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Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Data Science)

Image Processing and Computer Vision I (DJ19DSL603)


Lab 5: Image Enhancement in Spatial Domain using Neighbourhood Processing
Techniques

Aim: To perform image enhancement in spatial domain using neighbourhood


processing techniques: Basic High Pass and High Boost filtering

Theory:

1. Basic High Pass:

The principal objective of high pass (sharpening) filter is to highlight fine detail
in an image or to enhance detail that has been blurred, either in error or as a natural
effect of a particular method of image acquisition. Uses of image sharpening vary
and include applications ranging from electronic printing and medical imaging to
industrial inspection and autonomous target detection in military systems.

The shape of the impulse response needed to have a high pass (sharpening) spatial
filter indicates that the filter should have positive coefficients in the outer
periphery. For a 3 x 3 mask, choosing a positive value in the centre location with
negative coefficients in the rest of the mask meets this condition. Thus when the
mask is over an area of constant or slowly varying gray level, the output of the
mask is zero or very small. This result is consistent with what is expected from
the corresponding frequency domain filter.

fig 1. A high pass filter mask

2. High Boost Filter:

The goal of high boost filtering is to enhance the high frequency


information without completely eliminating the background of the image.

We know that:
(High-pass filtered image)=(Original image)-(Low-pass filtered image)

We define:
Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Data Science)
Image Processing and Computer Vision I (DJ19DSL603)
Lab 5: Image Enhancement in Spatial Domain using Neighbourhood Processing
Techniques

(High boost filtered image) = 𝐴 × (Original image) - (Low-pass filtered image)


(High boost) = (𝐴−1) × (Original) + (Original) - (Low-pass)
(High boost) = (𝐴−1) × (Original) + (High-pass)

Note:
i. when 𝐴>1, part of the original is added back to the high-pass filtered
version of the image in order to partly restore the lowfrequency
components that would have been eliminated with standardhigh-
pass filtering.
ii. Typical values for 𝐴 are values slightly higher than 1, as for example
1.15, 1.2, etc.

The resulting image looks similar to the original image with some edge
enhancement.

The spatial mask that implements the high boost filtering algorithm is shown
below.

fig 2. High boost filter mask

The resulting image depends on the choice of A.

Lab Assignments to complete in this session


Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Data Science)
Image Processing and Computer Vision I (DJ19DSL603)
Lab 5: Image Enhancement in Spatial Domain using Neighbourhood Processing
Techniques

Problem Statement: Develop a Python program utilizing the OpenCV library to enhace
the images in spatial domain using neighbourhood processing with sharpening operators
(High pass filtering and High boost filtering). The program should address the following
tasks:

1. Read any low contrast image from COVID 19 Image Dataset.


Dataset Link: Covid-19 Image Dataset
2. Display the before & after image(s) used in every task below.
3. Apply basic high pass filter and compare the before and after result.
4. Apply basic high boost filter and compare the before and after result.

The solution to the operations performed must be produced by scratch coding without
the use of built in OpenCV methods.

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