IMAGE_CONTRAST
Enhance Contrast in an Image


IMAGE_CONTRAST, a MATLAB program which carries out a simple contrast enhancement operation on an image.

Note that MATLAB's image processing toolbox includes functions such as nlfilter() which can do a more sophisticated treatment of images. But the purpose of this example is to demonstrate the process of image enhancement in a way that is clear enough to understand quickly.

For a gray-scale image, the function has the form:

function gray_enhanced = contrast_gray ( gray, s )
where

The corresponding function contrast_rgb() operates on RGB images.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

IMAGE_CONTRAST is available in a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

CONTRAST_SPMD, a MATLAB program which demonstrates the SPMD parallel programming feature for a image operations; the client reads an image, the workers process portions of it to enhance the contrast, and the client assembles and displays the results.

CONTRAST2_SPMD, a MATLAB program which demonstrates the SPMD parallel programming feature for image operations; this improves the contrast_spmd program by allowing the workers to share some data; this makes it possible to eliminate artificial "seams" in the processed image.

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    image_contrast_test

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    IMAGE_NOISE, MATLAB programs which add noise to an image.

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    IMAGE_RGB_TO_GRAY, MATLAB programs which makes a grayscale version of an RGB image.

    IMAGE_THRESHOLD, MATLAB programs which make a black and white version of a grayscale image by setting all pixels below or above a threshold value to black or white.

    Reference:

    MathWorks documentation for the Image Processing Toolbox is available at http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/pdf_doc/images/images_tb.pdf.

    Source Code:

    Examples and Tests:

    SURFSUP is a grayscale image.

    UNDERWATER_BMX is an RGB image. Note that attempts to increase the blurriness of this image using a value of S less than 1 didn't seem to have much effect.


    Last revised on 25 December 2010.