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Text Enhancement in Projected Imagery

Abstract

There is great interest in improving the visual quality of projected
imagery. In particular, for image enhancement, we would assert
that text and non-text regions should be enhanced differently in
seeking to maximize perceived quality, since the spatial and statis-
tical characteristics of text and non-text images are quite distinct.
In this paper, we present a text enhancement scheme based on a
novel local dynamic range statistical thresholding. Given an input
image, text-like regions are obtained on the basis of computing the
local statistics of regions having a high dynamic range, allowing a
pixel-wise classification into text-like or background classes. The
actual enhancement is obtained via class-dependent Wiener filter-
ing, with text-like regions sharpened more than the background.
Experimental results on four challenging images show that the pro- 
posed scheme offers a better visual quality than projection with- 
out enhancement as well as a recent state-of-the-art enhancement
method.

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