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Hyper-heuristic Image Enhancement (HHIE): A Reinforcement Learning Method for Image Contrast Enhancement

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Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering

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Abstract

Conventional contrast enhancement methods such as histogram equalization (HE) have not obtained acceptable results on many different low-contrast images and they also cannot automatically handle various images. These problems are a result of specifying parameters manually for the sake of producing high-contrast images. We proposed an automatic image contrast enhancement on Hyper-heuristic. In this study, simple exploiters are proposed to improve the contrast of current image. To select these exploiters appropriately, reinforcement learning is proposed. This selection is based on the functional history of these exploiters. Having multi aim of preserving brightness, retaining the shape features of the original histogram, and controlling on the rate of over-enhancement are the achievements of the proposed method. These objectives are suitable for the application of consumer electronics. By this simulation results, it has been shown that in terms of visual assessment, absolute mean brightness error (AMBE) and peak signal-to-noise (PSNR) of the proposed method are superior to literature methods.

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  1. Medical Informatics Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

    Mitra Montazeri

  2. Computer Engineering Department, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran

    Mitra Montazeri

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Bibudhendu Pati

  2. Department of Computer Science, Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Chhabi Rani Panigrahi

  3. Cloud Computing, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Rajkumar Buyya

  4. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Kuan-Ching Li

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Montazeri, M. (2020). Hyper-heuristic Image Enhancement (HHIE): A Reinforcement Learning Method for Image Contrast Enhancement. In: Pati, B., Panigrahi, C., Buyya, R., Li, KC. (eds) Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1082. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1081-6_31

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