Illumination Estimation Based Color Contrast Enhancement

We present the framework for a color contrast enhancement using an illumination estimation, color balancing and color dynamic range expansion based on characteristics of a object reflectance, effect of illumination and human face color depending on human race. The method aims to emulate the way in which the human visual system discriminates original color and opposite color for increasing color contrast. The proposed method is effective for vivid color restoration and suppression of artifacts by proposed parameter weighting control under various illumination conditions.