Decolorization based on the weighted combination of image entropy and canny edge retention ratio

Abstract

Image decolorization is used to realize the color-to-gray conversion, which is widely used in black-and-white printing, digital-ink display, photo stylization, etc. Image contrast fidelity preservation is the key issue during this conversion process. We present a parametric model combining image entropy and the Canny edge retention ratio (CERR). Maximizing the image entropy keeps the global image contrast content, while maximizing the CERR enhances the local image contrast, mainly along the edges. The weighting parameter λ can be robustly estimated. Experimental results on Cadik’s and the COLOR250 datasets demonstrate that the model can achieve significant performance improvement over state-of-the-art methods both qualitatively and quantitatively.