Multi-level image detail enhancement based on guided filtering

Abstract

Image blur and detail information loss are caused by various factors such as imaging environment and hardware performance, therefore a multi-level image detail enhancement method based on guided filtering is proposed. Firstly, the input image is iteratively filtered by using the guided filter, to obtain background images with different smoothness; then the background image is subtracted from the original image to obtain detail images with different levels; finally, a dynamic saturation function is used to adjust the weights of detail images, which are superimposed with the original image to obtain the enhanced image. The proposed method is compared with the existing enhancement algorithms using open dataset. The experimental results show that, compared with other enhancement methods, the proposed method in this paper achieves a better enhancement effect, the enhanced image has clear edges, and the visual effect is suitable. Compared with other methods, the objective indicators of information entropy, average gradient, and spatial frequency are improved on average. 1.39%, 27.9%, and 19.3%.