IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
Special Section on Smart Multimedia & Communication Systems
Low-Light Image Enhancement Method Using a Modified Gamma Transform and Gamma Filtering-Based Histogram Specification for Convex Combination Coefficients
Mashiho MUKAIDAYoshiaki UEDANoriaki SUETAKE
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2023 Volume E106.A Issue 11 Pages 1385-1394

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Recently, a lot of low-light image enhancement methods have been proposed. However, these methods have some problems such as causing fine details lost in bright regions and/or unnatural color tones. In this paper, we propose a new low-light image enhancement method to cope with these problems. In the proposed method, a pixel is represented by a convex combination of white, black, and pure color. Then, an equi-hue plane in RGB color space is represented as a triangle whose vertices correspond to white, black, and pure color. The visibility of low-light image is improved by applying a modified gamma transform to the combination coefficients on an equi-hue plane in RGB color space. The contrast of the image is enhanced by the histogram specification method using the histogram smoothed by a filter with a kernel determined based on a gamma distribution. In the experiments, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by the comparison with the state-of-the-art low-light image enhancement methods.

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