Colour image enhancement by virtual histogram approach

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 704-712

  Xu, Zhengya ^a   Yu, Xinghuo ^a   Wu, Hong Ren ^a   Qiu, Bin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

image enhancement; Image processing

Indexed keywords

COLOUR IMAGE; HYBRID IMAGE; IMAGE COLOURS;

GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 77954722258     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2010.5505991     Document Type: Article

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