Correction of simple contrast loss in color images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 511-522

  Oakley, John P ^a   Bu, Hung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color image; Contrast enhancement; Contrast loss; Defogging; Image deweathering; Scattering media

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST LOSS; DEFOGGING; IMAGE CORRECTION; IMAGE DEWEATHERING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33847713764     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.887736     Document Type: Article

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