An identity-concealing motion detecting and portraying device, for privacy-preserving monitoring or surveillance, concealing the identity of detected moving subjects and their observed location and denying access to original video frames. The device includes a video camera that collects video frame images of an area; a volatile memory storing a video buffer, the video camera storing a stream of video frames in the buffer. A processor, for each pair of successive video frames in the video buffer, computes a simple difference frame of the pair; erases the first video frame of the pair from the volatile memory; and outputs the difference frames as portrayed motion video. The device may comprise an analytics module for detecting specific events with an alerts module to issue an alert to an external device. The difference frames and alerts may pass through a unidirectional “waterfall” link within the device, preventing access to the original video frames.

This disclosure relates generally to a system and method for monitoring performance of low-cost sensors plied in a field for soil moisture measurement. The low-cost sensors are calibrated to give useful derived parameters to support farming such as volumetric water content (VWC) of the soil. Further, the steps are being incorporated to de-noise their response to derive stable measurements similar to expensive rugged sensors. The calibration of the low-cost sensor and normalization of incoming values from the low-cost sensor are based on values determined through rugged sensors for soil moisture measurement. The normalization involves finding a minimum value and maximum value of soil moisture. Performance of the low-cost sensors are analyzed based on a range of values of the soil moisture. Finally, the performance analysis provides degradation stages and based on the degradation stages evaluated recommendations to modify the sensor are shared with the user.

Enhancing edges of objects in a thermal image comprises receiving a thermal image and generating a gradient magnitude image comprising a plurality of pixels having associated gradient magnitude values. The gradient magnitude image is partitioned into subregions and gradient magnitude statistics are calculated for each. Mapping parameters are calculated for each of the subregions that equalize and smooth a dynamic range of the corresponding gradient magnitude statistics across the subregions. The mapping parameters calculated for each of the subregions are applied to pixels in the subregions to generate enhanced gradient magnitude values having equalized luminosity and contrast, and a wireframe image is formed therefrom having enhanced edges of objects. The wireframe image is displayed on a display device, wherein the wireframe image appears as a decluttered line drawing where the enhanced edges have increased luminosity and contrast compared to the thermal image to reduce the cognitive load of the user.

An image processing method includes: according to position coordinates of any interpolation pixel in a target image, determining position coordinate of the interpolation pixel in an original image; calculating a two-dimensional image entropy of an (n×n) neighborhood of the interpolation pixel in the original image; when it is greater than or equal to a preset entropy threshold value, calculating a pixel value of the interpolation pixel based on all original pixels; when it is less than the preset entropy threshold, calculating gradient values in at least two edge directions within the threshold neighborhood and determining whether there is a strong-edge direction; if so, calculating the pixel value of the interpolation pixel based on a plurality of original pixels in the strong-edge direction; if not, calculating the pixel value of the interpolation pixel based on all the original pixels.

A method for establishing a three-dimensional tomosynthesis data record of a target volume from two-dimensional projection images recorded with a recording arrangement including an X-ray source and an X-ray detector in different recording geometries is provided. During or after a reconstruction step, a deconvolution technique is used for reducing image artifacts of the tomosynthesis data record occurring due to lacking information. The projection images are recorded along a linear recording trajectory of the X-ray source. The reconstruction and the use of the deconvolution technique take place in a plurality of different two-dimensional reconstruction planes that are spanned by the recording trajectory and, in each case, a definition point in the target volume.

Disclosed is a Gabor wavelet-fused multi-scale local level set ultrasonic image segmentation method. In the method, non-uniformity of the grayscale of an ultrasonic image is taken as a texture having cluttered directions, the multi-directional property of Gabor wavelets is used to process the image, and intermediate images in different filtering directions are fused by taking maximum values, so as to obtain an intermediate image having a weakened texture effect and an enhanced difference between a foreground and a background. For the feature of a weak edge of an ultrasonic image, a concept of multi-scale is used to improve the conventional LIC method, Gaussian convolution kernels having different variances are set, and a final edge is obtained by means of average fusion.

Examples are disclosed relating to performing signal processing on time-of-flight sensor data using pixelwise temporal metrics. One example provides a computing system comprising a logic machine, and a storage machine holding instructions executable by the logic machine to obtain temporal phase data for a plurality of pixels as acquired by a time-of-flight image sensor, the temporal phase data comprising phase data for a plurality of light modulation frequencies, determine temporal active brightness data for the pixel, and, for each pixel of the plurality of pixels, determine a statistical metric for the temporal active brightness data. The instructions are further executable to perform phase unwrapping on the temporal phase data for the plurality of pixels to obtain a depth image, based on the statistical metric for the temporal active brightness data, perform a denoising operation on at least some pixels of the depth image, and output the depth image.

A method and apparatus for converting a picture into a video, and a device and a storage medium. The method for converting a picture into a video includes: partitioning an original picture to obtain a foreground region and a background region; performing an iterative transformation for visual depth on the background region, and storing an image obtained through each transformation as a picture frame to obtain multiple frames of images; and splicing the multiple frames of images to obtain a target video. The iterative transformation includes at least two transformations for visual depth.

An image processing system includes: a material image generating circuit, at least one texture generating circuit and an output controller. The material image generating circuit is configured to generate a material image. The at least one texture generating circuit is coupled to the material image generating circuit, and configured to adjust texture characteristics of the material image to generate at least one texture image. The output controller is coupled to the at least one texture generating circuit, and configured to analyze regional characteristics of a source image to generate an analysis result, determine a region weight according to the analysis result, and synthesize the source image with the at least one texture image according to the region weight, thereby to generate an output image.

A system and methods for contrast sensitivity compensation provides for correcting the vision of users whose vision is deficient for discerning high spatial frequencies. The system and methods use measurements of the user's contrast detection as a function of spatial frequency in the image to correct images in real time. The system includes a head-mountable device that includes a camera and a processor that can provide enhanced images at video framing rates.