Towards automatic redeye effect removal

The redeye effect is typically formed in amateur photographs taken with a built-in camera flash. Analysis of the available techniques and products indicates that their efficiency in correcting this artifact is limited and their performance is inconsistent. In this work we propose a user friendly solution, which could be used to restore amateur photographs. In the proposed method the redeye effect is detected using a skin detection module and eye colors are restored using morphological image processing. The new method is computationally efficient, robust to parameter settings and versatile, as it can work in conjunction with a number of skin detection methods.

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