Translucent Image Recoloring through Homography Estimation

Abstract

Image color editing techniques are of great significance for users who wish to adjust the image color. However, previous works paid less attention to the translucent images. In this paper, we propose a new method to recolor the translucent images while preserving detailed information and color relationships of the source image. We consider the recolor problem as a location transformation problem and solve it in two steps: automatic palette extraction and homography estimation. First, we propose the Hmeans method to extract the dominant colors of the source image based on histogram statistics and clustering. Then, we propose homography estimation to map the source colors to desired colors in the CIE-LAB color space. Further, we adopt a non-linear optimization approach to improve the result generated by the last step. The proposed method maintains high fidelity of the source image. Experiments have shown that our method generates a state-of-the-art visual result, in particular in the shadow areas. The source images with ground truth generated by a ray tracer further verify the effectiveness of our method.