CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT OF IMAGES USING IMAGE FUSION BASED ON LAPLACIAN PYRAMID

Abstract

The goal of contrast enhancement is to improve visibility of image details without introducing unrealistic
visual appearances or unwanted artefacts, this article presents a fusion-based contrast enhancement technique i.e.
LAPLACIAN PYRAMID. The basic idea is to perform a pyramid decomposition on each source image, then integrate all
these decompositions to form a composite representation, and finally reconstruct the fused image by performing an
inverse pyramid transform. The image is created after the fusion is more suitable for image processing task such as
segmentation, object recognition, its main application in remote sensing, medical imaging, military and law enforcement,
intelligent robots.