Presenter(s)

Sai Babu Arigela

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Description

The effectiveness of an image enhancement technique based on a sine nonlinear transformation function to improve the visual quality of images captured with low dynamic range devices in extreme lighting conditions is presented. The enhancement technique consists of four processes: histogram adjustment, dynamic range compression, contrast enhancement and nonlinear color restoration. Histogram adjustment on each spectral band is performed to minimize the effect of illumination. Dynamic range compression is accomplished by a sine nonlinear function with an image dependent parameter to tune the intensity of each pixel in the luminance image. A nonlinear color restoration process based on the chromatic information and luminance of the original image is employed. The effectiveness of this technique is evaluated on various natural images and aerial images, and compared with other state-of the art techniques. A quantitative evaluation is performed by estimating the number of Harris corners and Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) on wide area motion imagery data. The application of the proposed algorithm on face detection is also demonstrated. The evaluation results demonstrate that the proposed method holds significant benefits for surveillance and security applications and also as a preprocessing technique for object detection and tracking applications.

Publication Date

4-17-2013

Project Designation

Graduate Research

Primary Advisor

Vijayan K. Asari

Primary Advisor's Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Keywords

Stander Symposium project

Enhancement of Images Captured in Complex Lighting Environments for Visual Quality Improvement

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