3th WCSET-2014 at Nepal
Civil Engineering / Environmental / Architecture / Planning Session:
Title:
Histogram Equalization Based Mean Self – Adaptive
Plateau Histogram Equalization for Brightness Preserving
and Contrast Enhancement
Authors:
Raju A., Dwarakish G. S., D. Venkat Reddy
Abstract:
Histogram Equations (HE) is a simple and effective
method for contrast enhancement as it can automatically
define the intensity transformation function based on
statistical characteristics of the image. Where
preservation of the original brightness is essential to
avoid annoying artefacts, HE tends to alter the
brightness of the entire image and it stretches the
contrast of the high histogram regions, and compresses
the contrast of the low histogram regions. HE also
produces saturation effects by extremely pushing the
intensities towards the right or the left side of the
histogram. Plateau Histogram Equalization (PHE) or
Clipping Histogram Equalization (CHE) is a technique to
implement the HE to overcome these drawbacks. In the
present paper, a adapted method of Self-Adaptive Plateau
Histogram Equalization (SAPHE), developed with mean
filter and mean threshold value is described and
compared the experimental results with Histogram
Equalization (HE), BiHistogram Equalization with Plateau
Limit (BHEPL), Self-Adaptive Plateau Histogram
Equalization (SAPHE) and Modified Self-Adaptive Plateau
Histogram Equalization (Modified SAPHE) by using image
quality measures such as Absolute Mean Brightness Error
(AMBE) and Peak-Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR).
Keywords: Histogram
Equalization, Brightness Preserving, Contrast
Enhancement, Clipped Histogram Equalization, image
quality, Self-Adaptive Plateau Histogram Equalization
Pages:
232-239