Contrast Preserving Decolorization

Cewu Lu              Li Xu              Jiaya Jia

Color Image CIE Y Decolorized Image
(Chrominance contrast is preserved)

Abstract

Decolorization - the process to transform a color image to a grayscale one - is a basic tool in digital printing, stylized black-and-white photography, and in many single channel image processing applications.

We propose an optimization approach aiming at maximally preserving the original color contrast. Our main contribution is to alleviate a strict order constraint for color mapping based on human vision system, which enables the employment of a bimodal distribution to constrain spatial pixel difference and allows for automatic selection of suitable gray scale in order to preserve the original contrast.


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Snapshot for paper "Contrast Preserving Decolorization"
Cewu Lu, Li Xu, Jiaya Jia
IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2012

   [Paper (pdf, 4.9MB)]

  Code included in OpenCV since version 3.0

  [Image Data and Results (zip, 5.5M)]

  [Presentation Slides]

Snapshot for paper "Contrast Preserving Decolorization with Perception-Based Quality Metrics"
Cewu Lu, Li Xu, Jiaya Jia
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2014

   [Paper (pdf, 5MB)]

  [Metric Code (CCPR, CCFR and E-score)]

  [COLOR250 Dataset (181MB)]


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Color Image CIE Y Decolorized Image
(Chrominance contrast is preserved)