Image Enhancement Using Histogram Equalization and Histogram Specification on Different Color Spaces

Image Enhancement is one of the important requirements in Digital Image Processing which is important in making an image useful for various applications which can be seen in the areas of Digital photography, Medicine, Geographic Information System, Industrial Inspection , Law Enforcement and many more Digital Image Applications. Image Enhancement is used to improve the quality of poor images. The focus of this paper is an attempt to improve the quality of digital images using Histogram Equalization and Histogram Specification. In this paper we are applying Histogram Equalization on color images with Different Color Space like RGB ,HSV ,YIQ and Histogram Specification on gray Scale images and color images.

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