A method for digital image eye artifact detection and correction include identifying one or more candidate red-eye defect regions in an acquired image. For one or more candidate red-eye regions, a seed pixels and/or a region of pixels having a high intensity value in the vicinity of the candidate red-eye...http://www.google.de/patents/US7599577?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7599577 - Method and apparatus of correcting hybrid flash artifacts in digital images