Exploring the use of memory colors for image enhancement

Su Xue; Minghui Tan; Ann McNamara; Julie Dorsey; Holly Rushmeier

doi:10.1117/12.2036836

25 February 2014 Exploring the use of memory colors for image enhancement

Su Xue, Minghui Tan, Ann McNamara, Julie Dorsey, Holly Rushmeier

Proceedings Volume 9014, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIX; 901411 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2036836
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Memory colors refer to those colors recalled in association with familiar objects. While some previous work introduces this concept to assist digital image enhancement, their basis, i.e., on-screen memory colors, are not appropriately investigated. In addition, the resulting adjustment methods developed are not evaluated from a perceptual view of point. In this paper, we first perform a context-free perceptual experiment to establish the overall distributions of screen memory colors for three pervasive objects. Then, we use a context-based experiment to locate the most representative memory colors; at the same time, we investigate the interactions of memory colors between different objects. Finally, we show a simple yet effective application using representative memory colors to enhance digital images. A user study is performed to evaluate the performance of our technique.

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Su Xue, Minghui Tan, Ann McNamara, Julie Dorsey, and Holly Rushmeier "Exploring the use of memory colors for image enhancement", Proc. SPIE 9014, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIX, 901411 (25 February 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2036836

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