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The image perception by human brain through the eyes is not exactly what the eyes receive. In order to have an enhanced view of the received image and more clarity in detail, the brain naturally modifies the color tones in adjacent neighborhoods of colors. A very famous example of this human sight natural modification to the view is the famous Chevreul–Mach bands. In this phenomenon, every bar is filled with one solid level of gray, but human brain perceives narrow bands at the edges with increased contrast which does not reflect the physical reality of solid gray bars. This human visual system action in illusion, highlighting the edges, is inspired here in visual illusory image enhancement (VIIE). An algorithm for the newly introduced VIIE by deploying morphological filters is presented as morphological VIIE (MVIIE). It deploys morphological filters for boosting the same effect on the image edges and aiding human sight by increasing the contrast of the sight. MVIIE algorithm is explained in this chapter. Significant image enhancement, by MVIEE, is approved through the experiments in terms of image quality metrics and visual perception.
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Khosravy, M., Gupta, N., Marina, N., Sethi, I.K., Asharif, M.R. (2017). Brain Action Inspired Morphological Image Enhancement. In: Patnaik, S., Yang, XS., Nakamatsu, K. (eds) Nature-Inspired Computing and Optimization. Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technologies, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50920-4_15
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