A new automatic exposure algorithm for video cameras using luminance histogram

Frontiers of Optoelectronics in China

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 285-291

  Yang, Haitao ^a   Chang, Yilin ^a   Wang, Jing ^b   Huo, Junyan ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD   (China)

Author keywords

automatic exposure; fuzzy logic; luminance histogram; peak regions; weighting curves

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953279294     PISSN: 16744128     EISSN: 16744594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12200-008-0064-7     Document Type: Article

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