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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

Food Image Enhancement by Adjusting Intensity and Saturation in RGB Color Space

Chiaki UEDA, Minami IBATA, Tadahiro AZETSU, Noriaki SUETAKE, Eiji UCHINO

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In a food image acquired by a digital camera, its intensity and saturation components are sometimes decreased depending on the illumination environment. In this case, the food image does not look delicious. In general, RGB components are transformed into hue, saturation and intensity components, and then the saturation and intensity components are enhanced so that the food image looks delicious. However, these processes are complex and involve a gamut problem. In this paper, we propose an intensity and saturation enhancement method while preserving the hue in the RGB color space for the food image. In this method, at first, the intensity components are enhanced avoiding the saturation deterioration. Then the saturation components of the regions having the hue components frequently appeared in foods are enhanced. In order to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, the enhancement experiments using several food images are done.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E98-A No.11 pp.2220-2228
Publication Date
2015/11/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E98.A.2220
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Smart Multimedia & Communication Systems)
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Authors

Chiaki UEDA
  Yamaguchi University
Minami IBATA
  Yamaguchi University
Tadahiro AZETSU
  Yamaguchi Prefectural University
Noriaki SUETAKE
  Yamaguchi University
Eiji UCHINO
  Yamaguchi University,the Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute

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