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The most important part of frame rate up-conversion (FRUC) is block matching. The geometric properties of the image were not taken into consideration in traditional block matching algorithm, so the matching result of motion estimation cannot reach the optimal. A novel FRUC algorithm based on Bandelet was proposed in this paper. The algorithm includes: Firstly, a soft threshold Bandelet transform of matching block was performed. The optimal matching block was determined through detection of direction similarity and Bandelet coefficient similarity; secondly, vector median filtering (VMF) and overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) were carried out by adopting motion vector to realize interpolated frame algorithm. Experimental results show that the FRUC algorithm based on Bandelet can further promote the quality of FRUC.

Aimed at scene matching problem for taking infrared image as the actual data and the visible image as the referenced data, a multi-resolution matching algorithm which fuses compressive sensing Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) feature is presented based on Bandelet transform. Two kinds of images are separately transformed into Bandelet domain to compress the feature search space of scene matching based on the best sparse representation of natural images by Bandelet transform. On the basis of adaptive Bayes threshold denoising for infrared image, the concept of sparse feature representation of compressive sensing theory is introduced into SIFT algorithm. For low-frequency image in Bandelet domain, high-dimensional SIFT key point feature description vector is projected on compressive sensing random measurement matrix to achieve dimensionality reduction. Then, the improved Genetic Algorithm (GA) to overcome premature phenomena is used as the search strategy, and the L₁ distance measure of SIFT feature vectors of compressive sensing for two kinds of images is applied to the search similarity criterion to match low-frequency image of high scale in Bandelet domain. The matching result is used as the guidance of the matching process for low-frequency image of low scale, and the matching result of full-resolution image is obtained iteratively. Experimental results show that the proposed method has not only high matching accuracy and fast matching speed, but also better robustness in comparison with some classic matching algorithms, which can resist the geometric distortion of rotation for actual image.

Video coding is an imperative part of the modern day communication system. Furthermore, it has vital roles in the fields of video streaming, multimedia, video conferencing and much more. Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is an emerging research area, due to its extensive application in most of the multimedia devices as well as public demand. The proposed coding technique is capable of eliminating the Spatio-temporal regularity of a video sequence. In Discrete Bandelet Transform (DBT), the directions are modeled by a three-directional vector field, known as structural flow. Regularity is decided by this flow where the data entropy is low. The wavelet vector decomposition of geometrically ordered data results in a lesser extent of significant coefficients. The directions of geometrical regularity are interpreted with a two-dimensional vector, and the approximation of these directions is found with spline functions. This paper deals with a novel SVC technique by exploiting the DBT. The bandelet coefficients are further encoded by utilizing Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT) encoder, followed by global thresholding mechanism. The proposed method is verified with several benchmark datasets using the performance measures which gives enhanced performance. Thus, the experimental results bring out the superiority of the proposed technique over the state-of-arts.

Due to the huge advancement in technology, digitizing the multimedia content like text, images and videos has become easier. Everyday huge amounts of multimedia content are shared through the social networks using internet. Sometimes this multimedia content can be hacked by the hackers. This will lead to the misuse of the data. On the other hand, the medical content needs high security and privacy. Motivated by this, joint secured medical image compression–encryption mechanisms are proposed in this paper using multiscale transforms and symmetric key encryption techniques. The multiscale transforms involved in this paper are wavelet transform, bandelet transform and curvelet transform. The encryption techniques involved in this paper are international data encryption algorithm (IDEA), Rivest Cipher (RC5) and Blowfish. The encoding technique used in this paper is embedded block coding with truncation (EBCOT). Experimental results are done for the proposed works and evaluated by using various parameters like Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), Mean Square Error (MSE), Image Quality Index (IQI) and Structural Similarity Index (SSIM), Average Difference (AD), Normalized Cross-correlation (NK), Structural Content (SC), Maximum difference (MD), Laplacian Mean Squared Error (LMSE) and Normalized Absolute Error (NAE). It is justified that the proposed approaches in this paper yield good results.