Kuldip Acharya; Dibyendu Ghoshal

Central Moment and Multinomial Based Sub Image Clipped Histogram Equalization for Image Enhancement

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Author(s)

1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Agartala Barjala, Jirania, Tripura (W), Pin: 799046, India

2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Agartala Barjala, Jirania, Tripura (W), India

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2021.01.01

Received: 25 Mar. 2020 / Revised: 16 May 2020 / Accepted: 20 Aug. 2020 / Published: 8 Feb. 2021

Index Terms

Central Moment, Clipping Threshold, Histogram Equalization, Image Enhancement, Resampling

Abstract

The visual appearance of a digital image can be improved through image enhancement algorithm by reducing the noise in an image, improving the color, brightness and contrast of an image for more analysis. This paper introduces an image enhancement algorithm. The image histogram is processed through multinomial curvature fitting function to reduces the number of pixels for each intensity value through minimizing the sum of squared residuals. Then resampling is done to smooth out the computed data. After then histogram clipping threshold is computed by central moment processed on the resampled data value to restrict the over enhancement rate. Histogram is equally divided into two sub histograms. The sub histograms are equalized by transfer function to merged the sub images into one output image. The output image is further improved by reducing the environmental haze effect by applying Matlab imreducehaze method, which gives the final output image. Matlab simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms than other compared methods in terms of both quantitative and qualitative performance evaluation applied on colorfulness based PCQI (C-PCQI), and blind image quality measure of enhanced images (BIQME) image quality metrics.

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Kuldip Acharya, Dibyendu Ghoshal, " Central Moment and Multinomial Based Sub Image Clipped Histogram Equalization for Image Enhancement", International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing(IJIGSP), Vol.13, No.1, pp. 1-12, 2021. DOI:10.5815/ijigsp.2021.01.01

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