This letter presents a novel enhancement method for fog-degraded images based on dominant brightness level analysis in analyzing the characteristics of the images captured by daylight sensor on photoelectric radar surveillance system. We first perform discrete wavelet transform(DWT) on the input images and perform contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization(CLAHE) operation on LL sub-band, and then decompose the LL sub-band into low-,middle-,and high-intensity layers using Gaussian filter. After the intensity transformation and inverse DWT, the resulting enhanced image is obtained by using the guided filter.
This paper proposes a new image thresholding method by integrating Multi-scale Gradient Multiplication (MGM) transformation and Adjusted Rand Index (ARI). The proposed method evaluates the optimal threshold by computing the accumulation similarity between two image collections from the perspective of global spatial attributes of images. One of the image collections are obtained by binarizing the original gray level image with each possible gray level. The others are the reference images, produced by binarizing MGM image. The MGM image is the result of applying MGM transformation to the original image. ARI is a similarity measurement in statistics, particularly in data clustering, which can be readily computed based on two image matrices. To be more accurate, the optimal threshold is determined by maximizing the accumulation similarity of ARI. Comparisons with three well established thresholding methods are depicted for numbers of real-world images. Experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method.
A popular histogram-based thresholding method is minimum error thresholding (MET) proposed by Kittler and Illingworth [Minimum error thresholding, Pattern Recognition 19 (1) (1986) 41-47], whereas Xue and Titterington recently proposed a median-based thresholding (MBT) [Median-based image thresholding, Image and Vision Computing 29 (9) (2011) 631-637]. Both MET and MBT can be derived from the maximization of log-likelihood. In this paper, we present a different theoretical interpretation about MBT and MET, from the perspective of minimizing Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. Since the KL divergence is a measure of the difference between two probability distributions, it is reasonable to regard MET and MBT as the special applications of histogram-based image similarity (HBIS) in the image thresholding. Further, it is natural to suggest a more universal image thresholding framework based on image similarity concept, since HBIS is just one of many image similarity methodologies. This thresholding framework directly transforms the threshold determining problem into an image comparison issue. Its significance is that it provides a concise and clear theoretical framework for developing potential thresholding methods with the plentiful image similarity theories.
This paper introduces a novel global thresholding approach that exploits the product of gradient magnitude (PGM).
The PGM of an image is obtained by multiplying the responses of the first derivative of Gaussian (FDoG) filter at three
adjacent space scales. The output threshold is selected as the one that maximizes a new objective function of the gray
level variable t . The objective function is defined as the ratio of the mean PGM values of the boundary and nonboundary
regions in the binary image obtained by thresholding with variable t . Through analysis of 35 real images from
different application areas, our results show that the proposed method can perform bilevel thresholding on the images
with different histogram patterns, including unimodal, bimodal, multimodal, or comb-like shape. Its segmentation
quality is superior to five popular thresholding algorithms.
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