Study on an infrared image enhancement algorithm by using lateral inhibition of human visual system

摘要

Aiming at infrared images' disadvantages such as low contrast and blur edges, an infrared image enhancement algorithm using lateral inhibition of human visual system (HVS) is proposed. The algorithm makes use of the rapid decline properties of exponential function to reconstruct lateral inhibition coefficient distribution model based on exponential function, which could provide an obvious inhibition function and produce strong contrast between sharp edge and even part. The experimental results show that image edges are obviously highlighted, and the edge enhancement is 2 times compared with traditional balanced spacing density of gray-scale, and the PSNR is 2 times compared with traditional histogram equalization method.