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IMAGE ENHANCEMENT IN THE SPATIAL DOMAIN

Unit structure :

3.0 Objectives
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Basic Grey Level Transform
3.3 Identity Transform Function
3.4 Image Negatives
3.5 Logarithmic Functions
3.6 Power-Law Functions
3.7 Piecewise-Linear Transformation Functions
3.8 Image Contrast Stretching
3.9 Image Thresholding
3.10 Gray-level Slicing
3.11 Bit-plane Slicing
3.12 Basics of Histogram Processing
3.13 Histogram equalisation (Automatic)
3.14 Histogram matching (specification)
3.15 Local histogram equalisation
3.16 Enhancement using Arithmetic/ Logic Operation
3.16.1 Image Subtraction
3.16.2 Image Averaging
3.17 Summary
3.18 Unit end exercise
3.19 Further Reading

3.0 OBJECTIVES

This chapter Objectives are:

 To understand image in spatial domain.

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 Spatial domain representation and manipulation.

 Know how to manipulate histograms for image enhancement; including histogram
stretching, equalization and specification.
 Understand the corresponding algorithms and equations.
 Understand gray-scale modification, how it relates to histogram manipulation and
understand their mapping equations.
 Understand adaptive contrast enhancement

3.1 INTRODUCTION TO SPATIAL DOMAIN METHODS

 Spatial domain refers to the image plane itself, and approaches in this category are based
on direct manipulation of pixels in an image.
 Frequency domain processing techniques are based on modifying the Fourier transform of
the image.
 Suppose we have a digital image which can be represented by a two dimensional random
field f ( x, y ) .
 Spatial domain processes will be denoted by the expression
g ( x, y) [ T= ] or s=T(r)
 The value of pixels, before and after processing, will be denoted by r and s, respectively.
 Where f(x, y) is the input to the image, g(x, y) is the processed image and T is an operator
on f.
 The operator T applied on f ( x, y ) may be defined over:
(i) A single pixel ( x , y ) . In this case T is a grey level transformation (or mapping)
function.
(ii) Some neighborhood of ( x , y ) .
(iii) T may operate to a set of input images instead of a single image.
 We are dealing now with image processing methods that are based only on the intensity
of single pixels.

3.2 BASIC GREY LEVEL TRANSFORM

 Consider the following figure, which shows three basic types of functions used frequently
for image enhancement:

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Figure 3.1 : Some of the basic grey level transformation functions used for image
enhancement

The three basic types of functions used frequently for image enhancement:

1. Linear Functions:
 Identity Transformation
 Negative Transformation
 Contrast Stretching
 Thresholding
2. Logarithmic Functions:
Log Transformation
Inverse-log Transformation
3. Power-Law Functions:
 nth power transformation
 nth root transformation

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3.3 IDENTITY TRANSFORM FUNCTION

Figure 3.2 Identity Transform Graph

 Output intensities are identical to input intensities, hence called as identity transform
function
 This function doesn’t have an effect on an image, it was included in the graph only for
completeness
 Its expression:
s=r
 Where r is original grey scale value of pixel, and r id transformed grey scale value of same
pixel.
 In this case there the no change in the value of r and s.

3.4 IMAGE NEGATIVES

 Image negative means inverting the grey levels.

 The negative of a digital image is obtained by the transformation function:
s T ( r ) L 1 r

 [0,L-1] the range of gray levels

 As shown in the following figure, where L is the number of grey levels.

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 The idea is that the intensity of the output image decreases as the intensity of the input
increases.
 This is useful in numerous applications such as displaying medical images.

3.5

Fig 1 Negative of Fig 1

Figure 3.3 Image Negative

Solved Example to find image negative

Q ] Obtain the digital negative image of the 3 Bit image as shown below:

1 2 2 2 2

3 2 4 5 2

2 6 6 7 0

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2 6 6 5 1

0 2 3 2 1

Solution:
 For obtaining the negative image :
f2( x,y ) =L – 1 – f1(x,y )
Where ,
L : Total No. of Gray Levels
f1(x,y ) : Original Image.

 For a 3 - Bit image : L= 23 = 8

f2( x,y ) = 8 – 1 – r
= 7-r

f1(x,y )
Resultant image f2( x,y )

3.5 LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS

 Logarithmic transformation further contains two type of transformation.

1) Log transformation
2) Inverse log transformation.

Log Transformation

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 Log transformation is also known as Dynamic Range Compression

 At times, the dynamic range of image exceeds the capability of the display device.
 In image some pixel values are so large that the other low value pixels get obscured.
 We need a technique to see even low value pixels.
 The technique to compress the dynamic range is known as dynamic range compression.
 The function used is log transformation function.
 The log transformations can be defined by this formula:
s = c log(r + 1).
 Where s and r are the pixel values of the output and the input image and c is a constant.
 The value 1 is added to each of the pixel value of the input image because if there is a pixel
intensity of 0 in the image, then log (0) is equal to infinity.
 So 1 is added , to make the minimum value at least 1.
 During log transformation, the dark pixels in an image are expanded as compare to the
higher pixel values.
 The higher pixel values are kind of compressed in log transformation.
 This result in following image enhancement.
 The value of c in the log transform adjust the kind of enhancement you are looking for.

Input image LOG TRANFORM IMAGE

S = C log (r + 1)

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Output gray level - S

Input gray level = r

Figure 3.4 : Log Transformation

Inverse log transformation

 Do opposite to the log transformations
 Used to expand the values of high pixels in an image while compressing the darker-level
values.

3.6 POWER-LAW FUNCTIONS

 Power law transformation function further contains two type of transformation.

1) nth power transformation
2) nth root transformation
nth power transformation

 Power-law transformations have the basic form of:

Y
s = c.r
 Where c and γ are positive constants

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 Different transformation curves are obtained by varying γ (gamma)

Figure 3.5 Plot of equation Sc.r 

 The exponent in the power-law equation is referred to as gamma.

 The process used to correct this power-law response phenomena is called a gamma
correction.

 eg. CRT devices have an intensity-to-voltage response that is a power response.

 Gamma correction matters if you have any interest in displaying an image accurately on a
computer screen.

 Gamma correction controls the overall brightness of an image.

 Images which are not properly corrected can look either bleached out (very small value of
) , or too dark (very large value of ).

 Trying to reproduce colors accurately also requires some knowledge of gamma.

 Varying the amount of gamma correction changes not only the brightness, but also the
ratios of red to green to blue.

 Almost every computer monitor, from whatever manufacturer, has one thing in common.
They all have a intensity to voltage response curve which is roughly a 2.5 power function.

 This just means that if you send your computer monitor a message that a certain pixel
should have intensity equal to x, it will actually display a pixel which has intensity equal to x

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^ 2.5 Because the range of voltages sent to the monitor is between 0 and 1, this means that
the intensity value displayed will be less than what you wanted it to be. (0.5 ^ 2.5 = 0.177
for example) Monitors, then, are said to have a gamma of 2.5.

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Figure 3.6 : Effects of gamma correction

3.7 PIECEWISE-LINEAR TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS

 Principle Advantage: Some important transformations can be formulated only as a

piecewise function.

 Principle Disadvantage: Their specification requires more user input that previous
transformations

 Types of Piecewise transformations are:

 Contrast Stretching

 Gray-level Slicing

 Bit-plane slicing

3.8 IMAGE CONTRAST STRETCHING

 Many times we obtain low contrast image due to poor illumination.

 Contrast enhancements improve the perceptibility of objects in the scene by enhancing the
brightness difference between objects and their backgrounds.
 Contrast enhancements are typically performed as a contrast stretch.
 The idea behind contrast stretching is to increase the contrast of the image by making the
dark portion darker and bright portion brighter.

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 A high-contrast image spans the full range of gray-level values.

 Therefore, a low contrast image can be transformed into a high-contrast image by
remapping or stretching the gray-level values such that the histogram spans the full range.
 Contrast stretching also called as image normalization.
 Before the stretching can be performed it is necessary to specify the upper and lower pixel
value limits over which the image is to be normalized.
 Often these limits will just be the minimum and maximum pixel values that the image type
concerned allows.
 For example for 8-bit gray level images the lower and upper limits might be 0 and 255. Call
the lower and the upper limits a and b respectively.
 The simplest sort of normalization then scans the image to find the lowest and highest pixel
values currently present in the image.
 Call these c and d. Then each pixel P is scaled using the following function:

 bc 
Pout   Pin  c   a
 d c 
 Values below 0 are set to 0 and values about 255 are set to 255.
 The problem with this is that a single outlying pixel with either a very high or very low value
can severely affect the value of c or d and this could lead to very unrepresentative scaling.

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Figure 3.7 : Contrast Stretching

Image source Digital Image Processing - R. Gonzalez, R. Woods
 Figure 3.10(b) (above image) shows an 8-bit image with low contrast.

 Figure 3.10(c) (above image) shows the result of contrast stretching, obtained by setting
(r1, s1) = (rmin, 0) and (r2, s2) = (rmax,L-1) where rmin and rmaxdenote the minimum and
maximum gray levels in the image, respectively.

 Thus, the transformation function stretched the levels linearly from their original range to
the full range [0,L-1].

 Finally, Figure 3.10(d) (above image) shows the result of using the thresholding function
defined previously, with r1=r2=m, the mean gray level in the image.

3.9 IMAGE THRESHOLDING

 In many vision applications, it is useful to be able to separate out the regions of the image
corresponding to objects in which we are interested, from the regions of the image that
correspond to background.

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 Thres holding provides a way to perform this segmentation on the basis of the different
intensities or colors in the foreground and background regions of an image.

 In addition, it is also useful to be able to see what areas of an image consist of pixels
whose values lie within a specified range.

 The input to a thresholding operation is typically a grayscale or color image.

 The output is a binary image representing the segmentation.

 Black pixels correspond to background and white pixels correspond to foreground (or vice
versa).

 The segmentation is determined by a single parameter known as the intensity threshold.

 Each pixel in the image is compared with this threshold.

 In a 8 bit grey scale image, If the pixel's intensity is higher than the threshold, the pixel is
set to white ie. 255 in the output.

 If it is less than the threshold, it is set to black ie.0.

 Above, Figure 3.10(a) shows a typical transformation used for contrast stretching.

 The locations of points (r1, s1) and (r2, s2) control the shape of the transformation function.

 If r1 = s1 and r2 = s2, the transformation is a linear function that produces no changes in

gray levels.

 If r1 = r2, s1 = 0 and s2 = L-1, the transformation becomes a thresholding function that

creates a binary image.

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Figure 3.8 Gray Level Transformation

 Intermediate values of (r1, s1) and (r2, s2) produce various degrees of spread in the gray
levels of the output image, thus affecting its contrast.

 In general, r1 ≤ r2 and s1 ≤ s2 is assumed, so the function is always increasing.

Solved example to perform thresholding

Q] Obtain the Threshold image for the 3 Bit image shown below.
Choose appropriate threshold value T.

Solution:

To get an appropriate threshold value T we first obtain a frequency table and plot the
gray level histogram of the image.

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3.10 GRAY-LEVEL SLICING

 This technique is used to highlight a specific range of gray levels in a given image.
 It can be implemented in several ways, but the two basic themes are:
 One approach is to display a high value for all gray levels in the range of interest and allow
value for all other gray levels.
 This transformation, shown in Fig 3.11 (a), (figure 3.8) produces abinary image.
 The second approach, based on the transformation shown in Fig 3.11 (b), (figure 3.8)
brightens the desired range of gray levels but preserves gray levels unchanged.
 Fig 3.11 (c) (figure 3.8) shows a gray scale image, and
 Fig 3.11 (d) (figure 3.8) shows the result of using the transformation in Fig 3.11 (a).

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Figure 3.9 : Gray Level slicing without background and with back ground

Solved example to perform gray level slicing

1. With Background
2. Without Background

Q] Perform gray level slicing with Background and Without Background on the 3 bit
image shown below. ( Assume r1 =2 and r2= 4 ).

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Solution : With Background

Solution : Without Background

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3.11 BIT-PLANE SLICING

 Pixels are digital numbers, each one composed of 8 bits.

 The image is composed of 8 1-bit planes.

 Plane 0 contains the least significant bit and plane 7 contains the most significant bit.

 In terms of 8-bits bytes, plane 0 contains all lowest order bits in the bytes comprising the
pixels in the image and plane 7 contains all high order bits.

 Instead of highlighting gray-level range, we couldhighlight the contribution made by each bit

 Only the higher order bits (top four) contain visually significant data.

 The other bit planes contribute the more subtle details.

 This method is useful and used in image compression.

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FIGURE 3.10 : Bit-plane representation of an 8-bit image.

 Most significant bits contain the majority of visually significant data

Figure 3.11 : Bit fractal image

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FIGURE 3.12 The eight bit planes of the image in Fig. 3.11. The number at the bottom,
right of each image identifies the bit plane.
3.12 BASICS OF HISTOGRAM PROCESSING

 The histogram of a digital image with gray levels in the range [0, L-1] is a discrete function
of the form
H(rk)=nk
 where rk is the kth gray level and nk is the number of pixels in the image having the level
rk.
 A normalized histogram is given by the equation
p(rk)=nk/n for k=0,1,2,…..,L-1
 P(rk) gives the estimate of the probability of occurrence of gray level rk.
 The sum of all components of a normalized histogram is equal to 1.

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 The histogram plots are simple plots of H(rk)=nk versus rk.

Figure 3.13 : Histogram of Image

 In the dark image the components of the histogram are concentrated on the low (dark) side
of the gray scale.
 In case of bright image the histogram components are baised towards the high side of the
gray scale.
 The histogram of a low contrast image will be narrow and will be centered towards the
middle of the gray scale.

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 The components of the histogram in the high contrast image cover a broad range of the
gray scale.
 The net effect of this will be an image that shows a great deal of gray levels details and has
high dynamic range.

3.13 HISTOGRAM EQUALISATION (AUTOMATIC)

 Histogram equalization is a common technique for enhancing the appearance of images.
 Suppose we have an image which is predominantly dark.
 Then its histogram would be skewed towards the lower end of the grey scale and all the
image detail are compressed into the dark end of the histogram.
 If we could ‘stretch out’ the grey levels at the dark end to produce a more uniformly
distributed histogram then the image would become much clearer.
 Let there be a continuous function with r being gray levels of the image to be enhanced.
 The range of r is [0, 1] with r=0 repressing black and r=1 representing white.
 The transformation function is of the form
S=T(r) where 0<r<1
 It produces a level s for every pixel value r in the original image.
 The transformation function is assumed to fulfill two condition T(r) is single valued and
monotonically increasing in the internal
0<T(r)<1 for 0<r,1
 The transformation function should be single valued so that the inverse transformations
should exist.
 Monotonically increasing condition preserves the increasing order from black to white in the
output image.
 The second conditions guarantee that the output gray levels will be in the same range as
the input levels.
 The gray levels of the image may be viewed as random variables in the interval [0.1]
 The most fundamental descriptor of a random variable is its probability density function
(PDF)
 Pr(r) and Ps(s) denote the probability density functions of random variables r and s
respectively.
 Basic results from an elementary probability theory states that if Pr(r) and Tr are known and
T-1 (s) satisfies conditions (a), then the probability density function Ps(s) of the transformed
variable s is given by the formula-

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dr
Ps  s   Pr  r  ,
ds
 Thus the PDF of the transformed variable s is the determined by the gray levels PDF of the
input image and by the chosen transformations function.
 A transformation function of a particular importance in image processing

s  T  r    Pr  w dw.
r

This is the cumulative distribution function of r.

 Using this definition of T we see that the derivative of s with respect to r is
ds
Pr  r  .
dr
 Substituting it back in the expression for Ps we may get
1
Ps  s   Pr  r  1
Pr  r 
 An important point here is that Tr depends on Pr(r) but the resulting Ps(s) always is
uniform, and independent of the form of P(r).
 For discrete values we deal with probability and summations instead of probability density
functions and integrals.
 The probability of occurrence of gray levels rk in an image as approximated
Pr  r   nk / N
 N is the total number of the pixels in an image.
 nk is the number of the pixels that have gray level rk.
 L is the total number of possible gray levels in the image.
 The discrete transformation function is given by
k
ni
Sk  T  rk   
i Q N
k
 Pr  ri 
i Q

 Thus a processed image is obtained by mapping each pixel with levels rk in the input image
into acorresponding pixel with level sk in the output image.
 A plot of Pr (rk) versus rk is called a histogram.

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 The transformation function given by the above equation is the called histogram
equalization or linearization.
 Given an image the process of histogram equalization consists simple of implementing the
transformation function which is based information that can be extracted directly from the
given image, without the need for further parameter specification.

Figure 3.14 : Histogram Equilization

 Equalization automatically determines a transformation function that seeks to produce an
output image that has a uniform histogram.
 It is a good approach when automatic enhancement is needed

3.14 HISTOGRAM MATCHING (SPECIFICATION)

 In some cases it may be desirable to specify the shape of the histogram that we wish the
processed image to have.
 Histogram equalization does not allow interactive image enhancement and generates only
one result: an approximation to a uniform histogram.
 Sometimes we need to be able to specify particular histogram shapes capable of
highlighting certain gray-level ranges.
 The method use to generate a processed image that has a specified histogram is called
histogram matching or histogram specification.
 Algorithm
1. Compute sk=Pf (k), k = 0, …, L-1, the cumulative normalized histogram of f .
2. Compute G(k), k = 0, …, L-1, the transformation function, from the given histogram hz
3. Compute G-1(sk) for each k = 0, …, L-1 using an iterative method (iterate on z), or in
effect, directly compute G-1(Pf (k))

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4. Transform f using G-1(Pf (k)) .

3.15 LOCAL HISTOGRAM EQUALISATION

 In earlier methods pixels were modified by a transformation function based on the gray
level of an entire image.
 It is not suitable when enhancement is to be done in some small areas of the image.
 This problem can be solved by local enhancement where a transformation function is
applied only in the neighborhood of pixels in the interested region.
 Define square or rectangular neighborhood (mask) and move the center from pixel to pixel.
 For each neighborhood
1. Calculate histogram of the points in the neighborhood
2. Obtain histogram equalization/specification function
3. Map gray level of pixel centered in neighborhood
4. The center of the neighborhood region is then moved to an adjacent pixel location and
the procedure is repeated.

Figure 3.15 : Local Histogram Equilization

3.16 ENHANCEMENT USING ARITHMETIC/ LOGIC OPERATION

 These operations are performed on a pixel by basis between two or more images excluding
not operation which is performed on a single image.
 It depends on the hardware and/or software that the actual mechanism of implementation
should be sequential, parallel or simultaneous.
 Logic operations are also generally operated on a pixel by pixel basis.
 Only AND, OR and NOT logical operators are functionally complete.
 Because all other operators can be implemented by using these operators.

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 While applying the operations on gray scale images, pixel values are processed as strings
of binary numbers.
 The NOT logic operation performs the same function as the negative transformation.
 Image Masking is also referred to as region of Interest (RoI) processing.
 This is done to highlight a particular area and to differentiate it from the rest of the image.
 Out of the four arithmetic operations, subtraction and addition are the most useful for image
enhancement.

3.16.1 Image Subtraction

 The difference between two images f(x,y) and h(x,y) is expressed as

g(x,y)= f(x,y)-h(x,y)
 It is obtained by computing the difference between all pairs of corresponding pixels from f
and h.
 The key usefulness of subtraction is the enhancement of difference between images.
 This concept is used in another gray scale transformation for enhancement known as bit
planeslicing
 The higher order bit planes of an image carry a significant amount of visually relevantdetail
while the lower planes contribute to fine details.
 It we subtract the four least significant bit planes from the image
 The result will be nearlyidentical but there will be a slight drop in the overall contrast due to
less variability in the graylevel values of image .

Figure 3.16 Image Subtraction

 The use of image subtraction is seen in medical imaging area named as mask mode
radiography.
 The mask h (x,y) is an X-ray image of a region of a patient’s body this image is captured by
using as intensified TV camera located opposite to the x-ray machine then a consistent

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medium isinjected into the patient’s blood storm and then a series of image are taken of the
region same as
h(x,y).
 The mask is then subtracted from the series of incoming image.
 This subtraction will give the area which will be the difference between f(x,y) and h(x,y) this
difference will be given as enhanced detail in the output image.

Figure 3.17 : Image Subtraction f  x, y h  x, y 

3.16.2 Image Averaging

 Consider a noisy image g(x,y) formed by the addition of noise n(x,y) to the original image
f(x,y)
g(x,y) = f(x,y) + n(x,y)
 Assuming that at every point of coordinate (x,y) the noise is uncorrelated and has zero
average value
 The objective of image averaging is to reduce the noise content by adding a set of noise
images,
{gi(x,y)}
 If in image formed by image averaging K different noisy images
1 K
g x, y    gi  x, y 
K i 1
 
E g x, y   f  x, y 

 As k increases the variability (noise) of the pixel value at each location (x,y) decreases.
 E{g(x,y)} = f(x,y) means that g(x,y) approaches f(x,y) as the number of noisy image used in
the averaging processes increases.
 Image averaging is important in various applications such as in the field of astronomy
where the images are low light levels.
3.10 SUMMARY

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 Spatial domain refers to the image plane itself.

 The three basic types of functions used frequently for image enhancement:
1. Linear Functions:
 Identity Transformation
 Negative Transformation
 Contrast Stretching
 Thresholding
2. Logarithmic Functions:
 Log Transformation
 Inverse-log Transformation
3. Power-Law Functions:
 nth power transformation
 nth root transformation
 The negative of a digital image is obtained by the transformation function:
s T ( r ) L 1 r

 The log transformations can be defined by this formula:

s = c log(r + 1).
 Power-law transformations have the basic form of:
Y
s = c.r
 Types of Piecewise transformations are:
 Contrast Stretching
 Gray-level Slicing
 Bit-plane slicing
 Contrast enhancements improve the perceptibility of objects in the scene by enhancing the
brightness difference between objects and their backgrounds.
 Thresholding provides a way to perform this segmentation on the basis of the different
intensities or colors in the foreground and background regions of an image.
 Gray level slicing is the technique used to highlight a specific range of gray levels in a given
image.

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 The image is composed of 8 1-bit planes.

 Plane 0 contains the least significant bit and plane 7 contains the most significant bit.
 Only the higher order bits (top four) contain visually significant data.
 In an image histogram, the x axis shows the gray level intensities and the y axis shows the
frequency of these intensities.
 Histogram equalization is a common technique for enhancing the appearance of images.
 Equalization automatically determines a transformation function that seeks to produce an
output image that has a uniform histogram.
 The difference between two images f(x,y) and h(x,y) is expressed as
g(x,y)= f(x,y)-h(x,y)

3.11 UNIT END EXERCISE

1) Specify the objective of image enhancement technique and List the 2 categories of image
enhancement.
2) What is the purpose of image averaging?
3) What is meant by masking?
4) Define histogram. What is meant by histogram equalization?
5) State the different types of processing used for image enhancement.
6) Explain the Basic Gray Level Transformations used in image enhancement.
7) Explain: i) Contrast stretching ii) Gray level slicing iii) Bit plane slicing.
8) Explain image enhancement using Arithmetic & Logic operations.
9) A particular digital image with eight quantization levels has the following histogram .
Perform histogram equalization and derive transformation function. Give new equalized
histogram.

Gray level r 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
No. of pixels with 200 170 130 60 60 80 140
gray level nr

10) Obtain the Threshold image for the 3 Bit image below.
Choose appropriate threshold value T.

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1 2 2 2 2

3 3 5 6 2

7 4 4 7 0

7 6 6 5 0

0 7 3 7 1

11) Obtain the digital negative image of the 3 Bit image

3 2 1 4

7 0 7 0

5 4 6 2

4 4 3 1

12) Perform gray level slicing with Background and Without

Background on the 3 bit image shown
4 3 6 7
below.( Assume r1 =3 and r2= 6 ).
1 2 5 3

4 3 0 2

0 7 6 5

3.13 FURTHER READING

1. R.C.Gonsales R.E.Woods, .Digital Image Processing., Second Edition,Pearson Education.

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2. B. Chanda, D. Dutta Majumder, .Digital Image Processing and Analysis., PHI.

3. Digital Image Processing by Dhananjay Thekedat

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