Color image histogram equalization by absolute discounting back-off

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 108-122

  Bassiou, Nikoletta ^a   Kotropoulos, Constantine ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Color spaces; Gamut; Histogram equalization; Probability smoothing

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COLOR IMAGE HISTOGRAM; EMPIRICAL TECHNIQUE; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUE;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 34249742053     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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