“Color decomposition for reproducing multi-color woodblock prints” by Terai, Mizuno and Okada

  • ©Tomokazu Terai, Shinji Mizuno, and Minoru Okada

  • ©Tomokazu Terai, Shinji Mizuno, and Minoru Okada

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    Color decomposition for reproducing multi-color woodblock prints

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    This paper proposes an improved method to estimate woodblocks and pigment colors from a given woodblock print image. Terai et al. have already proposed a color decomposition method. The former method is only used to estimate each of the printed areas which correspond to watercolor from the observed image. It does this by determining a regression tetragon from the CIE L color distribution of the given image. The proposed method in this paper is based on the fact that the estimated tetragon ideally forms a trapezoid, and also that it uses CIE XY Z color space which is more linear than CIE L for color mixing of watercolors. The usefulness of the proposed method is demonstrated by an experiment using an actual Ukiyo-e print.

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    1. Mizuno, S., Okada, M., And Toriwaki, J. 1999. An interactive designing system with virtual sculpting and virtual woodcut printing. in Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 18, no. 3, 184–193.
    2. Terai, T., Mizuno, S., And Okada, M. 2004. Color decomposition of overlapped watercolors. in Proc. of ICPR2004; Int’l Conf. on Pattern Recognition, vol. 2, 919–922.
    3. Saito, S., And Nakajima, M. 1999. A paint model for digital painting using kubelka-munk theory. in Trans. of IEICE Japan, vol. J82-D-II, no. 3, 399–406.
    4. Okada, M., Mizuno, S., And Toriwaki, J. 2001. Digital ukiyo-e preserving project: intelligent coding and constructing archives of printing blocks. in Proc. of VSMM 2001, 209–217.


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