Stabilization of flicker-like effects in image sequences through local contrast correction

SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 703-734

  Delon, Julie ^a   Desolneux, Agnès ^b  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Change of contrast; Contrast correction; Flicker; Histogram equalization; Movie restoration

Indexed keywords

CHANGE OF CONTRAST; CONTRAST CORRECTION; FLICKER; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATIONS; MOVIE RESTORATION;

GRAPHIC METHODS; MOTION ESTIMATION; RESTORATION;

STABILIZATION;

EID: 78651531439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19364954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090766371     Document Type: Article

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