• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
• /
• v.53 no.9
• /
• pp.110-117
• /
• 2016

Applying the contrast enhancement algorithms to luminance values of color images is a widely used approach to enhance the contrast of color images. The results obtained by this approach have reduced saturation compared with that of the original images in spite of contrast enhancement without color degradation. Applying the contrast enhancement algorithm to each channel of color images is another approach for the contrast enhancement of color images. This method produces improved images in terms of contrast and saturation while the hue of original images is changed. In this paper, main cause of color degradation is analyzed and then solving the problem based on the analysis. The channel adaptive contrast enhancement method considering characteristics of each channel is also proposed to deal with color degradation. As a result, the proposed method enhances the contrast and saturation simultaneously without color degradation. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional methods not only on subjective evaluation but on objective criteria.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
• /
• v.8 no.9
• /
• pp.1187-1194
• /
• 2005

In this paper, new contrast enhancement algorithms that use temporal decimation method and approximated CDF(Cumulative Distribution Function) are proposed. They reduce the amount of computation which is required for image contrast enhancement. Simulation results show that the algorithms can achieve significant reduction in the computational cost and the hardware complexity. Visual test and standard deviation of their histogram have been introduced to evaluate the resultant output images of the proposed method and the original ones.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
• /
• v.5 no.1
• /
• pp.38-46
• /
• 2002

In this paper, we present an adaptive contrast controller for improving the Quality of motion-picture in the video signals on the display. Using a median of image signals, we can improve the contrast according to the middle brightness, adaptively. In addition, the proposed method is useful for real-time image processing and can be composed of simpler hardware structure than other conventional methods because it does not require field and frame memory for computed data. The proposed method can be applied for video signals as well as the still image, while existing methods are confined to only the static image Also, we designed the algorithm through the VHDL, and implemented it through the FPGA. From the testing results, we see that the proposed method can effectively improve the image contrast.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
• /
• 2004.10b
• /
• pp.664-666
• /
• 2004

본 논문에서는 영상의 누적분포함수(CDF: Cumulative Density Function)를 이용한 콘트라스트 향상 기법을 제안하였다 제안된 알고리즘은 처리된 영상에 영향물 주지 않으면서 최대 콘트라스트를 얻을 수 있었다. 하드웨어의 복잡성을 감소하기 위하여 누적분포함수의 샘플값을 이용한 선형화 방법을 이용하였다. 제안한 방식의 알고리즘 검증을 위하여 C를 이용하였으며, 처리 결과와 원 영상의 화질 평가를 위하여 시각적 검증과 히스토그램 편차를 도입하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
• /
• v.20 no.5
• /
• pp.770-773
• /
• 2015

The contrast of the intensity components of color images usually needs to be improved in order to enhance the visual quality of color images. However, pure color regions can be saturated due to the excessive enhancement of that color. In this paper, a new method for enhancing the visual quality of color images using saturation components in the HSI color space is proposed, and the same enhancement technique in the YCbCr color space is proposed. Computer simulations show that the proposed method provides improved visual quality compared to the conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
• /
• 2002.04a
• /
• pp.679-681
• /
• 2002

본 논문에서는 화질 향상을 위한 콘트라스트 조정 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 방식은 기존의 알고리즘을 단순화하여서 실시간 처리가 가능하며 콘트라스트의 범위를 조정하는 가중치를 두었다. 연산을 함에 있어 기준이 되는 값을 선언하여 콘트라스트의 효율적인 조정과 오차율을 줄였다. 제안한 방식에 의한 처리 결과와 원 영상의 화질 평가를 위해 시각적 검증과 히스토그램의 표준 편차를 도입 하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
• /
• v.18 no.5
• /
• pp.722-729
• /
• 2013

For low contrast images, a histogram equalization is possible to easily identify information when the intensity is concentrated in an image. Over contrast enhancement is the problem of generating an unnatural image cognitively because the focus of existing techniques was the contrast enhancement. In order to solve this problem, CLAHE method solves unnatural problems by limiting contrast using a maximum threshold. However, this method has an extra problem that concealed detail information in an image. This paper proposes a detail-map based on the multiple layers block overlapped histogram equalization in order to avoid loss of detail information. Loss of detail information has been made to minimize as combining images with limited contrast enhancement using a detail-map in each layers.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
• /
• v.11B no.7 s.96
• /
• pp.779-784
• /
• 2004

In this paper, we have proposed an image contrast control method using brightness preserving on the FPD(Flat Panel Display). The proposed method can be easily applied to the FPD required real-time processing, since hardware complexity is greatly reduced using linear approximation method of CDF(Cumulative Density Function). For effective processing of the proposed algorithm, we have utilized the sample value of CDF and Barrel Shift. Visual test and standard deviation of their histogram have been introduced to evaluate the resultant output images of the pro-posed method and the original ones.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
• /
• 2003.05a
• /
• pp.11-14
• /
• 2003

본 논문에서는 실시간 고해상도 FPD(Flat Panel Display)에서 동영상의 화질 향상을 위해 입력되는 영상신호의 평균과 분산을 이용함으로써 화면의 밝기상태에 따라 적응적으로 콘트라스트를 향상시켰다. 또한, 영상의 깎기에 따른 가중치 결정은 표본(픽셀) 수가 적절히 많으면, 그 분포는 정규분포를 따른다는 "중심극한이론(Central Limit Theorem)"을 적용하여 고해상도 입력 영상에 대한 히스토그램의 분포가 정규분포와 유사하다고 가정하였으며 영상의 밝기 종류를 총 4가지로 구분하여 영상의 밝기 종류에 따라 최적의 가중치로 콘트라스트를 향상시켰다. 제안한 방법은 C언어로 시뮬레이션 하였으며 시뮬레이션 결과 향상된 영상을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
• /
• v.11 no.1 s.24
• /
• pp.13-19
• /
• 2003

In this paper we discussed the processing procedures of histogram equalization(HE) method and brightness preserving bi-histogram equalization(BBHE) method in the contrast enhancement methods for the performance comparison. With remotely sensed image data of Landsat TM we compared the performances of three methods of Min-Max method, HE method, BBHE method. The experimental results demonstrate that the HE method and BBHE method are more effective in the contrast enhancement performances than the Min-Max method. In the HE method the mean brightness of the resultant output images approached to the middle gray level with regardless of input image mean. In the BBHE method, it is capable of preserving the mean brightness of a original image compared to the HE method while enhancing the contrast of original image effectively. Thus BBHE method is provided more natural enhancement effect than the HE method.