Gray and color image contrast enhancement by the curvelet transform

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 706-717

  Starck, Jean Luc ^a   Murtagh, Fionn ^b   Candès, Emmanuel J ^c   Donoho, David L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Curvelets; Ridgelets; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE CONTRAST;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0038156429     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2003.813140     Document Type: Article

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