Meriama Mahamdioua; Mohamed Benmohammed

New Mean-Variance Gamma Method for Automatic Gamma Correction

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Meriama Mahamdioua ^1,* Mohamed Benmohammed ²

1. TLSI Department, NTIC faculty, University of Constantine 2, Algeria

2. LIRE Laboratory, University of Constantine 2, Algeria

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2017.03.05

Received: 18 Nov. 2016 / Revised: 24 Dec. 2016 / Accepted: 7 Feb. 2017 / Published: 8 Mar. 2017

Index Terms

Gamma value estimation, Correction of gamma, Improving image quality, Mean, Variance

Abstract

Gamma correction is an interesting method for improving image quality in uncontrolled illumination conditions case. This paper presents a new technique called Mean-Variance Gamma (MV-Gamma), which is used for estimating automatically the amount of gamma correction, in the absence of any information about environmental light and imaging device. First, we valued every row and column of image pixels matrix as a random variable, where we can calculate a feature vector of means/variances of image rows and columns. After that, we applied a range of inverse gamma values on the input image, and we calculated the feature vector, for each inverse gamma value, to compare it with the target one defined from statistics of good-light images. The inverse gamma value which gave a minimum Euclidean distance between the image feature vector and the target one was selected. Experiments results, on various test images, confirmed the superiority of the proposed method compared with existing tested ones.

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Meriama Mahamdioua, Mohamed Benmohammed,"New Mean-Variance Gamma Method for Automatic Gamma Correction", International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing(IJIGSP), Vol.9, No.3, pp.41-54, 2017. DOI: 10.5815/ijigsp.2017.03.05

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