An Interactive Tool for Gamut Masking

Ying Song            Cheryl Lau      Sabine Süsstrunk

IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging: Measuring, Modeling, and Reproducing Material Appearance
2014

Interactive tool for gamut masking.  Our tool allows users to change colors in an image in order to express a desired mood or feeling. Warm (middle) and cool (right) color renderings of the original image were created with our interactive tool by mapping the images to gamuts computed from the user-drawn masks (bottom left). Original image courtesy of Flickr user Jerry Ferguson.

Abstract

Artists often want to change the colors of an image to achieve a particular aesthetic goal. For example, they might limit colors to a warm or cool color scheme to create an image with a certain mood or feeling. Gamut masking is a technique that artists use to limit the set of colors they can paint with. They draw a mask over a color wheel and only use the hues within the mask. However, creating the color palette from the mask and applying the colors to the image requires skill. We propose an interactive tool for gamut masking that allows amateur artists to create an image with a desired mood or feeling. Our system extracts a 3D color gamut from the 2D user-drawn mask and maps the image to this gamut. The user can draw a different gamut mask or locally refine the image colors. Our voxel grid gamut representation allows us to represent gamuts of any shape, and our cluster-based image representation allows the user to change colors locally. 

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@inproceedings{Song14, author = {Y. Song and C. Lau and S. S\"{u}sstrunk}, title = {An Interactive Tool For Gamut Masking}, booktitle = {Proc. IS\&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging: Measuring, Modeling, and Reproducing Material Appearance}, pages = {}, year = 2014 }