image enhancement

British  

noun

1. a method of improving the definition of a video picture by a computer program, which reduces the lowest grey values to black and the highest to white: used for pictures from microscopes, surveillance cameras, and scanners

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Example Sentences

The standard tech people think of around night vision uses a strategy called image enhancement, and it works similarly to old televisions and computers.

From The Verge

Image enhancement techniques have been used to reveal life aboard Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft in unprecedented detail.

From BBC

Image enhancement revealed that this faded painting depicts not a hawk carrying an egg, as previously thought, but a vulture holding a symbol known as an ankh — a rare combination in the art of ancient Egypt.

From Nature

As with most of Juno's imagery, the data is made available for anyone to examine and to apply the tools of image enhancement to.

From Scientific American

Cosmetic dentistry procedures — teeth whitening and straightening, veneers, bonding — have become commonplace in the U.S. and, seemingly, mandatory in Southern California, where image enhancement is something akin to religion.

From Los Angeles Times