Patent 7263241 was granted and assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute on August, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A region-based illumination-normalization method and system utilizes a plurality of filters to filter a test image for obtaining a high frequency image and a low pass image. The low pass image is segmented into several regions by an image segmentation unit so that a region-based adjustment unit normalizes the regions based on an illumination reference model, respectively. Finally, an image combination unit is employed to combine the high frequency image and the low pass image that is normalized.