Data-driven image color theme enhancement

  • Authors:
  • Baoyuan Wang;Yizhou Yu;Tien-Tsin Wong;Chun Chen;Ying-Qing Xu

  • Affiliations:
  • Zhejiang University;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Zhejiang University;The Chinese University of Hong Kong;Zhejiang University;Microsoft Research Asia

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 papers
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

It is often important for designers and photographers to convey or enhance desired color themes in their work. A color theme is typically defined as a template of colors and an associated verbal description. This paper presents a data-driven method for enhancing a desired color theme in an image. We formulate our goal as a unified optimization that simultaneously considers a desired color theme, texture-color relationships as well as automatic or user-specified color constraints. Quantifying the difference between an image and a color theme is made possible by color mood spaces and a generalization of an additivity relationship for two-color combinations. We incorporate prior knowledge, such as texture-color relationships, extracted from a database of photographs to maintain a natural look of the edited images. Experiments and a user study have confirmed the effectiveness of our method.