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Colorization Algorithm Using Wavelet Packet Transform  

Ko, Kyung-Woo (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Kwon, Oh-Seol (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Son, Chang-Hwan (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Ha, Yeong-Ho (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
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Abstract
Coloriztion algorithms, which hide color information into gray images and find them to recover color images, have been developed recently. In these methods, it is important to minimize the loss of original information while the color components are embedded and extracted. In this paper, we propose a colorization method using a wavelet packet transform in order to embed color components with minimum loss of original information. In addition, the compensation processing of color saturation in the recovered color images is achieved. In the color-to-gray process, an input RGB image is converted into Y, Cb, and Cr images, and a wavelet packet transform is applied to the Y image. After analyzing the amounts of total energy for each sub-band, color components are embedded into two sub-bands including minimum amount of energy on the Y image. This makes it possible not only to hide color components in the Y image, but to recover the Y image with minimum loss of original information. In the gray-to-color process, the color saturation of the recovered color images is decreased by printing and scanning process. To increase color saturation, the characteristic curve between printer and scanner, which can estimate the change of pixel values before and after printing and scanning process, is used to compensate the pixel values of printed and scanned gray images. In addition, the scaling method of the Cb and Cr components is applied to the gray-to-color process. Through the experiments, it is shown that the proposed method improves both boundary details and color saturation in the recovered color images.
Keywords
Wavelet packet transform; colorization; color saturation; characteristic curve;
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