Contrast enhancement of images using Partitioned Iterated Function Systems

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-54

  Economopoulos, T L ^a   Asvestas, P A ^a   Matsopoulos, G K ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization; Iterated Function System; Linear and nonlinear unsharp masking; Local Range Modification; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST LIMITED ADAPTIVE HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; ITERATED FUNCTION SYSTEM; LINEAR AND NONLINEAR UNSHARP MASKING; LOCAL RANGE MODIFICATION; SELF-SIMILARITY;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 70449522358     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.04.011     Document Type: Article

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