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This paper presents a novel method to convert a grayscale image to a colored image for quality image analysis. The grayscale IP operations are very challenging and limited. The information extracted from such images is inaccurate. Therefore, the input image is transformed using a reference color image by reverse engineering. The gray levels of grayscale image are mapped with the color image in all the three layers (red, green, blue). These mapped pixels are used to reconstruct the grayscale image such that it is represented in a 3 dimensional color matrix. The algorithm is very simple and accurate that it can be used in any domain such as medical imaging, satellite imaging and agriculture/environment real-scene. The algorithm is implemented and tested on low cost mobile devices too and the results are found appreciable.
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Prasad, S., Kumar, P., Sinha, K.P. (2015). Grayscale to Color Map Transformation for Efficient Image Analysis on Low Processing Devices. In: El-Alfy, ES., Thampi, S., Takagi, H., Piramuthu, S., Hanne, T. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Informatics. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 320. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11218-3_2
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