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Adaptive image contrast enhancement algorithm based on block approach  

Kim, Yeong-Hwa (Department of Applied Statistics, Chung-Ang University)
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Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society / v.22, no.3, 2011 , pp. 371-380 More about this Journal
Abstract
The noise caused by a variety of reasons worsens the quality of input image when we use the images reproducing device. The basic difficulty to solve this problem is that the noise and the signal are difficult to be distinguished. Contrast enhancement such as unsharp masking is one of the most important procedures to improve the quality of input images. The conventional unsharp masking enhances the images by adding their amplified high frequency components. The noise component of the input images, however, also tends to be amplified due to the nature of the unsharp masking. This paper considers the block approach for detecting niose and image feature of the input image so that the unsharp masking could be adaptively applied accordingly. Simulation results show that it is made possible to enhance contrast of the image without boosting up the noisy components by applying the proposed algorithm.
Keywords
Contrast enhancement; image pocessing; orientation; unsharp masking;
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