Quantifying Plant Colour and Colour Difference as Perceived by Humans Using Digital Images

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Kendal, Dave ^a   Hauser, Cindy E ^b   Garrard, Georgia E ^c   Jellinek, Sacha ^b   Giljohann, Katherine M ^b   Moore, Joslin L ^a  

^a Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAMERA; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; FLOWER; GRASSLAND; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SHRUB; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ASTERACEAE; COLOR; COLOR VISION; DEVICES; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ASTERACEAE; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; FLOWERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT LEAVES;

EID: 84882703777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072296     Document Type: Article

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