White balance by tunable spectral responsivities

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

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-39

  Zaraga, Federico ^a   Langfelder, Giacomo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DIGITAL DEVICES; DIGITAL FILTERS; ERROR CORRECTION;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; APPLIED VOLTAGES; COLOR CHANNELS; COLOR CORRECTION; COLOR DETECTION; COLOR DEVICES; COLOR ERROR; COLOR FILTERS; COLOR PIXELS; COLOR SPACE; DIGITAL IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; REFERENCE SOURCE; RESPONSIVITY; TRANSVERSE FIELD; VISIBLE RANGE; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE; WHITE BALANCE;

COLOR;

EID: 75149190057     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.27.000031     Document Type: Article

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