Contrast Enhancement via Image Evolution Flows

Graphical Models and Image Processing

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 407-416

  Sapiro, Guillermo ^a   Caselles, Vicent ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Denoising; Histogram modification; Ordinary and partial differential equations; Variational formulations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THEOREM PROVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HISTOGRAM MODIFICATION ALGORITHMS; IMAGE EVOLUTION FLOWS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0031273299     PISSN: 10773169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gmip.1997.0446     Document Type: Article

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