A Simple Algorithm to Strengthen the Brightness of Color Images

Abstract

This paper puts forward a simple algorithm to make color images lighter based on Wavelet transformation and histogram smoothing. This algorithm uses HIS space which is based on human visual features. Without changing hue, it can conduct histogram smoothing in low brightness frequency domain through wavelet decomposition and make the images lighter, which at the same time avoids vagueness of details and increase of noises. According to experiment results, this algorithm can make low brightness color images lighter effectively with low time complexity.