Bright chromagenic algorithm for illuminant estimation

Journal of Imaging Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 0409061-04090611

  Fredembach, Clément ^a,b,c   Finlayson, Graham D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c IS and T ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IMAGE REGISTRATION; REFLECTION;

ILLUMINANT ESTIMATION;

COLOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 51049104784     PISSN: 10623701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.(2008)52:4(040906)     Document Type: Article

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