• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.173-185
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• 2009

This paper proposes two new image contrast enhancement methods, RSWHE (Recursively Separated and Weighted Histogram Equalization) and RSWHS (Recursively Separated and Weighted Histogram Specification). RSWHE is a histogram equalization method based on histogram decomposition and weighting, whereas RSWHS is a histogram specification method based on histogram decomposition and weighting. The two proposed methods work as follows: 1) decompose an input histogram based on the image's mean brightness, 2) compute the probability for the area corresponding to each sub-histogram, 3) modify the sub-histogram by weighting it with the computed probability value, 4) lastly, perform histogram equalization (in the case of RSWHE) or histogram specification (in the case of RSWHS) on the modified sub-histograms independently. Experimental results show that RSWHE and RSWHS outperform other methods in terms of contrast enhancement and mean brightness preservation as well.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.5127-5133
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• 2010

In this paper, an efficient contrast enhancement algorithm using histogram specification is proposed. Histogram equalization and its modified methods have been effective techniques for contrast enhancement. However, they often result in excessive contrast enhancement. Besides conventional histogram specification also has a problem to get the desired histogram. We propose a method that utilizes a simple high frequency filter to get the desired histogram. The proposed technique not only produces better visual results than conventional contrast enhancement techniques, but is also adaptively adjusted to the statistical characteristics of the image.

• KSCI Review
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.173-177
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• 2007

3D 디스플레이 기술이 발전함에 따라 스테레오 영상의 전송시 요구되는 비트레이트의 감소가 절실히 필요하다. 하지만, 스테레오 영상은 서로 다른 카메라에 의해 취득되기 때문에 잠재적으로 서로 차이가 있고, 이것은 디스패리티 추정시 큰 오차를 유발할 수 있으며 전송될 비트레이트에 영향을 줄 수 있다. 따라서 스테레오 영상들 사이의 밸런싱이 필요하다. 스테레오 영상의 밸런싱을 위해, 본 논문에서는 히스토그램 Specification 방법과 타깃 영상의 국부정보, 스테레오 영상간의 오차 분포를 이용한다. 히스토그램 Specification 방법은 그레이레벨의 맵핑관계를 정의한다. 따라서 이를 통해 맵핑될 레벨의 맵핑 구간을 구할 수 있다. 그 구간에서, 맵핑될 기준영상의 히스토그램 분포와 스테레오 오차값의 분포는 서로 모양이 유사할 것이다. 그러나, 폐색된 영역이나 노이즈에 의해 그 모양이 변하므로 우리는 맵핑될 픽셀들을 오차영상에서 그 픽셀들의 근방에서 구한 평균들과 오른쪽 영상(타깃 영상)에서 맵핑될 픽셀의 근방에서 구한 평균이 최소 값을 갖는 위치 값으로 맵핑한다. 제안된 방법은 실험에서 기존 방법보다 향상된 결과를 나타내는 것을 보여 준다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.61-73
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• 2012

This paper proposes a histogram specification based image enhancement method, which uses the brightness mean and variance of an image to maximize the entropy of the image. In our histogram specification step, the Gaussian distribution is used to fit the input histogram as well as produce the target histogram. Specifically, the input histogram is fitted with the Gaussian distribution whose mean and variance are equal to the brightness mean(${\mu}$) and variance(${\sigma}2$) of the input image, respectively; and the target Gaussian distribution also has the mean of the value ${\mu}$, but takes as the variance the value which is determined such that the output image has the maximum entropy. Experimental results show that compared to the existing methods, the proposed method preserves the mean brightness well and generates more natural looking images.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.11
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• pp.1298-1306
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• 2016

Backlight has a major factor in power consumption of TFT-LCDs which are most popular in portable devices. There have been a lot of attempts to achieve power savings by backlight dimming. At the same time, the researches have shown image compensation due to decreased brightness of a displayed image. However, existing image compensation methods such as histogram equalization have some limits in completely satisfying the human visual system (HVS)-awareness. This paper proposes an enhanced dimming technique to obtain both power saving and HVS-awareness by combining pixel compensation and histogram specification for TFT-LCDs. This method executes a search algorithm and an automation algorithm employing simplified calculations for fast image processing. Experimental results showed that the proposed method achieved significant improvement in visual satisfaction per power saving over existing backlight dimming.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.11-17
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• 2007

The appearance inspection of various electronic products and parts has been executed by the eyesight of human. But inspection by eyesight can't bring about uniform inspection result. Because the appearance inspection result by eyesight of human is changed by condition of physical and spirit of the checker. So machine vision inspection system is currently used to many appearance inspection fields instead of the checker. However the inspection result of machine vision is changed by the illumination of workplace. Therefore we have used a power-law transformation and histogram specification in this paper for improvement of vision inspection accuracy. As a result of these power-law transformation and histogram specification algorithm, we could increase the exactness of vision inspection and prevent system error from physical and spirit condition of human. Also this system has been developed only using PC, CCD Camera and Visual C++ for universal workplace.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.317-320
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• 2002

In this paper, an automatic histogram specification method is proposed for image enhancement, Fuzzy membership value is adopted for the representation of image histogram. The desired PDF is automatically constructed by the fuzzy membership value. Fuzzy membership value is extracted from dark membership, bright membership function and original histogram. The effectual results are demonstrated by desired PDF which meet the image enhancement requirements. The performance and effectiveness are shown by the analysis and the resultant image in comparison with histogram equalization method.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.657-662
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• 2014

Usually, spatial information can be incorporated into histograms by taking histograms of a multiresolution image. For these reasons, many researchers are interested in multiresolution histogram processing. If the relation and sensitivity of the multiresolution images are well combined without loss of information, we can obtain satisfactory results in several fields of image processing including histogram equalization, specification and pattern matching. In this paper, we propose a multiresolution histogram specification method that improves the accuracy of histogram specification. The multiresolution decomposition technique is used in order to overcome the unique feature of a histogram specification affected by a quantization error of a digitalized image. The histogram specification is processed after the reduction of image resolution in order to enhance the accuracy of the results by histogram specification methods. The experimental results show that the proposed method enhances the accuracy of specification compared to conventional methods.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.175-179
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• 2014

The histogram specification turns the shape of a histogram into that we want to specify. This technique can be applied usefully in various image processing fields such as machine vision. However, the histogram specification technique has its basic limits. For instance, the histogram does not have location information of pixels. Also, the accuracy of the specification drops because of quantization errors of the digitized image. In this paper, we proposed a multiresolution histogram specification method in order to improve the accuracy of specification in terms of resemblance between destination and source image. The experimental results show that the proposed method enhances the accuracy of the specification compared to the conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.169-171
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• 2009

The histogram specification is to change the histogram shape of the image into the already defined shape. This technique can be applied usefully in various image processing fields which include a machine vision. However, the histogram specification technique has its basic limits. For example, the histogram does not have location information of pixel within the image and receives the digital image, which is stored through a quantization process, as an input. Namely, the accuracy of specification falls in the high-resolution image because the larger the resolution of image is becoming, the more the pixels having similar value are becoming. Therefore, we proposed the multiresolution histogram specification method for improving the accuracy of specification. Consequently, we can know that if the histogram specification is accomplished by using the proposed algorithm, destination image and source image were changed almost similarly.