Significance of incorporating chrominance information for effective color-to-grayscale image conversion

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• 作者：V. Sowmya ; D. Govind ; K. P. Soman
• 关键词：Decolorization ; Color ; to ; gray conversion ; SVD ; Chrominance
• 刊名：Signal, Image and Video Processing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：11
• 期：1
• 页码：129-136
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Multimedia Information Systems;
• 出版者：Springer London
• ISSN：1863-1711
• 卷排序：11

文摘

This paper provides an alternative framework for color-to-grayscale image conversion by exploiting the chrominance information present in the color image using singular value decomposition (SVD). In the proposed technique of color-to-grayscale image conversion, a weight matrix corresponds to the chrominance components is derived by reconstructing the chrominance data matrix (planes a* and b*) from the eigenvalues and eigenvectors computed using SVD. The final grayscale converted image is obtained by adding the weighted chrominance data to the luminous intensity which is kept intact for the CIEL*a*b* color space of the given color image. The effectiveness of the proposed grayscale conversion is confirmed by the comparative analysis performed on the color-to-gray benchmark dataset across 10 existing algorithms based on the standard objective measures, namely normalized cross-correlation, color contrast preservation ratio, color content fidelity ratio, E score and subjective evaluation.