A Novel Approach to Skin Coloration on Displays

Cosmetics are used as makeup to enhance the impact of appearance. Individuals like to make strong impression on others from their appearance. Current study is based on facial make-up in two color colorimetric attributes "whiteness" and "hue composition" in CIELAB color space. A workflow was implemented to achieve the facial makeup based on color image processing. From facial images against a fixed gray background, skin colors were extracted and transformed to tristimulus XYZ values via a camera characterization model. The XYZ values were used to calculate CIELAB L*, a*, b* color coordinates. They were then converted to L*, D*(ab), h(ab) color attributes to render whiteness and hue. Using the workflow, the images based on different facial whiteness level and hue angle were successfully rendered.