Adaptive colour restoration and detail retention for image enhancement

Abstract Computer vision‐based crowd understanding and analysis technology has been widely used in public safety due to the rapid growth of population and the frequent occurrence of various accidents. Improving imaging quality is the key to improve the performance of crowd analysis, density estimati...

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Autores principales: Kangjian He, Dapeng Tao, Dan Xu
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8ee9b2544ee248ca83137d2cb41980d52021-11-29T03:38:16ZAdaptive colour restoration and detail retention for image enhancement1751-96671751-965910.1049/ipr2.12223https://doaj.org/article/8ee9b2544ee248ca83137d2cb41980d52021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.12223https://doaj.org/toc/1751-9659https://doaj.org/toc/1751-9667Abstract Computer vision‐based crowd understanding and analysis technology has been widely used in public safety due to the rapid growth of population and the frequent occurrence of various accidents. Improving imaging quality is the key to improve the performance of crowd analysis, density estimation, target recognition, segmentation, and detection in computer vision tasks. Due to the complex imaging environment such as fog and low illumination, some images taken in outdoor environment often have the problems of colour distortion, lack of details, and the poor imaging quality, which affect the subsequent visual tasks. To improve the imaging quality and visual effect, an adaptive colour restoration and detail retention‐based method is proposed for image enhancement. First, to overcome the problem of colour distortion caused by low illumination and fog, a multi‐channel fusion based adaptive image colour restoration method is proposed. To make the enhancement result more consistent with human observation, the detail retention‐based method is applied to enhance the details. Experimental results demonstrate that the authors' results are effective and outperform the compared methods both in visual and objective evaluations.Kangjian HeDapeng TaoDan XuWileyarticlePhotographyTR1-1050Computer softwareQA76.75-76.765ENIET Image Processing, Vol 15, Iss 14, Pp 3685-3697 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Photography
TR1-1050
Computer software
QA76.75-76.765
spellingShingle Photography
TR1-1050
Computer software
QA76.75-76.765
Kangjian He
Dapeng Tao
Dan Xu
Adaptive colour restoration and detail retention for image enhancement
description Abstract Computer vision‐based crowd understanding and analysis technology has been widely used in public safety due to the rapid growth of population and the frequent occurrence of various accidents. Improving imaging quality is the key to improve the performance of crowd analysis, density estimation, target recognition, segmentation, and detection in computer vision tasks. Due to the complex imaging environment such as fog and low illumination, some images taken in outdoor environment often have the problems of colour distortion, lack of details, and the poor imaging quality, which affect the subsequent visual tasks. To improve the imaging quality and visual effect, an adaptive colour restoration and detail retention‐based method is proposed for image enhancement. First, to overcome the problem of colour distortion caused by low illumination and fog, a multi‐channel fusion based adaptive image colour restoration method is proposed. To make the enhancement result more consistent with human observation, the detail retention‐based method is applied to enhance the details. Experimental results demonstrate that the authors' results are effective and outperform the compared methods both in visual and objective evaluations.
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author Kangjian He
Dapeng Tao
Dan Xu
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Dapeng Tao
Dan Xu
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title Adaptive colour restoration and detail retention for image enhancement
title_short Adaptive colour restoration and detail retention for image enhancement
title_full Adaptive colour restoration and detail retention for image enhancement
title_fullStr Adaptive colour restoration and detail retention for image enhancement
title_full_unstemmed Adaptive colour restoration and detail retention for image enhancement
title_sort adaptive colour restoration and detail retention for image enhancement
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