Title
Band-Sifting Decomposition for Image-Based Material Editing
Abstract
Photographers often “prep” their subjects to achieve various effects; for example, toning down overly shiny skin, covering blotches, etc. Making such adjustments digitally after a shoot is possible, but difficult without good tools and good skills. Making such adjustments to video footage is harder still. We describe and study a set of 2D image operations, based on multiscale image analysis, that are easy and straightforward and that can consistently modify perceived material properties. These operators first build a subband decomposition of the image and then selectively modify the coefficients within the subbands. We call this selection process band sifting. We show that different siftings of the coefficients can be used to modify the appearance of properties such as gloss, smoothness, pigmentation, or weathering. The band-sifting operators have particularly striking effects when applied to faces; they can provide “knobs” to make a face look wetter or drier, younger or older, and with heavy or light variation in pigmentation. Through user studies, we identify a set of operators that yield consistent subjective effects for a variety of materials and scenes. We demonstrate that these operators are also useful for processing video sequences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2809796
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Algorithms,Design,Human Factors,Image-based material editing,multiscale decomposition
Computer vision,Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Image based,Shiny skin,Artificial intelligence,Operator (computer programming),Material editing,Smoothness,User studies
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
34
5
0730-0301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.73
35
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ivaylo Boyadzhiev1442.77
Kavita Bala22046138.75
Sylvain Paris32494113.53
Edward H. Adelson41768320.52