Title:

Enhancing Moon Crescent Visibility Using Contrast-Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization and Bilateral Filtering Techniques, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2022, nr 1,

Creator:

Man, Mustafa ; Umar, Roslan ; Zulkeflee, Ahmad Najmuddin ; Ahmad, Nazhatulshima ; Yussof, Wan Nural Jawahir Hj Wan ; Awalludin, Ezmahamrul Afreen

Subject and Keywords:

CLAHE ; bilateral filtering ; CIE-Lab ; moon crescent ; image enhancement

Description:

Image enhancement is becoming increasingly im portant with the advancement of space exploration techniques and the technological development of more durable and sci entifically sound observatories equipped with more powerful telescopes. The enhancement of images helps astronomers an alyze the results and act toward determining the dates of religious festivals. This work describes a technique known as contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) with grayscale contrast enhancement and bilateral filtering. We apply CLAHE on the L component of the CIE-Lab color space to adjust lightness contrast. Subsequently, grayscale contrast enhancement is performed to increase the visibility of the moon crescent. Noise caused by grayscale contrast en hancement is reduced using bilateral filtering. Two quantita tive measures are selected (PSNR and MSE) to show the visual improvement achieved by the proposed algorithm.

Publisher:

Instytut Łączności - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy

Date:

2022, nr 1

Resource Type:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

ISSN 1509-4553, on-line: ISSN 1899-8852

Source:

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology

Language:

ang

Rights Management:

Biblioteka Naukowa Instytutu Łączności