A Study on the Validation of Histogram Equalization as a Contrast Enhancement Technique

• Main Authors: Jasni, Mohamad Zain, Ahmed, M. Mahmood, Ahmed, M. Masroor
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2012
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6184/1/mahmood1.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6184/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACSAT.2012.82
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Pahang

Our study uncovers that histogram equalization (HE)-in a striking contrast to it's claim-is not related to enhancement of contrast. To understand this view, we start with real world images which have varying degree of image quality that almost invariably require processing to improve image cont...