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가우시안 영역 분리 기반 명암 대비 향상

Contrast Enhancement based on Gaussian Region Segmentation

  • 투고 : 2017.05.08
  • 심사 : 2017.08.21
  • 발행 : 2017.09.30

초록

영역 분리에 의한 명암대비 방법들이 제안되어 왔지만 영상의 히스토그램에 따라 과포화 되는 부작용이나 밝기 값 보존과 명암대비 효과의 상반 관계에 대한 개선이 필요하다. 본 논문은 다양한 히스토그램에서도 명암 대비가 개선 되도록 영역 분리 시 각 서브 영역이 가우시안 분포를 갖도록 분리하고 영역별 평활화하는 명암 대비 방법을 제안 한다. 영역 분리는 $L^*a^*b^*$ 컬러 공간에서 K-평균 방법과 기대-최대 방법에 의해 영역맵과 확률맵을 생성하며 영역별 히스토그램 평활화 방법은 영역간 히스토그램 중복 최소를 위해 평균값 이동과 영역 분리에서 생성된 확률맵을 변환 함수에 활용함으로써 영역별 밝기값을 보존 하였다. 실험은 기존의 명암 대비 방법들과 평균 밝기 차이와 평균 엔트로피 값을 이용하여 밝기 변화가 적고 영상의 세부 정보가 표현됨에 의한 명암대비 개선을 보인다.

Methods of contrast enhancement have problem such as side effect of over-enhancement with non-gaussian histogram distribution, tradeoff enhancement efficiency against brightness preserving. In order to enhance contrast at various histogram distribution, segmentation to region with gaussian distribution and then enhance contrast each region. First, we segment an image into several regions using GMM(Gaussian Mixture Model)fitting by that k-mean clustering and EM(Expectation-Maximization) in $L^*a^*b^*$ color space. As a result region segmentation, we get the region map and probability map. Then we apply local contrast enhancement algorithm that mean shift to minimum overlapping of each region and preserve brightness histogram equalization. Experiment result show that proposed region based contrast enhancement method compare to the conventional method as AMBE(AbsoluteMean Brightness Error) and AE(Average Entropy), brightness is maintained and represented detail information.

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