Automatic wavelet base selection and its application to contrast enhancement

Signal Processing

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1279-1289

  Cheng, H D ^a   Min, Rui ^a   Zhang, Ming ^a  

^a Utah State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Image enhancement; Over enhancement; Under enhancement; Wavelet basis; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EXISTING METHOD; OVER-ENHANCEMENT; UNDER-ENHANCEMENT; WAVELET ALGORITHMS; WAVELET BASE; WAVELET BASIS;

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 72949106694     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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