Image Brightness reduction by canceling bright areas using brightness level and reconstruction by geodesic dilation

Special devices capable of transforming continuous images into digital formats generate digital images. Image digitization enables treating, visualizing and storing images in a computer system. However, the high-intensity light captured by a device of this type can cause unwanted bright areas in the generated images. Since these bright areas can lead to image processing errors, manifested as a false appearance, their deletion and subsequent reconstruction can produce a more faithful image. A conventional approach, based on mathematical morphology, consists of reducing or eliminating unwanted image brightness by an erosion process. The image obtained through this method undergoes a reconstruction process based on successive geodesic dilations. In this paper, a new brightness reduction method is proposed. This method identifies bright areas by applying a defined brightness limit value to remove pixels with brightness values above it, but leaving the remaining pixels unmodified. Then, the image is reconstructed by the usual image reconstruction approach based on mathematical morphology. Compared to the conventional approach, the proposed method in this work enhances brightness, generating an image more faithful to the actual object.