Image enhancement techniques

Image Enhancement
Image Enhancement is the process of manipulating an
image so that the result is more suitable than the
original for a specific application.
Image enhancement can be done in :
Point operations
Mask Operations
Spatial Domain
Frequency Domain
 Spatial Domain Transformation are :
DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING 2

Point Operation
Examples:
 Image Negative.
 Contrast Stretching.
 Thresholding.
 Brightness Enhancement.
 Log Transformation.
 Power Law Transformation.
Operation deals with pixel intensity values individually.
The intensity values are altered using particular
transformation techniques as per the requirement.
The transformed output pixel value does not depend on
any of the neighbouring pixel value of the input image.

Mask Operation
 Mask is a small matrix useful for blurring, sharpening,
edge-detection and more.
New image is generated by multiplying the input image
with the mask matrix.
The output pixel values thus depend on the
neighbouring input pixel values.
The mask may be of any dimension 3X3 4X4 ….

Mask Operation
X

Transfer function for different Intensity
Transformations
Transfer function of
a) Negative
b) Log
c) Nth root
d) Identity
e) Nth power
f) Inverse logDIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING 6

Image Negative
 Negative images are useful for enhancing white or grey
detail embedded in dark regions of an image.
 The negative of an image with gray levels in the range
[0,L-1] is obtained by using the expression
s = L -1 - r
L-1 = Maximum pixel value .
r = Pixel value of an image.

Image Negative
Original Image Image negative

Image Negative
Matlab code : % program for image enhancement using image negative
clear all
clc
close all
a=imread('clown.png');
[m,n]=size(a);
for i=1:1:m
for j=1:1:n
b(i,j)=255-a(i,j);
end
end
subplot(1,2,1),subimage((a)),title('Original Image');
subplot(1,2,2),subimage((b)),title('Image after image
negative transformation')

Image Negative
Output screen:

Contrast Stretching
 Contrast stretching is done in three ways:
 Multiplying each input pixel intensity value with a
constant scalar.
Example: s=2*r
Using Histogram Equivalent
Applying a transform which makes dark portion darker
by assigning slope of < 1 and bright portion brighter by
assigning slope of > 1.
 Contrast basically the difference between the intensity
values of darker and brighter pixels .
 Contrast stretching expands the range of intensity levels
in an image.

Contrast Stretching (Using Transfer Function)
Formulation is given below:
s = l*r ; for 0 <= r <= a
= m(r-a) + v ; for a < r <= b
= n(r-b) + w ; for b < rDIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING 12

Contrast Stretching
Original Image Contrast Enhanced Image

Contrast Stretching
Matlab code: % program to increase the contrast of an image
x=input('Enter the factor which contrast should be
increased');
[m,n]=size(a);
for i=1:1:m
for j=1:1:n
b(i,j)=a(i,j)*x;
end
end
subplot(1,2,1),subimage(a),title('Original Image');
subplot(1,2,2),subimage(b),title('contrast
Image'),xlabel(sprintf('Contrast increased by a factor of
%g',x));
Contrast Stretching By Multiplication of each pixel with a scalar.

Contrast Stretching
Output screen:

Contrast Stretching
Matlab code: % program to increase the contrast of an image
x=input('Enter the factor which contrast should be
increased');
[m,n]=size(a);
for i=1:1:m
for j=1:1:n
if(a(i,j)<50)
b(i,j)=a(i,j);%slope of transfer function between i/p
and o/p is 1
elseif (a(i,j)>200)
b(i,j)=a(i,j);
else
b(i,j)=a(i,j)*x;%slope of transfer function between i/p
and o/p is x.Hence contrast of some particular pixel value
range increased
Contrast Stretching by using threshold function.

Contrast Stretching
Matlab code:
end
end
end
Image'),xlabel(sprintf('Contrast increased by a factor of %g
in the range 50 to 200',x));

Contrast Stretching
Output screen:

Contrast Stretching
Matlab code : % program to increase the contrast of an image by histogram
equivalent
b=histeq(a);
Image'),xlabel(sprintf('Contrast increased by Histogram
equivalent'));
subplot(2,2,3),imhist(a),title('Histogram of Original Image');
subplot(2,2,4),imhist(b),title('Histogram of Contrast Image');
Contrast Stretching By Histogram Equalisation.

Contrast Stretching
Output screen :

Thresholding
 Extreme Contrast Stretching yields Thresholding.
 Thresholded image has maximum contrast as it has
only BLACK & WHITE gray values.
 In Contrast Stretching figure, if l & n slope are made
ZERO & if m slope is increased then we get
Thresholding Transformation
 If r1 = r2, s1 = 0 & s2 = L-1 ,then we get Thresholding
function.

Expression goes as under:
s = 0; if r = a
s = L – 1 ; if r >a
where, L is number of
gray levels.
Thresholding Function

Thresholding
Original Image Transformed Image

Thresholding
Matlab code: % program for image thresholding
a=imread('pout.tif');
[m,n]=size(a);
for i=1:1:m
for j=1:1:n
if(a(i,j)<125)
b(i,j)=0;%pixel values below 125 are mapped to zero
else
b(i,j)=255;%pixel values equal or above 125 are mapped to 255
end
end
end
subplot(1,2,2),subimage(b),title('threshold Image');

Thresholding
Output screen:

Brightness Enhancement
Brightness Enhancement is shifting of intensity
values to a higher level.
The darker and the lighter pixels both get their
values shifted by some constant value.
 Example : In x-ray images brightness can be
enhanced to find the darker spots.

Matlab code : % program to increase the brightness of an image
x=input('Enter the factor which brightness should be increased');
[m,n]=size(a);
for i=1:1:m
for j=1:1:n
b(i,j)=a(i,j)+x;
end
end
subplot(1,2,2),subimage(b),title('Brighter
Image'),xlabel(sprintf('Brightness increased by a factor of %g',x));

Output screen:

The log transformation is given by the expression
s = c log(1 + r)
where c is a constant and it is assumed that r≥0.
 This transformation maps a narrow range of low-
level grey scale intensities into a wider range of
output values.
Similarly maps the wide range of high-level grey scale
intensities into a narrow range of high level output
values.
This transform is used to expand values of dark pixels
and compress values of bright pixels.
Log Transformation

Logarithmic Transformation Contd…
Original Image Transformed Image

Log Transformation
Matlab code: % program for image enhancement using logarithmic
transformation
A=input('Enter the value of constant A');
a=imread('clown.jpg');
a=rgb2gray(a);
[m,n]=size(a);
a=double(a);
for i=1:1:m
for j=1:1:n
b(i,j)=A*log(1+a(i,j));
end
end
figure,subplot(1,2,1),subimage(uint8(a)),title('Original Image');
subplot(1,2,2),subimage(uint8(b)),title('Image after logarithmic
transformation'),xlabel(sprintf('Constant is %g',A));

Log Transformation
Output screen:

Power Law Transformation
s = c *(r γ )
Expression for power law transformation is given by:
s is the output pixels value.
r is the input pixel value.
c and γ are real numbers.
For various values of γ different levels of
enhancements can be obtained.
 This technique is quite commonly called as Gamma
Correction , used in monitor displays.

Different display monitors display images at different
intensities and clarity because every monitor has built-in
gamma correction in it with certain gamma ranges .
A good monitor automatically corrects all the images
displayed on it for the best contrast to give user the best
experience.
The difference between the log-transformation function
and the power-law functions is that using the power-law
function a family of possible transformation curves can
be obtained just by varying the γ .

A
DC
B
A : original
image
For c=1
B : γ =3.0
C : γ =4.0
D : γ =5.0

Matlab code:
% program for image enhancement using power law
A=input('Enter the value of constant A');
x=input('Enter the value of power x');
[m,n]=size(a);
for i=1:1:m
for j=1:1:n
b(i,j)=A*(a(i,j)^x);
end
end
subplot(1,2,2),subimage(b),title('Image after power law
transformation'),xlabel(sprintf('Constant is %gnPower is
%g',A,x));

Output screen:

References:
 Digital Image Processing by Gonzalez And Woods.
 Wikipedia
Matlab Help

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