The bilateral filter is a nonlinear filter that does spatial averaging without smoothing edges; it has shown to be an effective image denoising technique. An important issue with t...
In the last few years, obfuscation has been used more and more by spammers to make spam emails bypass filters. The standard method is to use images that look like text, since typi...
Abstract. Current CAPTCHAs require users to solve objective questions such as text recognition or image recognition. We propose a class of CAPTCHAs based on collaborative filterin...
The performance of subband image coders depends on the proper choice of filter banks. It is therefore desirable to find algorithms for optimizing the filter banks. A theory for fi...