Saliency-preserving distinctive low-footprint photograph aging effect

• US 9,373,179 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2014
• Issued: 06/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Negrila, Catalin, D'Angelo, John Gabriel, Light, Allison, Lee, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Niu, Feng
• Application Number:
  US14/312,562
• Publication Number:
  US 20150371409A1
• Time in Patent Office: 729 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20024 Filtering details
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20204 Removing film grain; Adding simulated film grain
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20216 Image averaging
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/00 Image enhancement or restoration
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/20 using local operators
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/70 Denoising; Smoothing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2621 Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects during image pickup, e.g. digital cameras, camcorders, video cameras having integrated special effects capability

Abstract

Technologies for modifying a digital image to take on the appearance of an antique image. Such modifying is typically based on generating and rendering various effects that are blended with the input image, such as color transformation, simulating film grain, dust, fibers, tears, and vintage borders. Such effects may be rendered to various layers that are overlaid on a color transformed image resulting in what appears to be an antique image.

Claims

1. A method performed on at least one computing device, the method comprising:

detecting a salient feature in an image;

projecting a repeller point at a location on effect layers that correspond to a location of the salient feature in the image;

rendering film effects on the effect layers, where the rendered film effects include simulated dust, fiber, and scratch effects, where the rendering comprises positioning at least one of the rendered film effects at a random position on at least one of the effect layers;

adjusting the positioning according to a probability computed based on a distance between the random position and the location of the repeller point;

generating a border effect on at least one other of the effect layers; and

blending, in response to the adjusting and the generating, the effect layers with the image resulting in a final image.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising transforming colors of the image.

3. The method of claim 1 where the rendered film effects further include simulated film grain.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating a tear effect.

5. The method of claim 4 where the tear effect comprises a deckle edge on a side bounding a tear space of the tear effect.

6. The method of claim 1 where the border effect comprises a deckle edge.

7. The method of claim 6 where the deckle edge is based on a segment width and an edge amplitude.

8. computing device comprising:

a processor;

memory coupled to the processor;

an input device that is coupled to the memory and via which the computing device receives an image and stores the received image in the memory;

a salient feature detector implemented at least in part by the processor and via which the computing device detects a salient feature in an image stored in the memory;

the processor that is coupled to the memory and via which the computing device projects a repeller point at a location on effect layers that correspond to a location of the salient feature in the image;

a film effects module implemented at least in part by the processor and configured to render film effects on the effect layers, where the rendered film effects include simulated dust, fiber, and scratch effects, where at least one of the rendered film effects is positioned at a random position on at least one of the effect layers according to a probability computed based on a distance between the random position and the location of the repeller point;

a border generator implemented at least in part by the processor and configured to generate a border effect on at least one other of the effect layers; and

the processor via which the computing device blends the effect layers that comprise the rendered file effects and the generated border effect with the image resulting in a final image.

9. The computing device of claim 8 comprising a color effect module implemented at least in part by the processor and configured to transform colors of the image.

10. The computing device of claim 8 where the rendered film effects further include simulated film grain.

11. The computing device of claim 8 comprising a tear generator implemented at least in part by the processor and configured to generate a tear effect.

12. The computing device of claim 11 where the tear effect comprises a deckle edge on a side bounding a tear space of the tear effect.

13. The computing device of claim 8 where the border effect comprises a deckle edge.

14. The computing device of claim 13 where the deckle edge is based on a segment width and an edge amplitude.

15. At least one computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform actions comprising:

detecting a salient feature in an image;

projecting a repeller point at a location on effect layers that correspond to a location of the salient feature in the image;

rendering film effects on the effect layers, where the rendered film effects include simulated dust, fiber, and scratch effects, where the rendering comprises positioning at least one of the rendered film effects at a random position on at least one of the effect layers;

adjusting the positioning according to a probability computed based on a distance between the random position and the location of the repeller point;

generating a border effect on at least one other of the effect layers; and

blending, in response to the adjusting and the generating, the effect layers with the image resulting in a final image.

16. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 15, the actions further comprising transforming colors of the image.

17. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 15 where the rendered film effects further include simulated film grain.

18. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 15, the actions further comprising generating a tear effect, where the tear effect comprises a deckle edge on a side bounding a tear space of the tear effect.

19. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 15 where the border effect comprises a deckle edge.

20. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 19 where the deckle edge is based on a segment width and an edge amplitude.