Direct solution of orientation-from-color problem using a modification of Pentland's light source direction estimator

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 286-299

  Drew, Mark S ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANTIREFLECTION; COLORED LAMBERTIAN SURFACE; INTEGRABILITY; LIGHT SOURCE DIRECTIONS; ORIENTATION FROM COLOR PROBLEM; ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORMATION; PENTLAND LIGHT SOURCE DIRECTION ESTIMATOR;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0030247410     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1996.0059     Document Type: Article

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