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Color transfer is the name given to a set of technologies that aim to alter the colors in an image or video by means of an example image or video. Thus, the mood or color scheme of an image can be changed to resemble that of another image, without the need to paint over pixels or manually alter an image’s color palette.
Key Principles
Editing colors with traditional tools can be a laborious and time-consuming task. Professional color grading tools are complex and often expensive pieces of software that take time and effort to master. Rather than use buttons and sliders to adjust the color properties of an image, a convenient alternative may be to find an example image (also known as reference image) which already has the desired color mood. Using the colors defined in the example image, color transfer methods try to alter the colors of the input image to match those of the example image.
The choice of example image is often determined by its use case....
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Reinhard, E. (2022). Color Transfer. In: Shamey, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_415-1
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