Towards automatic redeye effect removal

  • Authors:

  • B. Smolka;K. Czubin;J. Y. Hardeberg;K. N. Plataniotis;M. Szczepanski;K. Wojciechowski

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland;Department of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland;Gjøvik University College, P.O. Box 191, N-2802 Gjøvik, Norway;The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of ECE, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3G4;Department of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland;Department of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters - Special issue: Colour image processing and analysis
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The redeye effect is typically formed in amateur photographs taken with a built-in camera flash. Analysis of the available techniques and products indicates that their efficiency in correcting this artifact is limited and their performance is inconsistent. In this work we propose a user friendly solution, which could be used to restore amateur photographs. In the proposed method the redeye effect is detected using a skin detection module and eye colors are restored using morphological image processing. The new method is computationally efficient, robust to parameter settings and versatile, as it can work in conjunction with a number of skin detection methods.