Optimizing image enhancement for screening luggage at airports

Image enhancement is very important for increasing the sensitivity of screening luggage performance at airports. On the basis of 11 statistical measures of image viewability we propose a novel approach to optimizing the choice of image enhancement tools. We propose a neural network predictor that can be used for predicting, on a given test image, the best image enhancement algorithm for it. The network is trained using a number of image examples. The input to the neural network is a set of viewability measures and its output is the choice of enhancement algorithm for that image. On a number of test images we show that such a predictive system is highly capable in forecasting the correct choice of enhancement algorithms (as judged by human experts). We compare our predictive system against a baseline approach that uses a fixed enhancement algorithm for all batch test images, and find the proposed model to be substantially superior

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