Gradient adaptive image restoration and enhancement

Hongcheng Wang, Yunqiang Chen, Tong Fang, Jason Tyan, Narendra Ahuja

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Abstract

Various methods have been proposed for image enhancement and restoration. The main difficulty is how to enhance the structures uniformly while suppressing the noise without artifacts. In this paper, we tackle this problem in the gradient domain instead of the traditional intensity domain. By enhancing the gradient field, we can enhance the structure uniformly without overshooting at the boundary. Because the gradient field is very sensitive to noise, we apply an orientation-isotropy adaptive filter to the gradient field, suppressing the gradients in the noise regions while enhancing along the object boundaries. Thus we obtain a modulated gradient field, which is usually not integrable. We reconstruct the enhanced image from the modulated gradient field with least square errors by solving a Poisson equation. This method can enhance the object contrast uniformly, suppress the noise with no artifacts, and avoid setting stopping time as in PDE methods. Experiments on noisy images show the efficacy of our method.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2006 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2006 - Proceedings
Pages2893-2896
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2006 - Atlanta, GA, United States
Duration: Oct 8 2006Oct 11 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Other

Other2006 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta, GA
Period10/8/0610/11/06

Keywords

  • Gradient methods
  • Image enhancement
  • Medical image processing
  • Partial differential equations

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing

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