Repository which replicates the results obtained by Al-Ameen, Zohair in his paper entitled Nighttime image enhancement using a new illumination boost algorithm, published at IET Image Processing Journal.
The code was implemented using MATLAB, following the steps presented in the paper.
The illumination_boost.m file contains the main (and only) function for the algorithm. It accepts an RGB image, and a Lambda parameter used in equations 4 and 6 in the paper, which, according to the paper, acquire best results with values between 2 and 7. It returns an RGB image with double type.
A test file named test_illumination_boost.m is made available, to test the function with the images available in the input_images folder, varying the lambda parameter from 2 to 6.
There is also the file plot_with_histogram.m which generates histograms for the base image and the enhanced one, given an image and a lambda parameter.
Several results are available in the output_images folder, and some of them are displayed below:
This repository is not endorssed and/or affiliated in any way to Al-Ameen, Zohair. The paper was replicated for purely didactic purposes.