Brightness preserving histogram equalization with maximum entropy: A variational perspective

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1326-1334

  Wang, Chao ^a   Ye, Zhongfu ^a,b  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Histogram equalization; Histogram specification; Image enhancement; Maximum entropy; Mean brightness preserving; Variational approach

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; SPECIFICATIONS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION (HE); HISTOGRAM SPECIFICATIONS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; MEAN BRIGHTNESS PRESERVING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 33947655897     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2005.1561863     Document Type: Article

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