DWTHE: 분할 기반의 히스토그램 평활화

DWTHE: Decomposable Weighted and Thresholded Histogram Equalization

  • 김매리 (서울여자대학교 컴퓨터학과) ;
  • 정민교 (서울여자대학교 미디어학부)
  • 발행 : 2009.11.15

초록

본 논문은 Wang-Ward의 WTHE(Weighted and Thresholded Histogram Equalization) 방법에 히스토그램 분할 개념을 적용한 새로운 영상 화질 개선 방법(DWTHE: Decomposable WTHE)을 제안한다. DWTHE는 먼저 영상의 평균 자기 값 또는 명도 균등 분할점을 기준으로 입력 히스토그램의 영역을 분할하고, 분할된 각 영역의 확률밀도 값을 가중치로 사용하여 새로운 히스토그램을 만든 후, 히스토그램 평활화 과정을 수행하게 된다. 하나의 가중치를 사용하는 WTHE 방법과 다르게, 제안 방법은 히스토그램 분할로 인한 복수외 가중치 값을 사용하게 되며, 실험 결과 제안 방법은 기존 방법에 비해 우수한 화질 개선 효과를 보여주었다.

Wang and Ward developed an image contrast enhancement method called WTHE (Weighted and Thresholded Histogram Equalization). In this paper, we propose an improved variant of WTHE called DWTHE(Decomposable WTHE) that enhances WTHE through the use of histogram decomposition. Specifically, DWTHE divides an input histogram by using image's mean brightness or equally-spaced brightness points, computes a probability value for each sub-histogram, modifies the sub-histograms by using those probability values as weights, and then performs histogram equalization on the modified input histogram. As opposed to WTHE that uses a single weight, DWTHE uses multiple weights derived from histogram decomposition. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the previous histogram equalization based methods.

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