Variational Contrast Enhancement of Gray-Scale and RGB Images

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• 作者：Fabien Pierre ; Jean-François Aujol…
• 关键词：Color image ; Perceptual model ; Contrast enhancement
• 刊名：Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：57
• 期：1
• 页码：99-116
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• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Image Processing and Computer Vision; Applications of Mathematics; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Mathematical Methods in Physics;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-7683
• 卷排序：57

文摘

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we propose a new method for enhancing the contrast of gray-value images. We use the difference of the average local contrast measures between the original and the enhanced images within a variational framework. This enables the user to intuitively control the contrast level and the scale of the enhanced details. Moreover, our model avoids large modifications of the original image histogram. Thereby it preserves the global illumination of the scene and it can cope with large areas having similar gray values. The minimizer of the proposed functional is computed by a gradient descent algorithm in connection with a polynomial approximation of the average local contrast measure. The polynomial approximation is computed via Bernstein polynomials. In the second part, the approach is extended to a variational enhancement method for color images. The model approximately preserves the hue of the original image and additionally includes a total variation term to correct the possible noise. The method requires no post-  or preprocessing. The minimization problem is solved with a hybrid primal–dual algorithm. Experiments demonstrate the efficiency and the flexibility of the proposed approaches in comparison with state-of-the-art methods.