Lightness determination at curved surfaces with applications to dynamic range compression and model-based coding of facial images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1129-1138

  Blohm, Werner ^a  

^a Sikora Industrieelektronik GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Curved surfaces; Illumination map; Lightness computation; Model based image coding; Scale space filtering; Video communication; Video dynamic range compression

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; VIDEO TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT; VISION;

SCALE SPACE FILTERING; VIDEO DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0031207837     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.605410     Document Type: Article

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