Variational enhancement for infrared images

Hongwai Yu Haomibo Xuebao/Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 306-310

  Wang, Chao ^a   Ye, Zhong Fu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Histogram; Image enhancement; Infrared image; Total variation (TV); Variational method

Indexed keywords

GRAY LEVEL; HISTOGRAM; HISTOGRAM BASED ALGORITHM; INFRARED IMAGE; TARGET GRADIENT; TOTAL VARIATION (TV); VARIATIONAL ENHANCEMENT; VARIATIONAL METHOD;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; THRESHOLD LOGIC; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 33749474885     PISSN: 10019014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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