Gray-level grouping (GLG): An automatic method for optimized image contrast enhancement - Part I: The basic method

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2290-2302

  Chen, ZhiYu ^a   Abidi, Besma R ^a   Page, David L ^a   Abidi, Mongi A ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Gray level grouping; Histogram; Quality measure

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTIMIZATION;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; GRAY-LEVEL GROUPING (GLG); GRAYSCALE; HISTOGRAM;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 33746237866     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.875204     Document Type: Article

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