Smart Image Enhancement Using CLAHE Based on an F-Shift Transformation during Decompression

As technologies for image processing, image enhancement can provide more effective information for later data mining and image compression can reduce storage space. In this paper, a smart enhancement scheme during decompression, which combined a novel two-dimensional F-shift (TDFS) transformation and a non-standard two-dimensional wavelet transform (NSTW), is proposed. During the decompression, the first coefficient s(00) of the wavelet synopsis was used to adaptively adjust the global gray level of the reconstructed image. Next, the contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) was used to achieve the enhancement effect. To avoid a blocking effect, CLAHE was used when the synopsis was decompressed to the second-to-last level. At this time, we only enhanced the low-frequency component and did not change the high-frequency component. Lastly, we used CLAHE again after the image reconstruction. Through experiments, the effectiveness of our scheme was verified. Compared with the existing methods, the compression properties were preserved and the image details and contrast could also be enhanced. The experimental results showed that the image contrast, information entropy, and average gradient were greatly improved compared with the existing methods.