A fast contrast enhancement method for forward looking infrared imaging system

Author

Park, Gyu-Hee ; Youn, Jung-Su

Author_Institution

Samsung Thales CO., Ltd., Yongin, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

In this paper, a fast contrast enhancement method for forward looking infrared imaging system is proposed. Histogram equalization and plateau equalization are widely used for infrared imaging system. However, they often introduce the significant change in luminance which causes luminance saturation and failure in object tracking. Proposed method uses an adaptive histogram redistribution based on histogram partitioning to prevent the side-effect due to the over-enhancement. The experimental results show that proposed method has better performance compared with conventional methods.

Keywords

image enhancement; infrared imaging; adaptive histogram redistribution; contrast enhancement method; forward looking infrared imaging system; histogram equalization; histogram partitioning; luminance saturation; plateau equalization; Filtering; Filters; Hysteresis; Infrared detectors; Infrared imaging; Noise generators; Noise reduction; Object detection; Robustness; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2009. IRMMW-THz 2009. 34th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5416-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5417-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2009.5325752

Filename

5325752