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Contrast Enhancement Technique by Intensity Surface Stretching

명도 표면 스트레칭에 의한 화질 개선 기법

  • Published : 2007.12.31

Abstract

This paper proposes a contrast enhancement technique which stretches the intensity surfaces of image to improve the quality of the digital photos. The proposed method enhances the contrast of image by stretching the intensity surface of the original image to the maximum range of the output image in proportion to the distances between the original intensity surface and upper, lower intensity surface, respectively. The upper and lower intensity surfaces are generated from the original intensity surface by gaussian smoothing. In the experiments, digital color images in a variety of illumination conditions were used and the proposed method was compared with other several existed image enhancement algorithms, which are histogram stretching, surface stretching, histogram equalization, gamma correction and retinex. It was proved that the experimental results were more natural visually without deterioration of gradation.

본 논문은 디지털 카메라로 촬영된 영상의 화질을 향상시키기 위해 영상의 명도 표면을 생성하여 이를 스트레칭 하는 대비 개선 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 명도 표면 스트레칭 기법은 가우시안 함수에 의해 상부 명도 표면과 하부 명도 표면을 생성하여 출력 영상의 최대 명도 범위로 스트레칭함으로써 입력 영상의 대비를 개선하게 된다. 다양한 조명 환경에서 획득한 디지털 컬러 사진을 대상으로 기존의 화질 개선 알고리즘인 히스토그램 스트레칭, 명도 표면 스트레칭, 히스토그램 평활화, 감마 조정, 레티넥스 기법과 제안한 화질 개선 기법의 성능을 비교 평가하였다. 실험 결과 제안한 영상 개선 기법은 다른 방법들에 비해 CPP 성능이 우수하였으며 인간 시각의 관점에서 자연스럽게 화질을 향상시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다.

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