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Image Contrast Enhancement by Constrained Local Histogram Equalization

✍ Scribed by Hui Zhu; Francis H.Y. Chan; F.K. Lam

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
641 KB
Volume
73
Category
Article
ISSN
1077-3142

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✦ Synopsis

Histogram equalization is a widely used image contrast enhancement method. While global histogram equalization enhances the contrast of the whole image, local histogram equalization can enhance many image details by taking different transformation of the same gray level at different places in the original image. However, the local histogram equalization process often results in unacceptable modification of the original image appearance. In this paper, a constrained local histogram equalization method is proposed to balance the conflicting requirements: enhancement of the image details and the maintenance of the overall image appearance. Our method uses the variational form of histogram equalization so that a constraint condition, which forces the local gray level transformations to change continuously in the spatial domain, can be introduced into the equalization process. Experimental results of different kinds of images show the effect of our method.

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