Shape Preserving Local Histogram Modification

Caselles, Vicent ; Lisani, Jose-Luis ; Morel, Jean-Michel ; Sapiro, Guillermo

HP Development Company

关键词: histogram equalization;    local operations;    mathematicalmorphology;    level-sets;    connected components;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-97-58

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

A novel approach for shape preserving contrast enhancement is presented in this paper. Contrast enhancement is achieved by means of a local histogram equalization algorithm which preserves the level-sets of the image. This basic property is violated by common local schemes, thereby introducing spurious objects and modifying the image information. The scheme is based on equalizing the histogram in all the connected components of the image, which are defined based both on the grey-values and spatial relations between pixels in the image, and following mathematical morphology, constitute the basic objects in the scene. We give examples for both grey-value and color images.