arXiv · cond-mat/0104164
Multi-State Image Restoration by Transmission of Bit-Decomposed Data
Abstract
We report on the restoration of gray-scale image when it is decomposed into a binary form before transmission. We assume that a gray-scale image expressed by a set of Q-Ising spins is first decomposed into an expression using Ising (binary) spins by means of the threshold division, namely, we produce (Q-1) binary Ising spins from a Q-Ising spin by the function F(σ_i - m) = 1 if the input data σ_i \in {0,.....,Q-1} is σ_i \geq m and 0 otherwise, where m \in {1,....,Q-1} is the threshold value. The effects of noise are different from the case where the raw Q-Ising values are sent. We investigate which is more effective to use the binary data for transmission or to send the raw Q-Ising values. By using the mean-field model, we first analyze the performance of our method quantitatively. Then we obtain the static and dynamical properties of restoration using the bit-decomposed data. In order to investigate what kind of original picture is efficiently restored by our method, the standard image in two dimensions is simulated by the mean-field annealing, and we compare the performance of our method with that using the Q-Ising form. We show that our method is more efficient than the one using the Q-Ising form when the original picture has large parts in which the nearest neighboring pixels take close values.
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Takashi Tadaki, Jun-ichi Inoue. 2001-08-08. Multi-State Image Restoration by Transmission of Bit-Decomposed Data. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.65.016101
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