Mathematical definition and analysis of the Retinex algorithm

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

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2613-2621

  Provenzi, Edoardo ^a   De Carli, Luca ^a   Rizzi, Alessandro ^a   Marini, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR VISION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RECURSIVE ITERATIONS; RETINEX ALGORITHM;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR VISION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA;

COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 30844434526     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.002613     Document Type: Article

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