Image Contrast Enhancement by Constrained Local Histogram Equalization

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 281-290

  Zhu, Hui ^a   Chan, Francis H Y ^a   Lam, F K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE QUALITY;

HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; IMAGE CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0033078288     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1998.0723     Document Type: Article

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