On the Transfer of Painting Style to Photographic Images through Attention to Colour Contrast

This paper proposes a way to transfer the visual style of a painting as characterised by colour contrast to a photographic image by manipulating the visual attributes in terms of hue, saturation and lightness. We first extract the visual characteristics in hue, saturation and lightness from a painting. Then, these characteristics are transferred to a photographic image by histogram matching in saturation and lightness and dominant hue spread and relative position mapping along the RYB colour wheel. We evaluated the proposed transfer method on a number of paintings and photographs. The results are encouraging.