An automated multi Scale Retinex with Color Restoration for image enhancement

The dynamic range of a camera is much lesser than that of human visual system. This causes images taken by the camera to look different from how the scene would have looked to a naked eye. Multi Scale Retinex with Color Restoration (MSRCR) algorithm enhances images taken under a wide range of nonlinear illumination conditions to the level that a user would have perceived it in real time. But there are parameters used in this enhancement method that are image dependent and have to be varied based on the images under consideration. In this paper we propose a completely automated approach for MSRCR by obtaining parameter values from the image being enhanced.

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