Texture segmentation can be considered the most important problem, since human can distinguish different
textures quit easily, but the automatic segmentation is quit complex and it is still an open problem for
research. In this paper focus on implement novel supervised algorithm for multitexture segmentation and
this algorithm based on blocking procedure where each image divide into block (16×16 pixels) and extract
vector feature for each block to classification these block based on these feature. These feature extract
using Box Counting Method (BCM). BCM generate single feature for each block and this feature not
enough to characterize each block ,therefore, must be implement algorithm provide more than one slide for
the image based on new method produce multithresolding, after this use BCM to generate single feature for
each slide.
Texture Unit based Approach to Discriminate Manmade Scenes from Natural Scenesidescitation
In this paper a method is proposed to discriminate
natural and manmade scenes of similar depth. Increase in
image depth leads to increase in roughness in manmade
scenes; on the contrary natural scenes exhibit smooth behavior
at higher image depth. This particular arrangement of pixels
in scene structure can be well explained by local texture
information in a pixel and its neighborhood. Our proposed
method analyses local texture information of a scene image
using texture unit matrix. For final classification we have
used unsupervised learning using Self Organizing Map
(SOM). This technique is useful for online classification due
to very less computational complexity.
Texture Unit based Monocular Real-world Scene Classification using SOM and KN...IDES Editor
In this paper a method is proposed to discriminate
real world scenes in to natural and manmade scenes of similar
depth. Global-roughness of a scene image varies as a function
of image-depth. Increase in image depth leads to increase in
roughness in manmade scenes; on the contrary natural scenes
exhibit smooth behavior at higher image depth. This particular
arrangement of pixels in scene structure can be well explained
by local texture information in a pixel and its neighborhood.
Our proposed method analyses local texture information of a
scene image using texture unit matrix. For final classification
we have used both supervised and unsupervised learning using
K-Nearest Neighbor classifier (KNN) and Self Organizing
Map (SOM) respectively. This technique is useful for online
classification due to very less computational complexity.
Engineering Research Publication
Best International Journals, High Impact Journals,
International Journal of Engineering & Technical Research
ISSN : 2321-0869 (O) 2454-4698 (P)
www.erpublication.org
SEGMENTATION USING ‘NEW’ TEXTURE FEATUREacijjournal
Color, texture, shape and luminance are the prominent features for image segmentation. Texture is an
organized group of spatial repetitive arrangements in an image and it is a vital attribute in many image
processing and computer vision applications. The objective of this work is to segment the texture sub
images from the given arbitrary image. The main contribution of this work is to introduce “NEW” texture
feature descriptor to the image segmentation field. The NEW texture descriptor labels the neighborhood
pixels of a pixel in an image as N,W,NW,NE,WW,NN and NNE(N-North, W-West).To find the prediction
value, the gradient of the intensity functions are calculated. Eight component binary vectors are formed
and compared to prediction value. Finally end up with 256 possible vectors. Fuzzy c-means clustering is
used to segment the similar regions in textural image Extensive experimentation shows that the proposed
methodology works better for segmenting the texture images, and also segmentation performance are
evaluated.
Survey on Brain MRI Segmentation TechniquesEditor IJMTER
Image segmentation is aimed at cutting out, a ROI (Region of Interest) from an image. For
medical images, segmentation is done for: studying the anatomical structure, identifying ROI ie tumor
or any other abnormalities, identifying the increase in tissue volume in a region, treatment planning.
Currently there are many different algorithms available for image segmentation. This paper lists and
compares some of them. Each has their own advantages and limitations.
Mammogram image segmentation using rough clusteringeSAT Journals
Abstract The mammography is the most effective procedure to diagnosis the breast cancer at an early stage. This paper proposes mammogram image segmentation using Rough K-Means (RKM) clustering algorithm. The median filter is used for pre-processing of image and it is normally used to reduce noise in an image. The 14 Haralick features are extracted from mammogram image using Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) for different angles. The features are clustered by K-Means, Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) and Rough K-Means algorithms to segment the region of interests for classification. The result of the segmentation algorithms compared and analyzed using Mean Square Error (MSE) and Root Means Square Error (RMSE). It is observed that the proposed method produces better results that the existing methods. Keywords— Mammogram, Data mining, Image Processing, Feature Extraction, Rough K- Means and Image Segmentation
Texture Unit based Approach to Discriminate Manmade Scenes from Natural Scenesidescitation
In this paper a method is proposed to discriminate
natural and manmade scenes of similar depth. Increase in
image depth leads to increase in roughness in manmade
scenes; on the contrary natural scenes exhibit smooth behavior
at higher image depth. This particular arrangement of pixels
in scene structure can be well explained by local texture
information in a pixel and its neighborhood. Our proposed
method analyses local texture information of a scene image
using texture unit matrix. For final classification we have
used unsupervised learning using Self Organizing Map
(SOM). This technique is useful for online classification due
to very less computational complexity.
Texture Unit based Monocular Real-world Scene Classification using SOM and KN...IDES Editor
In this paper a method is proposed to discriminate
real world scenes in to natural and manmade scenes of similar
depth. Global-roughness of a scene image varies as a function
of image-depth. Increase in image depth leads to increase in
roughness in manmade scenes; on the contrary natural scenes
exhibit smooth behavior at higher image depth. This particular
arrangement of pixels in scene structure can be well explained
by local texture information in a pixel and its neighborhood.
Our proposed method analyses local texture information of a
scene image using texture unit matrix. For final classification
we have used both supervised and unsupervised learning using
K-Nearest Neighbor classifier (KNN) and Self Organizing
Map (SOM) respectively. This technique is useful for online
classification due to very less computational complexity.
Engineering Research Publication
Best International Journals, High Impact Journals,
International Journal of Engineering & Technical Research
ISSN : 2321-0869 (O) 2454-4698 (P)
www.erpublication.org
SEGMENTATION USING ‘NEW’ TEXTURE FEATUREacijjournal
Color, texture, shape and luminance are the prominent features for image segmentation. Texture is an
organized group of spatial repetitive arrangements in an image and it is a vital attribute in many image
processing and computer vision applications. The objective of this work is to segment the texture sub
images from the given arbitrary image. The main contribution of this work is to introduce “NEW” texture
feature descriptor to the image segmentation field. The NEW texture descriptor labels the neighborhood
pixels of a pixel in an image as N,W,NW,NE,WW,NN and NNE(N-North, W-West).To find the prediction
value, the gradient of the intensity functions are calculated. Eight component binary vectors are formed
and compared to prediction value. Finally end up with 256 possible vectors. Fuzzy c-means clustering is
used to segment the similar regions in textural image Extensive experimentation shows that the proposed
methodology works better for segmenting the texture images, and also segmentation performance are
evaluated.
Survey on Brain MRI Segmentation TechniquesEditor IJMTER
Image segmentation is aimed at cutting out, a ROI (Region of Interest) from an image. For
medical images, segmentation is done for: studying the anatomical structure, identifying ROI ie tumor
or any other abnormalities, identifying the increase in tissue volume in a region, treatment planning.
Currently there are many different algorithms available for image segmentation. This paper lists and
compares some of them. Each has their own advantages and limitations.
Mammogram image segmentation using rough clusteringeSAT Journals
Abstract The mammography is the most effective procedure to diagnosis the breast cancer at an early stage. This paper proposes mammogram image segmentation using Rough K-Means (RKM) clustering algorithm. The median filter is used for pre-processing of image and it is normally used to reduce noise in an image. The 14 Haralick features are extracted from mammogram image using Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) for different angles. The features are clustered by K-Means, Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) and Rough K-Means algorithms to segment the region of interests for classification. The result of the segmentation algorithms compared and analyzed using Mean Square Error (MSE) and Root Means Square Error (RMSE). It is observed that the proposed method produces better results that the existing methods. Keywords— Mammogram, Data mining, Image Processing, Feature Extraction, Rough K- Means and Image Segmentation
A Combined Method with automatic parameter optimization for Multi-class Image...AM Publications
Multi-class image semantic segmentation deals with many applications in consumer electronics
fields such as image editing and image retrieval. Segmentation is done by combining the top down and bottomup
segmentation. Top-Down Process can be done by Semantic Texton Forest and bottom up- process using
JSEG. These two segmentation process can be executed in a combined manner. But this cannot choose the
optimal value of JSEG parameter for each interested semantic category. Hence an automatic parameter selection
algorithm has been proposed. An automatic parameter selection technique called an automatic multilevel
thresholding algorithm using stratified sampling and PSO is used to remedy the limitations.
A Review on Image Segmentation using Clustering and Swarm Optimization Techni...IJSRD
The process of dividing an image into multiple regions (set of pixels) is known as Image segmentation. It will make an image easy and smooth to evaluate. Image segmentation objective is to generate image more simple and meaningful. In this paper present a survey on image segmentation general segmentation techniques, clustering algorithms and optimization methods. Also a study of different research also been presented. The latest research in each of image segmentation methods is presented in this study. This paper presents the recent research in biologically inspired swarm optimization techniques, including ant colony optimization algorithm, particle swarm optimization algorithm, artificial bee colony algorithm and their hybridizations, which are applied in several fields.
06 9237 it texture classification based edit putriIAESIJEECS
Automatic inspection systems become more importance for industries with high productive plans especially in texture industry. A novel approach to Local Binary Pattern (LBP) feature for texture classification is proposed in this system. At the first, the proposed Empirical Wavelet Transform (EWT) based texture classification is tested on gray scale and color images by using Brodatz texture images. The gray scale and color image is decomposed by EWT at 2 and 3 level of decomposition. LBP features are calculated for each empirical transformed image. Extracted features are given as input to the classification stage. K-NN classifier is used for classification stage. The result of the proposed system gives satisfactory classification accuracy of over 98% for all types of images.
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CLUSTERING BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND OPTIMIZATION ...cscpconf
Partitioning of an image into several constituent components is called image segmentation.
Myriad algorithms using different methods have been proposed for image segmentation. Many
clustering algorithms and optimization techniques are also being used for segmentation of
images. A major challenge in segmentation evaluation comes from the fundamental conflict
between generality and objectivity. As there is a glut of image segmentation techniques
available today, customer who is the real user of these techniques may get obfuscated. In this
paper to address the above described problem some image segmentation techniques are evaluated based on their consistency in different applications. Based on the parameters used quantification of different clustering algorithms is done.
Color Particle Filter Tracking using Frame Segmentation based on JND Color an...IOSRJVSP
Object tracking is one of the most important components in numerous applications of computer vision. Color can provide an efficient visual feature for tracking non-rigid objects in real-time. The color is chosen as tracking feature to make the process scale and rotation invariant. The color of an object can vary over time due to variations in the illumination conditions, the visual angle and the camera parameters. This paper presents the integration of color distributions into particle filtering. The color feature is extracted using our novel 4D color histogram of the image, which is determined using JND color similarity threshold and connectivity of the neighboring pixels. Particle filter tracks several hypotheses simultaneously and weighs them according to their similarity to the target model. The popular Bhattacharyya coefficient is used as similarity measure between two color distributions. The tracking results are compared on the basis of precision over the data set of video sequences from the website http://visualtracking.net of CVPR13 bench marking paper. The proposed tracker yields better precision values as compared to previous reported results
OBJECT SEGMENTATION USING MULTISCALE MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONSijcseit
Object segmentation plays an important role in human visual perception, medical image processing and content based image retrieval. It provides information for recognition and interpretation. This paper uses mathematical morphology for image segmentation. Object segmentation is difficult because one usually does not know a priori what type of object exists in an image, how many different shapes are there and what regions the image has. To carryout discrimination and segmentation several innovative segmentation methods, based on morphology are proposed. The present study proposes segmentation method based on multiscale morphological reconstructions. Various sizes of structuring elements have been used to segment simple and complex shapes. It enhances local boundaries that may lead to improve segmentation accuracy.The method is tested on various datasets and results shows that it can be used for both interactive and automatic segmentation.
MAGNETIC RESONANCE BRAIN IMAGE SEGMENTATIONVLSICS Design
Segmentation of tissues and structures from medical images is the first step in many image analysis applications developed for medical diagnosis. With the growing research on medical image segmentation, it is essential to categorize the research outcomes and provide researchers with an overview of the existing segmentation techniques in medical images. In this paper, different image segmentation methods applied on magnetic resonance brain images are reviewed. The selection of methods includes sources from image processing journals, conferences, books, dissertations and thesis. The conceptual details of the methods are explained and mathematical details are avoided for simplicity. Both broad and detailed categorizations of reviewed segmentation techniques are provided. The state of art research is provided with emphasis on developed techniques and image properties used by them. The methods defined are not always mutually independent. Hence, their inter relationships are also stated. Finally, conclusions are drawn summarizing commonly used techniques and their complexities in application.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
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.
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.
A NOVEL PROBABILISTIC BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION MODEL FOR REALTIME HUMAN ACTIV...sipij
Automatic human activity detection is one of the difficult tasks in image segmentation application due to
variations in size, type, shape and location of objects. In the traditional probabilistic graphical
segmentation models, intra and inter region segments may affect the overall segmentation accuracy. Also,
both directed and undirected graphical models such as Markov model, conditional random field have
limitations towards the human activity prediction and heterogeneous relationships. In this paper, we have
studied and proposed a natural solution for automatic human activity segmentation using the enhanced
probabilistic chain graphical model. This system has three main phases, namely activity pre-processing,
iterative threshold based image enhancement and chain graph segmentation algorithm. Experimental
results show that proposed system efficiently detects the human activities at different levels of the action
datasets.
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.
A Survey of Image Segmentation based on Artificial Intelligence and Evolution...IOSR Journals
Abstract : In image analysis, segmentation is the partitioning of a digital image into multiple regions (sets of
pixels), according to some homogeneity criterion. The problem of segmentation is a well-studied one in
literature and there are a wide variety of approaches that are used. Different approaches are suited to different
types of images and the quality of output of a particular algorithm is difficult to measure quantitatively due to
the fact that there may be much correct segmentation for a single image. Image segmentation denotes a process
by which a raw input image is partitioned into nonoverlapping regions such that each region is homogeneous
and the union of any two adjacent regions is heterogeneous. A segmented image is considered to be the highest
domain-independent abstraction of an input image. Image segmentation is an important processing step in many
image, video and computer vision applications. Extensive research has been done in creating many different
approaches and algorithms for image segmentation, but it is still difficult to assess whether one algorithm
produces more accurate segmentations than another, whether it be for a particular image or set of images, or
more generally, for a whole class of images.
In this paper, The Survey of Image Segmentation using Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Approach
methods that have been proposed in the literature. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. 1.
Introduction, 2.Literature review, 3.Noteworthy contributions in the field of proposed work, 4.Proposed
Methodology, 5.Expected outcome of the proposed research work, 6.Conclusion.
Keywords: Image Segmentation, Segmentation Algorithm, Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Algorithm,
Neural Network, Fuzzy Set, Clustering.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Feature Extraction for Image Classification and Analysis with Ant Colony Opti...sipij
The problem of structure extraction from the image which contains many clustered objects is a challenging one for high level image analysis. When an image contains many clustered objects overlapping of objects can cause for hiding the structure. The existing segmentation techniques for better understanding, not able to the address the constituent parts of the image implicitly. The approaches like multistage segmentation address to some extent, but for each stage a separate structure is extracted, and thus causes for the ambiguity about the structure. The proposed approach called Ant Colony Optimization and Fuzzy logic based technique resolves this problem, and gives the implicit structure, that meets with original structure. The segmentation approach uses the swarm intelligence technique based on the behavior of the ant colonies. The segmentation is the process of separating the non-overlapping regions that constitute an image. The segmentation is important for structured and non-structured image analysis and classification for better understanding.
A Combined Method with automatic parameter optimization for Multi-class Image...AM Publications
Multi-class image semantic segmentation deals with many applications in consumer electronics
fields such as image editing and image retrieval. Segmentation is done by combining the top down and bottomup
segmentation. Top-Down Process can be done by Semantic Texton Forest and bottom up- process using
JSEG. These two segmentation process can be executed in a combined manner. But this cannot choose the
optimal value of JSEG parameter for each interested semantic category. Hence an automatic parameter selection
algorithm has been proposed. An automatic parameter selection technique called an automatic multilevel
thresholding algorithm using stratified sampling and PSO is used to remedy the limitations.
A Review on Image Segmentation using Clustering and Swarm Optimization Techni...IJSRD
The process of dividing an image into multiple regions (set of pixels) is known as Image segmentation. It will make an image easy and smooth to evaluate. Image segmentation objective is to generate image more simple and meaningful. In this paper present a survey on image segmentation general segmentation techniques, clustering algorithms and optimization methods. Also a study of different research also been presented. The latest research in each of image segmentation methods is presented in this study. This paper presents the recent research in biologically inspired swarm optimization techniques, including ant colony optimization algorithm, particle swarm optimization algorithm, artificial bee colony algorithm and their hybridizations, which are applied in several fields.
06 9237 it texture classification based edit putriIAESIJEECS
Automatic inspection systems become more importance for industries with high productive plans especially in texture industry. A novel approach to Local Binary Pattern (LBP) feature for texture classification is proposed in this system. At the first, the proposed Empirical Wavelet Transform (EWT) based texture classification is tested on gray scale and color images by using Brodatz texture images. The gray scale and color image is decomposed by EWT at 2 and 3 level of decomposition. LBP features are calculated for each empirical transformed image. Extracted features are given as input to the classification stage. K-NN classifier is used for classification stage. The result of the proposed system gives satisfactory classification accuracy of over 98% for all types of images.
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CLUSTERING BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND OPTIMIZATION ...cscpconf
Partitioning of an image into several constituent components is called image segmentation.
Myriad algorithms using different methods have been proposed for image segmentation. Many
clustering algorithms and optimization techniques are also being used for segmentation of
images. A major challenge in segmentation evaluation comes from the fundamental conflict
between generality and objectivity. As there is a glut of image segmentation techniques
available today, customer who is the real user of these techniques may get obfuscated. In this
paper to address the above described problem some image segmentation techniques are evaluated based on their consistency in different applications. Based on the parameters used quantification of different clustering algorithms is done.
Color Particle Filter Tracking using Frame Segmentation based on JND Color an...IOSRJVSP
Object tracking is one of the most important components in numerous applications of computer vision. Color can provide an efficient visual feature for tracking non-rigid objects in real-time. The color is chosen as tracking feature to make the process scale and rotation invariant. The color of an object can vary over time due to variations in the illumination conditions, the visual angle and the camera parameters. This paper presents the integration of color distributions into particle filtering. The color feature is extracted using our novel 4D color histogram of the image, which is determined using JND color similarity threshold and connectivity of the neighboring pixels. Particle filter tracks several hypotheses simultaneously and weighs them according to their similarity to the target model. The popular Bhattacharyya coefficient is used as similarity measure between two color distributions. The tracking results are compared on the basis of precision over the data set of video sequences from the website http://visualtracking.net of CVPR13 bench marking paper. The proposed tracker yields better precision values as compared to previous reported results
OBJECT SEGMENTATION USING MULTISCALE MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONSijcseit
Object segmentation plays an important role in human visual perception, medical image processing and content based image retrieval. It provides information for recognition and interpretation. This paper uses mathematical morphology for image segmentation. Object segmentation is difficult because one usually does not know a priori what type of object exists in an image, how many different shapes are there and what regions the image has. To carryout discrimination and segmentation several innovative segmentation methods, based on morphology are proposed. The present study proposes segmentation method based on multiscale morphological reconstructions. Various sizes of structuring elements have been used to segment simple and complex shapes. It enhances local boundaries that may lead to improve segmentation accuracy.The method is tested on various datasets and results shows that it can be used for both interactive and automatic segmentation.
MAGNETIC RESONANCE BRAIN IMAGE SEGMENTATIONVLSICS Design
Segmentation of tissues and structures from medical images is the first step in many image analysis applications developed for medical diagnosis. With the growing research on medical image segmentation, it is essential to categorize the research outcomes and provide researchers with an overview of the existing segmentation techniques in medical images. In this paper, different image segmentation methods applied on magnetic resonance brain images are reviewed. The selection of methods includes sources from image processing journals, conferences, books, dissertations and thesis. The conceptual details of the methods are explained and mathematical details are avoided for simplicity. Both broad and detailed categorizations of reviewed segmentation techniques are provided. The state of art research is provided with emphasis on developed techniques and image properties used by them. The methods defined are not always mutually independent. Hence, their inter relationships are also stated. Finally, conclusions are drawn summarizing commonly used techniques and their complexities in application.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
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.
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.
A NOVEL PROBABILISTIC BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION MODEL FOR REALTIME HUMAN ACTIV...sipij
Automatic human activity detection is one of the difficult tasks in image segmentation application due to
variations in size, type, shape and location of objects. In the traditional probabilistic graphical
segmentation models, intra and inter region segments may affect the overall segmentation accuracy. Also,
both directed and undirected graphical models such as Markov model, conditional random field have
limitations towards the human activity prediction and heterogeneous relationships. In this paper, we have
studied and proposed a natural solution for automatic human activity segmentation using the enhanced
probabilistic chain graphical model. This system has three main phases, namely activity pre-processing,
iterative threshold based image enhancement and chain graph segmentation algorithm. Experimental
results show that proposed system efficiently detects the human activities at different levels of the action
datasets.
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.
A Survey of Image Segmentation based on Artificial Intelligence and Evolution...IOSR Journals
Abstract : In image analysis, segmentation is the partitioning of a digital image into multiple regions (sets of
pixels), according to some homogeneity criterion. The problem of segmentation is a well-studied one in
literature and there are a wide variety of approaches that are used. Different approaches are suited to different
types of images and the quality of output of a particular algorithm is difficult to measure quantitatively due to
the fact that there may be much correct segmentation for a single image. Image segmentation denotes a process
by which a raw input image is partitioned into nonoverlapping regions such that each region is homogeneous
and the union of any two adjacent regions is heterogeneous. A segmented image is considered to be the highest
domain-independent abstraction of an input image. Image segmentation is an important processing step in many
image, video and computer vision applications. Extensive research has been done in creating many different
approaches and algorithms for image segmentation, but it is still difficult to assess whether one algorithm
produces more accurate segmentations than another, whether it be for a particular image or set of images, or
more generally, for a whole class of images.
In this paper, The Survey of Image Segmentation using Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Approach
methods that have been proposed in the literature. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. 1.
Introduction, 2.Literature review, 3.Noteworthy contributions in the field of proposed work, 4.Proposed
Methodology, 5.Expected outcome of the proposed research work, 6.Conclusion.
Keywords: Image Segmentation, Segmentation Algorithm, Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Algorithm,
Neural Network, Fuzzy Set, Clustering.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Feature Extraction for Image Classification and Analysis with Ant Colony Opti...sipij
The problem of structure extraction from the image which contains many clustered objects is a challenging one for high level image analysis. When an image contains many clustered objects overlapping of objects can cause for hiding the structure. The existing segmentation techniques for better understanding, not able to the address the constituent parts of the image implicitly. The approaches like multistage segmentation address to some extent, but for each stage a separate structure is extracted, and thus causes for the ambiguity about the structure. The proposed approach called Ant Colony Optimization and Fuzzy logic based technique resolves this problem, and gives the implicit structure, that meets with original structure. The segmentation approach uses the swarm intelligence technique based on the behavior of the ant colonies. The segmentation is the process of separating the non-overlapping regions that constitute an image. The segmentation is important for structured and non-structured image analysis and classification for better understanding.
Texture Images Classification using Secant Lines Segments Histogramijtsrd
Texture classification is the process to classify different textures from the given images. The aim of texture classification is to classify the category of a texture image. To design an effective algorithm for texture classification, it is essential to find a set of texture features with good discriminating power. This paper presents a texture classification system using secant lines segments histogram and Euclidean Distance. Secant lines segments histogram is used to generate the features from texture images as a histogram. These features offer a better discriminating strategy for texture classification. These features are first used for training and later on for classifying the texture images. Euclidean Distance is used for distinguishing each of the known categories for classification. Ei Phyu Win | Mie Mie Tin | Pyae Phyo Thu "Texture Images Classification using Secant Lines Segments Histogram" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd27984.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/other/27984/texture-images-classification-using-secant-lines-segments-histogram/ei-phyu-win
Image Segmentation from RGBD Images by 3D Point Cloud Attributes and High-Lev...CSCJournals
In this paper, an approach is developed for segmenting an image into major surfaces and potential objects using RGBD images and 3D point cloud data retrieved from a Kinect sensor. In the proposed segmentation algorithm, depth and RGB data are mapped together. Color, texture, XYZ world coordinates, and normal-, surface-, and graph-based segmentation index features are then generated for each pixel point. These attributes are used to cluster similar points together and segment the image. The inclusion of new depth-related features provided improved segmentation performance over RGB-only algorithms by resolving illumination and occlusion problems that cannot be handled using graph-based segmentation algorithms, as well as accurately identifying pixels associated with the main structure components of rooms (walls, ceilings, floors). Since each segment is a potential object or structure, the output of this algorithm is intended to be used for object recognition. The algorithm has been tested on commercial building images and results show the usability of the algorithm in real time applications.
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1. International Journal on Soft Computing ( IJSC ) Vol.3, No.1, February 2012
DOI : 10.5121/ijsc.2012.3101 1
Texture Segmentation Based on Multifractal
Dimension
AzmiTawfik Alrawi1
, Ali makki Sagheer2
and Dheyaa Ahmed Ibrahim3
1
Department of physics, University of Anbar, Ramadi, Iraq
Dr_azm_alrwi@yahoo.com
2
Department of Information System, University of Anbar,Ramadi,Iraq
ali_makki_sagheer@yahoo.com
3
Department of Computer Science, University of Anbar, Ramadi, Iraq
dhaia_1988@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
Texture segmentation can be considered the most important problem, since human can distinguish different
textures quit easily, but the automatic segmentation is quit complex and it is still an open problem for
research. In this paper focus on implement novel supervised algorithm for multitexture segmentation and
this algorithm based on blocking procedure where each image divide into block (16×16 pixels) and extract
vector feature for each block to classification these block based on these feature. These feature extract
using Box Counting Method (BCM). BCM generate single feature for each block and this feature not
enough to characterize each block ,therefore, must be implement algorithm provide more than one slide for
the image based on new method produce multithresolding, after this use BCM to generate single feature for
each slide.
KEYWORDS
Texture Segmentation; MultifractalDiension; Fractal Dimension; Box Counting
1. INTRODUCTION
Texture segmentation is a subject that has received significant attention in recent years. In texture
segmentation, the goal is to divide an image into coherent regions using texture information.
There are two types of texture segmentation supervised and unsupervised. In supervised texture
segmentation, the system has models of textures to be encountered in the images to be segmented.
Unsupervised texture segmentation, on the other hand, aims at dividing an image into regions of
similar texture without a priori information about the different textures. Image segmentation, even
though an ill problem has several practical applications and texture has proven to be a useful cue
in segmentation [1].
Texture defect detection is a sub problem of texture segmentation, and it is commonly
encountered in visual inspection [2]. Texture segmentation is a difficult problem because one
usually does not have a prior knowledge about what types of textures exist in an image, how
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many different textures there are? And what textures exist in each region in the image? In fact,
one does not need to know which specific textures exist in the image in order to do texture
segmentation. What is needed to know is to tell that? There are two different textures in some
adjacent regions of the image [3]. The two general approaches to perform texture segmentation
are analogous to the image segmentation methods: region-based approaches or boundary-based
approaches. Strictly speaking, the boundary based methods result in segmentation only if all the
detected boundaries form closed curves.
Texture analysis is one of the most important techniques used in the analysis and interpretation of
images, consisting of repetition or quasi repetition of some fundamental image elements there are
three primary issues in texture analysis, such as texture classification, texture segmentation and
shape recovery from texture. In texture classification, the problem is identifying the given texture
region from a given set of texture classes. As opposed to texture classification, in which the class
label of a single homogeneous region is determined using distinguishing features derived from
the region, texture segmentation is concerned with automatically determining the boundaries
between various textured regions in an image [4].
2. PREVIOUS WORKS
T.Kasparis, 2001: This paper describes a new approach to the segmentation of textured gray-scale
images based on image pre-filtering and fractal features. Traditionally, filter bank decomposition
methods consider the energy in each band as the textural feature, a parameter that is highly
dependent on image intensity. In this paper, we use fractal-based features which depend more on
textural characteristics and not intensity information. To reduce the total number of features used
in the segmentation, the significance of each feature is examined using a test similar to the F-test,
and less significant features are not used in the clustering process. The commonly used K-means
algorithm is extended to an iterative K-means by using a variable window size that preserves
boundary details. The number of clusters is estimated using an improved hierarchical approach
that ignores information extracted around region boundaries [5].
DimitriosCharalampidis, 2002: In this paper, introduced a rotational invariant feature set for
texture segmentation and classification, based on an extension of fractal dimension (FD) features.
The FD extracts roughness information from images considering all available scales at once. In
this work, a single scale is considered at a time so that textures with scale-dependent properties
are satisfactorily characterized. Single-scale features are combined with multiple-scale features
for a more complete textural representation. Wavelets are employed for the computation of
single- and multiple-scale roughness features because of their ability to extract information at
different resolutions. Features are extracted in multiple directions using directional wavelets, and
the feature vector is finally transformed to a rotational invariant feature vector that retains the
texture directional information. An iterative means scheme is used for segmentation, and a
simplified form of a Bayesian classifier is used for classification. The use of the roughness feature
set results in high-quality segmentation performance. Furthermore, it is shown that the roughness
feature set exhibits a higher classification rate than other feature vectors presented in this work.
The feature set retains the important properties of FD-based features, namely insensitivity to
absolute illumination and contrast [6].
Hsu Taoi, 2009: An efficient algorithm for segmenting a textured image into different regions is
developed based on a set of fractal dimension estimated from calculated variorum. An edge
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detector is employed to detect texture boundary based on the multi-resolution framework
including gradient pyramid construction followed by the reliable information obtained in the
rough resolution as mask to constrain the calculation region in the rest resolution. Combined with
mask and gradient in each resolution is propagating down to the finest resolution giving a more
accurate boundaries estimation. The utility of the proposed method is demonstrated on a number
of synthesis and natural textures [7].
3. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM
The proposed segmentation system operates on texture images which are based on blocking
concept. Blocking concept involves processing a texture images as a sections called blocks. These
blocks have the same size across the texture image. Every pixel within each block was assigned
the same texture values.
The proposed system segments the complicated texture surface based on true shape texture. The
original texture image consists of groups of many texture types such as Wood, Stone and Grass.
There are many techniques proposes for multi texture segmentation such as: statistical and
structural coefficients. Such methods include first order statistics such as the variance or energy
of each color band, second order statistics based on the co-occurrence matrices of coefficients,
and random field models.
In this work, feature extraction is employed to use the Fractal Dimension FD instead of other
method because the FD is insensitive to differences in the local intensity of the texture image.
Ideally, the FD is also insensitive to image zooming but in practice this is only valid to a certain
extent. The FD of single feature is not sufficient for texture analysis and characterization,
therefore, it must be compute multifractal for texture analysis. The FD estimation using Box
Counting Method (BCM) which is based on binarization method. The binarization method is
achieved using multithresholding algorithm. The multithresholdingalgorithm can generate more
than one slide for each texture image. The multifractal dimension idea is accomplished by apply
single FD on each slide which is resulted from multithresholding algorithm. The multifractal
dimension obtains feature vector X = {x1 , x2,..., xn} for all pixel of texture image.
An image has been transformed bymultifractal dimension into more than one feature images and
a pixel at any position has associated with a feature vector X = {x1 , x2,..., xn}, where there are n
feature images equal to number of slide. Feature vector is used to assign one texture to the pixel
under examination given its n dimensional feature vector.
The proposed segmentation system is trained supervisedlly by the exporter. The human visual
system of the exporter has a knowledge about the texture nature within the textures groups image.
These system uses the knowledge which are detected to classify the textures pixels.
The general block diagram of the proposed segmentation system is illustrated below in Figure (1).
It represents the general scheme of the segmentation process step by step.
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Figure (1) Proposed Technique Diagram for Texture Segmentation
a. Image Acquisition
The first and arguably most important stage is that of image acquisition. The application of
suitable physical constraints to the observed scene may be used to significantly reduce the
complexity of subsequent stage. Careful structuring of the lighting arrangement and camera
position may be used to enhance the particular features of interest
.
b. Binarization by Multithresholding
After Image acquisition conversion of the color image to gray image. There are two methods to
calculate threshold (histogram and traditional method ). First, Histogram shows the number of
pixels for each gray value within the range of the image gray scale. If the minimum value of the
image is 0 and the maximum value of the image is 255, then the histogram of the image shows
the number of pixels for each gray value ranging between 0 and 255. Peaks in the histogram
represent more common gray values within the image that usually consists of nearly uniform
regions. Valleys in the histogram represent less common values. Empty regions within the
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histogram indicate that no pixels within the image contain gray values belong to these empty
regions. The conversion from gray image to binary image could be done by using thresholding
method. In threshold method, a threshold value should be defined. After compute the histogram
the maximum and minimum value (i.e., low gray and high gray regions) indicate. This process
differs from one method to other, for example in the traditional method the minimum and
maximum existing values can be determined directly from the component itself while in the
histogram thresholding method the minimum and maximum values are estimated as lower and
upper bounds of the component values at which the sum of the histogram elements beyond these
bounds is less than a specific predefined value. To calculate the set of uniformly distributed
threshold values; a calculation of the intensity interval between the proposed threshold values.
Algorithm 1 shows the steps binarization by multithresholding image using histogram method.
Algorithm (4.1):Thresholding a gray scale image using traditional thresholding method.
Input: Color image with height (H) & width (W), No. of thresholds (N).
Output: (N) Intensity Thresholds (Tr).
Begin
Step 1: Finding the Min. & Max. values.
Step 2: Calculate the intensity interval (S) between the intensity thresholds.
S=
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ேାଵ
Step 3:Calculate Thresholds
For I = 1 to N
Tr(I) = Min + S * I
Step 4:Print (N) thresholds for each color channel & gray.
End
c. Feature Extraction based on Fractal Dimension
Instead of using the raw data, selected measurements called features extracted from the raw data
are used as the basis for classification. Features should be designed to be invariant or less
sensitive with respect to commonly encountered variations and distortions, whilst containing less
redundancies. The criterion of feature extraction can be sensibly based on either:
The importance of the features in characterizing the patterns.
The contribution of the features to the performance of recognition.
The FD as a single feature is not sufficient for texture analysis and characterization. The idea of
using more than one FD feature has already been introduced previously. The extraction of a set of
features produces a feature vector i.e. a feature vector X will take the form:
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X=
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Feature extrication implementation using Box Counting Method (BCM) for all slide generated
from multithresholding algorithm. Also, must be allustratingthat the FD values computes over
the block. In order to calculate the box-counting dimension, any structure should be located on
square grid with the mesh dimension s, and afterwards, all meshes that contain even the smallest
part of the structure are summed up. In this way, the number of filled meshes N is calculated,
which is related to their dimension, therefore is registered as N(s). Next, each mesh divides into
four equal ones and repeat the operation. In practice, the algorithm can be continued until which
restricted by the device resolution.
In literature, for calculation of box dimension it does not matter if the number of boxes is
counted for the entire block. In this work need to calculate the number of boxes A(s) for entire
block to solve overlapping problem related with calculate the FD for these blocks. The fractal
dimension is obtained using the following equation:
H =
∑ ୪୭((ୱሻሻ∗୪୭((ୱሻሻమ
సౡ
∑ ୪୭((ୗሻሻమౡషమ
౩సబ
… (1)
FD=2-H …(2)
Where H is slop, A(s) is total number of boxes to all block, N(s) is number of box cover the
structure, k is highest box size and s is box size. The FD of a curve can be ranging between 1
(which is equal to its topological dimension) and 2 (which is equal to the topological dimension
of the plane that it can occupy).
d. Learning Phase
The supervised learning procedure is the most important part of the system for automatic
classification mode. This phase is implemented by select window of size LH × LW by expert for
each texture in image. The size of the window is important. As the window size gets larger, more
global features are detected. This suggests that the choice of window size could possibly be tied
to the contents of the image. The images with larger texture tokens would require larger window
sizes whereas finer textures would require smaller windows. It is also possible to regard the
window size as a space parameter and use a multi-scale filtering approach. The proposed
technique has done experiments in both aspects. After this these window divided randomly into
small blocks of size M×M to increase the amount of data for each texture class which increase the
discrimination between classes in image, where M must be greater than 0 and less than width and
height of the selected window of size LH × LW. Start pixel for block can be detected using
equation (3) and (4). For each one of this block computes N FD equal to the number of
thresholding.
XS=(LH–M)* rand … (3)
YS=(LW - M)*rand …(4)
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Where XS , YS are the index for start pixel to blocks and rand randomly number between (0,1).
After this compute the feature vector for each block and use these feature for compute the mean
and standard deviation for the selected window. As shone previously in this chapter, the
proposed technique generates more than one slide of the image depending on the
multithresholding algorithm, for each slide is calculated by fractal dimension. Therefore, number
of mean and standard deviation (STD) equal number of thresholding for all selected
window.ListenRead phonetically
The Mean is implemented by using the following equation.
Mean(T)=
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…(5)
The STD is implemented by using the following equation
STD(T)ට∑ (ୈ(୧ሻି୫ୣୟ୬(ሻሻమ౭
సభ
ୗିଵ
…(6)
Where T is the thresholding, and SW is the number of block within the selected window.
e. Testing Blocks Phase
Multi texture images of size N×N are considered. The analysis is carried out by considering sub-
images (i.e., block) of size M×M. Each M×M sub-image, taken from top left corner of the
original image and computes multifractal dimension for each block. After this the matrix has
N×M, where N is the number of feature elements in each vector (equal to the number of
thresholding) and M is the total data size (the total number of blocks in the input image).
f. Block-Based Texture Classification phase
The most important stage of the classification process is the feature extraction stage, at which
time the sample block is transformed into a much lower dimensionality feature vector. The
vectors from all of the training block are then input to the classification system for training.
Again, many different classifiers have been used, although some of them perform slightly better
than others, generally the choice of classifier has the least effect on the overall performance of the
system. Therefore, speed of training, ease of implementation, and suitability to a given task are
more important factors in the choice of a classifier than is its raw performance.
In these phase, the mean and standard deviation for feature are extracted from the learning
sample using the proposed feature extraction algorithm, and then compared the number of
features which extracted from each testing block with the corresponding mean and standard
deviation of all the texture classes k stored using distance equation (7). show Figure (2) illustrates
these phase.
Dist(K)=∑
୫ୣୟ୬(୧ሻିୈ(୧ሻ
ୗୈ(୧ሻ
୧ୀ …(7)
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Where T is the number of thresholding, mean and STD is the mean and stander deviation for
training sample and FD is fractal dimension for test block. The identification of block with the
same class k in database is represented by selecting the smallest value of Dist(k).
4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
The segmentation technique discussed in the previous section is applied on six different texture.
These images are a BMP 24 bit/pixels (bit depth), the size of each test image is 256×256 pixels.
These images are consisting of two, three, four, and five textures. These textures extracted from
various natural and surface texture images takes from world database. The collection of textures
exhibits well defined variations to a given reference in terms of illumination, rotation and spatial
resolution. There are some considerations related with multitexture design as follows:
The multitextur image consists of different paris of circles, rectangles and squares to evaluate its
edges on the system performance properly. The size of textures within each image is configured
randomly and irregularly measure that effect on results.
The multitexture image consist of more than two textures to scale the quality of segmentation.The
texture type is natural or artificial.To measure the accuracy of the proposed segmentation method
, there are supervised evaluation method. This measure takes into account the information that
brings the ideal segmentation or “ground truth”. Let S = {S1, S2, S3 , …..,Sm} be the obtained
segmentation and let I ={ I1, I2, I3 , …..,Im } be the ideal segmentation of the same image. The
problem of finding which Si corresponds to each Ii can be achieved by solving a maximum cost
pairing problem between the regions on S and the regions on I. Each region can be obtained a
coincidence index given by equation:
Ci =
| ୗ ∩ ୍ |
| ୗ ∪ ୍ |
…[8](8)
Where Si and Ii are supposed to represent the same region on the original image. The impact of
the region on the global segmentation can be measured by computing:
Block of Image
Feature
Matching
Decision
Class
Assigne
r
Identit
Classes
Class
Class
Classn
Figure (2) Block-Based Texture Classification phase
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Di=
| ୗ ∩ ୍ |
…[8](9)
Where N stands for the total number of pixels of the image. We define the Coincidence Measure
(CM) between S and I as:
CM= ∑ D୧C୧
୬
୧ୀଵ …[8](10)
It is not difficult to see that 0 ≤ CM≤ 1 and that for CM= 1 there is a perfect coincidence
between I and S. Figure 3 show the result of image with CM for each image.
5. CONCLUSION
A novel approach based on fractal dimension as a feature for supervised texture segmentation is
presented in this paper. These approach based on dividing the image into blocks. The fractal
dimension values of the blocks are computed using box counting based on binarization using
multithreshoolding to generate vector features. The size of the selected training window plays an
important role in the supervised segmentation processes, the most suitable size, found in this
research, was (64x64) pixels which gave higher segmentation accuracy when using the box
counting method. The test results indicate that the FD feature is useful to assist the multitexture
segmentation tasks. The performance of the system increases when the number of features
increases but the performance of this system decreases when the number of features bigger than
10. The reason that the interval between the number of thresholding is fewer. The test results
indicate that block size is useful to assist the multitexture segmentation tasks. The attained block
size led to maximum quality segmentation rate ( with 8×8 block, with 16×16 block, with 32×32
block) and the best result with (16×16 block).
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Figure (3). Illustrate the result of the proposed system
Authors
1
Azmi TawfikHussain was born in Anbar – 1961. He got on B.Sc of physical in
salhdee university 1983 - Iraq and M.Sc. in theoretical physics in al yarmook
university 1992 – Jordan and Ph.D. in Image Processing from in al-mustinsary
university – Iraq, (2001). He interesting in the follow filed (fractal geometry, image
recognition , theoretical physics, signal processing). He publish many paper in
different conferences and scientific and scientific journals.
2
Ali MakkiSagheer was born in basrah – 1961. He got on B.Sc of information system
in computer science Department at the university of Technology 2001- Iraq, M.Sc. in
data security from the university Technology(2004) and Ph.D. in computer science
from the university Technology(2007). He interesting in the follow filed (cryptology,
information security, number theory, multimedia compression, image processing,
coding system and artificial intelligence). He publish many paper in different
conferences and scientific and scientific journals.
3
Dheyaa Ahmed Ibrahim was born in Anbar – 1988. has received B.Sc in Computer
Science, Al-Anbar University, Iraq, (2005-2009) and M.Sc in Computer Science
Department, Al-nabar University, (2011). Fields of interest: computer vision, image
processing, face recognition, face detection and related fields. He taught many
subjects such as operation system, cryptography and encryption.