A novel 3-D color histogram equalization method with uniform 1-D gray scale histogram

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 506-512

  Han, Ji Hee ^a   Yang, Sejungd ^a   Lee, Byung Uk ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

3 D color histogram equalization; Color image enhancement; gray scale histogram equalization

Indexed keywords

COLOR HISTOGRAM; COLOR HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; COLOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; COLOR SPACE; COMPARE AND ANALYZE; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITIES; EXISTING METHOD; GRAY SCALE; GRAY SCALE HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; NONIDEAL; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; TEST RESULTS; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79551659501     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2068555     Document Type: Article

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