Exact histogram specification

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1143-1152

  Coltuc, Dinu ^a   Bolon, Philippe ^b   Chassery, Jean Marc ^c  

^a VALAHIA UNIVERSITY OF TARGOVISTE   (Romania)

^b Université de Savoie   (France)

^c GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Exact histogram equalization; Exact histogram specification; Strict ordering

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL WATERMARKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DISCRETE IMAGES; EXACT HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; EXACT HISTOGRAM SPECIFICATION; ILL-POSED PROBLEM; IMAGE PIXELS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33645987588     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.864170     Document Type: Article

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