image enhancement

Making pictures better

Image enhancement is the process of improving a picture's quality or clarity, typically through digital manipulation.

Techniques include adjusting brightness, contrast, sharpness, or color balance.

In forensics and surveillance, image enhancement extracts details from poor-quality footage: Police used image enhancement to read the license plate.

The term also covers filters that beautify photos.

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filtering · deblurring · color · clarity · interpolation · pixel perfect · vibrance · contrast · editing · batch processing · before and after · medical imaging · light · color correction · saturation · brightness · sharpening · Photoshop

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processing direction

image enhancementdownsampling

Lowering sampling rate

image compression

modification vs. preservation

image enhancementraw image

Unprocessed sensor data

source file · unretouched

quality outcome

image enhancementimage distortion

Warped visual representation

pixelation · blurring · artifacting · banding · posterization

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