Lec 8 - Image Enhancement Flashcards
Applied to more effectively displayed or record the image data for subsequent visual interpretation.
Image Enhancement
It is improving the perception of information in images for human viewers and providing better input for the further image processing techniques.
Image Enhancement
Commonly applied to remotely sensed data to improve the appearance of an image and a new enhanced image is produced. The enhanced image is generally easier to interpret than the original image.
Image Enhancement
Image Enhancement Process Flow (3)
(1) Input Image
(2) Application of Enhancement Techniques
(3) Better Image
Examples of Enhancement Techniques (2)
(1) Noise Removal,
(2) Contrast Adjustment
Enhancement Methods (3)
(1) Linear Contrast Stretching,
(2) Histogram Equalization
(3) Spatial Filtering
A common image processing technique used to improve the visual quality of digital images. It does not alter the shape of the original histogram but focuses on expanding the intensity range to enhance contrast within the existing data.
Linear Contrast Stretching
How Linear Contrast Stretching Works (3)
(1) Analyze the histogram of image.
(2) Identifying Minimum and Maximum Intensity Values
(3) Stretching the Intensity Range.
Linear Contrast Stretching Formula
NewPixelValue
= (OriginalPixelValue - Min) * (NewMax NewMin) / (Max - Min) + NewMin
Wherein :
Original Pixel Value - The original intensity value of a pixel.
Min - The minimum intensity value in the image.
Max - The maximum intensity value in the image.
NewMin - The desired minimum intensity value (usually 0).
NewMax - The desired maximum intensity value (usually 255 for
8-bit images).
A uniform distribution of the input range of values across the full range may not be always be an appropriate enhancement, particularly if the input range is not uniformly distributed.
Histogram Equalization
It assigns more display values (range) to the frequently occurring portion of the histogram. It stretches the histogram of an image so that it covers the entire available intensity range, making the image more visually appealing.
Histogram Equalization
A technique used in image enhancement to modify the pixel values of an image based on the values of neighboring pixels. It is designed to highlight or suppress specific features on an image base on their Spatial Frequency.
Spatial Filtering
Spatial Filtering Purposes (3)
(1) Noise Reduction
(2) Edge Detection
(3) Image Sharpening
Spatial Filtering can be classified into two:
(1) High Pass Filter
(2) Low Pass Filter
Designed to emphasize a larger, homogenous areas of similar tone and reduce the smaller details in an image. This generally serve to smooth the appearance of an image. Average and median filters, often for radar imagery.
Low Pass Filter
Serve to sharpen the appearance of fine detail in an image. One implementation of this filter first applies a low pass filter to an image and then subtracts the result from the original, leaving behind only the high spatial frequency information.
High Pass Filter
Spectral information of the object recorded in multiple bands.
Satellite Images
These images may be separate spectral bands from a single multi spectral data set, or they may be individual bands from data sets that have been recorded at different dates or using different sensors.
Satellite Images
Multi-band Operations (6)
(1) The use of ratio images to reduce topographic effects.
(2) Vegetation indexes, some of which are more complex than ratios only
(3) Multi-band statistics.
(4) Principal components analysis.
(5) Image algebra
(6) Image fusion
When a satellite passes over an area with relief, it records both…
shaded and sunlit areas
In the individual Landsat-TM bands 3 and 4, the DNS of the silt stone are… However, the ratio values are…
lower in the shaded than in the sunlit areas.
nearly identical, irrespective of illumination conditions.