• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.292-298
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• 2022

There is a limit to improving the image quality through global processing of images taken under backlighting because too bright and dark parts are mixed in one scene. This paper introduces a method to improve the quality of a photo by making two virtual images that improve the dark and bright areas of a backlit photo, and fusing them with the original image into a Laplacian pyramid. The proposed method reduces the computational burden by using histogram stretching and gamma transformation that can be simplified with LUT when creating the two virtual images. In addition, in order to obtain a color-enhanced image, contrast conversion was performed only on the luminance using the HSV coordinate system. The proposed technique showed its effectiveness by calculating several NIQA indicators using standard image data sets.