Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://idr.nitk.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/10015
Title: Automatic method for contrast enhancement of natural color images
Authors: Shyam, L.
Narasimhadhan, A.V.
Issue Date: 2015
Citation: Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology, 2015, Vol.10, 3, pp.1233-1243
Abstract: The contrast enhancement is great challenge in the image processing when images are suffering from poor contrast problem. Therefore, in order to overcome this problem an automatic method is proposed for contrast enhancement of natural color images. The proposed method consist of two stages: in first stage lightness component in YIQ color space is normalized by sigmoid function after the adaptive histogram equalization is applied on Y component and in second stage automatic color contrast enhancement algorithm is applied on output of the first stage. The proposed algorithm is tested on different NASA color images, hyperspectral color images and other types of natural color images. The performance of proposed algorithm is evaluated and compared with the other existing contrast enhancement algorithms in terms of colorfulness metric and color enhancement factor. The higher values of colorfulness metric and color enhancement factor imply that the visual quality of the enhanced image is good. Simulation results demonstrate that proposed algorithm provides higher values of colorfulness metric and color enhancement factor as compared to other existing contrast enhancement algorithms. The proposed algorithm also provides better visual enhancement results as compared with the other existing contrast enhancement algorithms. The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers.
URI: http://idr.nitk.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/10015
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