University of Toronto
Platforms: C++, OpenCV
For my undergrad thesis, I researched human skin color transfer algorithms and wrote a program that adjusts skin colour on images of human hands to match the color in a target image.
The motivation was a nail polish try-on app that used a model hand to demonstrate the appearance of nail polish. We wanted to be able to adjust the skin colour of the model hand to the user’s exact skin colour. That way, the user would have much a better idea how the nail polish would look on themselves.
Skin colour matching and correcting is a common task for people who edit photos. The challenge was to do it automatically, and have it look natural without the help of a human making judgments based on what looks “right”.
The experience gave me valuable insight into the process for formal academic writing. I learned how to perform background research in existing literature and presenting the final algorithm and results in a organized way.