Efficient contrast enhancement using adaptive gamma correction with weighting distribution

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1032-1041

  Huang, Shih Chia ^a   Cheng, Fan Chieh ^a   Chiu, Yi Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; gamma correction; histogram equalization; histogram modification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TRANSFORMATIONS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGITAL IMAGE; GAMMA CORRECTION; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATIONS; HISTOGRAM MODIFICATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TEMPORAL INFORMATION;

COMPUTER VISION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VIDEO RECORDING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873305449     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2012.2226047     Document Type: Article

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