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Local neighbourhood image properties for exposure region determination method in nonuniform illumination images

cris.virtual.department Universiti Malaysia Perlis
cris.virtualsource.department e1d43257-6f17-4e8c-a73d-8108b2cc978c
dc.contributor.author Nor Hidayah Saad
dc.contributor.author Nor Ashidi Mat Isa
dc.contributor.author Abdullah Amer Mohammed Salih
dc.date.accessioned 2025-12-16T02:05:56Z
dc.date.available 2025-12-16T02:05:56Z
dc.date.issued 2020-04
dc.description.abstract During image acquisition, nonuniform illumination regions are produced due to several factors, such as improper environment lighting and inappropriate capturing device setting. Applying contrast enhancement methods with the same enhancement concept to the whole image can over enhance or under enhance nonuniform illumination image. Thus, different and specific enhancement concepts should be applied to different regions in nonuniform illumination image. This concept requires identification of those different regions. Almost all existing methods that introduced the region determination process can only detect two different regions, namely, dark and bright, which inadequately represent the real exposure condition because the methods only consider intensity criteria to determine the regions. For this problem, a new method used for the accurate detection of nonuniform illumination regions is proposed. Different illumination levels affect not only the intensity but also the details in an image. Thus, three image attributes, namely, intensity, entropy and contrast, which are evaluated locally in detecting the regions, must be considered. For the detection to be on par with that in humans, the three attributes are combined with a rule-based method for the identification of illumination regions. Experimental results involving evaluation from research experts demonstrate that the proposed method qualitatively detects different illumination regions (i.e., over-exposed, well-exposed and under-exposed) in a nonuniform illumination image more accurate than the state-of-the-art methods.
dc.identifier.doi 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2990730
dc.identifier.uri https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9079502
dc.identifier.uri https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14170/15490
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher IEEE
dc.relation.ispartof IEEE Access
dc.relation.issn 2169-3536
dc.subject Exposure region determination
dc.subject Image contrast
dc.subject Image entropy
dc.subject Image intensity
dc.subject Nonuniform illumination image
dc.title Local neighbourhood image properties for exposure region determination method in nonuniform illumination images
dc.type journal-article
dspace.entity.type Publication
oaire.citation.endPage 79997
oaire.citation.startPage 79977
oaire.citation.volume 8
oairecerif.author.affiliation Universiti Malaysia Perlis
oairecerif.author.affiliation Universiti Sains Malaysia
oairecerif.author.affiliation Universiti Sains Malaysia
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