An investigation of Retinex algorithms for image enhancement

Journal of Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 696-700

  Lei, Ling ^a   Zhou, Yinqing ^a   Li, Jingwen ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Color constancy; Frankle McCann; MSR (Multi Scale Retinex); PNSD (Projected Normalized Steepest Descent); Retinex

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548667987     PISSN: 02179822     EISSN: 19930615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11767-006-0222-2     Document Type: Article

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