Comparative Study of Unsharp Masking Methods for Image Enhancement

  • Authors:
  • M. A. Badamchizadeh;A. Aghagolzadeh

  • Affiliations:
  • Islamic Azad University;University of Tabriz

  • Venue:
  • ICIG '04 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Image and Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Contrast enhancement by the unsharp masking (UM) approaches are the simplest methods, both computationally and conceptually. In this paper, different methods of UM for image enhancement are compared. These algorithms have been tested and compared for the same conditions. The results show the majority of these algorithms are very sensitive to enhancement factor; and for good sharpening, this factor must be estimated recursively by considering the statistics of neighboring pixel values.