Photo-unrealistic Image Enhancement for Subject Placement in Outdoor Photography
This addresses a specific usability issue for photographers in bright outdoor conditions, though it appears incremental as it compares existing enhancement methods.
The paper tackles the problem of camera display reflections preventing proper subject placement in outdoor photography by proposing a real-time software solution that shows posterized object contours. Results show users had difficulty locating landmarks 37% of the time in sunny conditions, and the proposed contrasting colors enhancement method proved practical.
Camera display reflections are an issue in bright light situations, as they may prevent users from correctly positioning the subject in the picture. We propose a software solution to this problem, which consists in modifying the image in the viewer, in real time. In our solution, the user is seeing a posterized image which roughly represents the contour of the objects. Five enhancement methods are compared in a user study. Our results indicate that the problem considered is a valid one, as users had problems locating landmarks nearly 37% of the time under sunny conditions, and that our proposed enhancement method using contrasting colors is a practical solution to that problem.