Color image enhancement using evolutionary principles and the Retinex theory of color constancy
Cristian Munteanu, Agostinho C. Rosa · 2002
The paper investigates the use of Evolutionary Computation (EC) to automate the process of color image enhancement, for a large category of color images taken with different illuminants. Our approach employs the model of Multi-Scale Retinex with Color Restoration (MSRCR) for which the parameters of the model are adapted to each given image with a Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm (GA). Results on a diverse set of images show the efficiency of our approach compared to other classical enhancement methods.