Retinex processing for automatic image enhancement

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 100-110

  Rahman, Zia Ur ^a   Jobson, Daniel J ^b   Woodell, Glenn A ^b  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR CONSTANCY; RETINEX PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; VISION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 1842579217     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1636183     Document Type: Article

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