Toward an Improvement of UAV-Aerial Image Using Non-linear Image Enhancement

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-vision applications are increasingly widespread in recent years, however, the UAV-aerial image causes a blurred condition because there is no power in the high-frequency component of aerial image. To improve the quality of such a blurred image, the image enhancement is an indispensable post-processing method. In this paper, the opportunity cost can be used to improve the non-linear image enhancement method for the UAV blurred image. In addition, a modified non-linear image enhancement scheme by cubic splines and opportunity cost will be proposed. The different non-linear image enhancement methods such as Gaussian-Pyramid and FSD-Pyramid are also compared with the proposed enhancement method.