A nonlinear image contrast sharpening approach based on Munsell's scale

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 900-909

  Matz, Sean C ^a   de Figueiredo, Rui J P ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast; Grayscale partitioning; Munsell value scale; Nonlinear contrast enhancement function

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GRAYSCALE PARTITIONING; IMAGE CONTRAST; MUNSELL VALUE SCALE; NONLINEAR CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT FUNCTION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33645140350     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.863935     Document Type: Article

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