Preserving brightness in histogram equalization based contrast enhancement techniques

• Main Authors: Chen, Soong Der, Ramli, Abdul Rahman
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2004
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40065/1/Preserving%20brightness%20in%20histogram%20equalization%20based%20contrast%20enhancement%20techniques.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40065/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1051200404000387
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Histogram equalization (HE) has been a simple yet effective image enhancement technique. However, it tends to change the brightness of an image significantly, causing annoying artifacts and unnatural contrast enhancement. Brightness preserving bi-histogram equalization (BBHE) and dualistic sub-image...