Flattest histogram specification with accurate brightness preservation

IET Image Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 249-262

  Wang, C ^a   Peng, J ^a   Ye, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SPECIFICATIONS;

CONSUMER ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENTS; EXISTING METHODS; HISTOGRAM SPECIFICATIONS;

LUMINANCE;

EID: 56049096767     PISSN: 17519659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr:20070198     Document Type: Article

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