Local color transfer via color classification

As an important image editing technique, color transfer plays an important role in image processing, which changes the original image color according to another image´s color characteristics. This paper presents a new interactive local color transfer method. The user draws strokes specifying the target region needed to transfer colors, which can be segmented by an improved color classification method, and the new color will be transferred. The boundary of the result will be remedied by image matting. At the end of color transfer, only the color of the pixels in this segmented region is transferred, while others remain unchanged. The experimental results show that our method can achieve natural local color transfer results.