In view of the shortcomings of the existing image enhancement technology in detail processing and the situation that the histogram distribution of the transformed image is shifted.At the same time,it is not ideal for the basic antlion optimization algorithm (ALO),easy to fall into the local optimum and so on,This paper proposed an image enhancement method using improved antlion optimization algorithm (RBALO).It adjusted the boundary of the search space according to the distribution of the antlion location,guided the ants to search in more efficient areas.Finally,let parts of ants and the elite antlion position reorganization.It used the RBALO algorithm to determine the parameters of the Beta function,got the value of the parameter appropriate for the current image.It used two standard test functions for testing and it was proved that the improved antlion algorithm had very good precision.Finally,using couple grayscale image simulation experiments,the experimental results show that the RBALO algorithm has better fitness and more uniform histogram distribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]