Stability of the color-opponent signals under changes of illuminant in natural scenes

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2060-2071

  Lovell, P G ^a   Tolhurst, D J ^b   Parraga C A ^a   Baddeley, R ^a   Leonards, U ^a   Troscianko, J ^c   Troscianko, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHTING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ILLUMINANT; NATURAL SCENES; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

COLOR VISION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; BIRD; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; RETINA CONE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; BIRDS; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLORIMETRY; CONES (RETINA); HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIGHTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRIMATES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

EID: 28344437902     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.002060     Document Type: Article

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