Relative gradients for image lighting correction

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1374-1377

  Hou, Zujun ^a   Yau, Wei Yun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Image enhancement; Lighting correction; Poisson equation; Relative gradients

Indexed keywords

LIGHTING; POISSON EQUATION;

CORRECTION METHOD; IMAGE-BASED; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; LIGHTING CORRECTIONS; LIGHTING VARIATIONS; RELATIVE GRADIENT;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 78049373739     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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