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Gradient Fusion Method for Night Video Enhancement

  • Rao, Yunbo (School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) ;
  • Zhang, Yuhong (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, College of Information Science and Engineering, Henan University of Technology) ;
  • Gou, Jianping (School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, College of Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University)
  • Received : 2012.12.11
  • Accepted : 2013.02.27
  • Published : 2013.10.31
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Abstract

To resolve video enhancement problems, a novel method of gradient domain fusion wherein gradient domain frames of the background in daytime video are fused with nighttime video frames is proposed. To verify the superiority of the proposed method, it is compared to conventional techniques. The implemented output of our method is shown to offer enhanced visual quality.

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