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Blue Sky Detection for Picture Quality Enhancement

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Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 2006)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNIP,volume 4179))

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Content analysis of video and still images is attractive for multiple reasons, such as enabling content-based actions and image manipulation. This paper presents a new algorithm and feature model for blue-sky detection. The algorithm classifies the sky areas by computing a pixel-accurate sky probability. Such a probabilistic measure matches well with the requirements of typical video enhancement functions in TVs. This algorithm enables not only content-adaptive picture quality improvement, but also more advanced applications such as content-based annotation of, and retrieval from image and video databases. When compared to existing algorithms, our proposal shows considerable improvements in correct detection/rejection rate of sky areas, and an improved consistency of the segmentation results.

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Zafarifar, B., de With, P.H.N. (2006). Blue Sky Detection for Picture Quality Enhancement. In: Blanc-Talon, J., Philips, W., Popescu, D., Scheunders, P. (eds) Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems. ACIVS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11864349_48

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