Natural Color Image Enhancement based on Modified Multiscale Retinex Algorithm and Performance Evaluation usingWavelet Energy
M. C Hanumantharaju, M. Ravishankar, D. R Rameshbabu

TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel color image enhancement method using a modified Multiscale Retinex algorithm combined with a wavelet energy-based quality assessment, demonstrating superior visual quality and effective detail preservation.
Contribution
It proposes a new enhancement technique that integrates modified MSR with multiscale processing and introduces a wavelet energy metric for quality evaluation.
Findings
Enhanced images show improved contrast and detail preservation.
Wavelet energy correlates well with perceived image quality.
Proposed method outperforms existing enhancement techniques.
Abstract
This paper presents a new color image enhancement technique based on modified MultiScale Retinex(MSR) algorithm and visual quality of the enhanced images are evaluated using a new metric, namely, wavelet energy. The color image enhancement is achieved by down sampling the value component of HSV color space converted image into three scales (normal, medium and fine) following the contrast stretching operation. These down sampled value components are enhanced using the MSR algorithm. The value component is reconstructed by averaging each pixels of the lower scale image with that of the upper scale image subsequent to up sampling the lower scale image. This process replaces dark pixel by the average pixels of both the lower scale and upper scale, while retaining the bright pixels. The quality of the reconstructed images in the proposed method is found to be good and far better then the…
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