A Color Decomposition Method for Preserving Ukiyo-e Woodblocks

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2004
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Eurographics Association
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In this paper we propose a color decomposition method for multicolor printing of watercolors including areas overlapping each print layer. Watercolors have an important feature that the observed colors are different on the printing order. The proposed method is based on a particle density model for expressing the effects of watercolors. The approach of this method is to solve an inverse problem, that is, determining a printed area corresponding to a watercolor from an observed image. Our purpose in this study is to estimate woodblocks from a woodblock print. The authors have already proposed a non-photorealistic rendering method to produce virtual woodblock prints. This approach can be utilized to Ukiyo-e. An Ukiyo-e print is created from several woodblocks with several watercolors, and has a mixing color expression similar to the effects of watercolor painting. The color decomposition method can be applied to produce virtual woodblocks in the virtual woodblock printing. The results of woodblock estimation will be utilized to preserve the techniques and prints of Ukiyo-e.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:egs.20041006
, booktitle = {
Eurographics 2004 - Short Presentations
}, editor = {
M. Alexa and E. Galin
}, title = {{
A Color Decomposition Method for Preserving Ukiyo-e Woodblocks
}}, author = {
Terai, Tomokazu
and
Mizuno, Shinji
and
Okada, Minoru
}, year = {
2004
}, publisher = {
Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
1017-4656
}, ISBN = {}, DOI = {
10.2312/egs.20041006
} }
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