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    • Computer Vision
    • Image Processing
    • Computational Photography

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    • Traditional color-to-gray conversion methods often struggle to preserve crucial contrast details and feature discriminability.
    • Existing Euclidean metric-based approaches lack the invariance properties necessary for faithful image representation.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel color-to-gray conversion model utilizing the Log-Euclidean metric.
    • To enhance the preservation of contrast details, feature discriminability, and color ordering in the conversion process.
    • To outperform existing state-of-the-art methods in quantitative and qualitative evaluations.

    Main Methods:

    • A Log-Euclidean metric-inspired maximum function is proposed to model the decolorization procedure.
    • A Gaussian-like penalty function incorporating the Log-Euclidean metric between image gradients is used to preserve feature discriminability.
    • A discrete searching algorithm is employed to solve the model with linear parametric and non-negative constraints.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed Log-Euclidean metric-based model demonstrates superior performance in preserving contrast details compared to Euclidean metric approaches.
    • The method effectively maintains feature discriminability and color ordering during the color-to-gray conversion.
    • Extensive experiments confirm the proposed method's outperformance over state-of-the-art techniques.

    Conclusions:

    • The novel Log-Euclidean metric offers significant advantages for color-to-gray conversion, particularly in contrast detail preservation.
    • The developed model provides a more faithful and robust approach to image decolorization.
    • This work advances the field of image processing by introducing a new metric for critical image conversion tasks.