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type: software
title: "ColorCast: Advanced Color Transfer Toolkit for Python"
version: 2.0.0
date-released: 2026-02-09
abstract: "ColorCast is a Python toolkit for advanced color and style transfer between images. It provides multiple algorithms including histogram matching, mean/std transfer, LUT-based curves, selective regional transfer, and GPU acceleration. The toolkit supports both GUI and CLI interfaces with comprehensive caching and batch processing capabilities."
authors:
  - family-names: Semoglou
    given-names: Michail
    email: m.semoglou@tongji.edu.cn
    affiliation: "College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University"
license: MIT
repository-code: "https://github.com/MichailSemoglou/ColorCast"
url: "https://github.com/MichailSemoglou/ColorCast"
keywords:
  - color transfer
  - image processing
  - histogram matching
  - Reinhard algorithm
  - Lab color space
  - color grading
  - Python
  - GPU acceleration
  - CuPy
  - computer vision
