Abstract
Palmprint identification system is one of the most powerful personal identification systems in recent years. In order to achieve high identification accuracy, all parts of the palmprint are needed to be enhanced. Histogram equalisation is a very popular image enhancing technique. A novel histogram equalisation technique, called recursive\\ histogram equalisation, for brightness preservation and image contrast enhancement, is put forward in this paper. The essence of proposed algorithm is to decompose an input histogram into two or more sub-histograms recursively based on its mean, change the sub-histograms through a weighting process based on a normalised power law function and then equalise the weighted sub-histograms independently. Experiments show that our method preserves the mean brightness of a given image, enhances the contrast and produces more natural looking images than the other histogram equalisation methods.
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