A real-time contrast enhancement algorithm for infrared images based on plateau histogram

Infrared Physics and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-82

  Wang, Bing Jian ^a   Liu, Shang Qian ^a   Li, Qing ^a   Zhou, Hui Xin ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

FPGA; Image enhancement; Real time; Self adaptive plateau histogram equalization; Small computational amount

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

PLATEAU HISTOGRAM; SELF-ADAPTIVE PLATEAU HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; SMALL COMPUTATIONAL AMOUNT;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 33644944315     PISSN: 13504495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2005.04.008     Document Type: Article

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