What Is An Image Histogram?

Image histogram (gray level histogram) is one of simple and easy statistical tool for image analysis. From the histogram, many useful information of an image can be represented from an image. Image histogram is easy and fast to compute.

Gray level histogram is a function that show how many pixels for every gray level exist in an image. The x-axis is the gray level, and the y-axis is the number of pixels that have certain level appear on an image.


Figure 1. An Image And Its Histogram

Figure 1. Show an image and its histogram, you can show in the histogram that the pixels values (the gray level values) is distributed only on the middle part of the available level, at levels between 100-200. We can say that the image doesn't maximize the usage of the available bit-depth (0-255).

Figure 2. The Image And Its Histogram After Equalization

Using image processing techniques, we can manipulate the image to equalize the histogram, so we will have a better picture. The image and it's histogram after equalization is shown in Figure 2.

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