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Global and local contrast enhancement methods have their merits and demerits, respectively. The proposed method utilizes the complementary characteristics of these two methods to achieve noticeable contrast enhancement without artifacts. In our proposed method, the 2D histogram, which contains both global and local gray level distribution characteristics of the original image, is computed first. Then, based on the 2D histogram, the global and local enhanced results are obtained by applying histogram specification globally and locally. Lastly, the enhanced result is computed by solving an optimization equation subjected to global and local constraints. The pixel-wise regularization parameters for the optimization equation are adaptively determined based on the edge information of the original image. Thus, the proposed method is able to enhance the local contrast while preserving the naturalness of the original image. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the block-based methods for improving the visual quality of infrared images.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11070849","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,8]],"date-time":"2019-04-08T11:54:52Z","timestamp":1554724492000},"page":"849","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Optimized Contrast Enhancement for Infrared Images Based on Global and Local Histogram Specification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0416-4769","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chengwei","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiubao","family":"Sui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaodong","family":"Kuang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guohua","family":"Gu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qian","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2176","DOI":"10.1109\/TCSVT.2015.2493443","article-title":"Effective Strip Noise Removal for Low-Textured Infrared Images Based on 1-D Guided Filtering","volume":"26","author":"Cao","year":"2016","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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