The Role of Adaptation in Color Constancy

Fitting the Mind to the World: Adaptation and After-Effects in High-Level Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Zaidi, Qasim ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Colour constancy; Illumination; Object recognition; Spectral composition; Surface reflectance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921597268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198529699.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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