There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

A review on image segmentation techniques

In the real world, a realistic setting for computer vision or multimedia recognition problems is that we have some classes containing lots of training data and many classes contain a small amount of training data. Therefore, how to use frequent classes to help learning rare classes for which it is harder to collect the training data is an open question. Learning with Shared Information is an emerging topic in machine learning, computer vision and multimedia analysis. There are different level of components that can be shared during concept modeling and machine learning stages, such as sharing generic object parts, sharing attributes, sharing transformations, sharing regularization parameters and sharing training examples, etc. Regarding the specific methods, multi-task learning, transfer learning and deep learning can be seen as using different strategies to share information. These learning with shared information methods are very effective in solving real-world large-scale problems. This special issue aims at gathering the recent advances in learning with shared information methods and their applications in computer vision and multimedia analysis. Both state-of-the-art works, as well as literature reviews, are welcome for submission. Papers addressing interesting real-world computer vision and multimedia applications are especially encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:  • Multi-task learning or transfer learning for large-scale computer vision and multimedia analysis • Deep learning for large-scale computer vision and multimedia analysis • Multi-modal approach for large-scale computer vision and multimedia analysis • Different sharing strategies, e.g., sharing generic object parts, sharing attributes, sharing transformations, sharing regularization parameters and sharing training examples, • Real-world computer vision and multimedia applications based on learning with shared information, e.g., event detection, object recognition, object detection, action recognition, human head pose estimation, object tracking, location-based services, semantic indexing. • New datasets and metrics to evaluate the benefit of the proposed sharing ability for the specific computer vision or multimedia problem. • Survey papers regarding the topic of learning with shared information.  Authors who are unsure whether their planned submission is in scope may contact the guest editors prior to the submission deadline with an abstract, in order to receive feedback.

IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence

Review: Digital image steganography: Survey and analysis of current methods

Genetic algorithm-based clustering technique

We propose an automatic and accurate technique for classifying normal and abnormal magnetic resonance (MR) images of human brain. Ripplet transform Type-I (RT), an e-cient multiscale geometric analysis (MGA) tool for digital images, is used to represent the salient features of the brain MR images. The dimensionality of the image representative feature vector is reduced by principal component analysis (PCA). A computationally less expensive support vector machine (SVM), called least square-SVM (LS-SVM) is used to classify the brain MR images. Extensive experiments were carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. Two benchmark MR image datasets and a new larger dataset were used in the experiments, consisting 66, 160 and 255 images, respectively. The generalization capability of the proposed technique is enhanced by 5 £ 5 cross validation procedure. For all the datasets used in the experiments, the proposed system shows high classiflcation accuracies (on an average > 99%). Experimental results and performance comparisons with state-of-the-art techniques, show that the proposed scheme is e-cient in brain MR image classiflcation.

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Brain Mr Image Classification Using Multiscale Geometric Analysis of Ripplet

A new method for fractal image compression is proposed using genetic algorithm (GA) with an elitist model. The self transformation property of images is assumed and exploited in the fractal image compression technique. The technique described utilizes the GA, which greatly decreases the search space for finding the self similarities in the given image. This article presents theory, implementation, and an analytical study of the proposed method along with a simple classification scheme. A comparison with other fractal-based image compression methods is also reported.

Technique for fractal image compression using genetic algorithm

http://www.isical.ac.in/~malay/Papers/CMPB-PP-2013.pdf

Effective management of medical information through ROI-lossless fragile image watermarking technique

A multi-scale morphologic edge detector

S.K. Pal, A. Ghosh, M.K. Kundu: Soft Computing and Image Analysis: Features, Relevance and Hybridization.- Preprocessing and Feature Extraction: F.Russo: Image Filtering Using Evolutionary Neural Fuzzy Systems.- T. Law, D. Shibata, T. Nakamura, L. He, H. Itoh: Edge Extraction Using Fuzzy Reasoning.- S.K. Mitra, C.A. Murthy, M.K. Kundu: Image Compression and Edge Extraction Using Fractal Technique and Genetic Algorithms.- S. Mitra, R. Castellanos, S.-Y. Yang, S. Pemmaraju: Adaptive Clustering for Efficient Segmentation and Vector Quantization of Images.- B. Uma Shankar, A. Ghosh, S.K. Pal: On Fuzzy Thresholding of Remotely Sensed Images.- W. Skarbek: Image Compression Using Pixel Neural Networks.- L He, Y. Chao, T. Nakamura, H. Itho: Genetic Algorithm and Fuzzy Reasoning for Digital Image Compression Using Triangular Plane Patches.- N B. Karayiannis, T.C. Wang: Compression of Digital Mammograms Using Wavelets and Fuzzy Algorithms for Learning Vector Quantization.- V.D. Gesu: Soft Computing and Image Analysis.- J.H. Han, T.Y. Kim, L.T. Koczy: Fuzzy Interpretation of Image Data.- Classification: M. Grabisch: New Pattern Recognition Tools Based on Fuzzy Logic for Image Understanding.- N.K. Kasabov, S.I. Israel, B.J. Woodford: Adaptive, Evolving, Hybrid Connectionist Systems for Image Pattern Recognition.- P.A. Stadter, N.K Bose: Neuro-Fuzzy Computing: Structure, Performance Measure and Applications.- K. D. Bollacker, J. Ghosh: Knowledge Reuse Mechanisms for Categorizing Related Image Sets.- K. C. Gowda, P. Nagabhushan, H.N. Srikanta Prakash: Symbolic Data Analysis for Image Processing.- Applications: N.M. Nasrabadi, S. De, L.-C. Wang, S. Rizvi, A. Chan: The Use of Artificial Neural Networks for Automatic Target Recognition.- S. Gutta, H. Wechsler:Hybrid Systems for Facial Analysis and Processing Tasks.- V. Susheela Devi, M. Narasimha Murty: Handwritten Digit Recognition Using Soft Computing Tools.- T.L. Huntsburger, J.R. Rose, D. Girard: Neural Systems for Motion Analysis: Single Neuron and Network Approaches.- H.M. Kim, B. Kosko: Motion Estimation and Compensation with Neural Fuzzy Systems.

Malay K. Kundu

Papers

Brain Mr Image Classification Using Multiscale Geometric Analysis of Ripplet

Technique for fractal image compression using genetic algorithm

Effective management of medical information through ROI-lossless fragile image watermarking technique

A multi-scale morphologic edge detector

Soft Computing for Image Processing