ABSTRACT:
Principle objective of Image enhancement
is to process an image so that result is more
suitable than original image for specific
application. Thermal image enhancement used in
Quality Control ,Problem Diagnostics,Research
and Development,Insurance Risk Assessment,Risk
Management Programme,Digital infrared thermal
imaging in health care, Surveillance in security,
law enforcement and defence. Various
enhancement schemes are used for enhancing an
image which includes gray scale manipulation,
filtering and Histogram Equalization (HE),fast
fourier transform.Image enhancement is the
process of making images more useful. The
reasons for doing this include, Highlighting
interesting detail in images, Removing noise from
images, Making images more visually appealing,
edge enhancement and increase the contrast of the
image.