Human visual system-based image enhancement and logarithmic contrast measure

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 174-188

  Panetta, Karen A ^a   Wharton, Eric J ^a   Agaian, Sos S ^a,b  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhancement measure; Human visual system (HVS); Image enhancement; Logarithmic image processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMINANCE;

HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; LOGARITHMIC IMAGE PROCESSING; LOGARITHMIC MICHELSON CONTRAST MEASURE; MULTIHISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMIMETICS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 39749101724     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2007.909440     Document Type: Article

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