An automated method of improving digital color images at high speed, which supports
pipe-lining and has very little memory requirements, and is therefore specially
suitable for on-the-fly processing of real time video, as well as for processing
of large batches of images without the need of human intervention. The method includes
a novel dynamic range adaptation scheme that operates on the norm of the image,
which is suitable as is for gray-scale images. For, color images, a simple color
reconstruction stage is added that maintains optimal color fidelity.
