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http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2014.17.2.143

Real Time Enhancement of Images Degraded by Bad Weather  

Kim, Jaemin (홍익대학교 전자전기공학부)
Yeon, Sungho (홍익대학교 전기정보제어공학과)
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Abstract
In images degraded by bad weather, edges representing object boundaries become weak and faint. In this paper we present an image enhancement method, which increases image visibility by making edges as clear as possible. First, we choose edge candidate regions by finding local maxima and minima in an image intensity field, and then build a histogram using image intensities of pixels located at the two sides of candidate edges. Second, we decompose this histogram into multiple modes, which are determined by local minima in the histogram. Once modes are computed, we find modes connected by edges in the image intensity field and build link chains of connected modes. Finally we choose the longest link chain of modes and make the distances between every connected modes as large as possible. The darkest mode and the brightest mode should be within the image intensity range. This stretch makes edges clear and increases image visibility. Experiments show that the proposed method real-time enhances images degraded by bad weather as good as well known time-consuming methods.
Keywords
Image Enhancement; Real Time Processing; Fog; Bad Weather;
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