Color correction with blind image restoration based on multiple images using a low-rank model

Dong Li; Xudong Xie; Kin-Man Lam

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.23.2.023010

26 March 2014 Color correction with blind image restoration based on multiple images using a low-rank model

Dong Li, Xudong Xie, Kin-Man Lam

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 23, Issue 2, 023010 (March 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.23.2.023010

Abstract

We present a method that can handle the color correction of multiple photographs with blind image restoration simultaneously and automatically. We prove that the local colors of a set of images of the same scene exhibit the low-rank property locally both before and after a color-correction operation. This property allows us to correct all kinds of errors in an image under a low-rank matrix model without particular priors or assumptions. The possible errors may be caused by changes of viewpoint, large illumination variations, gross pixel corruptions, partial occlusions, etc. Furthermore, a new iterative soft-segmentation method is proposed for local color transfer using color influence maps. Due to the fact that the correct color information and the spatial information of images can be recovered using the low-rank model, more precise color correction and many other image-restoration tasks—including image denoising, image deblurring, and gray-scale image colorizing—can be performed simultaneously. Experiments have verified that our method can achieve consistent and promising results on uncontrolled real photographs acquired from the Internet and that it outperforms current state-of-the-art methods.

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Dong Li, Xudong Xie, and Kin-Man Lam "Color correction with blind image restoration based on multiple images using a low-rank model," Journal of Electronic Imaging 23(2), 023010 (26 March 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.23.2.023010

Published: 26 March 2014

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