Adaptation and the color statistics of natural images

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 3283-3298

  Webster, Michael A ^a   Mollon, J D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatic adaptation; Color appearance; Color vision; Contrast adaptation; Light adaptation; Natural images

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRY; RETINA CONE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DARK ADAPTATION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030776941     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00125-9     Document Type: Article

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