METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC CORRECTION OF RED-EYE EFFECT Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC G06K9/40 

FIELD: photographic equipment engineering, image processing methods, in particular, methods for automatically correcting red-eye effect.

SUBSTANCE: method includes analysis of additional information about an image; creation of at least one array for storing image point marks; for each image point a color mark is recorded into mark array, if the color of point is a typical color for red eyes and is not a typical color for human skin; filtration of one-component image; for each point of image a boundary mark is recorded into array of marks, and also filter number is recorded into array of marks; on basis of array of marks, connected areas of points are determined; for each connected area of points with consideration of neighborhood, computation of fixed row of features; on basis of features, classification of connected areas of points onto red-eye areas and false areas; connection to red-eye connected area of image points neighboring with points of given area and close in color; connection to connected area of red-eye of image points positioned inside external contour of given area; and change of color of points in connected red-eye area.

EFFECT: ensured high quality of automatic correction of red-eye effect.

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