Natural color image enhancement and evaluation algorithm based on human visual system

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-63

  Huang, Kai Qi ^a   Wang, Qiao ^b   Wu, Zhen Yang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Color image enhancement; Human visual system

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; GRAPHIC METHODS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

COLOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; COLOR PROCESSING; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 33646811473     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2006.02.007     Document Type: Article

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