A Study on Histogram Equalization Techniques for Underwater Image Enhancement

Authors

  • Althaf SK  Department of ECE, ESWAR college of Engineering , Narasaraopet, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • John Basha SK  Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, ESWAR college of Engineering , Narasaraopet , Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Munwar Ali Shaik  

Keywords:

Underwater images, Image enhancement, Histogram of color images

Abstract

The Most important attributes to acquire and extract more information from underwater images are color and contrast. But most of the underwater images are suffered from poor illumination due to ocean depth and color degradation. This paper mainly focus on brief study of different Histogram based equalization techniques for improving the color and contrast of underwater images. In this paper we have studied Histogram equalization (HE), Adaptive Histogram equalization (AHE), Contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) techniques. Finally by comparing the experimental results the CLAHE technique give better results.

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2017-10-31

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Volume 2, Issue 5, September-October-2017

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Althaf SK, John Basha SK, Munwar Ali Shaik, " A Study on Histogram Equalization Techniques for Underwater Image Enhancement, IInternational Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology(IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 2, Issue 5, pp.210-216, September-October-2017.