The analysis on the perception shift of skin colors due to simultaneous color contrast

Chun-Hsien Chou; Ray-Chin Wu; Yun-Hsiang Hsu; Shing-Shi Tseng

doi:10.1117/12.863586

14 July 2010 The analysis on the perception shift of skin colors due to simultaneous color contrast

Chun-Hsien Chou, Ray-Chin Wu, Yun-Hsiang Hsu, Shing-Shi Tseng

Proceedings Volume 7744, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2010; 774405 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.863586
Event: Visual Communications and Image Processing 2010, 2010, Huangshan, China

Abstract

The human figure with skin colors is always the focus of the people watching images displayed on the display devices like LCDs. The human perception of skin colors is always influenced by surrounding colors due to simultaneous color contrast effect. This paper presents a scheme for analyzing the perception shift of some representative skin colors which are arranged to be against a set of pre-selected background colors. The shift in perception is quantified by the differences of gamma parameters that characterize the GOG models of the skin color surrounded by the mid-gray color and the skin color surrounded by a specified background color, while both skin colors give the same appearance. With the results of the analysis on the gamma deviation of the reference skin colors, a scheme for correcting skin colors has been developed such that the appearance of the skin color against any background color can be very close to that of the same skin color against the mid-gray color. The results of subjective experiments indicate that the proposed scheme is feasible in removing the effect simultaneous effect.

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Chun-Hsien Chou, Ray-Chin Wu, Yun-Hsiang Hsu, and Shing-Shi Tseng "The analysis on the perception shift of skin colors due to simultaneous color contrast", Proc. SPIE 7744, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2010, 774405 (14 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.863586

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