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Main Authors: Lin, Ruiyuan, Liu, Sheng, Jiang, Jun, Li, Shujun, Li, Chengqing, Kuo, C. -C. Jay
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Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01096
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author Lin, Ruiyuan
Liu, Sheng
Jiang, Jun
Li, Shujun
Li, Chengqing
Kuo, C. -C. Jay
author_facet Lin, Ruiyuan
Liu, Sheng
Jiang, Jun
Li, Shujun
Li, Chengqing
Kuo, C. -C. Jay
contents Recovering unknown, missing, damaged, distorted, or lost information in DCT coefficients is a common task in multiple applications of digital image processing, including image compression, selective image encryption, and image communication. This paper investigates the recovery of sign bits in DCT coefficients of digital images, by proposing two different approximation methods to solve a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem, which is NP-hard in general. One method is a relaxation of the MILP problem to a linear programming (LP) problem, and the other splits the original MILP problem into some smaller MILP problems and an LP problem. We considered how the proposed methods can be applied to JPEG-encoded images and conducted extensive experiments to validate their performances. The experimental results showed that the proposed methods outperformed other existing methods by a substantial margin, both according to objective quality metrics and our subjective evaluation.
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spellingShingle Recovering Sign Bits of DCT Coefficients in Digital Images as an Optimization Problem
Lin, Ruiyuan
Liu, Sheng
Jiang, Jun
Li, Shujun
Li, Chengqing
Kuo, C. -C. Jay
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
68P30
Recovering unknown, missing, damaged, distorted, or lost information in DCT coefficients is a common task in multiple applications of digital image processing, including image compression, selective image encryption, and image communication. This paper investigates the recovery of sign bits in DCT coefficients of digital images, by proposing two different approximation methods to solve a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem, which is NP-hard in general. One method is a relaxation of the MILP problem to a linear programming (LP) problem, and the other splits the original MILP problem into some smaller MILP problems and an LP problem. We considered how the proposed methods can be applied to JPEG-encoded images and conducted extensive experiments to validate their performances. The experimental results showed that the proposed methods outperformed other existing methods by a substantial margin, both according to objective quality metrics and our subjective evaluation.
title Recovering Sign Bits of DCT Coefficients in Digital Images as an Optimization Problem
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
68P30
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01096