A NOVEL ENHANCEMENT METHOD FOR COLORED ROCK ART ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMAGES
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Rock Art Archaeology plays important role in understanding the Culture, Religious systems, Art forms, Gender relations and Belief systems of ancient times. The biggest challenge in studying the various art forms like paintings and engravings found on rocks is that they are prone to environmental degradation and vandalism. Therefore, enhancement of images acquired from Rocks becomes a prerequisite for Archaeological studies. In this study, an enhancement method based on the application of Brightness Preserving Bi-Histogram Equalization (BBHE) and De-correlation Stretch (D-Stretch) is proposed. Performance Evaluation of existing enhancement methods for Rock Art images is performed and the comparison is done with proposed method both subjectively and objectively using metrics PSNR, MSE, RMSE, MAE, NK, SC, AD. Experimental results demonstrate that proposed method attains the highest performance for enhancement of Rock Art images.
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