Palette-based Photo Recoloring
Venue
Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) (2015) (to appear)
Publication Year
2015
Authors
Huiwen Chang, Ohad Fried, Yiming Liu, Stephen DiVerdi, Adam Finkelstein
BibTeX
Abstract
Color manipulation is a key process in photo enhancement, and professional image
editing suites incorporate an array of tools to support it. Some of these tools are
easy to understand but offer a limited range of expressiveness. Other more powerful
tools are difficult and time consuming to use, and inscrutable to novices.
Researchers have described a variety of more sophisticated methods but these are
typically not interactive, which is crucial for creative exploration. This paper
introduces a simple, intuitive and interactive tool that allows non-experts to
recolor an image colors by editing a color palette. This system is comprised of
several components: a GUI that is easy to learn and understand, a new efficient
algorithm for creating a color palette from an image, and a new efficient color
transfer algorithm that recolors the image based on a user-modified palette. We
evaluate our approach via a user study, showing that it is faster and easier to use
than two alternatives. It also shows that untrained users can quickly achieve
results comparable to those of experts using professional software.
