AN ARTIFACT-FREE WAVELET MODEL FOR PERCEPTUAL CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT OF COLOR IMAGES

Edoardo Provenzi, Vicent Caselles

2012

Abstract

Contrast enhancement of color images can prove to be a difficult task because artifacts and unnatural colors can appear after the process. In this paper we propose a wavelet-based variational framework in which contrast enhancement is obtained through the minimization of a suitable energy functional of wavelet coefficients. We will show that this new approach has certain advantages with respect to the usual spatial techniques sustained by the fact that the wavelet representation is intrinsically local, multiscale and sparse. The Euler-Lagrange equations of the model are implicit equations involving the detail wavelet coefficients of the image. These equations can be quickly solved by Newton’s method, so that the algorithm can rapidly compute the enhanced detail coefficients. We will discuss the influence of the parameters tests on natural images to show that the method is artifact free within an ample range of variability of its parameters.

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in Harvard Style

Provenzi E. and Caselles V. (2012). AN ARTIFACT-FREE WAVELET MODEL FOR PERCEPTUAL CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT OF COLOR IMAGES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-03-7, pages 317-322. DOI: 10.5220/0003806403170322

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp12,
author={Edoardo Provenzi and Vicent Caselles},
title={AN ARTIFACT-FREE WAVELET MODEL FOR PERCEPTUAL CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT OF COLOR IMAGES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={317-322},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003806403170322},
isbn={978-989-8565-03-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - AN ARTIFACT-FREE WAVELET MODEL FOR PERCEPTUAL CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT OF COLOR IMAGES
SN - 978-989-8565-03-7
AU - Provenzi E.
AU - Caselles V.
PY - 2012
SP - 317
EP - 322
DO - 10.5220/0003806403170322