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      Intra-and-Inter-Constraint-based Video Enhancement based on Piecewise Tone Mapping

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          Video enhancement plays an important role in various video applications. In this paper, we propose a new intra-and-inter-constraint-based video enhancement approach aiming to 1) achieve high intra-frame quality of the entire picture where multiple region-of-interests (ROIs) can be adaptively and simultaneously enhanced, and 2) guarantee the inter-frame quality consistencies among video frames. We first analyze features from different ROIs and create a piecewise tone mapping curve for the entire frame such that the intra-frame quality of a frame can be enhanced. We further introduce new inter-frame constraints to improve the temporal quality consistency. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm obviously outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms.

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                2015-02-21
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                10.1109/TCSVT.2012.2203198
                1502.06080
                afd676cb-0e67-484a-9113-50e861c9692e

                http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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                IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 74-82, 2013
                This manuscript is the accepted version for TCSVT (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology)
                cs.CV cs.MM

                Computer vision & Pattern recognition,Graphics & Multimedia design
                Computer vision & Pattern recognition, Graphics & Multimedia design

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