Hue-preserving color image enhancement without gamut problem

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1591-1598

  Naik, Sarif Kumar ^a   Murthy, C A ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Contrast stretching; Enhancement; Gamut problem; Histogram specification; Hue; Hue preserving transformation; Intensity; Saturation; Scaling; Shifting

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONTRAST STRETCHING; ENHANCEMENT; GAMUT PROBLEM; HISTOGRAM SPECIFICATION; HUE; HUE PRESERVING TRANSFORMATION; INTENSITY; SATURATION; SCALING; SHIFTING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 4043090983     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2003.819231     Document Type: Article

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