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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Parallel Retinex Image Enhancement Algorithm Based on OpenMP
Authors : Shixiong Cheng, Bin Liu, Dongjian He, Jinrong He, Yuancheng Li, Yanning Du
Published in: Network and Parallel Computing
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Retinex image enhancement algorithm occupies an important position in eliminating image uneven exposure, low contrast, and smog influence. However, with the increasing of image resolution, the real-time performance of the serial Retinex algorithm has not satisfied the requirements of practical applications. This paper proposes an OpenMP-based parallel Retinex algorithm. The parallelism of the Retinex algorithm is first identified by theoretical analyses. Then, the time-consuming sub-algorithms such as Gaussian convolution and exponential transformation, of the serial algorithm are designed and executed in parallel. On Tianhe-2 supercomputer platform, the experimental results show that the speedup of the parallel algorithm is significantly improved, and the test image set achieves an average speedup of 12. It indicates that the parallel algorithm can satisfy the needs of real-time processing in image enhancement field.