We present the nonsubsampled contourlet transform and its application in image enhancement. The nonsubsampled contourlet transform is built upon nonsubsampled pyramids and nonsubsampled directional filter banks and provides a shift-invariant directional multiresolution image representation. Existing methods for image enhancement cannot capture the geometric information of images and tend to amplify noises when they are applied to noisy images since they cannot distinguish noises from weak edges. In contrast, the nonsubsampled contourlet transform extracts the geometric information of images, which can be used to distinguish noises from weak edges. Experimental results show the proposed method achieves better enhancement results than a wavelet-based image enhancement method.


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    Title :

    Nonsubsampled contourlet transform: construction and application in enhancement


    Contributors:
    Jianping Zhou, (author) / Cunha, A.L. (author) / Do, M.N. (author)


    Publication date :

    2005-01-01


    Size :

    364079 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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