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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2006
Filed:
May. 31, 2002
Richard A. Simon, Rochester, NY (US);
Tomasz Matraszek, Pittsford, NY (US);
Mark R. Bolin, Fairport, NY (US);
Henry Nicponski, Albion, NY (US);
Richard A. Simon, Rochester, NY (US);
Tomasz Matraszek, Pittsford, NY (US);
Mark R. Bolin, Fairport, NY (US);
Henry Nicponski, Albion, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A retouching method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image involves acquiring a digital image containing one or more faces and detecting a location of facial feature points in the faces, where the facial feature points include points identifying salient features such as skin, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, and hair. The location of the facial feature points are used to segment the face into different regions such as skin, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, neck and hair regions. Facially relevant characteristics of the different regions are determined and, based on these facially relevant characteristics, an ensemble of enhancement filters are selected, each customized especially for a particular region, and the default parameters for the enhancement filters are selected. The enhancement filters are then executed on the particular regions, thereby producing an enhanced digital image from the digital image.