Color constancy in natural scenes with and without an explicit illuminant cue

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 351-356

  Amano, Kinjiro ^a   Foster, David H ^a   Nascimento, Sérgio M C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Color constancy; Illuminant estimate; Natural scenes; Sky; Spatial cone excitation ratios; Specular highlights

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; CLOUD; COLOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; RETINA CONE; SPECTROSCOPY; SUN; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION TEST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; HUMANS; LIGHTING; NATURE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33750112828     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523806233285     Document Type: Conference Paper

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