Image-Based Control of Skin Translucency

Norimichi Tsumura*, Ryoko Usuba*, Koichi Takase*, Toshiya Nakaguchi*,
Nobutoshi Ojima*,**, Nobutoshi Komeda**, Yoichi Miyake*
*Department of Information and Image Sciences, Chiba University
1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, JAPAN

Applied Optics, Vol. 47 Issue 35, pp.6543-6549 (2008)

Abstract
This paper proposes a method for skin translucency control of facial images. This is one ofthe important tasks in the reproduction of posters, TV commercials, movies, and so on. Asthe first step of processing, we extracted the component maps of melanin, hemoglobin and shading from skin color images by using our conventional method. The extracted shading component is controlled to change the translucency of the skin by simple kernel operations for the component. The efficiency for the change of translucency is confirmed by using the images of numerical and optical skin phantoms. The method is also applied into the real skin color image with the consideration of each component, and realistic change of skin translucency was observed from the resultant images synthesized by the proposed method.

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