Automatic Texture Guided Color Transfer and Colorization

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2016
Authors
Arbelot, Benoit
Vergne, Romain
Hurtut, Thomas
Thollot, Joƫlle
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Publisher
The Eurographics Association
Abstract
This paper targets two related color manipulation problems: Color transfer for modifying an image's colors and colorization for adding colors to a grayscale image. Automatic methods for these two applications propose to modify the input image using a reference that contains the desired colors. Previous approaches usually do not target both applications and suffer from two main limitations: possible misleading associations between input and reference regions and poor spatial coherence around image structures. In this paper, we propose a unified framework that uses the textural content of the images to guide the color transfer and colorization. Our method introduces an edge-aware texture descriptor based on region covariance, allowing for local color transformations. We show that our approach is able to produce results comparable or better than state-of-the-art methods in both applications.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:exp.20161060
,
booktitle = {
Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
},
editor = {
Pierre BƩnard and Holger Winnemƶller
},
title = {{
Automatic Texture Guided Color Transfer and Colorization
}},
author = {
Arbelot, Benoit
 and 
Vergne, Romain
 and 
Hurtut, Thomas
 and 
Thollot, Joƫlle
},
year = {
2016
},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {
-
},
ISBN = {
978-3-03868-002-4
},
DOI = {
10.2312/exp.20161060
}
}
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https://doi.org/10.2312/exp.20161060
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