
Chapter 13
Color matching for stereoscopic
cinema
13.1 Introduction
As we have pointed out in Chapter 12, in professional 3D movie production
it is crucial that the twin cameras used in a stereo set-up perform in exactly
the same way, but color differences among views are common and often un-
avoidable, even in high-end productions. These problems are typically fixed
in post-production by color-matching one view to the other, the master view,
that is taken as reference.
In this chapter we reproduce excerpts and figures from the work by
Bertalm´ıo and Levine [98], which is a very simple yet very effective method
for local color matching, consisting of three ...