A New Method for Improving Infrared Image Quality and its System Implementation

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To obtain high-quality infrared image real-timely, a new correction enhancement method is proposed. The method can both compensate nonuniformity of IRFPA by using calibration-based piecewise polynomial interpolation correction algorithm and increase image contrast by using histogram-based adaptive threshold image enhancement algorithm. The experiment is performed by carrying out the method in an embedded imaging system. The results show that the system can process infrared image real-timely and the processed image is clear with high signal to noise ratio.

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