A comparison of computational color constancy algorithms - Part I: Methodology and experiments with synthesized data

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 972-984

  Barnard, Kobus ^a,b   Cardei, Vlad ^a   Funt, Brian ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Color by correlation; Color constancy; Comparison; Computational; Gamut constraint; Neural network

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CHROMATICITY; COMPUTATIONAL COLOR CONSTANCY; GAMUT-MAPPING METHOD; REFLECTANCE SPECTRA; RETINEX METHOD;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0036709479     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2002.802531     Document Type: Article

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