Automatic, Efficient, Temporally-Coherent Video Enhancement for Large Scale Applications
Venue
ACM Multimedia, ACM (2009), pp. 609-612
Publication Year
2009
Authors
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Abstract
A fast and robust method for video contrast enhancement is presented. The method
uses the histogram of each frame, along with upper and lower bounds computed per
shot in order to enhance the current frame. This ensures that the artifacts
introduced during the enhancement is reduced to a minimum. Traditional methods that
do not compute per-shot estimates tend to over-enhance parts of the video such as
fades and transitions. Our method does not suffer from this problem, which is
essential for a fully automatic algorithm. We present the parameters for our
methods which yielded the best human feedback, which showed that out of 208 videos,
203 were enhanced, while the remaining 5 were of too poor quality to be enhanced.
Additionally, we present a visual comparison of our work with the recently-proposed
Weighted Thresholded Histogram Equalization (WTHE) algorithm.
