Color Constancy Research Page

Recommended links / papers

• Computational Vision Lab at Simon Fraser University
  • their work on Color Constancy
  • Bootstrapping Colour Constancy
  • Is colour constancy good enough?
  • Modelling Color Constancy with Neural Networks
  • Full Publication List
• Comprehensive Colour Image Normalization
• David Brainard at U Penn
  • Brainard, D. H. and Freeman, W. T. (1997). Bayesian color constancy. Journal of the Optical Society of America A , 14, 1393-1411.
  • Bayesian Decision Theory, the Maximum Local Mass Estimate, and Color Constancy
• Kobus Barnard's Pages
  • Comprehensive algorithm evaluation: Part 1, Part 2
  • Data
  • Color Constancy Overview
  • Publications
• My Recent Work
  • Charles Rosenberg, Thomas Minka, Alok Ladsariya, "Bayesian Color Constancy with Non-Gaussian Models", in NIPS 2003. Abstract, Paper (119K), ps.gz (95K), Web Page.

Papers with a Probabilistic Framework

• Brainard, D. H. and Freeman, W. T. (1997). Bayesian color constancy. Journal of the Optical Society of America A , 14, 1393-1411.
  • David Brainard at U Penn
  • Bayesian Decision Theory, the Maximum Local Mass Estimate, and Color Constancy
• Forsyth, D. Sampling, resampling and colour constancy. CVPR-99.
  • David Forsyth at Berkeley
• Finlayson, G. D. and Hordley, S. D. and Hubel P. M. Color by Correlation: A Simple, Unifying Approach to Color Constancy. The Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 1999, vol. 2, pp. 835-842.
  • Graham Finlayson (List of papers.)
• Sapiro, Guillermo. Color and Illuminant Voting. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 11, November 1999.

Other References / Papers

• from John Watlington original and local mirror
• Selected records from my January 2000 INSPEC search on "color normalization"
• Selected records from my January 2000 INSPEC search on "color constancy" page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4
• Recognition by Color Indexing
• Illumination Independent Color Image Representation Using Log-Eigenspectra"
• A Retinex Paper - search for color
• work at UCI:
  • Color Constancy work at the UCI Compuer Vision Lab by Glenn Healey's group
  • Color Constancy work by Michael D'Zmura's lab at UCI
• work by David Forsyth at Berkeley on Color Constancy
• Gershon Buchsbaum at U Penn
• Thomas Wachtler at the Salk Institute
• Color Correction of Face Images Under Different Illuminants by RGB eigenfaces
• Color Invariant work by Geusebroek:
  • Invariance in content-based retrieval Smeulders, A.; Gevers, T.; Geusebroek, J.-M.; Worring, M. ICME 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2000. Volume: 2, Pages: 675-678.
  • Image retrieval and segmentation based on color invariants Geusebroek, J.-M.; Koelma, D.; Smeulders, A.W.M.; Gevers, T. Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2000. Volume: 2, Pages: 784-785.
  • Measurement of color invariants Geusebroek, J.-M.; Smeulders, A.W.M.; van den Boomgaard, R. Proceedings. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2000. Volume: 1, Pages: 50-57.

Links

• John Watlington's experiments from the Media Lab, general color notes and color constancy notes
• Brian Wandell at Stanford and projects from his Psych 221 course: 1998 and 1999
• Course Notes from Rice
• Course Notes from Purdue
• Demo of Land's red / white effect from Purdue

Commercial Web Sites

• Photo Island
• Photo Point
• Quant Image - image processing software
• Shutterfly
• Ofoto
• Imaging Resource - digital camera info
• Pdn Pix
• DLC - image processing software
• Extensis - intellihance image processing software

Sources of Image Data

• LNC at USC
• Kobus Barnard
• Brian Funt's Lab
• David Brainard's Lab
• Dan Ruderman's Data
• John Watlington's Data
• The University of Oulu Physics-Based Face Database
• More images...

People

• Graham Finlayson