Computing von Kries Illuminant Changes by Piecewise Inversion of Cumulative Color Histograms

Authors

  • Michela Lecca
  • Stefano Messelodi

Abstract

We present a linear algorithm for the computation of the illuminant change occurring between two color
pictures of a scene. We model the light variations with the von Kries diagonal transform and we estimate it
by minimizing a dissimilarity measure between the piecewise inversions of the cumulative color histograms
of the considered images. We also propose a method for illuminant invariant image recognition based on
our von Kries transform estimate.

Keywords

Color Image Analysis, Color Histograms, Illuminant Changes, von Kries Model, Image Retrieval, Colour and Texture, Indexing, retrieval

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/elcvia.264

Published

2009-07-23

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Copyright (c) 2009 Michela Lecca, Stefano Messelodi

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