Gray-Scale Image Enhancement as an Automatic Process Driven by Evolution

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1292-1298

  Munteanu, Cristian ^a   Rosa, Agostinho ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Evolutionary algorithms; Image enhancement; Local enhancement method; Objective enhancement criterion

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FEEDBACK; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING;

LOCAL ENHANCEMENT METHOD; OBJECTIVE ENHANCEMENT CRITERION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 1842535168     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2003.818533     Document Type: Article

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