• DocumentCode
    3373688
  • Title

    Color image enhancement using evolutionary principles and the Retinex theory of color constancy

  • Author

    Munteanu, Cristian ; Rosa, Agostinho

  • Author_Institution
    Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    393
  • Lastpage
    402
  • Abstract
    The paper investigates the use of Evolutionary Computation (EC) to automate the process of color image enhancement, for a large category of color images taken with different illuminants. Our approach employs the model of Multi-Scale Retinex with Color Restoration (MSRCR) for which the parameters of the model are adapted to each given image with a Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm (GA). Results on a diverse set of images show the efficiency of our approach compared to other classical enhancement methods
  • Keywords
    genetic algorithms; image colour analysis; image enhancement; GA; MSRCR; Multi-Scale Retinex with Color Restoration; color constancy; evolutionary computation; genetic algorithm; image enhancement; real-coded genetic algorithm; Chromium; Color;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Neural Networks for Signal Processing XI, 2001. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Signal Processing Society Workshop
  • Conference_Location
    North Falmouth, MA
  • ISSN
    1089-3555
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7196-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NNSP.2001.943143
  • Filename
    943143