Single image enhancement using dual boundaries

Meng Chang; Guangxia Wang; Qi Li; Huajun Feng; Zhihai Xu

doi:10.1117/12.2510940

7 November 2018 Single image enhancement using dual boundaries

Meng Chang, Guangxia Wang, Qi Li, Huajun Feng, Zhihai Xu

Proceedings Volume 10832, Fifth Conference on Frontiers in Optical Imaging Technology and Applications; 1083215 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2510940
Event: Fifth Conference on Frontiers in Optical Imaging Technology and Applications, 2018, Changchun, China

Abstract

The images captured from environment often suffer from low contrast and visual quality due to the bad imaging conditions like low light or haze weather. Many methods have been proposed based on traditional image enhancement models including dehazing model and Retinex model typically. However, their scopes are limited and specific. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective method to enhance images contrast and keep the good visual quality. By observing the traditional image enhancement models including dehazing model and Retinex model, a general normalized model is proposed. To preserve the image details and control the brightness, we introduce dual boundaries called the dark and bright boundary to handle the low light and high light condition. After getting the dark and bright boundary, the images are enhanced accordingly. Experiments show our method can be applied in many bad imaging conditions and keep good performances.

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Meng Chang, Guangxia Wang, Qi Li, Huajun Feng, and Zhihai Xu "Single image enhancement using dual boundaries", Proc. SPIE 10832, Fifth Conference on Frontiers in Optical Imaging Technology and Applications, 1083215 (7 November 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2510940

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