Natural scene-illuminant estimation using the sensor correlation

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 42-56

  Tominaga, Shoji ^{a,b,d,e,f,g,h}   Wandell, Brian A ^c,e,i  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Engineering Informatics   (Japan)

^e OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^f Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers   (Japan)

^g SPIE   (Japan)

^h ACM   (Japan)

ⁱ Programmable Digital Camera Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Color balancing; Color constancy; Color rendering; Illumination estimation; Sensor correlation method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COLOR; CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SENSORS;

COLOR BALANCING; COLOR CONSTANCY; COLOR RENDERING; ILLUMINATION ESTIMATION; SENSOR CORRELATION METHOD;

LIGHTING;

EID: 0011492515     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.982404     Document Type: Article

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