Colour constancy in context: Roles for local adaptation and levels of reference

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 693-710

  Smithson, Hannah ^a   Zaidi, Qasim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Colour constancy; Levels of reference; Local adaptation; Spatial context; Temporal context

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 16544395343     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.9.3     Document Type: Article

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