Color preservation for tone reproduction and image enhancement

Chengho Hsin; Zong Wei Lee; Zheng Zhan Lee; Shaw-Jyh Shin

doi:10.1117/12.2042432

3 February 2014 Color preservation for tone reproduction and image enhancement

Chengho Hsin, Zong Wei Lee, Zheng Zhan Lee, Shaw-Jyh Shin

Proceedings Volume 9015, Color Imaging XIX: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications; 90150B (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042432
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Applications based on luminance processing often face the problem of recovering the original chrominance in the output color image. A common approach to reconstruct a color image from the luminance output is by preserving the original hue and saturation. However, this approach often produces a highly colorful image which is undesirable. We develop a color preservation method that not only retains the ratios of the input tri-chromatic values but also adjusts the output chroma in an appropriate way. Linearizing the output luminance is the key idea to realize this method. In addition, a lightness difference metric together with a colorfulness difference metric are proposed to evaluate the performance of the color preservation methods. It shows that the proposed method performs consistently better than the existing approaches.

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Chengho Hsin, Zong Wei Lee, Zheng Zhan Lee, and Shaw-Jyh Shin "Color preservation for tone reproduction and image enhancement", Proc. SPIE 9015, Color Imaging XIX: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, 90150B (3 February 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042432

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