RGB color calibration for quantitative image analysis: The "3D Thin-Plate Spline" warping approach

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 7063-7079

  Menesatti, Paolo ^a   Angelini, Claudio ^a   Pallottino, Federico ^a   Antonucci, Francesca ^a   Aguzzi, Jacopo ^b   Costa, Corrado ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Color calibration; Color space; Image analysis; Thin plate spline

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863191301     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120607063     Document Type: Article

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