Novel contrast enhancement scheme for infrared image using detail-preserving stretching

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Kim, Jin Hyung ^a   Kim, Jun Hyung ^a   Jung, Seung Won ^a   Noh, Chang Kyun ^b   Ko, Sung Jea ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Agency for Defence Development   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Contrast stretching; Gradient domain processing; Infrared

Indexed keywords

CCD IMAGES; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST STRETCHING; DYNAMIC RANGE; GRADIENT-DOMAIN PROCESSING; IMAGE CONTRASTS; INFRARED IMAGES; INPUT IMAGE; IR IMAGES; VISUAL QUALITIES;

INFRARED IMAGING;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 80455141709     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3597639     Document Type: Article

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