Improving the quality of pigskin leather texture images using enhanced image processing

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method to improve the quality of pigskin leather texture images using digital
image processing approach. The proposed method intends to minimize the imbalance illumination
problem that occurs in the images captured from consumer leather products. This method is compared
with the other methods in the literature such as contrast adaptive binarization method, and the results
showed that the proposed method yielded better results in terms of highlighting the special
characteristics of pigskin in consumer leather products.