Retinex preprocessing of uncalibrated images for color-based image retrieval

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 161-172

  Ciocca, Gianluigi ^a   Marini, Daniele ^b   Rizzi, Alessandro ^b   Schettini, Raimondo ^c   Zuffi, Silvia ^a,d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINEX PREPROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0037286270     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1526844     Document Type: Article

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