Survey of natural image enhancement techniques: Classification, evaluation, challenges, and perspectives

X Liu, M Pedersen, R Wang - Digital Signal Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
Image enhancement is an essential technique used in many imaging applications. The main
motivation of image enhancement is processing an image to be more suitable for specific …

Robust multi-exposure image fusion: a structural patch decomposition approach

K Ma, H Li, H Yong, Z Wang, D Meng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a simple yet effective structural patch decomposition approach for multi-
exposure image fusion (MEF) that is robust to ghosting effect. We decompose an image …

Quantifying visual image quality: A bayesian view

Z Duanmu, W Liu, Z Wang… - Annual Review of Vision …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Image quality assessment (IQA) models aim to establish a quantitative relationship between
visual images and their quality as perceived by human observers. IQA modeling plays a …

A comprehensive performance evaluation of image quality assessment algorithms

S Athar, Z Wang - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms aim to predict perceived image quality by human
observers. Over the last two decades, a large amount of work has been carried out in the …

No-reference quality assessment of contrast-distorted images using contrast enhancement

J Yan, J Li, X Fu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08879, 2019 - arxiv.org
No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to measure the image quality without
reference image. However, contrast distortion has been overlooked in the current research …

Variable augmented neural network for decolorization and multi-exposure fusion

Q Liu, H Leung - Information Fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper shows how to convert a color image to grayscale using convolutional neural
network (CNN), that preserves visual contrast via gradient domain modeling. We propose to …

CorrC2G: Color to gray conversion by correlation

HZ Nafchi, A Shahkolaei, R Hedjam… - IEEE Signal …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, a novel decolorization method is proposed to convert color images into
grayscale. The proposed method, called CorrC2G, estimates the three global linear …

Reference-free quality assessment of sonar images via contour degradation measurement

W Chen, K Gu, W Lin, Z Xia… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sonar imagery plays a significant role in oceanic applications since there is little natural light
underwater, and light is irrelevant to sonar imaging. Sonar images are very likely to be …

Dominant gray level based K-means algorithm for MRI images

GR Nitta, T Sravani, S Nitta, BA Muthu - Health and Technology, 2020 - Springer
Image segmentation is the significant tasks in maximum medical diagnosis tools. In recent
years, perfect segmentation of medical images is of the great challenging issue. Maximum …

Contrast and content preserving HDMR-based color-to-gray conversion

A Ceylan, EK Özay, B Tunga - Computers & Graphics, 2024 - Elsevier
Converting a color image into a grayscale image is a complex problem that is based on
preserving color contrast, sharpness, and luminance. In this paper, a novel image …