Research was conducted in a forest adjacent to an abandoned acid mine tailings site to assess forest structural health using high spatial and spectral resolution digital camera imagery. Conventional approaches to this problem involve the use image spectral information, basic spectral transformations, or occasionally spatial transformations of image brightness. This research introduces fractiona...

color halftoning, halftone noise reduction, color saturation Current methodologies for color image halftoning produce prominent halftoning noise. In this paper we argue that brightness variation between color dots placed at neighboring locations is a major cause of color halftone noise. To correct this flaw we propose Ink Relocation, a postprocess to arbitrary color halftoning algorithms. The p...

The performance of single crystal YAG:Ce (Y3Al5O12 ) beam profile monitors was studied for transverse measurements on the high brightness ultrarelativistic electron beam at Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at BNL. The test demonstrated systematic intensity dependent beam image enlargement on YAG monitors, compare to other diagnostics. Possible mechanisms of the effect have been studied. The quan...

Many vision applications require precise measurement of scene radiance. The function relating scene radiance to image brightness is called the camera response. We analyze the properties that all camera responses share. This allows us to find the constraints that any response function must satisfy. These constraints determine the theoretical space of all possible camera responses. We have collec...

In this paper, we introduce a method for recovering an illumination distribution of a scene from image brightness inside shadows cast by an object of known shape in the scene. In a natural illumination condition, a scene includes both direct and indirect illumination distributed in a complex way, and it is often difficult to recover an illumination distribution from image brightness observed on...

In this memo we present a method for deconvolving the primary beam response from interferometric images of astronomical sources. The measured primary beam may be time variable, non axi-symmetric and different at each station in the interferometer array. The method is a simple extrapolation of existing software which subtracts a model of the sky brightness distribution from uv data. After subtra...

Input images that are captured by remote sensing devices are sometimes not really in good brightness and con-trast. Therefore, a process known as a digital image contrast enhancement is normally required to increase the quality of these low Contrast images. Histogram Equalization (HE) has been an essential addition to the Image Enhancement world and other Enhancement techniques like Classical H...

-Contrast enhancement is an important factor in the gray scale images. One of the widely accepted contrast enhancement method is the Histogram equalization (HE). HE achieves comparatively better performance on almost all types of image but sometimes produces excessive visual deterioration. The proposed Contrast Enhancement using Brightness Preserving Histogram Plateau Limit (CEBPHPL) method pro...

Usually the images taken by digital cameras are different from the original true color image in terms of color and brightness of the scene captured. Various factors like non uniform illumination, color of ambient light, low or high contrast, and over exposure or under exposure of some specific regions may leads to poor contrast which is annoying to human visual system. Thus, enhancement methods...

The histogram equalization (HE) method is widely used for image contrast enhancement. While it can enhance the overall contrast, the inherent dependence of its transformation function on the global content of the image limits its ability to enhance local details at the same time. Furthermore, using the method to reform the image histogram into a uniform one usually results in a significant chan...