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Regularizing Image Intensity Transformations Using the Wasserstein Metric

Oskarsson, Magnus LU orcid (2015) 19th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2015) 9127. p.275-286
Abstract
In this paper we direct our attention to the problem of discretization effects in intensity transformations of images. We propose to use the Wasserstein metric (also known as the Earth mover distance) to bootstrap the transformation process. The Wasserstein metric gives a mapping between gray levels that we use to direct our image mapping. In order to spatially regularize the image mapping we apply anisotropic filtering and use this to steer our mapping. We describe a general framework for intensity transformation, and investigate the application of our method on a number of special problems, namely histogram equalization, color transfer and bit depth expansion. We have tested our algorithms on real images, and we show that we get... (More)
In this paper we direct our attention to the problem of discretization effects in intensity transformations of images. We propose to use the Wasserstein metric (also known as the Earth mover distance) to bootstrap the transformation process. The Wasserstein metric gives a mapping between gray levels that we use to direct our image mapping. In order to spatially regularize the image mapping we apply anisotropic filtering and use this to steer our mapping. We describe a general framework for intensity transformation, and investigate the application of our method on a number of special problems, namely histogram equalization, color transfer and bit depth expansion. We have tested our algorithms on real images, and we show that we get state-of-the-art results. (Less)
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Image enhancement, Discretization, Wasserstein metric
host publication
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Image Analysis, 19th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 15-17, 2015. Proceedings))
editor
Paulsen, Rasmus and Pedersen, Kim
volume
9127
pages
12 pages
publisher
Springer
conference name
19th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2015)
conference location
Copenhagen, Denmark
conference dates
2015-06-15 - 2015-06-17
external identifiers
  • scopus:84947938680
ISSN
1611-3349
0302-9743
ISBN
978-3-319-19665-7
978-3-319-19664-0
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-19665-7_23
language
English
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  author       = {{Oskarsson, Magnus}},
  booktitle    = {{Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Image Analysis, 19th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 15-17, 2015. Proceedings))}},
  editor       = {{Paulsen, Rasmus and Pedersen, Kim}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-319-19665-7}},
  issn         = {{1611-3349}},
  keywords     = {{Image enhancement; Discretization; Wasserstein metric}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{275--286}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  title        = {{Regularizing Image Intensity Transformations Using the Wasserstein Metric}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19665-7_23}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-319-19665-7_23}},
  volume       = {{9127}},
  year         = {{2015}},
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