Issues about Retinex theory and contrast enhancement

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-119

  Bertalmío, Marcelo ^a   Caselles, Vicent ^a   Provenzi, Edoardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Color image processing; Contrast enhancement; Retinex; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PIXELS; RANDOM VARIABLES;

ANALYTICAL STRUCTURES; ANTI-SYMMETRIC; CHROMATIC NOISE; COLOR CASTS; COLOR CORRECTIONS; COLOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENTS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EXPECTATION VALUES; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; KERNEL FUNCTIONS; PIXEL INTENSITIES; RETINEX; RETINEX THEORIES; VARIATIONAL METHODS; VARIATIONAL MODELS;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 61449238965     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-009-0221-5     Document Type: Article

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