Analysis of the retinex theory of color vision
- 1 October 1986
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America A
- Vol. 3 (10), 1651-1661
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.3.001651
Abstract
If color appearance is to be a useful feature in identifying an object, then color appearance must remain roughly constant when the object is viewed in different contexts. People maintain approximate color constancy despite variation in the color of nearby objects and despite variation in the spectral power distribution of the ambient light. Land’s retinex algorithm is a model of human color constancy. We analyze the retinex algorithm and discuss its general properties. We show that the algorithm is too sensitive to changes in the color of nearby objects to serve as an adequate model of human color constancy.Keywords
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