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Biologically inspired enhancement of dim light video

Författare

Redaktör

  • Friedrich G. Barth
  • Joseph A. C. Humphrey
  • Mandyam V. Srinivasan

Summary, in English

In this chapter a technology for the enhancement of video data obtained at low light levels is presented. The method was inspired by the way in which nocturnal animals adaptively sum intensities, spatially and temporally, to improve vision at night. Due to the low photon count under these conditions the visual input is dark and unreliable, which leads to noisy low contrast images. The noise becomes very apparent when we try to enhance the contrast and, by this, amplify the intensities in the darkest regions of the images. By constructing spatio-temporal smoothing kernels that automatically adapt to the three dimensional intensity structure at every point, the noise can be considerably reduced, with fine spatial detail being preserved and enhanced without added motion blur. For color image data, the chromaticity is restored and demosaicing of raw RGB input data can be performed simultaneously with the noise reduction. The method is a very generally applicable one, contains only few user-defined parameters and has been developed for efficient parallel computation using a graphics processing unit (GPU). The technique has been applied to image sequences with various degrees of darkness and noise levels. Results from some of these tests, and comparisons to related work, are presented here.

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

71-85

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Frontiers in Sensing: From Biology to Engineering

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)
  • Biological Sciences
  • Mathematics

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Lund Vision Group

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-3-211-99749-9
  • ISBN: 978-3-211-99748-2 (Print)