Adaptive Enhancement Based On A Visual Model

Eli Peli

doi:10.1117/12.7974131

1 July 1987 Adaptive Enhancement Based On A Visual Model

Eli Peli

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 26, Issue 7, 267655 (July 1987). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7974131

Abstract

The human visual system is capable of detecting and following the course of striated periodic patterns, even under adverse conditions of poor contrast and low signal-to-noise ratio. Sections of a striated pattern of subthreshold contrast may be detected easily if other parts of the same pattern have suprathreshold contrast. To simulate these capabilities of the visual system, an image processing algorithm was developed using basic "cells" that are well localized in both the space and spatial frequency domains. These band-limiting, orientation-sensitive "fan filters" are similar in their point spread functions to the two-dimensional Gabor functions commonly used to describe responses of visual cortical cells. These filters are used both to detect the orientation of the striated pattern in a small window and to enhance the image in that orientation. The search for local orientation is limited to a small range based on orientations found in neighboring, overlapping windows. The orientation of the maximally responding cell is used for the enhancement. Results of applying the adaptive directional enhancement to nerve fiber layer photographs, finger-prints, and seismic data are presented.

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Eli Peli "Adaptive Enhancement Based On A Visual Model," Optical Engineering 26(7), 267655 (1 July 1987). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7974131

Published: 1 July 1987

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