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This post is a short revision of Contrast Stretch post we already worked on in the past. Where we talked about histogram equalization, which is a little more complex method than...
Contrast stretch or otherwise known as normalization is a process where your image’s intensity is changed in such a way, that dark pixels become darker and light pixels...
This post is a short revision of Contrast Stretch post we already worked on in the past. Where we talked about histogram equalization, which is a little more complex method than normalization.
Normalization in image processing is a process that changes the ranges of intensities in an image. For example let’s say we have a grayscale image which has the lowest intensity value of 50 and the highest the value of 120.
This image appears to be very “washed out”. So to enhance it, we will use normalization technique that will change the intensities’ range from 50 – 120 to 0 – 255.
Normalization takes each pixel and recalculates a new intensity value individually.
Pout = (Pin – c) * (b – a) / (d – c) + a
Where Pout and Pin are variables for pixel values on the output and input of the equation.
b and a represent values for the new range of intensities we are trying to get (a is the minimum and b is the maximum value).
d and c are the maximum and minimum intensity values of our input image.
As I mentioned before there is already a post on contrast stretching. But I feel the method we are describing here is much easier for those who are still new to image processing.
Although this technique may not be as efficient as the one we already described – histogram equalization, results can still be satisfactory to a certain degree.
public static Bitmap Normalization(this Bitmap img)
{
int w = img.Width;
int h = img.Height;
BitmapData sd = img.LockBits(new Rectangle(0, 0, w, h),
ImageLockMode.ReadOnly, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
int bytes = sd.Stride * sd.Height;
byte[] buffer = new byte[bytes];
byte[] result = new byte[bytes];
Marshal.Copy(sd.Scan0, buffer, 0, bytes);
img.UnlockBits(sd);
int current = 0;
byte max = 0;
byte min = 255;
for (int i = 0; i < buffer.Length; i++)
{
max = Math.Max(max, buffer[i]);
min = Math.Min(min, buffer[i]);
}
for (int y = 0; y < h; y++)
{
for (int x = 0; x < w; x++)
{
current = y * sd.Stride + x * 4;
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
result[current + i] = (byte)((buffer[current + i] - min) * 100 / (max - min));
}
result[current + 3] = 255;
}
}
Bitmap resimg = new Bitmap(w, h);
BitmapData rd = resimg.LockBits(new Rectangle(0, 0, w, h),
ImageLockMode.WriteOnly, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
Marshal.Copy(result, 0, rd.Scan0, bytes);
resimg.UnlockBits(rd);
return resimg;
}