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| author | Otsuka, Rikuto Shoji, Yuho Ogino, Yuka Toizumi, Takahiro Ito, Atsushi |
| author_facet | Otsuka, Rikuto Shoji, Yuho Ogino, Yuka Toizumi, Takahiro Ito, Atsushi |
| contents | This paper proposes image-adaptive contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (IA-CLAHE). Conventional CLAHE is widely used to boost the performance of various computer vision tasks and to improve visual quality for human perception in practical industrial applications. CLAHE applies contrast limited histogram equalization to each local region to enhance local contrast. However, CLAHE often leads to over-enhancement, because the contrast-limiting parameter clip limit is fixed regardless of the histogram distribution of each local region. Our IA-CLAHE addresses this limitation by adaptively estimating tile-wise clip limits from the input image. To achieve this, we train a lightweight clip limits estimator with a differentiable extension of CLAHE, enabling end-to-end optimization. Unlike prior learning-based CLAHE methods, IA-CLAHE does not require pre-searched ground-truth clip limits or task-specific datasets, because it learns to map input image histograms toward a domain-invariant uniform distribution, enabling zero-shot generalization across diverse conditions. Experimental results show that IA-CLAHE consistently improves recognition performance, while simultaneously enhancing visual quality for human perception, without requiring any task-specific training data. |
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| spellingShingle | IA-CLAHE: Image-Adaptive Clip Limit Estimation for CLAHE Otsuka, Rikuto Shoji, Yuho Ogino, Yuka Toizumi, Takahiro Ito, Atsushi Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition This paper proposes image-adaptive contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (IA-CLAHE). Conventional CLAHE is widely used to boost the performance of various computer vision tasks and to improve visual quality for human perception in practical industrial applications. CLAHE applies contrast limited histogram equalization to each local region to enhance local contrast. However, CLAHE often leads to over-enhancement, because the contrast-limiting parameter clip limit is fixed regardless of the histogram distribution of each local region. Our IA-CLAHE addresses this limitation by adaptively estimating tile-wise clip limits from the input image. To achieve this, we train a lightweight clip limits estimator with a differentiable extension of CLAHE, enabling end-to-end optimization. Unlike prior learning-based CLAHE methods, IA-CLAHE does not require pre-searched ground-truth clip limits or task-specific datasets, because it learns to map input image histograms toward a domain-invariant uniform distribution, enabling zero-shot generalization across diverse conditions. Experimental results show that IA-CLAHE consistently improves recognition performance, while simultaneously enhancing visual quality for human perception, without requiring any task-specific training data. |
| title | IA-CLAHE: Image-Adaptive Clip Limit Estimation for CLAHE |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16010 |