Ubiquitous image processing: a novel image-enhancement facility for consumers
Rodney Shaw, Paul Johnson · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2006
Image-enhancement technology has been developed from first principles whereby an unskilled user may enhance and optimize the image quality of any digital photograph to personal choice within a matter of seconds. The novel methodology, which by virtue of its simple user-interface, real-time computation, and lack of any appreciable user learning-curve, naturally lends itself to many practical imaging applications in addition to that of a stand-alone application, including digital cameras, printers and photo-kiosks, or provision as an image-processing web-service. The basic imaging philosophy and principles leading to the development of this enhancement technology are discussed.