DWT and P C a Based Image Enhancement with local Neighborhood filter Mask

Abstract

In this letter, a new satellite image contrast enhance- ment technique based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and singular value decomposition has been proposed. The tech- nique decomposes the input image into the four frequency sub- bands by using DWT and estimates the singular value matrix of the low-low subband image, and, then, it reconstructs the en- hanced image by applying inverse DWT. The technique is com- pared with conventional image equalization techniques such as standard general histogram equalization and local histogram equalization, as well as state-of-the-art techniques such as bright- ness preserving dynamic histogram equalization and singular value equalization. The experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method over conventional and state-of-the-art techniques.