Image calibration and analysis toolbox - a free software suite for objectively measuring reflectance, colour and pattern

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1320-1331

  Troscianko, Jolyon ^a   Stevens, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal coloration; Camera calibration; Colour measurement; Colour vision; Communication; Cone catch quanta; Image processing; Pattern analysis; Signalling; Spectrometer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955193320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12439     Document Type: Article

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