Modified bilateral filter for illumination equalization

Samuel Brisebois; M. Gartley

doi:10.1117/12.883549

3 June 2011 Modified bilateral-filter for illumination equalization

Samuel Brisebois, M. Gartley

Proceedings Volume 8056, Visual Information Processing XX; 805604 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883549
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Variation in illumination conditions through a scene is a common issue for classification, segmentation and recognition applications. Traffic monitoring and driver assistance systems have difficulty with the changing illumination conditions at night, throughout the day, with multiple sources (especially at night) and in the presence of shadows. The majority of existing algorithms for color constancy or shadow detection rely on multiple frames for comparison or to build a background model. The proposed approach uses a novel color space inspired by the Log-Chromaticity space and modifies the bilateral filter to equalize illumination across objects using a single frame. Neighboring pixels of the same color, but of different brightness, are assumed to be of the same object/material. The utility of our algorithm is studied over day and night simulated scenes of varying complexity. The objective is not to provide a product for visual inspection but rather an alternate image with fewer illumination related issues for other algorithms to process. The usefulness of the filter is demonstrated by applying two simple classifiers and comparing the class statistics. The hyper-log-chromaticity image and the filtered image both improve the quality of the classification relative to the un-processed image.

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Samuel Brisebois and M. Gartley "Modified bilateral-filter for illumination equalization", Proc. SPIE 8056, Visual Information Processing XX, 805604 (3 June 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883549

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