摘要 |
An apparatus and concomitant method for decomposing an image stream into units of local contrast. A temporal contrast transform (pyramid), comprises a spatial filter, a cascade of lowpass temporal filters and a plurality of subtractors and dividers. The spatial filter is followed by a cascade of lowpass temporal filters, producing a set of temporally lowpass, spatially low pass images. Adjacent filter outputs are then subtracted, producing a set of temporally bandpass (Laplacian) images. Finally, each Laplacian image is divided by a lower level temporal lowpass image, to produce a set of temporally bandpass contrast images. |