Patents by Inventor Zongju Peng

Zongju Peng 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).

  • Publication number: 20170177975
    Abstract: An image quality objective evaluation method based on manifold feature similarity is disclosed, which firstly adopts visual salience and visual threshold to remove image blocks which are unimportant to visual perception, namely, uses roughing selection and fine selection; and then utilizes the best mapping matrix after block selection to extract manifold feature vectors of image blocks which are selected from original undistorted natural scene images and distorted images to be evaluated; and then measures the structural distortion of distorted images according to manifold feature similarity; and then considers effects of image brightness changes on human eyes and obtains the brightness distortion of distorted images based on an average value of image blocks, and finally obtains quality scores according to structural distortion and brightness distortion; which allows the method of the present invention to have a higher evaluation accuracy, and also expands the evaluation capacity to various distortions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Mei Yu, Zhaoyun Wang, Zongju Peng, Fen Chen, Yang Song
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9036901
    Abstract: A method for color correction of a pair of colorful stereo microscope images is provided, which transmits the color information of the foreground areas and the background area of the reference image to the aberrated image separately for avoiding transmission error of the color information of the varied areas of the pair of the images, thus sufficiently improves the accuracy of the color correction, reduces the difference between the color of the reference image and the color of the aberrated image, and well prepares for the stereo matching of the pair of colorful stereo microscope images as well as for the three-dimensional reconstruction and three-dimensional measurement; on the other hand, during the correction, the correcting procedure is provided automatically without manual work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Xiangjun Liu, Mei Yu, Feng Shao, Zongju Peng, Yigang Wang
  • Patent number: 9019487
    Abstract: A method for detecting a parfocality of a zoom-stereo microscope includes: acquiring four highest definitions corresponding to a plurality of images with a cooperation of four definition judging functions, acquiring a relatively clearest position according to the four highest definitions, comparing a definition in the relatively clearest position with a definition in a parfocal position to judge whether the relatively clearest position is the parfocal position, then adjusting a magnification of the zoom-stereo microscope to acquire the parfocal positions at a finite number of the discrete magnifications, and finally fitting a parfocal curve at the continuous magnifications. The method according to the present invention implements a parfocality detection of the stereo microscope automatically and effectively and increases a productivity, and has a high detecting precision. In addition, the method according to the present invention has a good robustness, so that users needn't intervene and adjust frequently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Yigang Wang, Mei Yu, Zongju Peng, Feng Shao
  • Publication number: 20150093016
    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: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Wujie Zhou, Mei Yu, Feng Shao, Zongju Peng, Fen Chen, Xiaodong Wang, Fucui Li
  • Patent number: 8953873
    Abstract: A method for objectively evaluating quality of a stereo image is provided. The method obtains a cyclopean image of a stereo image formed in the human visual system by simulating a process that the human visual system deals with the stereo image. The cyclopean image includes three areas: an occlusion area, a binocular fusion area and a binocular suppression area. Representing characteristics of the image according to the singular value of the image has a strong stability. According characteristics of different areas of the human visual system while dealing with the cyclopean image, the distortion degree of the cyclopean image corresponding to the testing stereo image is presented by the singular value distance between cyclopean images respectively corresponding to the testing stereo image and the reference stereo image, in such a manner that an overall visual quality of the testing stereo image is finally evaluated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Junming Zhou, Mei Yu, Fucui Li, Zongju Peng, Feng Shao
  • Patent number: 8913848
    Abstract: A microscopic image fusion method based on region growing judges the fuzzy degree of the microscopic image and determines the fuzzy seed block by evaluating the definition of every image block in the microscopic image. Then, the fuzzy region and clear region are exactly segmented by region growing and are marked. Finally, a clear and high-quality microscopic image, fused by a plurality of microscopic images, is obtained. Due to the combination of the definition evaluation of the microscopic image, and segmentation of the fuzzy region and clear region by region growing, the fusion results of the microscopic image of the present invention show great advantages at the subjective human perception and the objective evaluation. Furthermore, the present invention has simple calculation and stable result, is easy to be implemented and adapted for fusing the digital optical microscopic images which are shot by shallow depth of field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Cuixia Bai, Mei Yu, Yigang Wang, Zongju Peng, Feng Shao
  • Publication number: 20140169661
    Abstract: A method for color correction of a pair of colorful stereo microscope images is provided, which transmits the color information of the foreground areas and the background area of the reference image to the aberrated image separately for avoiding transmission error of the color information of the varied areas of the pair of the images, thus sufficiently improves the accuracy of the color correction, reduces the difference between the color of the reference image and the color of the aberrated image, and well prepares for the stereo matching of the pair of colorful stereo microscope images as well as for the three-dimensional reconstruction and three-dimensional measurement; on the other hand, during the correction, the correcting procedure is provided automatically without manual work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Xiangjun Liu, Mei Yu, Feng Shao, Zongju Peng, Yigang Wang
  • Publication number: 20140064604
    Abstract: A method for objectively evaluating quality of a stereo image is provided. The method obtains a cyclopean image of a stereo image formed in the human visual system by simulating a process that the human visual system deals with the stereo image. The cyclopean image includes three areas: an occlusion area, a binocular fusion area and a binocular suppression area. Representing characteristics of the image according to the singular value of the image has a strong stability. According characteristics of different areas of the human visual system while dealing with the cyclopean image, the distortion degree of the cyclopean image corresponding to the testing stereo image is presented by the singular value distance between cyclopean images respectively corresponding to the testing stereo image and the reference stereo image, in such a manner that an overall visual quality of the testing stereo image is finally evaluated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Junming Zhou, Mei Yu, Fucui Li, Zongju Peng, Feng Shao
  • Publication number: 20140029000
    Abstract: A method for detecting a parfocality of a zoom-stereo microscope includes: acquiring four highest definitions corresponding to a plurality of images with a cooperation of four definition judging functions, acquiring a relatively clearest position according to the four highest definitions, comparing a definition in the relatively clearest position with a definition in a parfocal position to judge whether the relatively clearest position is the parfocal position, then adjusting a magnification of the zoom-stereo microscope to acquire the parfocal positions at a finite number of the discrete magnifications, and finally fitting a parfocal curve at the continuous magnifications. The method according to the present invention implements a parfocality detection of the stereo microscope automatically and effectively and increases a productivity, and has a high detecting precision. In addition, the method according to the present invention has a good robustness, so that users needn't intervene and adjust frequently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Gangyi Jiang, Yigang Wang, Mei Yu, Zongju Peng, Feng Shao