Towards the design of a consistent image contrast enhancement evaluation measure

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Highlights：

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• A new database dedicated to contrast enhancement evaluation (CEE) is introduced.

• An extensive set of psychophysical subjective experiments are conducted.

• A comprehensive performance analysis of state-of-the-art CEE metrics is presented.

• A new measure based on the fusion of top ranked CEE metrics is proposed.

• A discussion on the challenges in evaluating contrast enhancement is provided.

摘要

•A new database dedicated to contrast enhancement evaluation (CEE) is introduced.•An extensive set of psychophysical subjective experiments are conducted.•A comprehensive performance analysis of state-of-the-art CEE metrics is presented.•A new measure based on the fusion of top ranked CEE metrics is proposed.•A discussion on the challenges in evaluating contrast enhancement is provided.

论文关键词：Image enhancement,Image quality assessment,Subjective experiments,Image contrast,Contrast enhancement evaluation measures,Contrast changed database

论文评审过程：Received 16 August 2016, Revised 3 August 2017, Accepted 4 August 2017, Available online 14 August 2017, Version of Record 29 August 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2017.08.004