Image recoloring of printed fabric based on the salient map and local color transfer

Factories must proof different colors on fabric in order to verify the feasibility of the color scheme. This proofing process is time-consuming and laborious. To recolor printed fabric images, a novel image recoloring method was proposed in this paper. This method can provide convenience for printed fabric designers and can be used to simulate printed fabric proofing. The relative total variation model was implemented to remove the fabric image texture and noise. Next, in the CIE1976 L*a*b* color space, the mean-shift clustering algorithm was utilized to segment the reference image and the target image to obtain the separated color regions. Then, the color regions of the reference image and the target image were matched based on the salient map and the values of the L*a*b* channels. Finally, local color transfer was performed between the matched color regions based on the matching results. Experiments were conducted on 100 printed fabrics with different color schemes. Results indicated that the proposed method can transfer the color appearance of the reference printed fabric image to the target printed fabric image and realize printed fabric image recoloring.