Everything about Histogram equalization

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Histogram equalizationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Underwater Image Enhancement Method via Multi-Interval Subhistogram Perspective EqualizationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Operations ManagementThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Adaptive histogram equalization and its variationsCited 3,622 times
5. Go sideways: Normalization (image processing)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Color normalizationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Adaptive histogram equalization and its variations

  Stephen M. Pizer, E. Philip Amburn, John D. Austin · 1987 · Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing · 3,622 citations

• Realization of the Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) for Real-Time Image Enhancement

  Ali M. Reza · 2004 · Journal of VLSI signal processing systems for signal, image and video technology · 1,711 citations

• A Dynamic Histogram Equalization for Image Contrast Enhancement

  M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud, Md. Kabir, M. Akber Dewan · 2007 · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 1,189 citations

• Contrast enhancement using brightness preserving bi-histogram equalization

  Yeong-Taeg Kim · 1997 · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 1,115 citations

• Adaptive image contrast enhancement using generalizations of histogram equalization

  J.A. Stark · 2000 · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 1,004 citations

• Image enhancement based on equal area dualistic sub-image histogram equalization method

  Yu Wang, Qian Chen, Baeomin Zhang · 1999 · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 951 citations

• Brightness Preserving Dynamic Histogram Equalization for Image Contrast Enhancement

  Haidi Ibrahim, Nicholas Pik Kong · 2007 · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 913 citations

• Minimum mean brightness error bi-histogram equalization in contrast enhancement

  Soong-Der Chen, A.R. Ramli · 2003 · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 798 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Underwater Image Enhancement Method via Multi-Interval Subhistogram Perspective Equalization

  Jingchun Zhou, Lei Pang, Dehuan Zhang · 2023 · IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering · 237 citations

• Low light enhancement algorithm for color images using intuitionistic fuzzy sets with histogram equalization

  J. Reegan Jebadass, P. Balasubramaniam · 2022 · Multimedia Tools and Applications · 87 citations

• A novel joint histogram equalization based image contrast enhancement

  Sanjay Agrawal, Rutuparna Panda, P.K. Mishro · 2022 · Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences · 82 citations

• Tripartite sub-image histogram equalization for slightly low contrast gray-tone image enhancement

  Hafijur Rahman, Gour Chandra Paul · 2023 · Pattern Recognition · 74 citations

• A novel multilevel framework based contrast enhancement for uniform and non-uniform background images using a suitable histogram equalization

  D. Vijayalakshmi, Malaya Kumar Nath · 2022 · Digital Signal Processing · 72 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Operations ManagementRoberta S. Russell, Bernard Taylor · 1998
• Introduction to Probability and StatisticsJ. Susan Milton, Jesse C. Arnold · 1990
• Medical image analysisAtam P. Dhawan · 2010
• Introduction to engineeringLina J. Karam · 2008
• Information HidingMatthias Kirchner · 2013
• Business Analytics, Global EditionEvans, James R. · 1920
• 📕Effectiveness of Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization on Multispectral Satellite ImageryVidhya Ganesh Rangarajan · 2018
• Pattern recognition and image analysisEarl Gose · 1996

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