Image Enhancement is a technique to enhance images for many applications such as medical diagnosis and analysis, satellite images, agriculture etc. This paper is a review paper which focused on recent methods used by the authors such as soft computing for enhancing images, result of the methods used and also its limitation over the images. The main aim of this paper is to analyse the different proposed methods and to identify research problem.

Enhancement, Color Image Processing, Histograms

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