A spatially variant white-patch and gray-world method for color image enhancement driven by local contrast

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1757-1770

  Provenzi, Edoardo ^a   Gatta, Carlo ^a   Fierro, Massimo ^a   Rizzi, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

ACE; Color image enhancement; Contrast based regulation mechanism; Image stabilization; Retinex

Indexed keywords

COLOR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MECHANISMS; PESTICIDES; SPRAYING;

ACE; COLOR CORRECTIONS; COLOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; COLOR IMAGING; CONTRAST-BASED REGULATION MECHANISM; DIFFERENTIAL MODELS; IMAGE STABILIZATION; INTRINSIC DEFECTS; LOCAL CONTRAST; NON-LINEAR; REGULATION MECHANISMS; RETINEX; SPRAY TECHNIQUES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50249134160     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.70827     Document Type: Article

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