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Palette-based Photo Recoloring

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), July 2015

Huiwen Chang, Ohad Fried, Yiming Liu,
Stephen DiVerdi, Adam Finkelstein
Recoloring a photo with our palette-based approach: (a) original, with automatically computed palette below; (b) user changes the green palette color to red, and the system recolors the image to reflect the change; (c-d) user changes multiple colors to make other styles.
Abstract

Image editing applications offer a wide array of tools for color manipulation. Some of these tools are easy to understand but offer a limited range of expressiveness. Other more powerful tools are time consuming for experts 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 by editing a color palette. This system is comprised of several components: a GUI that is easy to learn and understand, an efficient algorithm for creating a color palette from an image, and a novel 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, and allows untrained users to achieve results comparable to those of experts using professional software.
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Huiwen Chang, Ohad Fried, Yiming Liu, Stephen DiVerdi, and Adam Finkelstein.
"Palette-based Photo Recoloring."
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH) 34(4), July 2015.

BibTeX

@article{Chang:2015:PPR,
   author = "Huiwen Chang and Ohad Fried and Yiming Liu and Stephen DiVerdi and Adam
      Finkelstein",
   title = "Palette-based Photo Recoloring",
   journal = "ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH)",
   year = "2015",
   month = jul,
   volume = "34",
   number = "4"
}