Contrast enhancement of images using human contrast sensitivity

Proceedings - APGV 2006: Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 69-76

  Majumder, Aditi ^a   Irani, Sandy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Contrast sensitivity; Human perception

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST DISCRIMINATION; LOCAL IMAGE GRADIENT; SUPRATHRESHOLD LEVELS; WEBER LAW;

DATA ACQUISITION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 34250724274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1140491.1140506     Document Type: Conference Paper

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