A proposal for contrast measure in digital images

CGIV 2004 - Second European Conference on Color in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision and Sixth International Symposium on Multispectral Color Science

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 187-192

  Rizzi, Alessandro ^a   Algeri, Thomas ^a   Medeghini, Giuseppe ^a   Marini, Daniele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Ist Naz Stud e la Cura dei Tumori   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEASUREMENTS; DIGITAL IMAGES; LUMINANCE; PIXEL;

ALGORITHMS; BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCIES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 12344334374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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