Digital Image Processing: Image Enhancement in the Spatial Domain

CSC447: Digital Image
Processing
Chapter 3: Image Enhancement in the
Spatial Domain
Prof. Dr. Mostafa Gadal-Haqq M. Mostafa
Computer Science Department
Faculty of Computer & Information Sciences
AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY

Pixel (Point) Operations
 The intensity transformation operations
always obey the equation:
s = T( r )
 r: the input pixel intensity
 s: the output pixel intensity
 T: the operation
 For example:
 Image Thresholding
2CSC447: Digital Image Processing Prof. Dr. Mostafa GadalHaqq.

Some Point Transforms
 Image Binarisation
 Converting image to Black & White
 Image Thresholding
 S = ?

 Image Negatives
s = L - 1 - r

 Power-Law Transformations
s = c r

 Gamma Correction
s = c r

 Power-Law Transformations

 Piecewise-Linear Transformation Functions

 Transformation Functions for Intensity Range

Contrast Stretching
 Contrast Stretching:
Contrast stretching is another way to
enhance the image contrast by stretching the
gray levels in the image over the dynamic
range of the gray scale.

Contrast Stretching
1. Contrast stretching.
or

Contrast Stretching
1. Contrast stretching.

Histogram-based Operations
 What is image histogram?
 The histogram of an image or a region, h(r ) is a
function whose domain is the gray levels and its
codomain is the frequency of occurrence of those
gray levels in the image or the region.
 The histogram is computed by counting the
number of times that each brightness (gray level)
occurs in the image or the region.
 That is: h(r ) = nr = no. of pixels with intensity g
 The normalized histogram is h(r ) = nr /n; where
n is the total number of pixels in the image

 Examples of image histograms:

 Examples of image
histograms:

1. Histogram Equalization:
Histogram equalization is a way to enhance
the image contrast by extending the image
intensity over the full dynamic range of the
gray scale.

1. (Continuous) Histogram Equalization.

1. (Discrete) Histogram Equalization.
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1. Histogram Equalization.

1. Local Histogram Equalization.

1. Histogram Equalization.

 Histogram equalization (Matlab)

Original Histogram Equalization Contrast stretching

Arithmetic/Logic Operations
Logical Operators

Image Averaging
 Consider a noisy image g(x, y) formed by the addition
of noise (x, y) to an original image f(x, y); That is:
 If the noise is uncorrelated, we can remove the noise
by averaging K noisy images
where

Image Averaging
 where E{g(x, y)} is the expected value
of g(x, y) at coordinates (x, y).
 The standard deviation at any
point in the average image is
 As K increase the variability
(noise) in the pixel value decrease

Image Averaging
 where E{g(x, y)} is the expected
value of g(x, y) at coordinates (x, y).
 The standard deviation at any
point in the average image is

Local Operations
Convolution and
Image Filtering

Spatial Filtering: Foundations
 Linear Filtering:
Using convolution
Filter, mask, filter
Mask, kernel, window
a=(m-1)/2 and b=(n-1)/2

Spatial Filtering : Smoothing
 Smoothing/Average Filtering:
Also called lowpass filter
Weighted averageAverage

Spatial Filtering: Smoothing
 Smoothing/Average
Filtering:

Spatial Filtering: Smoothing
 Smoothing/Average Filtering:

Spatial Filtering: Median
 Order-Statistics Filtering:
 Median (Nonlinear) filter

Spatial Filtering: Sharpening
 Foundation: Image Derivative

 Foundation: Image Derivative

 Sharpening using the Laplacian filter

 The Laplacian Mask

 Sharpening Using The Laplacian Filters

 Unsharp Masking
 High Boost Filters
Blurred Image

 High-Boost Filters

Spatial Filtering: Edge Detection
 Robert & Sobel Filters

HW2
 3.2, 3.4, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.17

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