基于多尺度Retinex的自适应图像增强方法

介绍了一种基于MSR的自适应图像增强的方法,能够较好地自动处理由于云雾、雨天等天气原因和光照不足导致的景物不清、视觉质量差和对比度低的图像,提升多种类型的图像视觉质量.通过对实验的结果以及算法的普适性进行比较和分析,证明了该方法是有效的.     

基于超像素暗通道和自动色阶优化的图像去雾算法

针对暗通道先验(dark channel prior, DCP)复原图像中的光晕现象、明亮区域色彩失真、环境光估计不准确等问题,提出了基于超像素暗通道和自动色阶优化的单幅图像去雾算法。首先,由改进的White Patch Retinex算法增强图像并计算精确环境光。接着,在传统暗通道去雾算法中引入超像素图像分割和引导滤波算法,使透射率估计的稳健性与精确性得以提升。然后,采用自适应容差对明亮区域的透射率进行补偿,有效抑制明亮区域色彩失真问题。最后,以自动色阶优化算法提高图像对比度。将本文去雾算法与其他算法从主观和客观两个维度进行比较,实验结果表明：采用不同算法对不同浓度的自然雾图进行对比实验,信息熵提高0.2 bit,峰值信噪比(peak signal-to-noise ratio,PSNR)提高0.8 dB,运行效率提高。该算法对不同浓度含雾图像具有良好的适应性,复原图像色彩真实、纹理清晰、细节丰富,去雾效果良好。     

Global attention retinex network for low light image enhancement

Most low-light image enhancement methods only adjust the brightness, contrast and noise reduction of low-light images, making it difficult to recover the lost information in darker areas of the image, and even cause color distortion and blurring. To solve the above problems, a global attention-based Retinex network (GARN) for low-light image enhancement is proposed in this paper. We propose a novel global attention module which computes multiple dimensional information in the channel attention module to help facilitate inference learning. Then the global attention module is embedded into different layers of the network to extract richer shallow texture features and deep semantic features. This means that the rich features are more conducive to learning the mapping relationship between low-light images to normal-light images, so that the detail recovery of dark regions is enhanced in low-light images. We also collected a low/normal light image dataset with multiple scenes, in which the images paired as training set can succeed to be applied to low-light image enhancement under different lighting conditions. Experimental results on publicly available datasets show that our method has better effectiveness and generality than the state-of-the-art methods in terms of evaluations metrics such as PSNR, SSIM, NIQE, Entropy.     

Algorithmic and architectural design for real-time and power-efficient Retinex image/video processing

This paper presents novel algorithmic and architectural solutions for real-time and power-efficient enhancement of images and video sequences. A programmable class of Retinex-like filters, based on the separation of the illumination and reflectance components, is proposed. The dynamic range of the input image is controlled by applying a suitable non-linear function to the illumination, while the details are enhanced by processing the reflectance. An innovative spatially recursive rational filter is used to estimate the illumination. Moreover, to improve the visual quality results of two-branch Retinex operators when applied to videos, a novel three-branch technique is proposed which exploits both spatial and temporal filtering. Real-time implementation is obtained by designing an Application Specific Instruction-set Processor (ASIP). Optimizations are addressed at algorithmic and architectural levels. The former involves arithmetic accuracy definition and linearization of non-linear operators; the latter includes customized instruction set, dedicated memory structure, adapted pipeline, bypasses, custom address generator, and special looping structures. The ASIP is synthesized in standard-cells CMOS technology and its performances are compared to known Digital signal processor (DSP) implementations of real-time Retinex filters. As a result of the comparison, the proposed algorithmic/architectural design outperforms state-of-art Retinex-like operators achieving the best trade-off between power consumption, flexibility, and visual quality.

一种新的低照度彩色图像增强算法*

为了增强彩色图像而不引起色彩失真,在HSV颜色空间中保持色相不变,提出了采用分段对数变换增强饱和度结合在多尺度Retinex算法的基础上,采用边缘保持增强色调的低照度彩色图像增强算法。实验结果表明,该方法在保持图像色相和图像边缘的情况下,显著改善了图像的视觉效果,提高了图像的亮度和对比度。25幅低照度图像的平均亮度、标准偏差和对比度分别提高了94.95%、20.93%和29.88%,相对于带色彩恢复的多尺度Retinex算法的熵和对比度增量分别提高了7.34%和151.51%,效果优于Retinex算法。     

一种图像去薄雾方法

雾是常见的一种自然现象，它将使所拍摄到的图像模糊不清。将雾对景物的退化作用等效成照度变化的结果，根据Retinex理论及有雾图像直方图的特点，分析了MSR算法，采用正态截取拉伸对其输出图像进行处理，取得了较好的图像去薄雾效果。     

基于三边滤波的Retinex图像去雾算法

针对传统Retinex算法采用高斯滤波估计图像的照射分量易产生边缘模糊,不能有效去除脉冲噪声且处理后的图像颜色易失真等问题,提出一种基于三边滤波的Retinex图像去雾算法。该算法利用三边滤波器估计图像的照射分量,三边滤波器继承了双边滤波器既可以有效降低图像加性高斯噪声又可以保持图像边缘细节的特性,同时又解决了双边滤波器与高斯滤波器不能有效滤除脉冲噪声,易产生伪边缘等问题。为验证该算法的有效性,采用5种不同的客观评价参数对处理后的图像进行评价。实验证明,该算法能有效地改善雾天图像的退化现象,提高图像的清晰度。     

梯度稀疏和最小平方约束下的低照度图像分解及细节增强

低照度图像存在细节模糊、对比度低等问题.针对这些问题,本文提出一种低照度彩色图像增强算法.首先建立梯度稀疏和最小平方约束模型,将图像分解为结构层和细节层;然后采用提出的多尺度边缘保护细节增强算法强化图像的细节信息并滤波;最后把细节增强的图像经改进的Retinex算法映射,最终得到细节增强、亮度适宜、对比度较强的修复图像.实验结果表明,主观上：图像细节增强,亮度适宜;客观上：结构层图像的一维像素线性图显示其平滑特性效果较好,细节增强图的NIQE（5.5202）、BRISQE（31.1893）和PSNR（25.3625）特征较好,修复图像的熵值（7.4421）、边缘强度（128.3231）和平均亮度（121.1827）较好.本文算法实现了对低照度图像的有效分解及细节增强,并提高了图像综合质量.     

Retinex和小波变换去除遥感图像云雾方法分析

基于遥感图像中的云和景物信息频率分布特征,介绍了改进的Retinex方法和小波变换两种去云方法的基本原理,并结合实验分析两种方法的优缺点。Retinex算法对较暗区域的图像处理有明显效果,改进的Retinex方法则是基于经典Retinex,对具有较高亮度的遥感图像通过图像变换方法达到去云的目的。小波变换方法是将图片进行适当层次的小波变换,增大低层细节系数,突出景物信息,减小高层细节系数,适当减小近似系数,最后将所有系数重构,得到重构图像。实验结果评价及数据表明:基于小波变换方法优于Retinex方法。