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Topic 7. Image Enhancement
Division of Geodetic Engineering College of Engineering and Information Technology Caraga State University
GE 113 – REMOTE SENSING
Lecturer: Engr. Jojene R. Santillan [email protected]
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Outline
• Part 1. Image Enhancement Concepts
• Part 2. Contrast Manipulation Techniques
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Expected Outcomes
• The students would be able to:
– Learn the concepts behind image enhancement
– Identify the various computer-assisted procedures of image enhancement
– Learn how to conduct the computer-assisted procedures through laboratory exercises
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PART 1. IMAGE ENHANCEMENT CONCEPTS
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Image Enhancement
• The goal is to improve the visual interpretability of an image by increasing the apparent distinction between the features in the scene.
• Why do we need a computer to do the enhancement? – Our eyes are poor at discriminating the slight
radiometric or spectral differences that may characterize such features
– With computers, these slight differences can be visually amplified to make them readily observable by our eyes.
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Types of Image Enhancement Operations
• Point Operations
– Brightness values of each pixel in an image data are modified independently
• Local Operations • Brightness values of each pixel in an image data are modified
based on neighboring brightness values
Note: Either form of enhancement can be performed on single-band images or on the individual components of multi-image composites.
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When are image enhancement techniques applied?
• Normally applied to image data after the appropriate image rectification and restoration procedures have been performed.
• Noise removal very important to conduct
prior to image enhancement
– Image enhancement techniques may enhance “noise” if they are not removed
the interpreter will end up analyzing
enhanced noise!
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Categories of Image Enhancement Techniques
• Contrast Manipulation Techniques – Discussed in detail in Part 2
• Spatial Feature Manipulation Techniques – Used to emphasize or deemphasize image data of various spatial
frequencies • Spatial frequency refers to the roughness of the tonal variations occurring in
an image
– These are “local” operations pixel values in an original image are modified on the basis of the gray scale/brightness/DN values of neighboring pixels
– Examples: Spatial filters
• Multi-image Manipulation Techniques – Enhancements involving multiple spectral bands of imagery – Examples:
• Spectral ratioing • Principal and canonical components transformation • Vegetation components transformation • Intensity-hue-saturation color space transformation
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PART 2. CONTRAST MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES
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Contrast Manipulation
• Focused on manipulating the brightness values/DNs of an image data to reveal specific or new information or to enhance existing image information
• Commonly used contrast manipulation procedures: – Gray-level thresholding – Level slicing – Contrast stretching
• These are all “point” operations
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Gray-level Thresholding
• A segmentation procedure
• An input image band is segmented into two classes:
– One class for those pixels having values below a defined gray level (DN)
– One class for those pixels above this value
• The result is a binary classification
• This binary classification can then be applied to a particular image band data to enable display of brightness variations in only a particular class
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Example: NIR Band of Landsat 7 ETM+
Histogram of DN values of NIR Band
DN Range: 0 – 30 water bodies
Gray-scale Thresholded Image: Class 1: 0 -30 (Water) Class 2: 31 – 255 (Others)
NIR Band of Landsat 7 ETM+ Showing only Class 1 (Water)
True Color Image Showing only Class 1 (Water)
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Level Slicing
• An enhancement technique whereby the DNs distributed along the x axis of an image histogram are divided into a series of intervals or “slices”.
• All of the DNs falling within a ‘slice’ are then displayed at a single DN in the output image
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Example: NIR Band of Landsat 7 ETM+
Histogram of DN values of NIR Band
“Sliced” NIR Band of Landsat 7 ETM+ (6 classes)
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Example: Sliced NIR Band (Water Portion only)
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Example: Level slicing the TIR Band of Landsat 7 to show land surface temperature (LST)
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Contrast Stretching (1)
• Recall: – An image can have DN values ranging from 0 to a
maximum value depending on its radiometric resolution: • E.g., an 8-bit image can have DNs ranging from 0 – 255 • A 12-bit image can have DNs ranging from 0 – 4095 • Etc.
– When the image data are visualized on a screen of a computer, they are displayed as brightness values for each screen pixel • A data pixel with a larger value is brighter than one with a
smaller value • However, unlike the image data, screen pixels can only
have 256 unique brightness values (i.e., 0 to 255). • This limitation prevents the data from being displayed with
brightness exactly equal to their real (DN) value
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Contrast Stretching (2)
• Stretching the image data refers to a method by which the data pixels are rescaled from their original values into a range that the monitor can display - namely, into integer values between 0 and 255.
• But what about contrast stretching?
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Contrast Stretching (3)
• The parameters of the stretch can be adjusted to maximize the information content of the display for the features of interest this process is referred to as contrast stretching.
• Contrast stretching changes contrast in the image
• Contrast = the relative differences in the brightness of the data values: – increasing an image's contrast means the dark pixels
will become darker, and the bright pixels will become brighter
– brightness difference between the two increases
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Contrast Stretching as an Image Enhancement Procedure
• Used to expand the narrow range of brightness values typically present in an input image over a wide range of values
• Contrast stretching results to an output image or image display that is designed to emphasize the contrast between features of interest.
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Types of Contrast Stretching (as implemented in various image processing software, e.g., Envi)
• Linear
• Linear 0-255
• Linear 2%
• Gaussian
• Equalization
• Square root
ALL OF THESE OPERATIONS RELY ON THE MANIPULATION OF THE IMAGE HISTOGRAMS
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What is a Histogram?
• a graphical representation of the distribution of numerical data.
• To construct a histogram, the first step is to "bin" the range of values—that is, divide the entire range of values into a series of intervals—and then count how many values fall into each interval.
• The bins are usually specified as consecutive, non-overlapping intervals of a variable.
• The bins (intervals) must be adjacent, and are usually equal size
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What is a Image Histogram?
• A type of histogram that acts as a graphical representation of the tonal (“DN”) distribution in a digital image.
• It plots the number of pixels for each tonal/DN value.
• By looking at the histogram for a specific image a viewer will be able to judge the entire tonal distribution at a glance.
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Linear Contrast Stretching • Sets the image minimum and maximum DN values to values of 0 and 255, and
stretches all other data values linearly between 0 to 255.
• Example: – If a band of an image has DN values ranging from 30 to 200, linear contrast stretching will
expand the range such that when displayed/outputted to an image file, the new DN values will range from 0 to 255:
• Screen value of 0 will be assigned to 30 • Screen value of 200 will be assigned to 255 • All other values will be linearly stretched
• Algorithm:
New DN = DN’ = [(DN – MIN) / (MAX – MIN) ] * 255
Where: DN = original DN of a pixel MIN = the image’s minimum DN value that will be assigned a new value of 0 MAX = the image’s maximum DN value that will be assigned a new value of 255
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Example: Linear Contrast Stretching
Original Band 1 Stretched
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Linear 0-255
• Sets the image’s DN value of 0 to a new value of 0, and the image’s DN value of 255 to a new value of 255
• “No stretching”
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Example: Linear 0-255
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Linear 2%
• Sets the highest and lowest 2% of the original image DN values to new values of 0 and 255, and it stretches all other data values linearly
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Example: Linear 2%
Original Band 1 Stretched
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Gaussian
• Sets: – the original image’s mean
DN value to a new value of 127,
– the DN value 3 standard deviations below the mean value to a new value of 0, and
– the DN value 3 standard deviations above the mean value to a new value of 255.
• Intermediate values are
assigned new value using a Gaussian curve
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Example: Gaussian
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Histogram Equalization
• Scales the original image DN values to equalize the number of DNs in each display histogram bin
• In this approach, image DN values are assigned to the display levels on the basis of their frequency of occurrence
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Example: Histogram Equalization
Original Band 1 Stretched
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Square root • takes the square of the input histogram and
applies a linear stretch
Original Band 1 Stretched
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• Questions or clarifications?
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References/Further Reading
• Lillesand, T. M., Kiefer, R. W., & Chipman, J. W. (2008). Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation 6th Edition. United States of America: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Online Tutorial: Fundamentals of Remote Sensing – “Image Enhancement”. Available at http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geomatics/satellite-imagery-air-photos/satellite-imagery-products/educational-resources/9389