A study on Retinex based method for image enhancement

In this paper, It focuses on few out of many Retinex based method for Image Enhancement. Retinex is basically a concept of capturing an image in such a way in which a human being perceives it after looking at an object at the place with the help of their retina (Human Eye) and cortex (Mind). On the basis of Retinex theory, we can say an image as a product of illumination and reflectance from the object. Retinex focuses on dynamic range and color constancy of an image. There are various methods proposed by various researchers till date which use Retinex for image contrast enhancement. In this paper, we will discuss Single Scale Retinex (SSR), Multi-Scale Retinex (MSR), Improved Retinex Image Enhancement (IRIE), MSR improvement for night time Enhancement (MSRINTE) and Retinex Based Perceptual Contrast Enhancement in image using luminance adaptation (RBPCELA).