Contrast enhancement and intensity preservation for gray-level images using multiobjective particle swarm optimization

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 145-155

  Kwok, Ngai M ^a   Ha, Q P ^a   Liu, Dikai ^a   Fang, Gu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Intensity preservation; Multiobjective optimization; Particle swarm optimization

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMIC STRUCTURES; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGITAL IMAGES; IMAGE INTENSITIES; IMAGE SEQUENCES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INTENSITY PRESERVATION; MULTIOBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATIONS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; TRANSFORM FUNCTIONS;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 58149521880     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2008.917053     Document Type: Article

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