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Robust color-to-gray via nonlinear global mapping

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Yongjin Kim,

Cheolhun Jang,

Julien Demouth,

Seungyong LeeAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 28, Issue 5

Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/1618452.1618507

Published: 01 December 2009 Publication History

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This paper presents a fast color-to-gray conversion algorithm which robustly reproduces the visual appearance of a color image in grayscale. The conversion preserves feature discriminability and reasonable color ordering, while respecting the original lightness of colors, by simple optimization of a nonlinear global mapping. Experimental results show that our method produces convincing results for a variety of color images. We further extend the method to temporally coherent color-to-gray video conversion.

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ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 28, Issue 5

December 2009

646 pages

ISSN:0730-0301

EISSN:1557-7368

DOI:10.1145/1618452

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