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<h1>Re: Adjusting contrast and brightness</h1>
<b>Matthias Fleischer</b> (<a href="mailto:FLEISCHER@ito311.ito.uni-stuttgart.de"><i>FLEISCHER@ito311.ito.uni-stuttgart.de</i></a>)<br>
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<i>&gt; Well, then I suppose we can begin to make a few conjectures. One</i><br>
<i>&gt; approach would be to interactively modify the appearance of the</i><br>
<i>&gt; preview image based on the current settings of the controls. This</i><br>
<i>&gt; could be done based on a calibration run performed on a test image</i><br>
<i>&gt; which would record the behavior of the scanner at various settings.</i><br>
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Or by scanning the preview with a linear lookup-table that stretches<br>
over the whole dynamic range of the scanner. Modifications could then<br>
be applied to this image with the same LUT that is sent to the scanner<br>
for normal scans. Scanners that don't use a LUT (do they exist?) will <br>
be more difficult, though.<br>
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<i>&gt; A real-time display of the brightness histogram of the preview image</i><br>
<i>&gt; might be a useful stopgap measure.</i><br>
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Indeed. A combined RGB histogram might be useful, too. Keep in mind<br>
that a LUT (i.e. any operation applied on a per-pixel basis) does not <br>
produce intermediate color values but just reorders the buckets that <br>
are already there. So a little lowpass-filter should be applied to <br>
the histogram curves to make them look fine. A binomial-filter might <br>
be a good one.<br>
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<i>&gt; Having the software actually select the contrast and brightness and</i><br>
<i>&gt; gamma is a lot trickier, with subjective elements. Its one of those</i><br>
<i>&gt; problems, like the travelling salesman problem, that are impossible in</i><br>
<i>&gt; theory but solved in practice every day. Are the algorithms for doing</i><br>
<i>&gt; this proprietary, or are there no image processing experts here? I</i><br>
<i>&gt; know about image synthesis, but not much about image processing.</i><br>
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Not that I'm an expert, but from my experience simply stretching the <br>
histogram so that the darkest and brightest color become black and <br>
white gives excellent results for greyscale images. Noise can <br>
be ignored if you drop the lower and upper 0.5% of the histogram. <br>
Gamma should be used with care since it often increases noise.<br>
This doesn't work for all pictures, but if there are any secret <br>
algorithms out there (used in photo labs) they show their flaws for <br>
difficult pictures, too.<br>
(Ever tried to have some fireworks pictures developed in a cheap photo <br>
lab?)<br>
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Matthias<br>
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