Advanced colour processing for mobile devices

Eugen Gillich; Helene Dörksen; Volker Lohweg

doi:10.1117/12.2076139

27 February 2015 Advanced colour processing for mobile devices

Eugen Gillich, Helene Dörksen, Volker Lohweg

Proceedings Volume 9405, Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications VIII; 940508 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2076139
Event: SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Mobile devices such as smartphones are going to play an important role in professionally image processing tasks. However, mobile systems were not designed for such applications, especially in terms of image processing requirements like stability and robustness. One major drawback is the automatic white balance, which comes with the devices. It is necessary for many applications, but of no use when applied to shiny surfaces. Such an issue appears when image acquisition takes place in differently coloured illuminations caused by different environments. This results in inhomogeneous appearances of the same subject. In our paper we show a new approach for handling the complex task of generating a low-noise and sharp image without spatial filtering. Our method is based on the fact that we analyze the spectral and saturation distribution of the channels. Furthermore, the RGB space is transformed into a more convenient space, a particular HSI space. We generate the greyscale image by a control procedure that takes into account the colour channels. This leads in an adaptive colour mixing model with reduced noise. The results of the optimized images are used to show how, e. g., image classification benefits from our colour adaptation approach.

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Eugen Gillich, Helene Dörksen, and Volker Lohweg "Advanced colour processing for mobile devices", Proc. SPIE 9405, Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications VIII, 940508 (27 February 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2076139

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