Video inpainting is a technique that fills in the missing regions or gaps in a video by using its known pixels. The existing video inpainting algorithms are computationally expensive and introduce seam in the target region that arises due to variation in brightness or contrast of the patches. To overcome these drawbacks, the authors propose a novel two‐stage framework. In the first step, sub‐bands of wavelets of a low‐resolution image are obtained using the dual‐tree complex wavelet transform. Criminisi algorithm and auto‐regression technique are then applied to these sub‐bands to inpaint the missing regions. The fuzzy logic‐based histogram equalisation is used to further enhance the image by preserving the image brightness and improve the local contrast. In the second step, the image is enhanced using super‐resolution technique. The process of down‐sampling, inpainting and subsequently enhancing the video using the super‐resolution technique reduces the video inpainting time. The framework is tested on video sequences by comparing and analysing the structural similarity index matrix, peak‐signal‐to‐noise ratio, visual information fidelity in pixel domain and execution time with the state‐of‐the‐art algorithms. The experimental analysis gives visually pleasing results for object removal and error concealment.

Abstract:Reliable and accurate measurement of product compositions is one of the main difficulties in distillation column control. In this paper a soft sensor based on generalized regression neural network (GRNN) is proposed to estimate the product composition of a multicomponent distillation column on the basis of simulated time series data. The results are compared with artificial neural network (ANN) based soft sensor. From the detailed dynamic simulation results, it is found that the proposed GRNN based estimator works better than ANN based soft sensor. The performance of estimator is evaluated in the presence of noise in the input.

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This paper presented here deals with study of identification and verification approach of Diabetes based on human iris pattern. In the pre-processing of this work, region of interest according to color (ROI) concept is used for iris localization, Dougman's rubber sheet model is used for normalization and Circular Hough Transform can be used for pupil and boundary detection. To extract features, Gabor Filter, Histogram of Oriented Gradients, five level decomposition of wavelet transforms likeHaar, db2, db4, bior 2.2, bior6.8 waveletscan be used. Binary coding scheme binaries’ the feature vector coefficients and classifier like hamming distance, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost), Neural Networks (NN), Random Forest (RF) and Linear Discriminative Analysis (LDA) with shrinkage parametercan be used for template matching. Performance parameters such as Computational time, Hamming distance variation, False Acceptance Rate (FAR), False Rejection Rate (FRR), Accuracy, and Match ratio can be calculated for the comparison purpose.

Video inpainting aims to complete in a visually pleasing way the missing regions in video frames. Video inpainting is an exciting task due to the variety of motions across different frames. The existing methods usually use attention models to inpaint videos by seeking the damaged content from other frames. Nevertheless, these methods suffer due to irregular attention weight from spatio-temporal dimensions, thus giving rise to artifacts in the inpainted video. To overcome the above problem, Spatio-Temporal Inference Transformer Network (STITN) has been proposed. The STITN aligns the frames to be inpainted and concurrently inpaints all the frames, and a spatio-temporal adversarial loss function improves the STITN. Our method performs considerably better than the existing deep learning approaches in quantitative and qualitative evaluation.