Contrast enhancement using recursive mean-separate histogram equalization for scalable brightness preservation

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1301-1309

  Chen, Soong Der ^a,b   Ramli, Abd Rahman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bi histogram equalization; Dualistic sub image; Histogram equalization; Recursive mean separate; Scalable brightness preservation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR IMAGING;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EQUAL AREA DUALISTIC SUB-IMAGE HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; RECURSIVE MEAN-SEPARATE HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; SCALABLE BRIGHTNESS PRESERVATION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 1542752833     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2003.1261233     Document Type: Article

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