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Geometrical Methods for Lightness Adjustment in YCC Color Spaces

• Tags:
• color,
• spaces,
• adjustment,
• saturation

Overview Lightening or darkening an image is a fundamental adjustment used to improve aesthetics or correct exposure. This paper describes new geometrical algorithms for lightness adjustment, implementing fast traversal of colors along lightness saturation curves, applicable when the data starts naturally in YCC space (JPEG images or MPEG videos). Here, YCC refers generically to color spaces with one luminance and two color difference channels, including linear YCC spaces and CIELAB. The first solution uses a class of curves that allows closed-form computation. Further assuming that saturation is a separable function of luminance and curve parameter simplifies the computations.

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