Dark image enhancement by locally transformed histogram

Image enhancement processes an image to increase the visual information of that image. Image quality can be degraded for several reasons such as lack of operator expertise, quality of image capturing devices, etc. The process of enhancing images may produce different types of noises such as unnatural effects, over-enhancement, artifacts, etc. These drawbacks are more prominent in the dark images. Over the years, many image enhancement techniques have been proposed. However, there have been a few works specifically for dark image enhancement. Though the available methods enhance the dark images, they might not produce desired output for dark images. To overcome the above drawbacks, we propose a method for dark image enhancement. In this paper, we enhance the images by…