Improved color reproduction based on CIELAB color space in integrated multi-scale retinex

Wang-Jun Kyung; Tae-Hyoung Lee; Cheol-Hee Lee; Yeong-Ho Ha

doi:10.1117/12.805876

19 January 2009 Improved color reproduction based on CIELAB color space in integrated multi-scale retinex

Wang-Jun Kyung, Tae-Hyoung Lee, Cheol-Hee Lee, Yeong-Ho Ha

Proceedings Volume 7241, Color Imaging XIV: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications; 724105 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805876
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Recently, tone reproduction is widely used in the field of image enhancement and HDR imaging. This method is especially used to provide the proper luminance so that captured images give the same sensation as the scene. As a result, we can get high contrast and naturalness of colors. There is ample literature on the topic of tone reproduction that has the objective of reproducing natural looking color in digital images. In recent papers, IMSR (Integrated multi-scale Retinex) shows great naturalness in the result images. Most methods, including IMSR, work in RGB or quasi-RGB color spaces, although some method adopted the use of luminance. This raises hue distortion from the point of the human visual system, that is, hue distortion in CIELAB color space. Accordingly, this paper proposes an enhanced IMSR method in a device-independent color space, CIELAB, to preserve hue and obtain high contrast and naturalness. In order to achieve the devised objectives, a captured sRGB image is transformed to the CIELAB color space. IMSR is then applied to only L* values, thus the balance of colors components are preserved. This process causes unnatural saturation, therefore saturation adjustment is performed by applying the ratio of chroma variation at the sRGB gamut boundary according to the corrected luminance. Finally, the adjusted CIELAB values are transformed to sRGB using the inverse transform function. In the result images of the proposed method, containing both high and low luminance regions, visibility in dark shadow and bright regions was improved and color distortion was reduced.

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Wang-Jun Kyung, Tae-Hyoung Lee, Cheol-Hee Lee, and Yeong-Ho Ha "Improved color reproduction based on CIELAB color space in integrated multi-scale retinex", Proc. SPIE 7241, Color Imaging XIV: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, 724105 (19 January 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805876

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