Exemplar-based portrait photograph enhancement as informed by portrait paintings

• Main Authors: Constable, Martin, Chan, Kap Luk, Zhang, Xiaoyan
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Painting
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104739; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24706
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper proposes an approach to enhance the regional contrasts in snap-shot style portrait photographs by using pre-modern portrait paintings as aesthetic exemplars. The example portrait painting is selected based on a comparison of the existing contrast properties of the painting with those of t...