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Global Contrast Enhancement Using Block based Local Contrast Improvement

블록기반 지역 명암대비 개선을 통한 전역 명암대비 향상 기법

  • Kim, Kwang-Hyun (Department of Electrical engineering, Soongsil University) ;
  • Han, Young-Joon (Department of Electrical engineering, Soongsil University) ;
  • Hahn, Hern-Soo (Department of Electrical engineering, Soongsil University)
  • Published : 2008.01.25
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Abstract

This paper proposes a scheme of global image contrast enhancement using local contrast improvement. Methods of global image contrast enhancement redistribute the image gray level distribution using histogram equalization without considering image properties, and cause the result image to include image pixels with excessive brightness. On the other hand, methods of the block-based local image contrast enhancement have blocking artifacts and a problem of eliminating important image features during an image process to reduce them. In order to solve these problems, the proposed method executes the block-based histogram equalization on temporary images that an input image is divided into various fixed-size blocks. And then it performs the global contrast enhancement by applying the global histogram equalization functions to the original input image. Since the proposed method selects the best histogram equalization function from temporary images that are improved by the block-based local image contrast enhancement, it has the advantages of both the local and global image contrast enhancement approaches.

본 논문은 영상의 블록기반 지역 명암대비 향상을 통한 전역 명암대비 향상 기법을 제안한다. 전역 명암대비 향상 기법은 영상의 특성을 고려하지 않고 히스토그램 평활화만을 통해 명암값의 재분배를 수행함으로써 과도한 밝기값의 화소들을 갖는 결과영상을 유발한다. 반면에 블록기반 지역 명암대비 향상 기법은 블록화 현상 및 이를 줄이는 과정에서 영상의 중요한 특징을 훼손하는 문제점을 갖고 있다. 이런 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 본 논문은 입력영상을 다양한 블록 크기로 분할한 임시영상들에 대해 블록기반 히스토그램 평활화를 수행한다. 그리고 지역 명암대비 향상을 통해 얻어진 전역 히스토그램 평활화 함수를 원 영상에 적용하는 전역 명암대비 향상 기법을 수행한다. 지역 명암대비가 향상된 임시 영상으로부터 전역 히스토그램 평활화 함수를 얻기 때문에 제안하는 방법은 지역 명암대비 향상 기법과 전역 명암대비 향상 기법의 장점들을 갖는다.

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