Adaptive and integrated neighborhood-dependent approach for nonlinear enhancement of color images

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Tao, Li ^a   Asari, Vijayan K ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ADAPTIVE LUMINANCE ENHANCEMENT; NONLINEAR ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33644660070     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2136903     Document Type: Article

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