Abstract:This paper proposes an automatic image correction method for portrait photographs, which promotes consistency of facial skin color by suppressing skin color changes due to background colors. In portrait photographs, skin color is often distorted due to the lighting environment (e.g., light reflected from a colored background wall and over-exposure by a camera strobe). This color distortion is emphasized when artificially synthesized with another background color, and the appearance becomes unnatural. In our fr… Show more
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