Weighted Nuclear Norm Minimization Based Tongue Specular Reflection Removal

Zhenchao Cui, Dongyu Zhang, Kuanquan Wang, Hongzhi Zhang, Naimin Li and Wangmeng Zuo

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015, vol. 2015, 1-15

Abstract:

In computational tongue diagnosis, specular reflection is generally inevitable in tongue image acquisition, which has adverse impact on the feature extraction and tends to degrade the diagnosis performance. In this paper, we proposed a two-stage (i.e., the detection and inpainting pipeline) approach to address this issue: (i) by considering both highlight reflection and subreflection areas, a superpixel-based segmentation method was adopted for the detection of the specular reflection areas; (ii) by extending the weighted nuclear norm minimization (WNNM) model, a nonlocal inpainting method is proposed for specular reflection removal. Experimental results on synthetic and real images show that the proposed method is accurate in detecting the specular reflection areas and is effective in restoring tongue image with more natural texture information of tongue body.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1155/2015/979415

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