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Most traditional Chinese paintings are painted on hand-made paper that easily suffers from severe spectral changes caused by prolonged light exposure, resulting in color distortion and low contrast. To recover the original appearance of a Chinese painting, especially its background color, an automatic background adjustment framework is proposed. This framework is based on the insightful observation that the fading model of a painting image is analogue to the common hazy image formation model when the painting image is transformed into the K-M (Kubelka-Munk) space. We demonstrate that this fading model is quite useful in extracting pigment lines from any painting image. These pigment lines represent clusters of distinct color pigments used in a Chinese painting, which is the key to density map estimation and background restoration. Experimental results prove that our approach is able to restore a variety of deteriorated Chinese paintings without any user intervention or training.
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This work is supported by NSF China (No. 61502223 and No. 61321491).
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Guo, J., Li, C., Pan, J. (2018). Automatic Background Adjustment for Chinese Paintings Using Pigment Lines. In: Zeng, B., Huang, Q., El Saddik, A., Li, H., Jiang, S., Fan, X. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing – PCM 2017. PCM 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10736. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77383-4_58
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