Image enhancement via space-adaptive lifting scheme using spatial domain adaptive Wiener filter

Abstract

This paper proposes an image enhancement method which is based on space-adaptive lifting scheme. The space-adaptive lifting scheme is designed with update-first strategy and the spatial domain adaptive Wiener filter is used for subband image enhancement. The space-adaptive lifting scheme is superior to the scale-adaptive one in that, the prediction stage is adapted to the signal structure pixel-by-pixel (not scale-by-scale) which results in a better signal representation and better image enhancement. A novel adaptive prediction method is proposed in the 2D lifting scheme. The method adaptively chooses the best prediction filter (predictor), among a set of predictors, based on minimizing the prediction error (or detail coefficient). The experimental results and objective quality test results prove the accomplishment of the proposed image enhancement method.