Comparative Study of Multi-Scale Retinex with Adaptive and Integrated Neighborhood-Dependent Enhancement Methods for Captured Images at Different Camera Aperture

Abstract

This paper has focused on studying the effects of changing camera aperture diameter on image quality through capturing images of three balloons with different colors. Then these captured images have been enhanced using Multi-Scale Retinex algorithm. Besides, the original images were enhanced using AINDANE method.The main scopes are to compare and evaluate each enhancement method through examining and analyzing the results of image's statistic properties and computing its contrast.We conclude form the results of the statistical properties of the enhanced images using AINDANE method that there was gradual increment in the lightness of each color and it’s easy to distinguish between the color bands on contrary with the enhanced images using Retinex method.