Patents by Inventor Gangyi Jiang

Gangyi Jiang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10368051
    Abstract: A 3D-HEVC inter-frame information hiding method based on visual perception includes steps of information embedding and information extraction. In the step of information embedding, the human visual perception characteristic is considered, stereo salient images are obtained by a stereo image salient model, and the stereo salient images are divided into salient blocks and non-salient blocks with an otsu threshold. The coding quantization parameters are modified according to different modulation rules for different regions. Then, based on the modified quantization parameters, the coding-tree-units are coded to complete the information embedding. In the step of information extraction, no original video is needed, no any side information needs to be transmitted, and the secret information can be blindly extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Jing Wang, Fen Chen, Yongqiang Bai, Yang Wang
  • Patent number: 10362215
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a microscopic three-dimensional measurement system and method based on a moving diaphragm. The present invention adds the diaphragm into the existing optical microscopic imaging system to limit light irradiation angle during imaging for reducing the diameter of blur circle, which extends the depth of field and the depth measurement range, so as to achieve the three-dimensional measurement of large-size objects to be measured. Through changing the position of the added diaphragm, two images with different light incident directions are obtained, which is similar to binocular stereo vision, and then the disparity map is used to predict the depth, so as to carry out the 3D scene reconstruction. Since the depth of field of the imaging system is enlarged and the imaging model has certain non-linear characteristics, the present invention uses quadratic function to express the non-linearity, which reduces the measurement error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Mei Yu, Shengli Fan, Yigang Wang
  • Patent number: 10297000
    Abstract: A high dynamic range image information hiding method includes embedding secret information and extracting the secret information. The step of embedding secret information includes obtaining three channel values of every pixel in an original high dynamic range image; according to every channel value and corresponding 5-bit exponent of every pixel, determining an embedding significance bit of the information to be embedded in every channel value of every pixel; embedding information into every channel value of every pixel; and obtaining a high dynamic range image embedded with the secret information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Yongqiang Bai, Mei Yu, Yang Wang
  • Patent number: 10237576
    Abstract: The present invention disclosed a 3D-HEVC depth video information hiding method based on single-depth intra mode, which comprises information embedment part and information extraction part. During information embedment, if the pixels in the candidate list are equal using the encrypt information to modulate the index of the pixel and completes the embedment. If the pixels are different, judging the neighboring CU of the CU whose depth is 2 or 3 and modulating the index of the pixel to complete embedment of the hidden information. The advantage of the present invention is high security, low calculation complexity and small influence on data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Jing Wang, Yang Song, Hua Shao
  • Patent number: 10210433
    Abstract: A method for evaluating quality of tone-mapping image based on exposure analysis is provided, which explores the exposure properties on each area of the high dynamic range image utilizing the pre-exposure method and divides the high dynamic range image into three parts of an easy overexposed area, an easy underexposed area and an easy natural-exposed area, wherein different quality characteristics are extracted in different areas, which is capable of ensuring that the follow-up quality characteristic extraction is more targeted. The present invention takes the difference of distortion between the tone-mapping image and the conventional image into account, and extracts image characteristics such as the abnormal exposure rate, the underexposed residual energy, the overexposed residual energy and the exposure color index, so as to accurately reflect the quality degradation of the tone-mapping image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Yang Song, Fen Chen, Mei Yu
  • Publication number: 20180198972
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a microscopic three-dimensional measurement system and method based on a moving diaphragm. The present invention adds the diaphragm into the existing optical microscopic imaging system to limit light irradiation angle during imaging for reducing the diameter of blur circle, which extends the depth of field and the depth measurement range, so as to achieve the three-dimensional measurement of large-size objects to be measured. Through changing the position of the added diaphragm, two images with different light incident directions are obtained, which is similar to binocular stereo vision, and then the disparity map is used to predict the depth, so as to carry out the 3D scene reconstruction. Since the depth of field of the imaging system is enlarged and the imaging model has certain non-linear characteristics, the present invention uses quadratic function to express the non-linearity, which reduces the measurement error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Mei Yu, Shengli Fan, Yigang Wang
  • Patent number: 9947065
    Abstract: A zero-watermarking registration and detection method for HEVC video streaming against requantization transcoding is provided. To increase an attack-resistance of a registration watermarking, the registration method firstly processes depth values corresponding to respective brightness blocks in a target video streaming with a depth binarization during constructing registration watermarking information through depth features, because the depth binarization well reflects a robustness of the registration watermarking. A first watermarking information matrix including a part of the depth values after the depth binarization is encrypted with a random matrix, so as to increase a safety of the registration watermarking. The registration method directly generates zero-watermarking through the depth features of the video streaming without modifying original carrier information and affecting a watermarking transparency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Jing Wang, Mei Yu, Fen Chen
  • Publication number: 20180075569
    Abstract: A high dynamic range image information hiding method includes embedding secret information and extracting the secret information. The step of embedding secret information includes obtaining three channel values of every pixel in an original high dynamic range image; according to every channel value and corresponding 5-bit exponent of every pixel, determining an embedding significance bit of the information to be embedded in every channel value of every pixel; embedding information into every channel value of every pixel; and obtaining a high dynamic range image embedded with the secret information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Yongqiang Bai, Mei Yu, Yang Wang
  • Publication number: 20170374347
    Abstract: A 3D-HEVC inter-frame information hiding method based on visual perception includes steps of information embedding and information extraction. In the step of information embedding, the human visual perception characteristic is considered, stereo salient images are obtained by a stereo image salient model, and the stereo salient images are divided into salient blocks and non-salient blocks with an otsu threshold. The coding quantization parameters are modified according to different modulation rules for different regions. Then, based on the modified quantization parameters, the coding-tree-units are coded to complete the information embedding. In the step of information extraction, no original video is needed, no any side information needs to be transmitted, and the secret information can be blindly extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Jing Wang, Fen Chen, Yongqiang Bai, Yang Wang
  • Publication number: 20170372175
    Abstract: A method for evaluating quality of tone-mapping image based on exposure analysis is provided, which explores the exposure properties on each area of the high dynamic range image utilizing the pre-exposure method and divides the high dynamic range image into three parts of an easy overexposed area, an easy underexposed area and an easy natural-exposed area, wherein different quality characteristics are extracted in different areas, which is capable of ensuring that the follow-up quality characteristic extraction is more targeted. The present invention takes the difference of distortion between the tone-mapping image and the conventional image into account, and extracts image characteristics such as the abnormal exposure rate, the underexposed residual energy, the overexposed residual energy and the exposure color index, so as to accurately reflect the quality degradation of the tone-mapping image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Yang Song, Fen Chen, Mei Yu
  • Patent number: 9846818
    Abstract: An objective assessment method for a color image quality based on online manifold learning considers a relationship between a saliency and an image quality objective assessment. Through a visual saliency detection algorithm, saliency maps of a reference image and a distorted image are obtained for further obtaining a maximum fusion saliency map. Based on maximum saliencies of image blocks in the maximum fusion saliency map, a saliency difference between each reference image block and a corresponding distorted image block is measured through an absolute difference, and thus reference visual important image blocks and distorted visual important image blocks are screened and extracted. Through manifold eigenvectors of the reference visual important image blocks and the distorted visual important image blocks, an objective quality assessment value of the distorted image is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Meiling He, Fen Chen, Yang Song
  • Patent number: 9836843
    Abstract: A method for assessing an objective quality of a stereoscopic video based on reduced time-domain weighting, which considers a time domain perception redundant characteristic of human eyes during a video perception, includes steps of: through a motion intensity mean value and a motion intensity variance of an undistorted stereoscopic video and the motion intensity mean value and the motion intensity variance of each frame group, determining a motion intensity level of each frame group of the undistorted stereoscopic video; for the frame groups having different motion intensity levels, selecting undistorted reduced stereoscopic images through different frame extracting strategies with different densities; measuring a quality of a simultaneous distorted reduced stereoscopic image relative to the undistorted reduced stereoscopic image; through weighting each quality of the simultaneous distorted reduced stereoscopic image relative to the undistorted reduced stereoscopic image, obtaining a quality of a distorted s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Mei Yu, Kaihui Zheng, Gangyi Jiang, Yang Song, Shanshan Liu
  • Publication number: 20170286798
    Abstract: An objective assessment method for a color image quality based on online manifold learning considers a relationship between a saliency and an image quality objective assessment. Through a visual saliency detection algorithm, saliency maps of a reference image and a distorted image are obtained for further obtaining a maximum fusion saliency map. Based on maximum saliencies of image blocks in the maximum fusion saliency map, a saliency difference between each reference image block and a corresponding distorted image block is measured through an absolute difference, and thus reference visual important image blocks and distorted visual important image blocks are screened and extracted. Through manifold eigenvectors of the reference visual important image blocks and the distorted visual important image blocks, an objective quality assessment value of the distorted image is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Meiling He, Fen Chen, Yang Song
  • Publication number: 20170109858
    Abstract: A zero-watermarking registration and detection method for HEVC video streaming against requantization transcoding is provided. To increase an attack-resistance of a registration watermarking, the registration method firstly processes depth values corresponding to respective brightness blocks in a target video streaming with a depth binarization during constructing registration watermarking information through depth features, because the depth binarization well reflects a robustness of the registration watermarking. A first watermarking information matrix including a part of the depth values after the depth binarization is encrypted with a random matrix, so as to increase a safety of the registration watermarking. The registration method directly generates zero-watermarking through the depth features of the video streaming without modifying original carrier information and affecting a watermarking transparency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Jing Wang, Mei Yu, Fen Chen
  • Publication number: 20160381389
    Abstract: The present invention disclosed a 3D-HEVC depth video information hiding method based on single-depth intra mode, which comprises information embedment part and information extraction part. During information embedment, if the pixels in the candidate list are equal using the encrypt information to modulate the index of the pixel and completes the embedment. If the pixels are different, judging the neighboring CU of the CU whose depth is 2 or 3 and modulating the index of the pixel to complete embedment of the hidden information. The advantage of the present invention is high security, low calculation complexity and small influence on data rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Jing Wang, Yang Song, Hua Shao
  • Publication number: 20160300339
    Abstract: An objective assessment method for a stereoscopic video quality based on a wavelet transform fuses brightness values of pixels in a left viewpoint image and a right viewpoint image of a stereoscopic image in a manner of binocular brightness information fusion, and obtains a binocular fusion brightness image of the stereoscopic image. The manner of binocular brightness information fusion overcomes a difficulty in assessing a stereoscopic perception quality of a stereoscopic video quality assessment to some extent and effectively increases an accuracy of a stereoscopic video objective quality assessment. When weighing qualities of each frame group in a binocular fusion brightness image video corresponding to a distorted stereoscopic video, the objective assessment method fully considers a sensitivity degree of a human eye visual characteristic to various types of information in the video, and determines a weight of each frame group based on a motion intensity and a brightness difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Yang Song, Zongju Peng, Fen Chen, Kaihui Zheng, Shanshan Liu
  • Publication number: 20160301909
    Abstract: A method for assessing an objective quality of a stereoscopic video based on reduced time-domain weighting, which considers a time domain perception redundant characteristic of human eyes during a video perception, includes steps of: through a motion intensity mean value and a motion intensity variance of an undistorted stereoscopic video and the motion intensity mean value and the motion intensity variance of each frame group, determining a motion intensity level of each frame group of the undistorted stereoscopic video; for the frame groups having different motion intensity levels, selecting undistorted reduced stereoscopic images through different frame extracting strategies with different densities; measuring a quality of a simultaneous distorted reduced stereoscopic image relative to the undistorted reduced stereoscopic image; through weighting each quality of the simultaneous distorted reduced stereoscopic image relative to the undistorted reduced stereoscopic image, obtaining a quality of a distorted s
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Mei Yu, Kaihui Zheng, Gangyi Jiang, Yang Song, Shanshan Liu
  • Patent number: 9460501
    Abstract: An objective assessment method for a stereoscopic video quality based on a wavelet transform fuses brightness values of pixels in a left viewpoint image and a right viewpoint image of a stereoscopic image in a manner of binocular brightness information fusion, and obtains a binocular fusion brightness image of the stereoscopic image. The manner of binocular brightness information fusion overcomes a difficulty in assessing a stereoscopic perception quality of a stereoscopic video quality assessment to some extent and effectively increases an accuracy of a stereoscopic video objective quality assessment. When weighing qualities of each frame group in a binocular fusion brightness image video corresponding to a distorted stereoscopic video, the objective assessment method fully considers a sensitivity degree of a human eye visual characteristic to various types of information in the video, and determines a weight of each frame group based on a motion intensity and a brightness difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Yang Song, Zongju Peng, Fen Chen, Kaihui Zheng, Shanshan Liu
  • Publication number: 20160029015
    Abstract: A video quality evaluation method based on 3D wavelet transform utilizes 3D wavelet transform in the video quality evaluation, for transforming the group of pictures (GOP for short) of the video. By splitting the video sequence on a time axis, time-domain information of the GOPs is described, which to a certain extent solves a problem that the video time-domain information is difficult to be described, and effectively improves accuracy of objective video quality evaluation, so as to effectively improve relativity between the objective quality evaluation result and the subjective quality judged by the human eyes. For time-domain relativity between the GOPs, the method weighs the quality of the GOPs according to the motion intensity and the brightness, in such a manner that the method is able to better meet human visual characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Yang Song, Shanshan Liu, Kaihui Zheng, Xin Jin
  • Patent number: 9094665
    Abstract: A digital watermarking based method for objectively evaluating quality of stereo image includes: at transmitting terminal, extracting characteristics of the left-view image and the right-view image of an undistorted stereo image in DCT domain and embedding digital watermarking obtained by processing quantization coding on the characteristics into the DCT domain; at a receiving terminal, detecting the digital watermarking embedded in the distorted stereo image and processing decoding and inverse quantization to extract the embedded characteristics of the left-view image and the right-view image of the stereo image, obtaining a stereo perception value and a view quality value of the distorted stereo image according to the embedded characteristics, and finally obtaining an objective quality score of the distorted stereo image utilizing a support vector regression model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Wujie Zhou, Mei Yu, Feng Shao, Zongju Peng, Fen Chen, Xiaodong Wang, Fucui Li