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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JEB.2011.16.6.1047

Automatic Dynamic Range Improvement Method using Histogram Modification and K-means Clustering  

Cha, Su-Ram (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Ewha Womans University)
Kim, Jeong-Tae (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Ewha Womans University)
Kim, Min-Seok (Hynix Semiconductor Inc.)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.16, no.6, 2011 , pp. 1047-1057 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel tone mapping method that implements histogram modification framework on two local regions that are classified using K-means clustering algorithm. In addition, we propose automatic parameter tuning method for histogram modification. The proposed method enhances local details better than the global histogram method. Moreover, the proposed method is fully automatic in the sense that it does not require intervention from human to tune parameters that are involved for computing tone mapping functions. In simulations and experimental studies, the proposed method showed better performance than existing histogram modification method.
Keywords
High dynamic range; histogram modification; K-means clustering;
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