval System” is introduced. CBIR is the application to retrieve the images or to search the digital images from the large database .The term “content” deals with the colour, shape, texture and all the information which is extracted from the image itself. This paper reviews the CBIR system which uses SVM classifier based algorithms for feature extraction phase.
A Novel Feature Extraction Scheme for Medical X-Ray ImagesIJERA Editor
X-ray images are gray scale images with almost the same textural characteristic. Conventional texture or color
features cannot be used for appropriate categorization in medical x-ray image archives. This paper presents a
novel combination of methods like GLCM, LBP and HOG for extracting distinctive invariant features from Xray
images belonging to IRMA (Image Retrieval in Medical applications) database that can be used to perform
reliable matching between different views of an object or scene. GLCM represents the distributions of the
intensities and the information about relative positions of neighboring pixels of an image. The LBP features are
invariant to image scale and rotation, change in 3D viewpoint, addition of noise, and change in illumination A
HOG feature vector represents local shape of an object, having edge information at plural cells. These features
have been exploited in different algorithms for automatic classification of medical X-ray images. Excellent
experimental results obtained in true problems of rotation invariance, particular rotation angle, demonstrate that
good discrimination can be achieved with the occurrence statistics of simple rotation invariant local binary
patterns.
Hashing is popular technique of image authentication to identify malicious attacks and it also allows appearance changes in an image in controlled way. Image hashing is quality summarization of images. Quality summarization implies extraction and representation of powerful low level features in compact form. Proposed adaptive CSLBP compressed hashing method uses modified CSLBP (Center Symmetric Local Binary Pattern) as a basic method for texture extraction and color weight factor derived from L*a*b* color space. Image hash is generated from image texture. Color weight factors are used adaptively in average and difference forms to enhance discrimination capability of hash. For smooth region, averaging of colours used while for non-smooth region, color differencing is used. Adaptive CSLBP histogram is a compressed form of CSLBP and its quality is improved by adaptive color weight factor. Experimental results are demonstrated with two benchmarks, normalized hamming distance and ROC characteristics. Proposed method successfully differentiate between content change and content persevering modifications for color images.
IOSR Journal of Mathematics(IOSR-JM) is an open access international journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of mathemetics and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in mathematics. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
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IOSR Journal of Mathematics(IOSR-JM) is an open access international journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of mathemetics and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in mathematics. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
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IOSR Journal of Applied Chemistry (IOSR-JAC) is an open access international journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of applied chemistry and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in Chemical Science. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
International Journal of Engineering and Science Invention (IJESI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of computer science and electronics. IJESI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Engineering Science and Technology, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
A probabilistic approach for color correctionjpstudcorner
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User Interactive Color Transformation between ImagesIJMER
Abstract: In this paper we present a process called color
transfer which can borrow one image’s color
characteristics from another. Most current colorization
algorithms either require a significant user effort or have
large computational time. Here focus on orthogonal color
space i.e. lαβ color space without correlation between the
axes is given. Here we have implemented two global color
transfer algorithms in lαβ color space using simple color
statistical information such as mean, standard deviation
and covariance between the pixels of image. Our approach
is the extension of Reinhard's. Our local color transfer
algorithm uses simple color statistical analysis to recolor
the target image according to selected color range in
source image. Target image’s color influence mask is
prepared. It is a mask that specifies what parts of target
image will be affected according to selected color range.
After that target image is recolored in lαβ color space
according to prepared color influence map. In the lαβ
color space luminance and chrominance information is
separate so it allows making image recoloring optional.
The basic color transformation uses stored color statistics
of source and target image. All the algorithms are
implemented in JAVA object oriented language. The main
advantage of proposed method over the existing one is it
allows the user to recolor a part of the image in a simple &
intuitive way, preserving other color intact & achieving
natural look.
Index Terms: color transfer, local color statistics, color
characteristics, orthogonal color space, color influence
map.
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Developing 3D Viewing Model from 2D Stereo Pair with its Occlusion RatioCSCJournals
We intend to make a 3D model using a stereo pair of images by using a novel method of local matching in pixel domain for calculating horizontal disparities. We also find the occlusion ratio using the stereo pair followed by the use of The Edge Detection and Image SegmentatiON (EDISON) system, on one the images, which provides a complete toolbox for discontinuity preserving filtering, segmentation and edge detection. Instead of assigning a disparity value to each pixel, a disparity plane is assigned to each segment. We then warp the segment disparities to the original image to get our final 3D viewing Model.
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Basic group of visual techniques such as color, shape, texture are used in Content Based Image
Retrievals (CBIR) to retrieve query image or sub region of image to find similar images in
image database. To improve query result, relevance feedback is used many times in CBIR to
help user to express their preference and improve query results. In this paper, a new approach
for image retrieval is proposed which is based on the features such as Color Histogram, Eigen
Values and Match Point. Images from various types of database are first identified by using
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particular database, then all related images are displayed. This will save the retrieval time.
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comparison is done w.r.t. average retrieval time. Eigen value technique found to be the best as
compared with other two techniques.
Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is one of the
most active in the current research field of multimedia retrieval.
It retrieves the images from the large databases based on images
feature like color, texture and shape. In this paper, Image
retrieval based on multi feature fusion is achieved by color and
texture features as well as the similarity measures are
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using Quadratic Distance and texture features by using Pyramid
Structure Wavelet Transforms and Gray level co-occurrence
matrix. We are comparing all these methods for best image
retrieval
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Performance on Image Segmentation Resulting In Canny and MoG
1. IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSRJCE)
ISSN: 2278-0661, ISBN: 2278-8727 Volume 6, Issue 2 (Sep-Oct. 2012), PP 01-08
www.iosrjournals.org
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Performance on Image Segmentation Resulting In Canny and
MoG
Mr. S. Ravikumar1
, Dr. A. Shanmugam2
1
(Department of Computer Applications, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, India)
2
(Principal, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, India)
Abstract: Images are analyzed with edge and color values. Pixel information is used in the color property
extraction. Texture and contrast are pixel based features. Shape or edge features are used to represent images.
The images are assigned with their category values. The image features are used in the classification process.
Classification techniques are used to assign labels to the images. Color constancy methods are largely
dependent on the distribution of colors and color edges in an image. Natural image statistics and scene
semantics are used in the color consistency methods. Color contrast and texture values are used in natural
image statistics model.
The scene semantics model uses the edge parameter values. Classification techniques are used to learn
color consistency in images. The mixture of Gaussians (MoG) classifier is enhanced with feature integration
model The proposed system is designed to improve the classification accuracy. The natural image statistics and
scene semantic features are combined in the classification process. Integrated feature weight is assigned for the
images to perform the learning process. The MoG algorithm is enhanced with combined feature weight model.
The combined feature weight is used I segmentation the class assignment process. The image similarity is
estimated with the feature weight values.
Keywords: Classification technique, Color property extraction, Mixture of Gaussian, Natural image statistic,
Scene semantics.
I. INTRODUCTION
Color constancy can be achieved by estimating the color of the light source e, given the image values of f ,
followed by a transformation of the original image values using this illuminant estimate. This transformation
will leave the intensity of every pixel unaltered as the proposed method will only correct for the chromaticity of
the light source. Since both I() and () are, in general, unknown, the estimation of e is an under constrained
problem that cannot be solved without further assumptions [1]. Therefore, in practice, color constancy
algorithms are based on simplifying assumptions such as restricted gamuts, the distribution of colors that are
present in an image and the set of possible light sources. The system is focused on the distribution of colors that
are present in an image as the major assumption. In the next section, a framework is discussed generating
different color constancy methods [2], where each method is based on a specific assumption about the presence
of colors and color edges in images.
Two well-established color constancy algorithms, using pixel values, are based on the Retinex Theory.
The White-Patch algorithm is based on the White-Patch assumption. The color constancy methods are based on
the distribution of colors that are present in an image. The incorporation of higher order image statistics, where a
framework is presented that incorporates the well-known methods like [3], as well as methods based on first and
second-order statistics. A wide variety of color constancy algorithms are obtained, corresponding to different
instantiations of [4], where each color constancy method has its own basic assumption about the distribution of
color values and edges in the image.
The focus of this system is on estimating the color of the light source. However, Inman cases, the color
of the light source is of less importance than the appearance of the input image under a reference light.
Therefore, the aim of most of the color constancy methods is to transform all colors of the input image, taken
under an unknown light source, to colors as they appear under this canonical light source [5]. This
transformation can be considered to be an instantiation of chromatic adaptation. Chromatic adaptation is often
modeled using a linear transformation, which, in turn, can be simplified to a diagonal transformation when
certain conditions are met [6]. Other possible chromatic adaptation methods include linearized Bradford.
The diagonal transform or von Kries Model is used, without changing the color basis or applying
spectral sharpening. These latter techniques are shown to be able to improve the quality of the output image with
respect to the diagonal model [8], i.e., if the color of the light source is known, then these modified algorithms
result in more realistic images than the diagonal model.
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1.1. System Objectives
The image classification system is designed to categorize the unlabeled images. The system uses the
labeled images to learn about the image category patterns. The image statistic and scene semantics are used in
the image classification process. The color, texture and shape features are used in the system. The feature
weighting model is used for the image analysis. The image classification system is designed with the following
objectives.
• To perform image classification
• To extract image features
• To estimate color consistency
• To fetch scene semantics details
• To integrate natural image statistics and scene semantics
• To estimate feature weights for similarity analysis
• To improve the MoG classifier
1.2. Problem Definition
The color consistency is used to manage the image collections with its features. All the image
processing applications are designed with feature analysis model. The image features are extracted with image
statistics and scene semantics values. The features are used in the image classification process. The system
integrates the features values for the image classification process. The system uses the feature weighting model
to group up the feature values.
II. Overview Of The Project
2.1. 1. Natural Image Statistics and Scene Semantics
All methods that comprise the used color constancy framework are based on assumptions on the
distribution of colors (edges) that are present in an image. For instance, the Gray-World algorithm assumes that
the average color in a scene taken under a neutral light source is achromatic [7], while the Gray-Edge algorithm
assumes that the average edge is achromatic. It has also been shown that the incorporation of spatial
dependencies between colors produces more constrained gamuts improving the accuracy of color constancy in
general. This means that the set of possible adjacent color values in real-world images is more restricted than the
set of possible pixel values [8].
2.1. 1.1. Spatial Image Structures
Image structures are valuable identification cues in determining which type of scene the image is taken
from. The power spectrum of an image is characteristic for the type of scene [9]. Further, it is shown that this
distribution of edge responses can be modeled by a Weibull distribution. In the context of scene classification,
features derived from the power spectrum and Weibull distributions have been successfully applied [10]. In this
paper, we focus on modeling natural image statistics using the two parameter integrated Weibull distribution:
x
Cxw
1
exp (1)
where x is the edge responses in a single-color channel to the Gaussian derivative filter, C is a
normalization constant, > 0 is the scale parameter of the distribution, and > 0 is the shape parameter. The
parameters of this distribution are indicative for the edge statistics of an (natural) image. In fact, the contrast of
the image is indicated by and the grain size by . Hence, a higher value for indicates more contrast,
while a higher value for indicates a smaller grain size.
To fit the Weibull distribution, edge responses are computed by a Gaussian derivative filter. There
exists a high correlation between the Weibull parameters that are fitted through the distribution of edges for the
first derivative, second derivative, and third derivative [11]. Hence, a single filter type, although measured in
different orientations, is sufficient to assess the spatial statistics of images.
In Fig. 1 which is shown in combination of illuminant estimation methods, examples are shown of
images with their corresponding edge distributions which are approximated by a Weibull-fit. The intensity
channel is chosen for the ease of illustration because a six-dimensional edge distribution is hard to visualize.
The relationship between the images in Fig. 1 and their corresponding color constancy algorithm
becomes clear from the edge distributions that are shown together with the images in Fig. 1. Pixel-based
algorithms perform better than higher order methods on images with only little texture. This reflects in an edge
distribution that densely sampled around the origin, i.e., many edges with little or zero energy [12].
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For instance, forest-like scenes show a similar edge distribution in Fig. 1b and are all best solved by a first-order
color constancy algorithm [13]. Hence, scene semantics can steer the process of color constancy. Natural image
statistics and scene semantics will therefore be used in the next sections to achieve a proper selection of color
constancy algorithms.
2.1. 2. Combinations of Illuminant Estimation Methods
In this section, a novel strategy is proposed based on natural image statistics to select the color
constancy method which performs best for a specific image. To combine and compare different fusion
strategies, a basic approach is discussed based on using the output of multiple.
Fig. 1. Image for color constancy process
Examples of images that can be considered to be characteristic of the corresponding color constancy algorithms,
i.e., the corresponding color constancy algorithm will perform best on these types of images. Below each image,
the distribution of edges in the intensity channel is plotted. The images come from the data set published. (a)
Zerothorder method. (b) First-order method. (c) Second-order method.
Algorithms. Then, natural image statistics are used to identify the most important characteristics of color
images. Based on these image characteristics, the proper color constancy algorithm is selected for a specific
image. Finally, scene semantics are used to find a category-specific combination of color constancy algorithms.
2.1.2.1. Color Constancy Using Standard Fusion
When using the output of multiple algorithms to generate a new estimate of the illuminant, the simplest
method is to take the average of the estimates over all algorithms. A straightforward extension is to take the
weighted average of the estimated illuminants. If n algorithms are combined, then the weighted average is
defined as
n
i
iiewe
1
, (2)
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where
n
i iw1
1. The average is just a special instance of the weighted average: w1 , w2, w3 …wn}. The
estimates can also be combined using a nonlinear committee.
Two algorithms were combined using a similar approach. However, the output of the two used
algorithms is somewhat different than the output of a general color constancy algorithm. Both methods produce
a vector of probabilities, where each element represents the probability that the corresponding illuminant is the
illuminant that was used to create the current image [14]. Since this method requires the output of the color
constancy algorithms to comply to a specific (irregular) form [15], this approach is not further evaluated here.
2.1.2.2. Color Constancy Using Natural Image Statistics
The Weibull distribution is considered as the parameterization of the edge distribution of images.
Several characteristics, like the number of edges and the amount of texture and contrast, are captured by this
parameterization, i.e., and . In this section, it is proposed to select different color constancy methods based
on these statistics. In previous work, it is shown that applying the k-means clustering on the Weibull-features,
combined with a Gaussian weighting function, provides proper color constancy [16].
In this paper, the k-means approach is generalized to a probabilistic approach, corresponding to a
maximum likelihood classifier based on mixture of Gaussians (MoGs). This provides a more principled and
probabilistic basis than k-means to relate natural image statistics with color constancy.
This novel algorithm aims at combining the estimates of several color constancy algorithms into a single more
accurate estimate. To be precise, let M be the set of algorithms that are to be combined, where Mi denotes
algorithm i. Further, the accuracy of the estimate of algorithm i on image j is denoted by i (j). The algorithm
consists of the following steps:
First, the image statistics
qp
IR
for all images are computed, where p is the number of features that are
computed and q is the number of images, i.e., ijis the ith feature of the jth image. For simplicity,
the subscript i is omitted, so j denotes the feature vector representing the image statistics of the
jth image.
Then, all images that are in the training set are labeled. The label yj of an image j is derived using the
performance of the algorithms on image j:
,)(arg jmiby i
i
i
(3)
Apply the MoG-classifier on the training data. The likelihood of the observed image statistics j for
image j given color constancy algorithm yj is computed as a weighted sum of k Gaussian distributions:
.,,)|(
1
k
m
mmjmjj Gywp (4)
Here, m are the positive weights of the Gaussian components (with mean and variance m defined
as m
and m, respectively) such that
k
m 1 m = m . The parameters of the model are learned
through training using the Expectation-Maximization algorithm.
Apply the learned MoG-classifier on the test data and assign to the current image j the algorithm that
maximized the posterior probability.
,
2
1
GR
O
- - - (5)
,
6
2
2
BGR
O
- - (6)
,
3
3
BGR
O
- - (7)
The selection of the most appropriate color constancy algorithm for the current image is done by computing the
maximum posterior probability of the classifier.
2.1. 2.3. Color Constancy Using Scene Semantics
Natural image statistics are known to provide identification cues for the classification of different types
of scenes like forest, coast, and street. Van de Weijer et al. assume that an image can be modeled as a mixture of
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semantic classes. The information on the different classes that are present in an image is used to estimate the
color of the light source. In this section, we aim at using scene semantics to find a category specific combination
of color constancy algorithms that optimize the performance of the illuminant estimation.
A data set is provided consisting of eight urban and natural scene categories. The corresponding
Weibull-parameters of the images of a selection of these categories are along with the Weibull-parameters of the
images that are derived from the real-world data set. It can be observed that images from the same category have
similar edge distributions, resulting in similar Weibull-parameters.
Some categories have a larger variance in edge distribution than others. For instance, most of the
images of the category Highway have a low value for and a low value for , indicating a low contrast and
few edges. Images of the category Mountain, on the other hand, generally have a large variance. However, even
for this category, it can be observed that most images have higher values for and , indicating higher
contrast and more edges.
From these observations, a supervised selection of a color constancy algorithm for images from all
scene categories can be achieved. By classifying an input image as one of these image categories, the
corresponding color constancy algorithm can be applied to the image to obtain a performance that is similar to
the proposed automatic selection algorithm.
III. CANNY EDGE DETECTOR
The Canny edge detection operator was developed by John F. Canny in 1986 and uses a multi-stage
algorithm to detect a wide range of edges. Most importantly, Canny also produced a computational theory of
edge detection explaining why the technique works
3.1.1 Development of the Canny algorithm
Canny's aim was to discover the optimal edge detection algorithm. In this situation, an "optimal" edge
detector means:
good detection - the algorithm should mark as many real edges in the image as possible.
good localization - edges marked should be as close as possible to the edge in the real image.
minimal response - a given edge in the image should only be marked once, and where possible, image
noise should not create false edges.
To satisfy these requirements Canny used the calculus of variations - a technique which finds the
function which optimizes a given functional. The optimal function in Canny's detector is described by the sum
of four exponential terms, but can be approximated by the first derivative of a Gaussian.
3.1.1.1 Noise Reduction
Because the Canny edge detector uses a filter based on the first derivative of a Gaussian, it is
susceptible to noise present on raw unprocessed image data, so to begin with the raw image is convolved with a
Gaussian filter. The result is as a slightly blurred version of the original which is not a affected by a single noisy
pixel to any significant degree.
3.1.1.2 Finding the Intensity Gradient of The Image
An edge in an image may point in a variety of directions, so the Canny algorithm uses four filters to
detect horizontal, vertical and diagonal edges in the blurred image. For each pixel in the result, the direction of
the filter which gives the largest response magnitude is determined. This direction together with the filter
response then gives an estimated intensity gradient at each point in the image.
3.1.1.3 Non-Maximum Suppression
Given estimates of the image gradients, a search is then carried out to determine if the gradient
magnitude assumes a local maximum in the gradient direction.
3.1.1.4 Differential Edge Detection
A more refined approach to obtain edges with sub-pixel accuracy is by using the following differential
approach of detecting zero-crossings of the second-order directional derivative in the gradient direction
L2
xLxxx +2LxLyLxy+L2
yLyy = 0,
that satisfy a sign-condition on the third-order directional derivative in the same direction .
L3
xLxxx+3L2
X LyLxxy+3LxL2
y+Lxyy+L3
yLyyy<0
whereLx, Ly ... Lyyy denote partial derivatives computed from a scale-space representation L obtained by
smoothing the original image with a Gaussian kernel.
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3.1.1.5. Parameters
The Canny algorithm contains a number of adjustable parameters, which can affect the computation
time and effectiveness of the algorithm.
The size of the Gaussian filter:
The smoothing filter used in the first stage directly affects the results of the Canny algorithm. Smaller
filters cause less blurring, and allow detection of small, sharp lines.
Thresholds:
The use of two thresholds with hysteresis allows more flexibility than in a single-threshold approach, but
general problems of thresholding approaches still apply.
3.2 Module Description
The proposed system is designed to improve the classification accuracy. The natural image statistics
and scene semantic features are combined in the classification process. Integrated feature weight is assigned for
the images to perform the learning process. The MoG algorithm is enhanced with combined feature weight
model.
The scene semantics is used to extract color consistency values. The features are combined and
assigned with weights under feature weighting model. The images are assigned with labels under image
classification module.
3.2.1 . Image Feature Extraction
Low level and high level features are extracted from the images. The image pixel values are used in
feature extraction process. Color and texture features identified from the pixel values. The shape features are
extracted from the images.
3.3 Natural Image Statistics
The Weibull distribution is considered as the parameterization of the edge distribution of images. The
number of edges and the amount of texture and contrast are captured by the parameterization. The k-means
approach is generalized to a probabilistic approach for classification process.
The classifier is based on mixture of Gaussians (MoGs).
3.3.1. Scene Semantics
The classification is performed using all scene categories. The scene categories are grouped with
similarity. The automatic selection scheme is used to assign image categories. The input image is compared with
the category collection information.
3.3.2. Feature Weighting Process
The natural image statistics and scene semantics features are integrated. The images are assigned with
feature weights. The feature weights are combined and image weight is produced. The weight values are used in
the image category assignment process.
3.3.3. Image Classification
The image classification process is divided into two phases. The learning phase learns the patterns and
associated labels. The testing phase assigns labels to the input images. The learned patterns are used in the
testing phase. The classification model uses the features weight value.
3.3.4 Database Design
The image categorization system is designed with Oracle relational database. A database is a collection
of inter related data stored with a minimum of redundancy to serve many applications. It minimizes the
artificiality embedded in using separate files. The primary objectives are fast response time to enquiries, more
information at low cost, control of redundancy, clarity and ease of use, accuracy and fast recovery.
3.4. Input Design
Input design is the link between the information system and the users and those steps that are necessary
to put transaction data in to a usable form for processing data entry. The activity of putting data into the
computer for processing can be activated by instructing the computer to read data from a written printed
document or it can occur by keying data directly into the system. The designs of input focusing on controlling
the amount of input required controlling the errors, avoid delay extra steps, and keeping the process simple. The
input design considers the input data, input medium, user interface, messages, validation and error handling
factors.
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Image categorization system is designed up with user friendly and interactive forms which enable the user to
operate the application with ease of use. The input forms are highly designed with data validation, data
integration and consistency with databases and application logic. The users are directed with standard messages
and alerts which enables them to feed the data with accuracy.
The image register form is designed to update new images to the database. The color feature selection
form is designed to update color features into the database. The texture feature extraction form is designed to
fetch texture features for the images. The shape features extraction form is designed to extract the edge features
from the images. The image classification form is used to assign category values for the given image file.
3.5. Output Design
The image list form is designed to list the registered images under the database. The image details are
displayed with image properties. The image view form is designed to display the image contents. The color and
texture features are listed separate forms. The shape features are listed for the selected image. The image
patterns are
listed in image patterns form. The image weight is displayed in a separate form. The classification results form
displays the image category details for the given input image.
IV. Chart
Chart: 1 Mixture of Guasian
V. CONCLUSION
Color constancy methods are largely dependent on the distribution of colors and color edges in an
image. Natural image statistics and scene semantics are used in the color constancy methods. Classification
techniques are used to learn color constancy in images. The mixture of Gaussians (MoG) classifier is enhanced
with feature integration model. Visual and Semantic features are used for classification process. The system uses
integrated features for weighting process. Feature weight based model system improves the classification
accuracy levels. The system can be enhanced with content based image retrieval schemes.
Acknowledgements
S. Ravikumar received his M.Sc., in Bharathiar University, Coimbatore and M.Phil.,and M.C.A.,
degree from Periyar University Salem. Currently he is working as Assistant Professor in Bannari
Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam. His area of interest includes Image
Processing, Texture segmentation, Clustering. He Presented a Paper in National conferences. He
is a Life member of Computer Society of India and a Life member of Indian Society for
Technical Education.
Dr. A. Shanmugamreceived the P. G. degree from Madras University and Doctorate degree
from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. He has got 36 years of Teaching Experience and 4
years of Industrial (Research) Experience. His area of interest includes Wire and wireless
Networks, Fiber Optics Communications, Image Processing. He has got to his credit (i) 70
Technical Research Papers which are published in National / International Journals and Seminars
of repute, 31 Research Projects have been completed in varied application areas, He is the recognized
Supervisor for guiding Ph. D. / M. S. (By Research) Scholars of Anna University-Chennai, Anna University-
Coimbatore, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore and Mother Teresa University, Kodaikanal. Currently he is
guiding 23 Ph. D. Research Scholars in the Department. He is a Life member of CSI and a Life member of
ISTE.
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