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A panoramic image texture detail enhancement method based on the Retinex algorithm is proposed to work on the nature of panoramic images. Firstly, the panoramic image is collected, then the panoramic image is preprocessed through brightness enhancement, the brightness of the preprocessed panoramic image is normalized, and the panoramic image is optimized and increased by the improved Retinex algorithm. Finally, the simulation test of the panoramic image was carried out. The results show that the improved Retinex algorithm works on the sign to-commotion proportion of the panoramic image. Furthermore, the time required to enhance the panoramic texture detail is short, which can meet the practical requirements of panoramic image subsequent processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has become a research hotspot in the field of robots in recent years. However, most visual SLAM systems are based on static assumptions which ignored motion effects. If image sequences are not rich in texture information or the camera rotates at a large angle, SLAM system will fail to locate and map. To solve these problems, this paper proposes an improved ORB-SLAM2 algorithm based on information entropy and sharpening processing. The information entropy corresponding to the segmented image block is calculated, and the entropy threshold is determined by the adaptive algorithm of image entropy threshold, and then the image block which is smaller than the information entropy threshold is sharpened. The experimental results show that compared with the ORB-SLAM2 system, the relative trajectory error decreases by 36.1% and the absolute trajectory error decreases by 45.1% compared with ORB-SLAM2. Although these indicators are greatly improved, the processing time is not greatly increased. To some extent, the algorithm solves the problem of system localization and mapping failure caused by camera large angle rotation and insufficient image texture information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to make full use of nonlocal and local similarity and improve the efficiency and adaptability of the NPB-DL algorithm, this paper proposes a signal reconstruction algorithm based on dictionary learning algorithm combined with structure similarity clustering. Nonparametric Bayesian for Dirichlet process is firstly introduced into the prior probability modeling of clustering labels, and then, Dirichlet prior distribution is applied to the prior probability of cluster labels so as to ensure the analyticity and conjugation of the probability model. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is not only superior to other comparison algorithms in numerical evaluation indicators but also closer to the original image in terms of visual effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sheep body segmentation robot can improve production hygiene, product quality, and cutting accuracy, which is a huge change for traditional manual segmentation. With reference to the New Zealand sheep body segmentation specification, a vision system for Cartesian coordinate robot cutting half-sheep was developed and tested. The workflow of the vision system was designed and the image acquisition device with an Azure Kinect sensor was developed. Furthermore, a LabVIEW software with the image processing algorithm was then integrated with the RGBD image acquisition device in order to construct an automatic vision system. Based on Deeplab v3+ networks, an image processing system for locating ribs and spine was employed. Taking advantage of the location characteristics of ribs and spine in the split half-sheep, a calculation method of cutting line based on the key points is designed to determine five cutting curves. The seven key points are located by convex points of ribs and spine and the root of hind leg. Using the conversion relation between depth image and the space coordinates, the 3D coordinates of the curves were computed. Finally, the kinematics equation of the rectangular coordinate robot arm is established, and the 3D coordinates of the curves are converted into the corresponding motion parameters of the robot arm. The experimental results indicated that the automatic vision system had a success rate of 98.4% in the cutting curves location, 4.2 s time consumption per half-sheep, and approximately 1.3 mm location error. The positioning accuracy and speed of the vision system can meet the requirements of the sheep cutting production line. The vision system shows that there is potential to automate even the most challenging processing operations currently carried out manually by human operators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A novel denoising method for removing mixed noise from locust slice images is proposed by means of Shannon-cosine wavelet and the nonlinear variational model for the image processing. This method includes two parts that are the sparse representation of the slice images and the novel numerical algorithm for solving the variation model on image denoising based on the sparse representation. In the first part, a parametric Shannon-cosine wavelet function is introduced to construct the multiscale wavelet transform matrix, which is applied to represent the slice images sparsely by adjusting the parameters adaptively based on the texture of the locust slice images. By multiplying the matrix with the signal, the multiscale wavelet transform coefficients of the signal can be obtained at one time, which can be used to identify the salt-and-pepper noises in the slice images. This ensures that the salt-and-pepper noise points are kept away from the sparse representation of the slice images. In the second part, a semianalytical method on solving the system of the nonlinear differential equations is constructed based on the sparse representation of the slice images, which is named the sparse wavelet precise integration method (SWPIM). Substituting the sparse representation of the slice images into the Perona–Malik model which is the famous edge-preserving smoothing model for removing the Gaussian noises of the biomedical images, a system of nonlinear differential equations is obtained, whose scale is far smaller than the one obtained by the difference method. The numerical experiments show that both the values of SSIM and PSNR of the denoised locust slice images are better than the classical methods besides the algorithm efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a JPEG lifting algorithm based on adaptive block compressed sensing (ABCS), which solves the fusion between the ABCS algorithm for 1-dimension vector data processing and the JPEG compression algorithm for 2-dimension image data processing and improves the compression rate of the same quality image in comparison with the existing JPEG-like image compression algorithms. Specifically, mean information entropy and multifeature saliency indexes are used to provide a basis for adaptive blocking and observing, respectively, joint model and curve fitting are adopted for bit rate control, and a noise analysis model is introduced to improve the antinoise capability of the current JPEG decoding algorithm. Experimental results show that the proposed method has good performance of fidelity and antinoise, especially at a medium compression ratio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]