New technique for enhancement of high dynamic range infrared images

Yu Liu; Xin-sai Wang; Hualiang Xu; Ming He; Mingming Li

doi:10.1117/12.978857

15 October 2012 New technique for enhancement of high dynamic range infrared images

Yu Liu, Xin-sai Wang, Hualiang Xu, Ming He, Mingming Li

Proceedings Volume 8420, 6th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies: Optical System Technologies for Manufacturing and Testing; 842019 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.978857
Event: 6th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies (AOMATT 2012), 2012, Xiamen, China

Abstract

A Bilateral Filter (BF) and Multi-scale Retinex (MSR) based infrared image enhancement algorithm is proposed in this paper. It’s known that the MSR algorithm derived from vision theory can achieve dynamic range compression and tonal rendition effectively but suffers from ‘halo’ phenomena caused by the existence of “sharp” edges in infrared images. Research shows that bilateral filter has the property of separating image details from strong edges. Therefore, we process detail components containing strong edges in MSR algorithm with bilateral filter to achieve dynamic range compression, detail enhancement and avoid ‘halo’ artifacts at the same time. The performance of proposed algorithm is then validated by experiments with three real infrared images and compared with other two infrared images enhancement algorithms.

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Yu Liu, Xin-sai Wang, Hualiang Xu, Ming He, and Mingming Li "New technique for enhancement of high dynamic range infrared images", Proc. SPIE 8420, 6th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies: Optical System Technologies for Manufacturing and Testing, 842019 (15 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.978857

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