An Image Enhancement Algorithm with Guided Filtering in Non-Subsampled Shearlet Transform Domains Based on Artificial Bee Colony Optimization[J]. 2015, 49(6): 39-45.
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An Image Enhancement Algorithm with Guided Filtering in Non-Subsampled Shearlet Transform Domains Based on Artificial Bee Colony Optimization[J]. 2015, 49(6): 39-45.DOI: 10.7652/xjtuxb201506007.
An Image Enhancement Algorithm with Guided Filtering in Non-Subsampled Shearlet Transform Domains Based on Artificial Bee Colony Optimization
An improved image enhancement algorithm with guided filtering— ABCO-NSST-GF is proposed to solve the shortcomings of existing image enhancement algorithms in edge preservation and anti-noise performance. The NSST decomposes an input image into a low-frequency component and several high-frequency components
and then the guided filtering is utilized to enhance the low-frequency coefficients to avoid amplifying noises in the process of image enhancement. The high-frequency coefficients are transformed by a nonlinear gain function so that the edges and details are enhanced while the noise is suppressed. Finally
the resultant image is reconstructed by applying the inverse NSST to the processed low-frequency coefficients and high-frequency coefficients. Since the box filter radius and regularization parameter of guided filtering have significant influences on enhancement effects
the chaotic bee colony optimization algorithm is adopted to find their optimal values for best enhancement effects. Experiments on about 70 practical engineering images show that the ABCO-NSST-GF algorithm significantly improves visual effects. Comparisons with 4 existing algorithms such as adaptive threshold algorithm based on NSCT show that the quantitative evaluation indicators of the ABCO-NSST-GF algorithm such as definition
contrast and entropy get about 25.2% average improvement
while a comparison with the spatial guided filtering enhancement algorithm shows that the proposed algorithm has a 20.9% improvement in PSNR.
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