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Contrast enhancement is an important preprocessing technique for improving the performance of downstream tasks in image processing and computer vision. Among the existing approaches based on nonlinear histogram transformations, contrast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Vincent Stimper , Stefan Bauer , Ralph Ernstorfer , Bernhard Schölkopf , R. Patrick Xian

This paper proposes image-adaptive contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (IA-CLAHE). Conventional CLAHE is widely used to boost the performance of various computer vision tasks and to improve visual quality for human perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Rikuto Otsuka , Yuho Shoji , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito

Image processing algorithms are finding various applications in manufacturing and materials industries such as identification of cracks in the fabricated samples, calculating the geometrical properties of the given microstructure, presence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Akshansh Mishra

In this paper, a comparative study between proposed hyper kurtosis based modified duo-histogram equalization (HKMDHE) algorithm and contrast limited adaptive histogram enhancement (CLAHE) has been presented for the implementation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay , Soham Mandal , Sawon Pratiher , Satyasaran Changdar , Ritwik Burman , Nirmalya Ghosh , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

In this paper, we explore how conventional image enhancement can improve model robustness in medical image analysis. By applying commonly used normalization methods to images from various vendors and studying their influence on model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yucheng Lu , Shunxin Wang , Dovile Juodelyte , Veronika Cheplygina

Existing image enhancement methods fall short of expectations because with them it is difficult to improve global and local image contrast simultaneously. To address this problem, we propose a histogram equalization-based method that adapts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Xiaomeng Wu , Takahito Kawanishi , Kunio Kashino

X-ray imaging is the most widely used medical imaging modality. However, in the common practice, inconsistency in the initial presentation of X-ray images is a common complaint by radiologists. Different patient positions, patient habitus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Hongxu Yang , Najib Akram Aboobacker , Xiaomeng Dong , German Gonzalez , Lehel Ferenczi , Gopal Avinash

To guide surgical and medical treatment X-ray images have been used by physicians in every modern healthcare organization and hospitals. Doctor's evaluation process and disease identification in the area of skeletal system can be performed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Rafsanjany Kushol , Md. Nishat Raihan , Md Sirajus Salekin , A. B. M. Ashikur Rahman

There are several images that do not have uniform brightness which pose a challenging problem for image enhancement systems. As histogram equalization has been successfully used to correct for uniform brightness problems, a histogram…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Chelsy Sapna Josephus , S. Remya

In this paper, a method for enhancing low contrast images is proposed. This method, called Gaussian Mixture Model based Contrast Enhancement (GMMCE), brings into play the Gaussian mixture modeling of histograms to model the content of the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Mohsen Abdoli , Hossein Sarikhani , Mohammad Ghanbari , Patrice Brault

Histogram Equalization (HE) has been an essential addition to the Image Enhancement world. Enhancement techniques like Classical Histogram Equalization (CHE), Adaptive Histogram Equalization (ADHE), Bi-Histogram Equalization (BHE) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-12 Sayali Nimkar , Sanal Varghese , Sucheta Shrivastava

Contrast enhancement is an important area of research for the image analysis. Over the decade, the researcher worked on this domain to develop an efficient and adequate algorithm. The proposed method will enhance the contrast of image using…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Aroop Mukherjee , Soumen Kanrar

Image enhancement aims at processing an input image so that the visual content of the output image is more pleasing or more useful for certain applications. Although histogram equalization is widely used in image enhancement due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Xiangyuan Zhu , Xiaoming Xiao , Tardi Tjahjadi , Zhihu Wu , Jin Tang

The reconstructed images from the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data suffer from multiplicative noise as well as low contrast level. These two factors impact the quality of the SAR images significantly and prevent any attempt to extract…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Shahrokh Hamidi

As an efficient image contrast enhancement (CE) tool, adaptive gamma correction (AGC) was previously proposed by relating gamma parameter with cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the pixel gray levels within an image. ACG deals well…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Gang Cao , Lihui Huang , Huawei Tian , Xianglin Huang , Yongbin Wang , Ruicong Zhi

Histogram Equalization is a contrast enhancement technique in the image processing which uses the histogram of image. However histogram equalization is not the best method for contrast enhancement because the mean brightness of the output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Omprakash Patel , Yogendra P. S. Maravi , Sanjeev Sharma

COVID-19 is a new pulmonary disease which is driving stress to the hospitals due to the large number of cases worldwide. Imaging of lungs can play a key role in monitoring of the healthy status. Non-contrast chest computed tomography (CT)…

This study systematically investigates the impact of image enhancement techniques on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based Brain Tumor Segmentation, focusing on Histogram Equalization (HE), Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Shoffan Saifullah , Andri Pranolo , Rafał Dreżewski

Enhancement of human vision to get an insight to information content is of vital importance. The traditional histogram equalization methods have been suffering from amplified contrast with the addition of artifacts and a surprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Muhammad Ali Qadar , Yan Zhaowen , Li Hua

Few-shot learning in medical image classification presents a significant challenge due to the limited availability of annotated data and the complex nature of medical imagery. In this work, we propose Adaptive Vision-Language Fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Harrison Fuller , Fernando Gabriela Garcia , Victor Flores
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