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STAR: A Segmentation-Based Approximation of Point-Based Sampling Milano Retinex for Color Image Enhancement
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Milano Retinex is a family of spatial color algorithms inspired by Retinex and mainly devoted to the image enhancement. In the so-called point-based sampling Milano Retinex algorithms, this task is accomplished by processing the color of each image pixel based on a set of colors sampled in its surround. This paper presents STAR, a segmentation based approximation of the point-based sampling Milano Retinex approaches: it replaces the pixel-wise image sampling by a novel, computationally efficient procedure that detects once for all the color and spatial information relevant to image enhancement from clusters of pixels output by a segmentation. The experiments reported here show that STAR performs similarly to previous point-based sampling Milano Retinex approaches and that STAR enhancement improves the accuracy of the well-known algorithm scale-invariant feature transform on the description and matching of photographs captured under difficult light conditions.
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