Spectral Encoding for Image Processing Systems

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing image processing technologies lack effective methods for spectral encoding and enhancement, which are crucial for improving image quality and condition recognition in various applications.

Innovation Solution

A method involving encoding received images with spectral mask data, training predictive models based on this encoding, and querying these models with query images to perform spectral enhancement and condition recognition.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If spectral mask data is applied to encode received images, then spectral information is preserved and enhanced, but image processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespectral information accuracyVSAvoidimage processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The spectral information is segmented into multiple spectral channels or bands, each representing different wavelength ranges. The spectral mask data selectively encodes specific spectral channels while masking others, allowing precise spectral information extraction without processing the entire spectral range, thus balancing accuracy with complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different regions of the image are processed with different spectral encoding strategies. The spectral mask data applies selective encoding to specific spatial regions based on their spectral characteristics, enhancing relevant spectral information while reducing processing complexity in less critical areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If predictive models are trained with spectral mask encoding, then condition recognition accuracy is improved, but training time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecondition recognition accuracyVSAvoidmodel training time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Spectral mask encoding is applied as a preliminary step before feeding images into the predictive model for training. This pre-processing step extracts and emphasizes relevant spectral features in advance, allowing the model to learn more efficiently from pre-encoded spectral information, thereby reducing overall training time while maintaining or improving accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The spectral mask encoding extracts only the most relevant spectral information from the full spectral range, removing redundant or less useful spectral data. This extraction process reduces the dimensionality of the input data for the predictive model, decreasing computational load and training time while preserving the critical features needed for accurate condition recognition.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Manufacturing precision

If spectral enhancement is performed on query images, then image quality is improved, but processing speed decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage qualityVSAvoidprocessing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Spectral enhancement is applied partially rather than to the entire image uniformly. The spectral mask data identifies and enhances only specific spectral regions or channels that are most relevant for the given application, performing sufficient enhancement to improve image quality while avoiding the computational overhead of processing the complete spectral range, thus maintaining acceptable processing speed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20250200725A1Spectral encoding
Publication Date: 2025.06.19 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: encoding one or more instance of a received image with spectral mask data, wherein the spectral mask data specifies spectral information of the received image to be masked; training one or more predictive model in dependence on the encoding; querying the one or more predictive model with a query image; and performing processing in dependence on an output from the querying.