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f UM ( n , m )
-
d ( n , m )
+
Low-pass
filter
β
f ( n , m )
f ( n , m )
+
+
FIGURE 2.42
Unsharp masking.
the equivalent FIR
filter starting from the original image f ( n, m )
to the output
unsharp masked image f UM ( n, m )
is given by
h UM ( n, m ) ¼ (
1
þb)d( n, m ) b h LP ( n, m )
(
2
:
122
)
For example, if the LPF h LP ( n, m )
is a simple 5
5 moving average
filter, then
2
4
3
5
b b b b b
b b b b b
b b
1
25
h UM ( n, m ) ¼
b b b
b b b b b
b b b b b
24
þ
25
(
2
:
123
)
25
The following two unsharp masked
filters are designed with
b ¼
11 ¼
2
:
2727 and
b ¼
25
4 ¼
:
6
25.
2
4
3
5
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
11
h UM ( n, m )j 2 : 2727 ¼
1
1 5
1
1
(
2
:
124
)
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
and
2
3
1
1
1
1
1
4
1
1
1
1
1
5
1
4
h UM ( n, m )j 6 : 25 ¼
1
1 8
1
1
(
2
:
125
)
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
In general, higher values of
b
result in more image sharpening. Similarly, in the
above
filters, a smaller center tap implies more sharpening since it increases the
relative contribution of the negative taps on the
filtered output.
2.8.2 I MAGE H ISTOGRAM
Consider an M M, 8 bit image f ( n, m )
, for each code
value f is the number of times the code value f appears in the image. The PDF of
image f ( n, m )
. The image histogram N(f ( f )
is the normalized histogram de
ned by
N ( f )
M 2
p ( f ) ¼
f ¼
...
(
:
)
0, 1,
, 255
2
126
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