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Image Enhancement
Spatial Domain & Frequency Domain
Basic Steps in frequency domain
Smoothing
Sharpening
Image enhancement is the process of making images more
useful
The reasons for doing this include:
– Highlighting interesting detail in images
Lowpass
S.No Smoothing Sharpening
1 Ideal Lowpass Ideal Highpass
2 Butterworth Lowpass Butterworth Highpass
3 Gaussian Lowpass Gaussian Highpass
Smoothing(blurring) is achieved in the frequency domain by high-
frequency attenuation; that is, by lowpass filtering.
H ( u , v ) e D ( u , v ) / 2
A)Perspective plot of a GLPF transfer function B)Filter displayed as an image C)Filter radius cross section for various values of D0
Main advantage of a Gaussian LPF over a Butterworth
LPF is that we are assured that there will be no ringing
effects no matter what filter order we choose to work with.
Different Low pass Gaussian filters used to remove blemishes in
the image
Edges and fine detail characterized by sharp transitions in
image intensity
Such transitions contribute significantly to high frequency
components of Fourier transform
Intuitively, attenuating certain low frequency components and
preserving high frequency components result in sharpening
– Intended goal is to do the reverse operation of low-
pass filters
– When low-pass filer attenuates frequencies, high-pass
filter passes them
H (u, v) 1
1 [ D / D(u, v)] 2n
0
where n is the order and D0is the cut off distance as before
Results of
Results Butterworth
of high pass
Butterworth filtering of
high pass order 2 with
filtering of D0= 80
order 2
with
D0= 15
Results of Butterworth high
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pass filtering of order 2 with D0
= 30
– Gaussian high pass filter has the same concept as ideal high
pass filter, but again the transition is more smooth as
compared to the ideal one.
The Laplacian is defined as:
(dot product)
Approximate
derivatives:
Laplacian Mask
detect zero-crossings
The aim of image enhancement is to improve the information in
images for human viewers, or to provide `better' input forother
automated image processing techniques.