전기전자학회논문지 (Journal of IKEEE)

  • 제22권3호
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  • Pages.585-589
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  • 2018
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  • 1226-7244(pISSN)
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  • 2288-243X(eISSN)
한국전기전자학회 (Institute of Korean Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
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Preprocessing for High Quality Real-time Imaging Systems by Low-light Stretch Algorithm

  • Ngo, Dat (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Dong-A University) ;
  • Kang, Bongsoon (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Dong-A University)
  • 투고 : 2018.08.18
  • 심사 : 2018.09.18
  • 발행 : 2018.09.30
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Consumer demand for high quality image/video services led to growing trend in image quality enhancement study. Therefore, recent years was a period of substantial progress in this research field. Through careful observation of the image quality after processing by image enhancement algorithms, we perceived that the dark region in the image usually suffered loss of contrast to a certain extent. In this paper, the low-light stretch preprocessing algorithm is, hence, proposed to resolve the aforementioned issue. The proposed approach is evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively against the well-known histogram equalization and Photoshop curve adjustment. The evaluation results validate the efficiency and superiority of the low-light stretch over the benchmarking methods. In addition, we also propose the 255MHz-capable hardware implementation to ease the process of incorporating low-light stretch into real-time imaging systems, such as aerial surveillance and monitoring with drones and driving aiding systems.

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