Contrast Adjustment - Image Enhancement in Spatial Domain - Image Processing | Summary and Q&A

TL;DR

This content discusses the technique of contrast adjustment or contrast stretching for enhancing image quality in the spatial domain.

Key Insights

• ❓ Contrast adjustment is a promising technique for image enhancement in the spatial domain, utilizing piecewise linear functions.
• 🧡 Changing contrast alters the range of luminance values, resulting in better visualization and brightness enhancement.
• ⏮️ Contrast adjustment is a complementary approach, offering more flexibility and complexity compared to previous intensity transformation methods.
• 🎮 Different values of r1, s1, r2, and s2 in the transformation function control the shape and nature of contrast stretching, affecting the spread of gray levels in the output image.
• 😘 Contrast stretching can improve the dynamic range of gray levels in low contrast images, offering better visualization and analysis capabilities.
• 🎭 The thresholding operation can be performed after contrast stretching to create a binary image by discarding certain intensity levels.
• 🛟 Preserving the order of gray levels and preventing intensity artifacts are essential considerations while performing contrast adjustment.

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Questions & Answers

Q: What is image enhancement in spatial domain?

Image enhancement in spatial domain refers to improving picture quality by making changes directly on the image plane itself, considering human vision perception.

Q: What are intensity transformations and spatial filtering?

Intensity transformations involve determining new intensity values based on pixel values, while spatial filtering determines new intensity values based on neighborhood intensity values of the original image.

Q: How is contrast adjustment different from other intensity transformations?

Contrast adjustment is a complementary approach to intensity transformations, utilizing piecewise linear functions. It allows for arbitrary complexity in the operation compared to previous types of functions.

Q: How does contrast adjustment work in simple terms?

In simple contrast adjustment, the input image's pixel intensities are scaled by a constant value, k, through multiplication. Each pixel's intensity is multiplied, resulting in a new intensity level and an enhanced output image.

Summary & Key Takeaways

• Image enhancement in spatial domain focuses on improving picture quality based on human vision perception.

• The content explores intensity transformations and spatial filtering as fundamental areas of image enhancement.

• It covers methods like image negative, log transformation, power law transformation, and demonstrates their practical implementation using MATLAB for brightness enhancement and separation.