Separating a color signal into illumination and surface reflectance components: theory and applications

A separation algorithm for achieving color constancy and theorems concerning its accuracy are presented. The algorithm requires extra information, over and above the usual three values mapping human cone responses, from the optical system. However, with this additional information-specifically, a sa...

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Published inIEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence Vol. 12; no. 10; pp. 966 - 977
Main Authors Ho, J., Funt, B.V., Drew, M.S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos, CA IEEE 01.10.1990
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Applied sciences
Artificial intelligence
Computer science; control theory; systems
Computer vision
Exact sciences and technology
Heart
Humans
Lenses
Lighting
Pattern recognition. Digital image processing. Computational geometry
Reflectivity
Sampling methods
Statistical analysis
Testing
Statistical method
Computer vision
Color
Illumination
Perception
Modeling
Reflectance
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Summary:A separation algorithm for achieving color constancy and theorems concerning its accuracy are presented. The algorithm requires extra information, over and above the usual three values mapping human cone responses, from the optical system. However, with this additional information-specifically, a sampling across the visible range of the reflected, color-signal spectrum impinging on the optical sensor-the authors are able to separate the illumination spectrum from the surface reflectance spectrum contained in the color-signal spectrum which is, of course, the product of these two spectra. At the heart of the separation algorithm is a general statistical method for finding the best illumination and reflectance spectra, within a space represented by finite-dimensional linear models of statistically typical spectra, whose product closely corresponds to the spectrum of the actual color signal. Using this method, the authors are able to increase the dimensionality of the finite-dimensional linear model for surfaces to a realistic value. One method of generating the spectral samples required for the separation algorithm is to use the chromatic aberration effects of a lens. An example of this is given. The accuracy achieved in a large range of tests is detailed, and it is shown that agreement with actual surface reflectance is excellent.< >
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ISSN:0162-8828
1939-3539
DOI:10.1109/34.58869