Image enhancement algorithm using adaptive fractional differential mask technique

This paper addresses a novel adaptive fractional order image enhancement method. Firstly, an image segmentation algorithm is proposed, it combines Otsu algorithm and rough entropy to segment image accurately into the objet and the background. On the basis of image segmentation and the knowledge of fractional order differential, an image enhancement model is established. The rough characteristics of each average gray value are obtained by image segmentation method, through these features, we can determine the optimal fractional order of image enhancement. Then image will be enhanced using fractional order differential mask, from which fractional order is obtained adaptively. Several images are used for experiments, the proposed model is compared with other models, and the results of comparison exhibit the superiority of our algorithm in terms of image quality measures.