Contrast enhancement by automatic and parameter-free piecewise linear transformation for color images

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 213-219

  Tsai, Chun Ming ^a   Yeh, Zong Mu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Brightness; Color; Helium; Histograms; Image color analysis; Image segmentation; Smoothing methods

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; EXPERIMENTS; HELIUM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MOBILE DEVICES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

BRIGHTNESS; COLOR IMAGING; CONTRAST-ENHANCEMENT; GRAY-LEVEL IMAGES; HIGH CONTRAST; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; HISTOGRAMS; HSV COLOR SPACE; ILLUMINATION DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE COLOR ANALYSIS; IMAGE CONTENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NON-LINEAR; ORIGINAL IMAGES; PIECE-WISE LINEAR; PIECEWISE-LINEAR TRANSFORMATION; RGB COLOR SPACE; SMOOTHING METHODS; TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS;

COLOR;

EID: 48849112585     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2008.4560077     Document Type: Article

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